Gang smashes flat windows before 'loud bang' heard

Adam Thomas declared 'and so it begins' before opening up about his hidden health battle. The Waterloo Road star has been sweetly supported publically by his wife after he issued a lengthy message on social media after being diagnosed with a painful condition.

Two Chilean women flew to Britain as 'burglary tourists' to target a millionaire businessman's wife for her designer handbags and jewellery, a court heard.

Julien Lopetegui has left his post as Wolves manager just days before the club takes on Manchester United in the opening match of the Premier League season.

An 18-year-old boy was fighting for his life with serious injuries in hospital today after a horror motorbike smash in the early hours.

A boy aged 12 was brutally kicked and punched in a gang attack in a park - with footage of the assault now circulating online, police have revealed.

A teenage driver was left seriously hurt after a crash on the M61.

A mother and her two children were left traumatised after a gang of thugs smashed their way into her home.

One person was hurt in a crash involving 11 vehicles on a street in Bolton last night.

The Cheetham Hill Gang started small. In the early days petty theft, handbag snatching and robbing shops was their bread and butter.

A gang which smuggled tonnes of drugs, including cocaine, heroin, and ketamine , into the UK worth more than £135million posing as a furniture removal firm have been jailed. A Manchester man involved in the operation has been jailed for 27-years.

A woman who booked a £500 on a luxury city centre apartment is warning others of online scams after she was given a 'completely different flat' to the one advertised.

A ruthless teenage gang stole £4million worth of high-value vehicles in a sickening 10-month crime wave.

A man who died in a flat fire in Oldham has been named as Ralph Brown.

A man who spent 17 years behind bars for a rape he says he did not commit will today find out if the Court of Appeal will clear his name. Andy Malkinson, 57, has always denied carrying out the attack on a woman by the M61 motorway in Little Hulton, Salford in July 2003.

With energy bills, interest rates and house prices soaring, it has never been so tough for aspiring first-time buyers to get a foot on the property ladder. With the average age of a first-time buyer in the UK now 34, many young people nowadays have no choice but to rent until they have managed to save up enough for a deposit.

A community has been rocked after a balaclava-clad gang descended with weapons before smashing up a block of flats. Neighbours living near The Meadows in Alkrington Moss, Middleton, heard 'consecutive bangs' while windows were shattered.

A fire started outside a house following a 'disturbance' in the street in Little Hulton on Thursday night (July 20). Fireworks were reportedly set off following the incident, which set fire to trees outside the front of a house.

The shocking moment a gang of kids punched and kicked a man as they taunted him on a bus was caught on camera. The incident, which is believed to have happened in Stockport, was filmed by a passenger on a Stagecoach bus on Monday (July 17).

Nine men were arrested in police raids today as part of a crackdown into county line drug supply and gangs in Salford.

The first images of the new homes which could be built on the site of a legendary former Manchester nightclub have been revealed. More than 300 affordable homes are planned across four plots of land in Moss Side.