'Whimpering' dog found tied to tree and abandoned by her owner

A woman spent 24 hours in a dog cage that 'smelled like urine' while listening to barking sounds to raise awareness of animal testing. Anne-Marie Barton, who lived streamed the entire experience on Facebook, said she designed the cramped enclosure to look like those found in laboratories.

A man sexually abused a boy and filmed his wife having sex with their pet dog. Kieran Parkinson, 36, has been jailed after he discussed raping and assaulting children in chats with his wife Mary.

A motorist found to be in possession of a machete and an amount of cannabis was arrested by traffic cops from Greater Manchester Police after a pursuit around the market town of Ramsbottom.

Police have issued an urgent appeal to find a missing teenage girl who was last seen on Friday evening (October 14). Destiny Garvie-Roberts, 15, is originally from Winsford but is known to have links to Greater Manchester.

She enjoyed a flash SUV car, expensive hair extensions and VIP concert tickets - all while documenting her lavish lifestyle on Instagram. But Laura Howarth stole £100,000 from her employer to be able to fund it.

Bolton Wanderers boss Ian Evatt has explained individual reasons for why he believes the club's strikers are yet to properly hit the ground in terms of goalscoring this campaign as he backed them all to do so before long.

When Nic Preston adopted 11-month-old terrier Teddy in early 2021, he had no idea the role his dog would come to play in his life.

This is the chilling note found inside the home of a nurse accused of killing seven babies.

A nurse accused of murdering seven babies and trying to kill 10 more wrote 'I am evil I did this' on a piece of paper later found in a police search of her house, a court has heard.

A man has been charged after being found in possession of a firearm following a police pursuit in Rochdale.

Murder detectives in Rochdale are appealing for witnesses after a 21-year-old dad was found dead following 'three incidents'.

There are those times in life when we seem to do a great deal of work for very little reward.

Police have found a container of drugs stashed in a car wheel in a Metrolink stop car park - cheekily joking the owner could contact police if they wanted them back.

The RSPCA is investigating after the 'battered' body of an XL American bulldog was found dumped in a child's pushchair. The society said scans showed the dog, which had been left wrapped in a blanket, suffered significant skull and jaw fractures, which they said appeared to have been the result of 'blunt force trauma to the head'.

A woman who is expected to give birth later this year has been missing since visiting hospital last month. Greater Manchester Police is urgently appealing for help finding Sarah Marson, from Rochdale.

Greater Manchester Police (GMP) officers say they found a large quantity of suspected drugs in a black Mercedes car that was spotted being 'driven at speed' last night.

The brother of Moors Murders victim Keith Bennett has spoken of his 'anger and pain' in an increasingly bitter row with an author who sparked a new police dig for the child's remains.

Police who went to a Salford tower block to make arrests discovered a Breaking Bad style drugs lab. The crystal meth lab was set up inside a flat at Adelphi Court.

Police investigating money laundering hit the jackpot when they stopped a car in Salford. Stuffed into cardboard boxes in the vehicle was almost a quarter of a million pounds.