Police investigating the shooting of a man in a Salford pub last month have released CCTV of the moments leading up to the incident.

Thinking the texts came from her own brother, Mrs Sinclair wired a total of £75 to an account – not realising it belonged to Christopher Sawyers, 35, who with his girlfriend Kirsty Edmondson, 23, had just murdered former history teacher Chapman with a lethal dose of heroin, it was alleged.

With World Cup fever gripping the nation, Greater Manchester Police are bracing themselves for the ‘inevitable’ number of alcohol-related city centre incidents the tournament will cause.

A shocking image of a thug viciously kicking a helpless reveller in the head while they were floored at Manchester’s Parklife Weekender festival has emerged online.

Kirsty Edmondson, 23, and 35-year old Christopher Sawyers lived with the body of Kenneth Chapman for up to a week, it was said.

The Parklife Weekender Festival was rocked by three stabbings and 29 arrests, say police.

A boy, 16, has been arrested after five masked men armed with a crowbar and machete stormed a Salford home – the THIRD robbery in the area this week.

Greater Manchester Police have joined forces with National Volunteering Week to recognise the work of Police Support Volunteers, Special Constables and Cadets in the region.

GMP are one of three forces that have displayed significant failings in the way allegations of discrimination by the public are handled, according to the report

A Salford hold-up victim has told how Tuesday’s knifepoint robbery by an armed gang has left her family in fear for their lives in a recent campaign of terror.

Two women aged 47 and 23 were also arrested in connection to the May 26 incident that occurred at the Ashley Brook Pub on Liverpool Street where a 49-year-old man was gunned down.