‘Particularly daring’: Police search for shotgun thief who stuck-up Manchester Asda
A man snatched a cash security box right out of a guard’s hand after assaulting Leigh’s Asda Superstore this morning.
‘I love my trees, I hug them all’: Chorlton shopkeeper ‘still sad’ after ‘devastating’ theft of 190 Christmas ferns
A shopkeeper has expressed his devastation and shock after 190 Christmas trees were stolen from a Chorlton minimarket three weeks ago.
Manchester rape survivor bravely shares her story as support services fear funding cuts and assaults rise 45%
More and more victims of rape and sexual assault are seeking help and advice across the city but support serivce, Manchester Rape Crisis, could face budget cuts.
Three-year-old threatened at gunpoint on way to school in ‘terrifying’ Sale robbery
A three-year-old child was threatened at gunpoint whilst walking to school, when a man robbed a mother in Sale on Friday morning.
‘No winners today’: Jealous husband jailed for strangling school teacher wife to death
A man who consistently gave a ‘pack of lies’ to everyone has been jailed after he murdered a woman and left her wrapped in a duvet for emergency services to collect.
Rape and sex assault reports up by 45% but prosecutions across Manchester fall
According to a Freedom of Information Act request by Mancunian Matters, Greater Manchester Police received 5,935 reports of rape and sexual assault this year and 4,085 the year before.
CCTV images released after distraction burglars target woman, 81, in Bury
An 81-year-old woman fell victim to distraction burglars last month.
Wigan couple fined £3k for blaming ‘flagrant’ abuse of speeding laws on foreigners
A husband and wife who consistently fed falsified information to the police, after ‘flagrantly flouting the driving laws’, were this morning fined £3000 and given a suspended prison sentence.
Don’t miss a beat! North East noise and stolen gear… MM’s top tracks this week
There will be a new track and older track in some way related to the new track, a track from a recently released album, a track somewhat related to the week just past, and a track by an artist playing in Manchester in the coming week.
GMP’s ‘brave’ agency bonds will break chains of modern slavery and human trafficking
In the fight to end modern slavery and human trafficking Greater Manchester Police must ‘be brave’ in their partnerships with other agencies, according to the Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner.
‘She built homemade bombs’: Longsight teenager pleads guilty to terrorism offences
A 16-year-old girl has pleaded guilty to terrorism offences at Manchester Magistrates Court today, after a teen boy from Blackburn became the youngest convicted terrorist was last month.