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Oldham MP Michael Meacher has condemned David Cameron’s anti-jihadist measures and has accused the Government of undermining core British principles.

A retired Walkden teacher who was battered senseless for daring to tell a young Mercedes driver to slow down condemned the culture of ‘big egos driving flash cars’ as he relived his ordeal today.

An alarming number of children have been left at risk by Manchester City Council’s child protection services, which have been downgraded to ‘inadequate’ in a damning Ofsted report.

The pedestrian, said to be in his 40s, was his hit at around 11pm last night on the northbound carriageway, just before junction 6 near Horwich

A man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a 62-year-old, who died in Wigan last week.

Sir Richard Leese’s promise that the first-ever livestream of a Manchester City Council meeting would be better than daytime television proved too – but not quite in the way he planned.

A 16-year-old boy has been charged in connection with a string of crimes that rocked Ancoats in an hour of terror, including the smashing of car windows and robbing a man at gunpoint.

The world could be wiped out by an asteroid at any point and we are not taking the threat seriously, according to Oldham Professor and former D-ream member Brian Cox

A Manchester online trader nicknamed the ‘Woolf of e-Wall Street’ after he made £1.4million selling CDs and DVDs on eBay has been jailed for two years for refusing to pay tax on his global internet empire.

An Atherton teenage girl who took a fatal overdose of insulin may have been taking the hormone as an aid to lose weight, an inquest heard.

Manchester United legends Ryan Giggs and Gary Neville will bring the world’s first-ever football hotel to the city in time for Christmas.