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Manchester City Council has thrown its weight behind a campaign to put restrictions on addictive roulette machines dubbed the ‘crack cocaine of gambling’.

An 87-year-old Bury pensioner appeared in court today accused of flashing in a public park in broad daylight during the half term school holidays.

A proposed £12m flood basin in Salford would boost the area’s natural amenities as well as providing essential defences, according to members of the community.

Greater Manchester Police have lashed back at their own watchdog for not making ‘clearer guidance available’ to the force before Katie Cullen’s murder five years ago.

A 73-year-old Moston man denies smuggling two and a half kilos of cocaine into the country through Heathrow Airport

Surrogacy laws across the UK are ‘woefully inadequate’ meaning surrogate parents are unable to earn the £40K minimum wage they are entitled to, according to Manchester medical and ethics experts.

Thousands of fundraisers completed a 100km ‘Run in the Dark’ last night at MediaCity to race vital funds for charity, including Bolton Bulls wheelchair basketball club and former Boyzone member and Coronation Street star Keith Duffy.

A Labour MP has blasted the government after figures revealed there has been a 45% increase in the amount of Manchester patients having operations cancelled at the last minute.

Ed Miliband is the victim of smear campaign to stop him becoming Prime Minister because he has been brave enough to take on ‘vested interests’, according to Leigh’s MP.

Patrick Tamas, 22, was found guilty of three counts of indecent exposure that all occurred in the space of 24 hours, last month.

Avoidable deaths from cardiovascular disease has dropped across Greater Manchester, but the figures are still shockingly high, reveals the Office of National Satistics