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A drug dealer, who was caught smuggling £6.5million of heroin in the back of a taxi on a journey to Manchester, has been jailed for 11 years.

Two thieves armed with a knife and a crowbar robbed a Salford shop worker, stealing and torching his car last night.

A Bolton man has been left homeless just six days before Christmas after a single candle placed on top of a TV destroyed his top floor flat.

The Government has ‘consistently refused’ to support female genital mutilation (FGM) prevention, according to a Manchester-based human rights organisation.

Stockport Council’s Leader has slammed Labour’s lack of action in promoting women to top jobs in Greater Manchester, calling for an all-women mayoral shortlist.

Mothers across Manchester are among the worst in the country for refusing to give up cigarettes while pregnant, with Tameside and Glossop mums-to-be ranking the worst in the city.

An ex-undercover narcotics officer has come out in support of legalising drugs, saying it would save lives, prison space and taxpayers’ money.

A woman was struck in the legs by dog chains before being subjected to a ‘horrific’ sexual assault in Stockport last week.

Two canine crime fighters have sniffed out Oldham’s biggest ever seizure of illegal or counterfeit tobacco.

The Concerned Mancunians Group have launched a petition opposing the erection of shops against the so-called ‘Berlin Wall’.

Detectives are closer than ever to finding the attacker of Rober Hart, who died after an assault at Manchester’s Parklife festival last summer