A Manchester pervert has been targeting young women in a series of late-night sexual assaults in the city centre – police are appealing for information.

CCTV images showing the last moments of a teenager whose body was pulled from a Tameside Canal have been released by police.

A Stalybridge college welfare officer and young person’s football coach – who downloaded thousands of indecent images of children and was caught as part of a world-wide investigation – has been sentenced to a 12 months in prison.

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Mancini said Balotelli refused to leave pitch.

Boy, 14, was led to toilets and attacked.

Around 100 watches snatched from store.