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Detectives arrested Leon Anthony Wong, 31, in Cheshire on Saturday in relation to the attack that led to 26-year-old Robert’s death at the Parklife Weekender Festival on Saturday June 7

Former BBC correspondent Peter Greste, from Australia, ex-CNN journalist Mohamed Fahmy, and Egyptian based producer Baher Mohamed were jailed for seven, seven and 10 years respectively.

Using official police data, the Complete University Guide assessed the three different types of crime which it says students are most likely to fall victim of – burglary, sexual and violent crimes and robbery

Dennis Whitfield, 66, managed to swindle £244,000 from eight clients through a variety of ‘manipulative’ stories, even going so far as to tell one victim he was using the money to buy her expensive medication to fight cancer.

Christopher Sawyers, 35, was jailed for life, serving a minimum of 33 years, after he was found guilty of murdering 47-year-old Kenneth Chapman, aswell as another 60-year-old man, with a deadly heroin overdose in a plot to swindle drug money.

However, Edmondson, 23, wept as she was cleared of murder at Manchester Crown Court – but did admit fraud and theft offences and was jailed for three years.

Manchester Metropolitan University art student Alex Baker has found in calling in creating furniture from junk.

A Manchester woman is helping to spread life-saving messages about the dangers of fire after her daughter was burned by a dress fire earlier this year.

Prime Minister David Cameron and Chancellor of Exchequer George Osborne stopped by Manchester Victoria train station and the Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) following the announcement of a proposed HS3 high-speed railway line to connect northern cities from Liverpool to Hull.

A fashionable street in Chorlton became the first in the UK to trade entirely without cash for the day as a social experiment last weekend.

Kym Marsh has selected a Wythenshawe student to be an apprentice at star-studded agency VIP Appearances

The Big Issue’s parent company The Big Life Group is to set up a free school in the Cheetham Hill area.