Emergency services scrambled to reports of man in Manchester Ship Canal

A driver has been reported after police discovered a dog was left inside a vehicle during extremely hot weather.

“This is the only bus that gets me to work on time,” says Caitlyn Lamb, as she waits for the number 11 service from Cheadle to her utility firm job in Edgeley. The 26-year-old sets off each morning from Woodford, near Stockport’s border with Cheshire, getting the 42B bus to Cheadle, then hopping on the number 11 to arrive at work on the other side of the borough in good time.

For years the Energyworks team, based on an industrial estate on Rochdale, have been doing their best to help people in Greater Manchester be "warmer, healthier and better off in their homes".

Metrolink services are buckling under the heat once again as Greater Manchester continues to bask in sunshine. Services have been cancelled this afternoon (August 13) between Bury and Crumpsall, in north Manchester.

A car has ploughed into a home, leaving the windows and front wall 'collapsing', according to witnesses. Police and firefighters rushed to the scene in Hazel Grove, Stockport, where a car has crashed into a house causing 'significant damage'.

Armed police were scrambled after shots were fired at a mental health unit in Heywood. A man reportedly shot at the #Thrive facility from his garden on Argyle Parade this morning (Friday).

Traffic was stopped on a major motorway this evening due to a 'medical emergency'. There is a partial blockage with very slow traffic due to the emergency between J22 near Newton Le Willows and J23 near the East Lancashire Road.

A Lebanon man who was "intercepted" in the English Channel last June was found dead in Manchester Ship Canal just over a year later.

Leaders in Greater Manchester have joined the Mayor of London in condemning Avanti West Coast to cut the number of services to and from the capital. City-region mayor, Andy Burnham, leader of Manchester City Council, Bev Craig, and London mayor, Sadiq Khan, have penned a letter to the transport secretary, Grant Shapps, asking for an urgent meeting to restore the full timetable.

Proposed cuts to bus services in Stockport could have a ‘devastating’ effect, a borough transport chief has warned. Government funding helped to keep bus services going during the pandemic, as plummeting passenger numbers put them at risk.

When the Lionesses began their delayed Euro 2021 campaign this summer, they set out with two goals in mind - to lift the trophy and to make more people fall in love with women's football.

A man managed to escape from a blaze that broke out in a block of flats.

After months of transfer business, Manchester City are finally back in Premier League action and will begin their title defence against West Ham United.

A sharp fall in the number of anti-Semitic incidents so far this year across Greater Manchester was reported today by a charity.

A pedestrian was taken to hospital after being hit by a bus on a busy road in south Manchester on Tuesday evening (August 2). The incident sparked a huge emergency services response on Wilmslow Road in Rusholme.

Emergency services were called to Manchester Airport after a baggage truck crashed.

Part of a busy Bolton road has been closed this morning following a crash. Two vehicles were involved in the collision on Manchester Road, in Moses Gate, at around 10am today (August 1).