A womanising brute from Oldham, who stabbed his secret mistress to death after he amassed a string of lovers behind his wife’s back, is facing life in jail.

Hundreds of spurned Prestwich residents are rallying behind a petition to scrap this year’s Parklife festival in Heaton Park following the rampant anti-social behaviour, violence and drug taking that marked last summer.

A warning has been sent out by Greater Manchester Police about the dangers of drug taking, after an Oldham teenager collapsed from taking contaminated MDMA.

Class-A drug abuse occurred in a city-centre takeaway during the early hours of this morning, to the shock of party-goer witnesses.

A drug-fuelled killer who was shot with a Taser gun by police minutes after he stabbed his girlfriend in her Oldham home said, ‘I enjoyed that. You need more volts’, a court heard today.

Reality TV star Kerry Katona’s ex-husband escaped jail yesterday after he admitted running a £50,000 cannabis farm from his attic to pay off his drug debts to Bolton Crown Court.

Police made the discovery, which included five or six strains of cannabis, when they attended Myles Cohen’s house in Broadway Mews, Hale, last July, after his businessman father made allegations of assault.

All Souls Church reopened last month following the completion of a £4.9million regeneration project to modernise the Grade II*-listed Victorian church.

A drug dealer, who was caught smuggling £6.5million of heroin in the back of a taxi on a journey to Manchester, has been jailed for 11 years.

An ex-undercover narcotics officer has come out in support of legalising drugs, saying it would save lives, prison space and taxpayers’ money.

As cannabis gains recognition for its medical properties, and with four American states having legalised the drug, will the UK decriminalise weed?