A teenage girl is distraught after she was robbed of her change in a ticket dispensing scam at the Market Street Metrolink stop in Manchester city centre – police are warning travellers to be vigilant.

A propane gas tanker has burst into flames on the M56 near Manchester, causing the motorway to be closed in both directions – drivers are urged to avoid the area.

Shopkeepers are urged to be on their guard against a distraction scam after a trio made a ‘brazen’ attempt to nick a tablet computer at a store in Leigh.

Legal highs, loud music, booze and dodgy barbecues are just some of the anti-social behaviours Manchester sixth form students aimed to prevent by staging a bad house party.

As the school summer holidays get well underway, mums – and dads across Manchester and indeed the whole country – will be worrying about whether or not their kids are safe while they’re stuck at work.

Is your child moody or aggressive? Are they staying out late drinking and taking goodness knows what else? Have they been skipping school or letting their grades slip? Are they a victim of child sexual exploitation?

Fake toys and smartphones worth more than £500,000 have been seized in Salford, in a huge Christmas counterfeit clampdown.

Teygan Sugrue, 19, was at his student accommodation on the Owen’s Park campus in Fallowfield when he died of meningitis.

Heavy showers and possible thunder and lightning are expected across the region with a chance of localised flooding after the Met Office issued a yellow warning for the North West.

Police were called around 5am when a suspicious package was discovered outside the Benefits Office on Oldham Road.

CarShop.co.uk have released safety information