Primary school forced to close as police deal with 'serious incident' at park

The family of a Manchester aid worker are close to being able to bring his body home, they have said.

A shocking average of 242 incidents of crime and anti-social behaviour PER MONTH were reported on and around Greater Manchester's Metrolink network over the last 12 months, new figures reveal. That equates to an annual total of 2,904 - or around 60 reports every week.

Detectives investigating the death of a teenager in Heywood have made two further arrests.

PCs Fiona Bone and Nicola Hughes didn't stand a chance as they responded to what they thought was a routine report of a burglary. The pair stepped out of their police van and walked up to the front door of a three-bed maisonette, into a slaughter that was so gratuitous the shock still reverberates today.

One of Manchester’s oldest pubs has closed its doors ‘for the foreseeable future’, but will re-open once it’s undergone a massive refurbishment. Rumours that The City pub on Oldham Street was under threat of closure began to circulate last weekend.

Pupils were kept indoors on Thursday afternoon (September 8) after a high school was put on 'lockdown' due to a police incident nearby. The incident, which did not happen at the school but in an area nearby, caused The Westleigh School to be put on lockdown.

A man has been found dead at a park in Bury this morning.

Plans to build a block of flats behind a social club in South Manchester have been given the green light despite concerns it would cause parking 'chaos'.

A school in Bolton had to contact Google to correct a mistake which saw their name changed on the search engine. Little Lever School was appearing as New Hall Village School yesterday and had to reassure residents that was not true.

Police investigating the fatal shooting of a young woman in Liverpool have released an update on their 'murder' investigation.

A social worker has been accused of bullying the family of a teenage boy with severe autism who was sectioned in hospital following an aggressive outburst.

A man was found with a knife and a screwdriver after being stopped and search by police in Stockport.

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