Two women arrested on suspicion of drug driving in separate incidents

Police have arrested six people and a number of stolen vehicles were recovered in a crackdown on anti-social behaviour in Salford.

A 15-year-old schoolgirl was viciously attacked by a group of youngsters as she walked her dog. Detectives in Tameside have launched an urgent investigation and four teenagers have been arrested - the youngest a girl aged 13.

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 man was attacked on an Eccles street on Sunday afternoon. Two people, a man and a woman, have since been arrested on suspicion of assault.

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.

Two men have been arrested after a 'brawl' led to a stabbing in Bury town centre. A 24-year-old man was taken to hospital with serious injuries after emergency services rushed out to the scene at around 5am on Sunday morning (March 28).

Police have arrested four people in a crackdown on a multi-million pound money laundering ring.

A man has been arrested after a gay woman was brutally assaulted.

Two vehicles have been seized by Greater Manchester Police officers during separate incidents in Eccles and Stockport. In Eccles, a driver of a Volkswagen Golf failed to notice a marked police car behind him when he went through a red light on Barton Lane.

An uninsured provisional driver who risked getting behind the wheel unsupervised has been arrested in Ashton. Things got worse for the driver, whose vehicle had already been seized for the previous offences, failed a roadside drugs test for cannabis and was later detained.

Three people have been arrested on suspicion of cloning number plates after being detained by Greater Manchester Police in Rochdale. A Ford Mondeo was spotted by officers in the area and as they approached the car, the offenders sped off.

Five people have been arrested while cars and drugs have been seized as part of a major crackdown on crime in Rochdale. More than 30 vehicles were targeted during the operation last week, as neighbourhood officers targeted those who use the borough's roads to commit crime, including dangerous driving and drug dealing.

Three men have been arrested after a man was attacked in Manchester city centre.

A man wanted on suspicion of attempted murder after a double shooting in Wigan has been detained after armed police swooped on a house in south Manchester.

A drink-driving mother tried to blame her crime on 'separation anxiety' from her 12-month-old son after she was caught behind the wheel by police.

Two people have been arrested after allegedly ramming police with a suspected stolen car.

A businesswoman from Bolton who was caught drink driving on a night out tried to blame it on 'separation anxiety' from her 12 month old son. Mother of two Elizabeth Prince claimed she only jumped behind the wheel of Fiat 500 and drove home at 1am after being triggered by the sounds of her crying youngster she had left with her grandmother.

Five men were arrested while high-value jewellery, a samurai sword and £2,000 cash have all been seized in a string of dawn raids across Rochdale. Officers carried out warrants across the borough this morning (March 16) as part of a major crackdown on class A drug supply across Greater Manchester, Cumbria and North Wales.

An 11-year-old girl has been arrested on suspicion of assault after a teenager was left with serious head injuries in Tameside.

Two men were arrested and drugs have been seized following dawn raids to tackle county lines dealers.