''Ringing police on me... what the f***?": Ex-soldier, 23, abused the mother of his child - but walks free from court after arguing he was 'too immature' to cope with being a father

A man has been charged in the police hunt for a gunman after shots were fired at a house. Gunshots were fired at the window and door of a home in Rochdale on Sunday evening, March 27.

Two teenagers were arrested on a bus after police uncovered knives. Officers boarded the bus after reports of a 'disturbance' in Salford just after midnight this morning (Saturday).

A Greater Manchester Police officer has been jailed after he was revealed to be hounding two women he met in the course of his duties with thousands of calls and texts. The officer met one of the victims after he responded to a domestic violence incident.

Police have launched a search for a woman as officers become increasingly worried for her. Police are currently searching for Fizza Ahmed, who is missing from the Didsbury area.

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.

The family of a missing woman believed by police to have been murdered have released a series of new photographs of her as a cross-county investigation continues. Alisha Apostoloff-Boyarin, 24, was last seen in Ashton-under-Lyne, Tameside, in January and was reported missing in February.

Police have released video footage showing the inside of a 'chop shop' used by two brothers to break down stolen cars and sell the parts on eBay.

Seventeen suspects have been arrested after an undercover operation to smash gangs supplying crack cocaine and heroin to Manchester's homeless. Dawn raids were carried out after an eight-month investigation into drugs being sold openly on the street, just a mile from the city centre.

A stressed police response officer who has seen five dead bodies in the past four weeks has spoken out about the grim reality of the job - after an application for two days off "for a break from it all" was rejected.

Two quick-thinking police officers helped save a family from a 'life-threatening' fire that ripped through their home in Stockport. The drama unfolded when the two PCs who were on patrol in Brinnington spotted smoke coming from a house earlier this morning (Tuesday).

A racist yob hurled vile abuse at a group of men on board a train from Manchester, police have revealed. British Transport Police have launched an urgent investigation into what it called a 'hate crime' and are appealing for help from the public.

Twenty fines are set to be issued over alleged lockdown-busting parties held in government buildings, police have said.

A driver sped down the wrong side of a busy dual carriageway to escape a police chase. The driver was only stopped by crashing into another vehicle.

A supply teacher who worked at a school in Wythenshawe has been permanently banned from teaching after being found with pornographic images of children.

Police in Salford made an arrest on Monday evening (March 28) after a vehicle pursuit ended in a crash. Traffic officers said a white Ford Fiesta "made off" from a special response team on Madamswood Road in Little Hulton.

A man was subjected to homophobic abuse after he tried to intervene when he spotted a group of men being racially attacked on a train between Manchester and Sheffield. Police have now issued an appeal for victims of the incident to come forward as they continue their investigations.

The family of a 16-year-old who died after a police chase have told an inquest they believe the pursuit was ‘disproportionate’. Kyle Hudson died in Bramhall when the Toyota Yaris he was driving careered off Moss Hall Lane in the early hours of November 13, 2020. At the time, he was being pursued by a Cheshire traffic cop in a BMW.

Bomb disposal experts were scrambled to Stretford this evening after a report of a 'suspicious item' in a canal.