Angela Rayner, Labour’s shadow education secretary, has defended her crown in Ashton-under-Lyne and says she will continue to fight with every breath in her lungs against cuts to local services.

Police investigating the rape and an attempted rape of two mothers in Failsworth and Newton Heath have made an arrest.

A man, who invaded the homes of two mums as they slept with their children, raping one and attempting to rape the other is still on the loose.

The belief that most Mancunians are completely oblivious to the city’s devolution Agreement has been backed up from a further survey by the Greater Manchester Referendum Campaign.

Police have begun a manhunt for three smartly-dressed violent offenders who left a man brutally injured outside an Failsworth pub at the weekend.

Failsworth’s Daniel Smethurst insists British tennis is in good health – despite a former coach labelling some players as spoilt.

Two men have been arrested after shots were fired in to the front door of a home in Oldham last night.

Former world champion spoke exclusively to MM

The North Stand expected to be built by 2015

Drugs had street value of between £9,000 and £18,000

CCTV footage