Twenty four people have been sentenced – with over half a century’s time in prison handed down – in a widespread clampdown on drug dealers in Tameside.

A stash of heroin and crack cocaine – worth up to £7,000 – and a significant amount of cash has been uncovered in an early morning raid in Oldham.

A total of 55 arrests were made over the two days at this year’s Parklife Weekender Festival that took place at Heaton Park.

Greater Manchester Police unveiled their new on-the-road drug-testing kit to the public yesterday in Piccadilly Gardens.

GMP are appealing for the public’s help to trace a wanted man and woman from Rochdale.

A network of shops selling ‘legal highs’ and psychoactive substances have today been raided by GMP in North Manchester.

Four people have been charged in connection with the discovery of two cannabis farms worth in excess of £1million in Bolton.

Four people have been arrested after GMP discovered two cannabis farms at a mill in Great Lever.

A Newton Heath man who fired a shotgun at two men who attempted to break into his house and steal his cannibis farm has today been jailed for eight and a half years.

The tragic death of 21-year-old Aimee Louise Parry after she took diet pills has led to a public appeal from her mother urging people to stop taking ‘highly toxic’ tablets.

An Oldham cannabis dealing duo has been jailed for a total of six years and nine months after GMP seized £300,000 worth of the drug from one of their homes.