Drugs worth £10,000 have been seized during early morning police raids

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This white Christmas ended with three men arrested on drug charges.  More than $600,000 worth of drugs -- hidden inside pizza boxes -- were seized by authorities in the U.K. after police discovered cocaine, marijuana and cash during a raid of two homes on Christmas Eve, according to the Greater Manchester Police Department.  More than half a million pounds worth of drugs found in pizza boxes have been seized following raids in Greater Manchester on Wednesday.

direct to your inboxA drugs boss and his 'loyal and trusted workers' have been jailed for flooding the streets of Manchester and Oldham with heroin and cocaine.Dorian Bell spearheaded the long-running enterprise over two years, recruiting 'vulnerable and naïve young men' to do his bidding.He was arrested three times but carried on dealing, only stopping because he had been remanded into custody.Bell, 23, has now been locked up for nine years after admitting three counts of conspiracy to supply

direct to your inboxA determined drugs boss carried on operating even after being arrested twice.Dorian Bell's involvement in selling heroin, cocaine and ecstasy only stopped when he was remanded in custody.He and a number of other dealers face lengthy sentences for their role in an Oldham and Manchester based drugs gang, in which 23-year-old Bell played a 'leading' role.Police recovered significant quantities of drugs and also found a safe house the gang used in the Green Quarter of Manchester

direct to your inboxA driver who was on 'a cocktail of drugs' has been jailed after crashing his Audi into a biker and leaving her with life-changing injuries. Paul Ashe, of Altrincham Road in Manchester, failed a roadside drugs test after police were called to reports of a crash on the A558 Daresbury Expressway in Runcorn at around 8.15am on September 5 last year.

direct to your inboxA man has been awarded a £83,000 damages payout in the High Court after his details were published online in a news article after his arrest following the terror attack at Manchester Arena.Libyan Alaedeen Sicri, 26, was arrested and subsequently released without charge in the wake of the bombing on May 22, 2017.The suicide bombing after an Ariana Grande concert claimed 22 lives and left more than 1,000 people injured.Despite not being identified by Greater Manchester Police,

this link, enter your email address, and select 'MySalford News'. That's all there is to it.Police officers eventually caught up with the teenager in Manchester on September 16.The force helicopter spotted a Seat car being driven 'erratically' at around 9.45pm that evening.

with the Woodland Trust planting over 130,000 trees on land around Winter Hill last year.Pete Stringer, GI planning and technical manager at City of Trees, added: "The new planting proposals will help deliver on the government’s commitment to increase tree planting to 30,000 hectares per year, across the UK, by 2025 as well as Greater Manchester’s goals to be carbon neutral by 2038.“We hope this year’s planting programme will be the first of a longer partnership between City of Trees and Bolton

Salford bus stop on a main road. The Lamborghini Huracan - worth more than £160,000 - was left in a bus stop box in Chorley Road, Swinton.

direct to your inboxA man has been jailed after he was caught with £20,000 worth of class A drugs in his underwear at Manchester Airport.David Whyte, 40, was attempting to board a flight to Dubai when he caught the attention of security staff by attempting to avoid the queue for the body scanner.Whyte and a woman he was travelling with were noticed by staff near the screening area of the airport on the evening of October 6, 2019, before his scheduled flight to the UAE.Liverpool Crown Court was

closed early for Christmas after more than two dozen students tested positive in one week. Teaching unions have been calling on the government for greater transparency over Covid cases in schools, saying they and the public were being 'kept in the dark'.

straight to your inboxAlan Shearer has bemoaned Manchester City's lack of firepower - but is not writing them off just yet. Pep Guardiola's men were held to a frustrating 1-1 draw by struggling West Bromwich Albion at the Etihad Stadium on Tuesday night.

Manchester Family Facebook page for their views and the reaction was mixed. Mums including Sarah Mc and Helen Wood said they would be happy to go into debt temporarily - with a credit card or overdraft - if they knew it would be paid off in January."If I needed to go in to an arranged overdraft that I knew I could pay back then yes," said Sarah.

Wigan, on the morning of February 3. Mr Angelico was born in Italy and also lived in Malta and Spain, before settling in Wigan several years ago, Bolton Coroner's Court heard.

direct to your inboxTens of thousands of illegal cigarettes and tobacco worth around £50k have been seized in raids by police and trading standards officers in Oldham.Council workers, supported by Greater Manchester Police visited three shops in the town on Saturday, December 5.Tobacco which was either suspected to be counterfeit or labelled not for the UK market was discovered at premises on Yorkshire Street, Park Road and Hollins RoadIn total 31,600 cigarettes and 12.5kg of rolling tobacco was

HMP Forest Bank in Salford on Sunday afternoon. Officers were made aware of parcels being thrown into the exercise yard inside prison grounds at around 1pm, Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said today in a statement.

direct to your inboxGreater Manchester Police has apologised and paid out £100,000 to an autistic man Tasered multiple times in the street.Dad-of-two Michael Gilchrist, 60, who has Asperger's and bi-polar disorder, was distressed and pacing up and down near his home in Wythenshawe when the incident happened in 2014.His hands were bloodied after he cut them breaking his window.Two officers responded to the scene and described Mr Gilchrist as being 'aggressive and dangerous'.He was Tasered ten