Apprentice star Sanjay Sood-Smith spoke about his own personal experiences of homophobic abuse in Manchester yesterday, as part of the city’s Hate Crime Awareness Week (HCAW).

Armed officers were called to Crescent Drive in Little Hulton to reports of a firearms discharge around 9.10pm on January 26.

A family doctor who performed an exorcism on a seriously ill woman, promising her that God could ‘heal’ her without medication was struck off at a Manchester tribunal today, after being branded a risk to all patients.

Rochdale Police are urging the public to stay safe at night after two women were assaulted in the Kingsway area over the past four days.

The weekend event moved to the site in 2012 to accommodate increasing numbers, and the City Council are working in conjunction with organisers to ensure problems from previous years aren’t repeated.

This CCTV footage shows the terrifying moment Middleton shoppers faced a masked gang brandishing a meat cleaver, sledgehammer, axe and even a samurai sword in a raid on a security van.

A womanising brute from Oldham, who stabbed his secret mistress to death after he amassed a string of lovers behind his wife’s back, is facing life in jail.

Tony Lloyd, Greater Manchester’s Police and Crime Commissioner, hit out at the government’s failure to implement promised changes in the wake of the Shipman murders during their ‘botched’ reorganisation of the NHS.

The victim, who is four months pregnant, had just left a newsagents on Hodge Street and was getting into her car when she was grabbed from behind and threw to the floor at about 12.40pm on Jarnuary 17.

MM are appealing for the return of a six-year-old’s drawing of her dead brother – lost when her uncle’s wallet was snatched on a night out in Manchester.

Recorded crime has risen by 6% in Greater Manchester over the past year, with the upward trend likely to remain due to Government cuts, according to a GMP spokesman.