Too good to be true? We don’t care! One in twenty Mancunians happy to purchase stolen goods
Greater Manchester Police quizzed 2000 in ‘morality survey’
Collyhurst girl, 13, raped while out playing with friends – police credit ‘incredible bravery’ at coming forward
The girl was playing with friends on The Croft, New Allen Street
Everyone’s worst nightmare: Oldham woman wakes to find night-time intruder in home – who then rapes her
The intruder broke into a home in the Hollins Road area
Rapist jailed for plying Oldham girls, just eight and four, with drink and drugs for six-year sex abuse nightmare
John Paul Lee, 36, of Lytham Road, Blackpool was sentenced to 17 years
Silly plonkers try to fiddle Willy Wonka: Candy firm fined for flogging fake bars in Manchester shop
Americandy was found guilty of possessing counterfeit goods
Revealed… you’re safer than ever: Greater Manchester crime levels plummet by 200,000 in ten years
Murders, sex offences and arson are all down
‘Making the world safer’: Nowhere to hide for gun-toting crooks as weapons scanner developed by Manchester Met
The sophisticated scanner can pick out weapons in a crowd
Salford ‘Resistance’ demand end to TV licencing fees as 25,000 UK residents dodge hotly-debated bills
Around 600 Mancunians were caught without a licence
Manchester scrap dealers blast police as Operation Alloy ‘ruins’ business – yet metal theft drops by 70%
The operation forms part of Scrap Metal Dealers Act
‘A calculated and predatory paedophile’: Wythenshawe man jailed after grooming and having sex with girl, 13
Matthew Winterbottom was jailed
Wigan widower’s photo of deceased wife and letter he penned before she died stolen by masked robber
Intruder broke into the home on Stopforth Street