Police are hoping to trace a heroic elderly man after he helped stop a knife-wielding robber who carried out a horrifying attack on a convenience store in Swinton.

A shopkeeper and father of three was shot dead by armed robbers in Openshaw on Friday night, as he left work for the evening.

Tracy Clare is already a familiar face in the area after volunteering at a host of good causes in the local area over the last couple of years.

A 34-year-old man has been left with serious injuries after being stabbed three times, including once in the buttocks, while walking home from a night out in Salford.

Today, Mark Slater, 46, from Oldham, was ordered to serve a minimum of fifteen years in prison for the murder of 56-year old Trevor Allen

A road rage trucker faces life in prison after being found guilty of murdering an Oldham motorist by deliberately driving his 17-tonne lorry over him following a petty row.

An angry Oldham trucker deliberately used his 17-tonne lorry to crush a Salford motorist to death after they became embroiled in a road rage row, a murder trial was told yesterday.
Horrified eyewitnesses saw Mr Allen’s head ‘explode’ and could hear bones breaking as the grandfather was dragged under the wheels of Slater’s DAF articulated lorry, a jury heard.

Greater Manchester Police retrieved 120 plant pots following a major drugs bust in Swinton, Salford, last month, and decided to put the pots to a better use

Boff Wholley, who was the lead guitarist of 1990’s pop group, Chumbawamba, best known for their hit single Tubthumping, is launching the play as part of the spirit of Salford event

Two men assaulted outside Weaver’s Arms in Swinton

The 20-year-old jumped from his loft on Bolton Road