'I did everything I could for the lad': Tearful bar owner's desperate battle to save stabbing victim

Shop workers have described groups of youths causing havoc in Stockport town centre, riding bikes into shops and throwing items around. This came after police issued a stark warning to parents following a surge in anti-social behaviour involving kids as young as nine around Merseyway Shopping Centre.

A 12-year-old girl who was arrested after another girl was stabbed before school has been released under investigation.

A "loving" boyfriend who killed a young woman in a crash was today jailed - despite the victim's family 'disagreeing' with the prosecution. Mum-of-one Natalia Kulik died after Peter Clarke's car crashed through a roundabout barrier and landed on its side on an underpass in Salford.

A long-running legal battle between the owners of the Manchester Ship Canal and the region’s water company over the discharge of sewage into the canal has reached the Court of Appeal.

The heartbroken family of a missing Tameside woman who is believed to have been murdered say they want her home so they 'can lay her to rest'. Alisha Apostoloff-Boyarin was last seen in Ashton-under-Lyne in January and was reported missing the following month.

In Bury a large CeX store, its windows crammed with cut price gadgets and banners boasting of 'buying stuff for cash' seems unnaturally quiet. The last time I visited, just before Christmas, the store was steady with shoppers desperate to save money on their Christmas presents.

A section of the M56 near to Manchester Airport is closed in both directions all weekend - causing potential travel chaos to drivers travelling in and out of the city.

Neighbours have told of their shock after a teenage boy was stabbed in north Manchester.

A man from London appeared in court on Tuesday morning charged with assault and possession of a bladed article after an alleged stabbing in the Piccadilly Gardens area of Manchester city centre last week. Police swooped on the gardens last Monday afternoon (March 14) to reports of a stabbing following a 'group dispute'.

An inquest has opened into the death of an 18-year-old man who died after being stabbed in Bury town centre 11 days ago.

The family of a missing man from Stockport have issued a heartfelt plea - 'please come home, we miss you'.

When Nicola Wardle scrolled through Facebook on the evening of February 4, nothing could have prepared her for what she was about to read.

Naman Ramachandran The BBC has revealed the first images from the keenly anticipated series adaptation of “Everything I Know About Love,” based on journalist, author and podcaster Dolly Alderton’s internationally bestselling memoir of the same name.Images have been revealed of Emma Appleton (Maggie), Bel Powley (Birdy), Marli Siu (Nell), Aliyah Odoffin (Amara) and Connor Finch (Street).“Everything I Know About Love” won a 2018 National Book Award for autobiography and was shortlisted for the 2019 Non-Fiction Narrative Book of the Year in the British Book Awards.The romantic comedy drama about female friendship provides an unflinching account of surviving your 20s.The seven-part series for BBC One will be directed by China Moo-Young (“Intergalactic,” “Harlots”) and produced by Working Title Television (“We Are Lady Parts,” “Hanna”), which is part of Universal International Studios, a division of Universal Studio Group. Set in a 2012 London house-share, with flashbacks to suburban adolescence in the early 2000s, the series is a deep dive into bad dates, heartaches and humiliations and asks whether platonic love can survive romantic love as the protagonists grow up.The series is executive produced by Jo McClellan for the BBC, Dolly Alderton, and Surian Fletcher-Jones, Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner for Working Title Television; and produced by Simon Maloney.

A 17-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of murdering an 18-year-old in Bury town centre.

Battles have announced that they will be heading out on a tour in 2022 which will take them to the UK, Europe and North America. Find tickets here.The New York City art-rock duo will start the tour on March 26 at Zerospace Brooklyn in New York, travelling to cities including Austin (April 17), Pittsburgh (May 23) and Chicago (June 4).

A sex worker stabbed a customer in the stomach after he grabbed his money back during a fumbled encounter.

A teenager who was stabbed to death in Bury suffered the fatal injury during a sudden two second confrontation between two groups of youths in the town centre, the M.E.N. can reveal.

Northern towns should not have to compete among themselves for government attention to get desperately needed funding, Wigan’s MP has said.

A young man has been rushed to hospital after being stabbed in Bury town centre this afternoon.