You would think in 2018 people would actually use the emergency services for … emergencies!

Hate crime in general has risen by some 85% over the same period but the spike of reports online since 2014 might be due to the fact that is when Greater Manchester Police first introduced the cybercrime flag to its systems.

Christopher James Parker, 33, pleaded guilty last year to stealing a mobile phone from a young girl and a purse from Pauline Healey on the night of the attack. Both victims were badly injured at the time.

A 96-year-old woman was followed from a bank in to Quality Save where she was approached by a woman who distracted her with items she had picked up in the shop.

Nearly 250 guns were handed in to Greater Manchester Police during a two-week nationwide amnesty aiming to rid the streets of firearms.

FOI to Greater Manchester Police has revealed that reported crimes in the area did in fact double after the removal of the camera, and have remained at a rise ever since.  

The man who died in Tuesday night’s stabbing in Moss Side has been named as 18-year-old Sait Mboob.

Officers were called to reports of a fight which had broken out on Crosshill Road shortly before 8.40pm last night and found four people suffering from stab wounds.

On March 31, at around 5pm, the woman was travelling through Salford into Manchester on the number 8 bus when she was approached by a man who after beginning to speak to her, tried to kiss her.

The attack happened around 8:40pm on Saturday, August 5, and left the 75-year-old man with serious injuries.

Police are keen to speak to a man following an unprovoked attack at a pub in Radcliffe.