Police investigating 'deliberate' Dovestone fires which could have been 'devastating'

More police will be patrolling the area around a luxury Salford block of flats which residents say is ‘really, really high for crime’.

A blueprint to reduce teenage offending across Greater Manchester by transforming the way they are handled by police has been unveiled. A report presented to the Greater Manchester Police, Crime and Fire Panel puts the emphasis on "child-centred policing".

Police have released video footage from inside a cannabis farm found in a house in Oldham.

A victim has been left with facial injuries after being beaten in a robbery during broad daylight. Greater Manchester Police is appealing for help following the incident, which took place in Oldham.

An 'unprovoked' serious attack in Bury town centre left a victim with a bleed on the brain and a fractured skull. Police are now trying to trace a man they wish to speak to as investigations into the incident continue.

Police have issued an appeal after a man was brutally attacked at Parklife festival.

Nine men and a woman have been charged with drugs, firearms and money laundering offences after police raids. All 10 are appearing before Manchester magistrates' court today - Thursday.

Six men and one woman from Manchester were arrested on Wednesday morning (August 3) following an investigation into drugs supply between the region and Whitby. The major investigation was launched in December last year by detectives from the North West Regional Organised Crime Unit and other local police forces, following community concerns about drugs supply and the use of firearms in the area.

Police hunting a gunman in Lancashire have tracked down the car used by the suspect more than 60 miles away in Tameside. Detectives are investigating a shooting in Heysham, near Morecambe, on Monday.

Police have issued an urgent public appeal over a missing 15-year-old girl. Officers said they were 'becoming increasingly concerned' for the welfare of Charlie Kennedy.

Police are appealing for help to find a missing 17-year-old who was last seen in June.

Police are becoming 'increasingly concerned' about the welfare of a missing man who was last seen in Wigan.

An investigation is underway after eight people were rescued from a blaze at a block of flats in Rochdale. Fire crews rushed to the scene, on Daventry Road, on Monday evening (August 1).

Dramatic photos show a bullet-riddled car after a 16-year-old girl was blasted in a drive-by shotgun attack in south Manchester. Police are hunting the gunman who opened fire at a crowd at a party outside a house in Moss Side on Friday.

The FA has confirmed an investigation will be opened after flares were used in the stands during Manchester City's Community Shield loss to Liverpool on Saturday evening.

Police in south Manchester have been granted extra stop and search powers. It comes after a teenage girl was shot.

Police netted a staggering drugs haul after stopping a car in Manchester. Officers found 20 bags stuffed full of cannabis inside cardboard boxes in the vehicle's boot.

Ten men have been arrested as part of following a series of dawn raids.

Police have launched an investigation after a text message circulating in Longsight claimed there had been a spate of religiously aggravated hate crimes in the area. Extra patrols have been launched while officers try to find out who originally sent the message and if there's any truth to the allegations.