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Police are hunting a gunman who blasted the front of a house in Wigan and then fired at two bystanders early this morning.

Honorary lecturer at The University of Manchester Dr David Penney and researcher James E. Jepson at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, Germany are both fellows for the Royal Entomological Society and have studied insect preservation in rock and amber.

Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham has slammed David Cameron in a Manchester speech today –branding the Prime Minister ‘not honest’ about his plans to privatise the NHS.

Wesley Keith Coulding, 36, previously of Hattersley Road West, Manchester, sowed the seeds of a drug empire, but was stopped in its tracks before the plants could fully flourish

A Leigh teenager who suffers from an incurable bladder disease has exceeded fundraising expectations after running 140 miles in seven days.

Elidh Bradley’s 1990’s grunge trio Solar Race had been a favourite of the late Radio One DJ John Peel and critics including music journalist John Robb tipped them to be the ‘next Nirvana’

A 46-year-old man has been charged with attempted murder after a woman was left ‘fighting for her life’ after reportedly being pushed into a fire in Urmston.

Rochdale mum and her baby assaulted in their home.

Leading Manchester political figures, campaigners and police welcome tough new measures aimed at preventing female genital mutilation unveiled by the Prime Minister.

A 13-year-old boy has been charged in connection with the anti-Semitic race hate attack on a Jewish cemetery in Blackley, north Manchester, last month.

Around 10am, officers from Greater Manchester Police’s Tactical Aid Unit (TAU) stopped a silver BMW on Tib Street, Manchester