Parents are now being told to be vigilant after a 15-year-old girl was raped in Little Hulton on the weekend.

The ‘terrifying’ moment a machete and hammer-wielding gang of four men, who ‘steaked out’ an Urmston McDonald’s and stole more than £1,000, is caught in CCTV footgaed released by GMP.

The cousin of convicted murderer Kiaran Stapleton, who shot dead Indian student Anuj Bidve on Boxing Day 2011, has been banned from his family home after breaching a court order.

A Salford career criminal has been branded a ‘menace to society’ by a judge after he become so addicted to burglary he filched pots of yoghurt and bottles of milk during a three week crimewave on a single neighbourhood.

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Detectives are closer than ever to finding the attacker of Rober Hart, who died after an assault at Manchester’s Parklife festival last summer

An attacker as young as 12-years-old is believed to be behind a string of sexual assaults carried out on five women in Whalley Range.

A Rochdale factory raid has rescued 20 Eastern European immigrants who were getting paid paid less than two pound per hour for working more than 80 hours per week.

A suspected arson attack forced a Bolton family to jump from the first floor window of their home in the early hours of Saturday morning.

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A lonely hearts conman from Eccles dupes four besotted women out of up to £100,000 after posing as a Royal Marine commando nicknamed ‘Charismatic Brit’ on the dating website Match.com