Wesley Keith Coulding, 36, previously of Hattersley Road West, Manchester, sowed the seeds of a drug empire, but was stopped in its tracks before the plants could fully flourish

Around 10am, officers from Greater Manchester Police’s Tactical Aid Unit (TAU) stopped a silver BMW on Tib Street, Manchester

Around 3.30pm yesterday afternoon, a 42-year-old man lost control of his blue Suzuki bike on Frederick Street in Farnworth, near the junction with Westwood Close

Two teenage ‘goths’ who were subjected to a vicious assault in a suspected Stockport hate crime are being asked to come forward.

Gareth David Kevin Ward 21, from Bowness Rd, Middleton, punched a woman, 52, so hard he fractured her cheek

The antique blaster, which is estimated at being manufactured in the late 1800s, has a 410 shotgun concealed within the casing

The majority of crimes are falling year on year, according to figures from the Crime Survey of England and Wales (CSEW) published on July 17.

The brutal attack on the 35-year-old took place at 2.30am Monday July 21 on Gawthorpe Close in Bury.

The girls, who were apparently going to a One Direction concert at the Etihad Stadium on May 30, were followed down Fairfied Street by a man in a five-door silver Vauxhall Astra who kept stopping close to them.

Nikola Bradford, 36, became so hooked on taking the non-prescription tablets for her bad back she tried to kick her habit by urging local chemists not to sell them to her.

Police were received a call around 7pm on Wednesday after a body was spotted from the tow path near the A57 Regent Road, behind the Grosvenor Casino in Salford