FOI results highlighting attempted thefts from GMP in 2013 and 2014

Police are hoping to trace a heroic elderly man after he helped stop a knife-wielding robber who carried out a horrifying attack on a convenience store in Swinton.

The 12 days of Christmas may be festive fun for most but the region’s criminals will be facing a Christmas crackdown as part of Greater Manchester Police’s Operation Bauble.

A callous thief exploited a blind Pendlebury pensioner by snatching more than £100 from his wallet when the vulnerable man offered up £5 because he thought he was collecting for charity this week.

Motorists are being urged to sit in their cars when de-icing them this winter, following a spate of vehicle thefts that occurred last year.

Following a small-value robbery at a Bolton convenience store in which tear gas was sprayed at the shop owner, police have released a CCTV image of a woman they want to speak with.

Luxury cars and designer bags have been seized by police in early morning raids across Greater Manchester as part of a £10million international money laundering operation sting.

Each station recorded increases in at least one of theft of passenger property, violence, railway burglary and theft, criminal damage, cable theft and cycle theft over the previous year.

Judge Robert Atherton was approached at the bench and passed the box of sweets by Dale Anderson, 25, and 22-year-old Emma Oliver as they walked out of the dock.

A 30-year-old man has been left fighting for his life after being punched in a ‘targeted attack’ in Rusholme.

A 19-year-old sex predator who wrote vile SONGS about his young victims has been jailed for nine years after a horrendous catalogue of sex offences against teenage girls across Stockport and Derbyshire.