Driver crashed into M602 'bridge rail' after drinking alcohol, inquest hears

The brother of an Uber driver who was savagely murdered after challenging a drunken lout about eating fast food in his car said he couldn't recognise his sibling after the attack. Connor McPartland, 20, and Martin Treacy, 18, have been jailed for life after killing 'dearly loved' taxi driver Ali Asghar in the street.

One motorist was injured and the occupants of two other vehicles were covered in glass after bricks and rocks thrown from the North West's motorway bridges smashed through windscreens. North West Motorway Police said the incidents were among ten reports they received over the weekend of children and teenagers causing disturbances across the region's motorway network, with youngsters also allegedly climbing up motorway signs.

A mum who claims the placenta was left inside of her body for two days after she gave birth at Bolton Royal Hospital says she feared she might die. Edyta Dobrzańska, 27, claims medical professionals at the hospital in Farnworth failed to acknowledge her concerns that something wasn't right after she gave birth to her baby daughter prematurely last month.

A three-year-old boy mauled to death by dog suffered head and neck injuries, an inquest opening was told. 'Happy and kind' Daniel John Twigg was attacked by a dog outside a property on Carr Lane in Milnrow, Rochdale, on Sunday afternoon (May 15).

A teenager who killed a mum-of-three after fatally crashing into her outside a pub whilst high on cocaine has been jailed.

A family from Stockport discovered that their baby was born with two holes in his heart just eight weeks after he was born. At just four-years-old, little Miles Bowler's life has been littered with a slew of health issues, including having to undergo an open heart surgery that has left with PTSD.

A man accused of murder told a court it 'blew up' after an Uber driver challenged his friend about eating a takeaway in the back of his Mercedes. Connor McPartland, 20, and, Martin Treacy, 18, are both accused of murdering 38-year-old taxi driver Ali Asghar.

A BBC actor was killed in a crash after a speeding driver "lost control" and crashed into a tree, an inquest heard. Reiss Jarvis suffered multiple "unsurvivable" injuries as a result of the smash in Delph, Oldham.

An inquest has opened into the death of a 24-year-old man following a Warehouse Project event last month. Kyle Bolton told paramedics he 'felt unwell' during the event on April 9, and later died at Manchester Royal Infirmary.

The terrifying moment a driver went the wrong way up the M6 has been captured on police footage. David Haughton was trying to shake off pursuing officers when he carried out the dangerous stunt.

Dimitar Berbatov believes that there is 'no explanation' for why Manchester City lost to Real Madrid in the Champions League on Wednesday.

An M62 driver claimed he had mistook a police car for an ambulance after failing to stop for officers.

The man who kickstarted the careers of a raft of award-winning actors and household names from Greater Manchester has died. Tributes are pouring in to David Johnson, who set budding actors on the path to stardom at the Oldham Theatre Workshop, which he founded in 1968.

An inquest has opened into the death of a 30-year-old dad who was hit by a car on the motorway. Benjamin Connor died following the collision on the M602, near Salford, on December 28 last year.

A bare-footed boy of four wearing pyjamas crashed his mother's car in Utrecht, police in the Dutch city have revealed. The child crashed into two parked cars and then coolly left the scene of the accident.