Fly-tipper sent to court after rubbish found dumped in different areas of Greater Manchester

The family of a much-loved grandad are urging people to look out for him after searching for him for more than four days. Gary Alder, a dad-of-five from Swinton, was last seen on Tuesday (December 5) and his relatives have not heard from him since.

Six new flood warnings have been issued across Greater Manchester this afternoon (December 9) as the region braces for adverse weather.

Firefighters descended on an Aldi supermarket while roads have been covered in floodwater as heavy rain has battered the region. Greater Manchester is braced for wild winds and more rainfall this evening (December 9), with two Met Office weather warnings in effect for some areas.

It has been two months since the Bee Network was launched across Greater Manchester, and it is clear there are more changes than just the colour of the buses.

Santa is a busy guy. You can see him all across Greater Manchester this Christmas, seven days a week.

A huge cannabis farm with a street value worth tens of thousands of pounds has been discovered after cops swooped in on a property in Wigan.

An investigation has been launched after a fly-tip was found under a motorway bridge and just a short distance away from a tip.

There’s only a few weeks left until the big day so if you haven’t already started thinking about Christmas shopping you better get your skates on. Gift buying can be a stressful experience - you’ve got to battle all the crowds in the shops and it can be hard to know what to buy.

Two areas of Greater Manchester have been named as some of the worst places for fly-tipping in the entire North West region last year.

Temperatures plunged below zero again last night. And the bad news it looks like the big freeze is here to stay for a bit longer.

Two primary schools judged to be 'Inadequate' previously have just celebrated Ofsted inspections rating them as ‘Good’.

Some 20 families from Afghanistan and Ukraine are to be housed in Salford under a resettlement scheme funded by the Government.

A new neighbourhood in and around a redeveloped 18th-century mill in Stockport will become the 'coolest' and 'possibly the best place to live in Greater Manchester', one of its bosses has said as it reached a new milestone.

Police in Greater Manchester plan to use artificial intelligence roadside cameras to detect people scrolling and messaging on phones while driving. The force say the ‘spy in the sky’ technology will not only be able to spot those with a phone to their ear but those using handsets lower down in the vehicle.

You're walking down a street - perhaps a street that you walked down many times - and you see something that completely stops you in your tracks. Perhaps it's something you have never paid attention to before, or a completely unique sight that makes you do a double-take.

A man has died after an 'accident involving machinery' in Oldham. The tragedy happened at a business on Overens Street on the outskirts of the town centre on Wednesday morning (November 29).

A house in Greater Manchester has come on the property market for a mere £55,000 but it comes with a warning from estate agents. The two-bed terraced home will go up for auction next month, but there are a few things that interested buyers need to know before they place a bid.

Police have arrested 12 males - including a 16-year-old boy - in connection with a huge brawl that broke out following the Bolton Wanderers v Wigan Athletic football match earlier this year.

A criminal family who ran a meth-making lab in Ashton are amongst those who have been jailed in Greater Manchester this week.

Andy Hardiment, assistant manager at discount store OneBelow in Hyde, Tameside, is recalling some of the more notable incidents of shoplifting he's witnessed recently. "The other week two girls came in and in three minutes they took about £100 of stuff - things like candles, Dove soap," he said.