Driver covered in blood and baby showered with glass after bricks hurled at trains in year of violence

The leader of Stockport council has claimed the borough will not have to build ‘on an inch of green belt’ as it set a new deadline for consulting on its long-term masterplan. Coun Mark Hunter believes the government will soon cut Stockport’s house building target - which currently stands at more than 1,100 new homes per year - by around 25pc.

Two women woke up covered in injuries after a night out with no memory of how they got them - police suspect the pair were spiked.

A jury has heard how a nurse accused of killing seven babies and trying to murder another 10 allegedly poisoned two babies with insulin days after they were born.

A thug who went for a beer with his girlfriend after knocking a Sikh leader out and leaving him for dead in the middle of the road was one of the criminals jailed in Greater Manchester this week.

Pep Guardiola admitted that playing Manuel Akanji at right-back in Manchester City's win over Southampton was a 'scary' prospect, given he had only been given one training session to familiarise himself with the position.

A man has been found guilty of brutally punching a taxi driver in an unprovoked, racist attack. In May this year, David Platt, 30, and a woman got into the taxi in Monsall before they asked to be taken to a convenience shop in Harpurhey, Manchester Crown Court heard.

A thug went for a beer with his girlfriend after knocking a Sikh leader out and callously leaving him in a pool of his own blood in the middle of the road. Avtar Singh, 62, suffered life-changing brain injuries following the sickening assault at the hands of Claudio Campos in Manchester’s Northern Quarter on June 23.

A man accused of punching a taxi driver in a racially motivated attack has told a court it was because he 'saw him masturbating'. David Platt, 30, has admitted wounding, but denied racially aggravated assault.

A teen driver who killed a biker after missing a red light has walked free from court. Joesph Moffat smashed into speeding biker Christopher Gage after noticing he was in the wrong lane and making the 'rash decision' to turn in the road.

A man punched a taxi driver in the face as he was driving before hurling racist abuse at him, a trial has heard.

‘ Wigan has enough houses’ says one councillor who proposed the borough should withdraw from the Places for Everyone plan. Coun James Watson, of the Independent Network, saw his plan to join Stockport in opting out of the plan and pursuing Wigan’s best interests thwarted by Labour members in the town hall chamber this week.

Plans have been lodged to demolish an ‘underperforming’ petrol station and replace it with an Asda convenience store. EG Group, who operate the Filling Station, Long Causeway, Farnworth say the proposals would enlarge the shop at the site, currently Spar branded and create create up to 25 full-time and part-time jobs.

An Audi drink driver has been arrested after crashing into an ambulance carrying a child patient to hospital.

A man who drove from Fallowfield to dump rubbish in a Salford street has been branded "selfish" and utterly irresponsible by council bosses.

No further action will be taken against the driver who hit a young woman with his car before she died at the scene of the crash.

Here are your latest Manchester United morning headlines on Wednesday, September 21.

A tram driver who dragged a woman 40ft along a platform when her bag was trapped in the doors was 'unaware' of the accident, a new report has revealed. The passenger's hand was stuck in the strap of her bag which was trapped in the doors of a tram at the Shudehill Metrolink stop, according to the report.

Manchester United have reportedly 'earmarked' Leicester City midfielder Youri Tielemans as a January transfer target.

Leicester City midfielder Youri Tielemans is reportedly the 'chosen one' that Manchester United want to sign during the January transfer window.

Father John Misty has covered Stevie Wonder‘s ‘I Believe (When I Fall in Love It Will Be Forever)’ as part of a new live EP.‘Live At Electric Lady’ was recorded at the iconic Electric Lady Studios in Greenwich Village, New York City back in May. Comprising six tracks, the special collection contains live versions of five songs from FJM’s latest album ‘Chloë And The Next 20th Century’.Closing the EP is Father John Misty’s take on Wonder’s 1972 number ‘I Believe…’. You can listen to ‘Live At Electric Lady’ on Spotify below.Announcing the project on social media, FJM (real name Josh Tillman) shared a series of behind-the-scenes shots of himself and his accompanying string section recording at NYC’s Electric Lady.