Seven women every month are killed by a current or former partner and every year 100,000 men and women are at high and imminent risk of being murdered or seriously injured as a result of domestic abuse.

A Wigan paedophile who sexually assaulted a schoolgirl in broad daylight is still on the loose – police have now released an e-fit of the man involved in this ‘distressing’ incident.

Wigan’s community has been left ‘immensely distressed’ after callous vandals struck a cemetery, defacing several headstones.

Video of a ‘vicious’ and ‘completely unprovoked’ gang attack on three men near Deansgate Locks has been released by GMP in a bid to catch the thugs responsible.

The victim, who was 14 or 15-years-old at the time of the incident, was sexually abused at the swimming pool of Stockport Leisure Center and also in woodlands at Lyme Park in Cheshire, near Disley between 1996 and 1999.

This CCTV footage shows the terrifying moment Middleton shoppers faced a masked gang brandishing a meat cleaver, sledgehammer, axe and even a samurai sword in a raid on a security van.

Police are re-appealing for witnesses after new incriminating CCTV footage emerged of an LGBT rugby player suffering a broken jaw following a homophobic attack on Canal Street four weeks ago.

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

The attack occurred at the Orchid Lounge Bar on Portland Street between 2am and 3am on March 9 2014.

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

The 21-year-old victim was chased by a gun-toting offender along Great Clowes Street, Higher Broughton, before being shot twice from behind on the stretch of Curzon Road.