Today's top Greater Manchester stories - Wednesday, December 22, 2021

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.

A woman is still fighting for her life after she was caught in a horror smash on the M60, a devastated mum has spoken out claiming her teenage son was battered by a stranger in a random and unprovoked attack in Trafford, and with just days to go before Christmas, hundreds of police officers took to the city's streets as part of a huge crackdown on crime.

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.

With Christmas right around the corner, you're likely to soon have plenty of rubbish from all the presents you've had to wrap up and open.

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.

The M.E.N has revealed the first picture of the 10 year old girl who was killed after she was hit by a car in Oldham on Saturday, Covid infection rates in half of Greater Manchester's boroughs are the highest they have ever been, a pervert who grabbed a Piccadilly Station worker by the face and tried to kiss her has been jailed and people in Greater Manchester claim they have been left waiting several days for PCR test results.

Huge delays continued at Manchester Airport as hundreds of passengers missed their flights, a woman in her 60s was the fifth person to be killed on roads in Greater Manchester this weekend and a little girl aged just 10 who died after being hit by a Land Rover last night was publicly named.

Manchester city centre hit with a dispersal order after Mad Friday trouble, 'chaos' at Manchester Airport due to long queues through security and the 'fit and healthy' mum who died a week after getting coronavirus.

BBC's Strictly Come Dancing returns to our screens tonight for its grand final, as two celebrities take to the dancefloor in a bid to win the coveted glitterball trophy.

A lifelong Stockport County fan died at just 46 from Covid-19 after being unable to get the vaccine, the Manchester Evening News revealed a fascinating snapshot of how the public here really feels about Boris Johnson’s biggest political priority: ‘levelling up’ and Greater Manchester Police has told bereaved families 'the force let you down' as it admitted a series of failures on the night of the Manchester Arena bombing.

As the festive season gets into full swing, it’s usually a time for merriment, cheer and food.

The response of the ambulance service on the night of the Manchester Arena bombing was 'inadequate', a QC for the bereaved families has said at the inquiry, a dad-of-four was cremated rather than buried with pictures of his family after Greater Manchester Police failed to tell his wife that he had left a suicide note and a businessman sank vodka parked up in his Tesla before crashing - on the way to an alcoholics anonymous meeting.

Ambulance crews were seen sitting outside an emergency department in Oldham as pressures continue to hit the region’s NHS system, the parents of missing student Charley Gadd have today issued an urgent plea for members of the public to help them find their son last seen in Manchester and an inquest heard that the ‘failings’ of a health trust could have ‘contributed’ to the death of a murdered toddler from Wythenshawe.

The country was told that all over-18s will now be offered the booster jab by the end of December in the fight against Omicron, tributes have poured in of a 25-year-old man who died in a horrific street attack in Bolton last night, a mum-of-two has complained that her mouldy house is making her children ill and a man has been jailed for hurling anti-Semitic abuse at a couple in front of two off-duty police officers last year.

Omicron cases have risen sharply over the last month in Greater Manchester, the latest figures reveal.

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.

A Conservative MP from Greater Manchester says he will vote against the government's proposed vaccine passport plan.

Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi's chilling 'journey into radicalisation' was mapped out by an expert at the public inquiry into the terror attack, families visiting the Christmas light show at Dunham Massey have described the experience as 'absolutely awful' after it flooded, and a brave woman has spoken out about the abuse she endured from her evil partner of 17 years.

A Greater Manchester Police officer has been charged with conspiracy to commit police corruption.