Jailed: Oldham fraudster caught with more than £300k under bed must pay back cash made over 50-year stint
Peter Bell, 67, of Dalefields, Delph, pleaded guilty to fraud, money laundering and being concerned in the fraudulent evasion of income tax
Boy of 15 found hanged near country park in Salford
The body of the 15-year-old boy was discovered in a wooded close to Clifton Marina and Country Park, Salford, on Monday evening
The (not so) great escape: Salford gang who staged armed ambush on prison van jailed for 100 years
Ryan MacDonald, 21, and Stevie McMullen, 32, both of no fixed address, admitted conspiring to escape from lawful custody
Burial cities: Bodies should be buried in Manchester’s parks with birdboxes instead of headstones, claims uni
The UK’s cemeteries are expected to be ‘full’ within 25 years – so Manchester Metropolitan University have proposed ‘burial cities’.
Tameside trio take inspiration from Ewan McGregor’s Long Way Round to tackle gruelling global charity bike challenge
Russell Selby, Mark Phillips and Jake Mellor are eight months into the charity fundraiser challenge
VIDEO: CCTV shows moment Hyde cyclist DELIBERATELY run down by car – but miraculously survives
The victim suffered wounds to his leg, arm and back in the crash on St Mary’s Road, in Hyde, Tameside, at around 2.15pm on Saturday April 26.
Dove Stone Reservoir murder: Craig Wilcox had gang ‘after him’ – his father vows to keep memory alive
Craig Wilcox, 28, had vanished in January after telling friends that he was living in fear of ‘some lads’ who were ‘after him’
FC United’s Mike Norton puts ‘heartbreaking’ loss behind him ahead of Conference North play-off decider
Karl Marginson’s United face Ashton United tonight at Gigg Lane for a place in the play-off final against Fylde or Worksop Town
The day the music died: 70% of Manchester public ‘not bothered’ by pound store replacing Market Street HMV
Pure Bargains now lets the 36,000 sq ft location on the main high street after HMV moved out of the location in January, after two decades in the building. Their remaining city centre store is in Manchester Arndale.
The Midland Hotel and me: Manchester’s most iconic hotel from Rolls meeting Royce to Hitler’s dream
One woman knows Manchester’s Midland Hotel better than most – and whose life is inextricably linked to the grade II* listed building.
Fit and healthy Hale boy, 17, ‘loved by all’ dies from rare undiagnosed heart condition that usually affects old men
A-level student Harry Dubois collapsed while watching TV at home and died earlier this month