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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

A Tameside doctor lost his daughter and two other relatives in a road accident after his Cadillac people carrier crashed and overturned when it veered out of control ‘like a monster’, an inquest heard.

A policewoman who leaked confidential details about the manhunt for Dale Cregan so she could give her sister some ‘gossip’ about the double cop killer wept as she was jailed for almost three years today.