Police detectives have launched a murder investigation and are offering a £50,000 reward for information after an elderly woman died weeks after a violent robbery in Stretford.

A 34-year old woman was the victim of an attempted rape in Oldham town centre this morning.

Police are appealing for information after up to 100 youths gathered at a violent brawl in the Northern Quarter.

Jessie was shot dead shortly after 1am on Saturday 9 September 2006 in Broadfield Park, in Moss Side.

At around 2am on August 21, one or two offenders approached the man on Bradshawgate, Bolton, punched him and left him with serious head injuries after he fell and banged his head on the ground.

A Manchester pervert has been targeting young women in a series of late-night sexual assaults in the city centre – police are appealing for information.

A three-year-old child was threatened at gunpoint whilst walking to school, when a man robbed a mother in Sale on Friday morning.

Two balaclava-clad thieves raided a One Stop shop in Moston yesterday morning, fleeing with cash and cigarettes – police are appealing for witnesses to the crime.

A Salford man has been shot in the hip and investigating officers believe it may be connected to the ‘targeted attack’ that killed Paul Massey a few weeks ago.

Thieves threw a wheelie bin through the shop window of Timperley Aquatics, and then a fish tank through the glass of the bird’s enclosure, before wrestling ‘Baby’ away – as evidenced by the bird’s tail feathers which were torn out in the struggle.

Police have arrested a 15-year-old boy on suspicion of attempted murder after a 38-year-old man was found with multiple stab wounds following a group attack in Salford.