GMP arrest 30 after officers storm homes in dawn raids across Salford

Greater Manchester Policing is dispatching hundreds of police officers to London to boost security ahead of the state funeral at Westminster Abbey on Monday.

Fire crews have been called to clear a road in Salford due to a large spillage of soap. Bus services going through Broad Street have been suspended after a truck had shed its load across the road from the Salford Crescent Station.

A Greater Manchester Police officer who tried to rape a woman in a 'deplorable' violent sex attack will have his sentence reviewed by the Court of Appeal.

A Greater Manchester Police officer has appeared in court charged over a Boxing Day crash which left a boy paralysed. Sarah De Meulemeester denied causing serious injury by dangerous driving before a district judge at Liverpool Magistrates' Court this morning.

Bolton Wanderers boss Ian Evatt has vowed he has full belief in his strikers amid not bringing in further reinforcements in that department this summer and feels a League One Erling Haaland is just not a realistic prospect.

Twelve people have been arrested after police raided houses across Manchester in the early hours.

Police are asking for the public's help in finding the relatives of a man who died in Salford. Ian Davidson, 64, sadly passed away at his home in Salford on Thursday (August 25) and police believe there to be no suspicious circumstances surrounding his death.

A Greater Manchester Police detective appeared in court today (August 30) facing multiple sex offences and theft.

A councillor claims a police officer 'laughed' after he reported receiving a death threat at Manchester Pride. Coun Jon-Connor Lyons says a fellow festival-goer told him 'F*** off, I'll kill you', before hurling abuse at his female friend during an altercation in the queue for a bar.

Stacey Giggs, the ex-wife of footballer Ryan Giggs, has revealed that her £80k Range Rover Sport has been recovered after three masked men stole it from her driveway whilst she was at home. The former WAG, 43, is said to have seen her £80,000 car be driven off by thieves in the early hours of Thursday 25 August morning at her home in Worsley, Manchester, leaving her and her two children, Liberty, 19, and Zach, 15, "traumatised".

Detectives investigating the alleged murder of a man in Moss Side have arrested a teenager. The M.E.N. previously told how Javell Morgan, 20, was found with serious injuries following an incident on Claremont Road at about 12.15am on Monday, August 15.

Police have released aerial footage depicting the arrest of a 36-year-old man accused of the murder of a nine-year-old girl in Merseyside. Olivia Pratt-Korbel was shot dead on Monday evening after a gunman barged into her family home in Dovecot, Liverpool.

Salford city council has switched a £39 million contract to build 177 new homes in Little Hulton to an alternative construction firm after the company that tendered successfully for the job went into liquidation. Bolton-based Seddon Construction will now build the homes at Longshaw Drive on the site of the former Harrop Fold School, 92 of which will be affordable and a further 85 for the private rented sector.

The police cannot tackle knife crime alone, Greater Manchester's deputy chief constable has said, after three people died within a week following stabbings. Speaking on BBC Radio Manchester on Tuesday (August 23), the top cop called on communities, volunteers and the public sector to 'pull together'.

A GMP officer has been charged with alleged misuse of the force's IT systems. Police Sergeant Richard Proctor, 40, who is based within GMPs City of Manchester division, will appear in court next month.

Three prison officers were left in hospital after being injured in an 'attack' at Forest Bank Prison. The incident broke out on Monday, August 15, the prison has confirmed.

Police have arrested a man after a seven-year-old girl was 'abducted from the street, taken into woodland then sexually assaulted in a van' - though the hunt for another man continues.