Almost 30,000 people tested positive for coronavirus in just one week in Greater Manchester - as infection rates continue to soar in all ten boroughs.
10.12.2021 - 15:05 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A Serbian lorry driver was caught trying to smuggling £5m worth of cocaine into the UK hidden with a load of frozen pizzas.
Vladan Petrovic's haul was discovered when warehouse workers in Heywood became suspicious of what was in his lorry, police said.
Officers then found 50 individual 1kg blocks of the class A drug split between his HGV trailer and a holdall in his cabin.
The drugs had an estimated street value of between £4 million and £5 million.
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Almost 30,000 people tested positive for coronavirus in just one week in Greater Manchester - as infection rates continue to soar in all ten boroughs.
Coronavirus infection rates have risen in all ten of Greater Manchester's boroughs - and have hit record high levels in four of them.
Coronavirus infection rates have gone up in all 10 boroughs of Greater Manchester with a total of 24,488 people tested positive.
Coronavirus cases in one Greater Manchester borough have seen a huge increase of 131 per cent, an ex-firefighter who plied two women with alcohol and drugs before raping them has been jailed, staffing levels within the NHS are raising concerns as the workforce is hit by a challenging combination of Covid cases and people isolating and a man in his 20s is currently fighting for his life in hospital after he was involved in a crash in Bolton.
Covid rates are continuing to rise across Greater Manchester in the run up to Christmas - with some boroughs reporting their highest ever levels since the pandemic began.
Coronavirus infection rates have gone up in all ten boroughs of Greater Manchester, new data has revealed.
Three Greater Manchester boroughs have seen record high covid infection rates as cases rocket across the region.
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A star of Channel 4 show Educating Greater Manchester who was locked up for hiding a gun and ammunition for her boyfriend has had her jail sentence cut.
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Coronavirus infection rates have gone up in seven boroughs of Greater Manchester, the latest figures show.