Young mum, 25, fitted her Ford Focus with secret openings cut into seats to hide a gun - officers also found ammo, a serrated knife and a silencer

Manchester City travel to Brighton on Sunday afternoon for more Women’s Super League action against a side desperate to steady their ship after another change of management.

A whole host of famous faces will take to the pitch this summer as Soccer Aid returns to Manchester once again. The annual charity match is set to take place at United's Old Trafford ground on Sunday, June 11 with some new celebrities and returning players amongst the star-studded line-up.

Manchester City ace Julian Alvarez has admitted that he "observes" teammate Erling Haaland in an attempt to learn from the Norwegian frontman.

A man was cut from a car and taken to hospital following a horror crash in Rochdale. Emergency services rushed to Albert Royds Street just before midnight on Saturday (4 March.)

Coming face to face with a burglar who potentially wants to hurt you is nothing short of a nightmare.

Guardiola speaks out on Kompany's return

A young woman reported missing 13 months ago may have been killed by an older man who knew her family. Alisha Apostoloff-Boyarin, from Ashton-under-Lyne, disappeared aged 24 on February 2 last year.

Former Manchester United striker Dwight Yorke has described Australian club Macarthur FC, who he recently stepped down as manager of, as being like a "Mickey Mouse slash pub team".

Ten men have been charged with more than 50 offences between them as part of an investigation into child sexual exploitation in Bolton.

Hundreds of young people across Greater Manchester are to get free cycle hire, in a new promotion announced by Mayor Andy Burnham. The first 1,000 Our Pass members to sign up for the offer will get 50 minutes free 'bee bike' hire in March, April and May.

Four men have been jailed for their part in a ‘brutal’ and ‘savage’ attack that has left an affiliate of a rival gang blind in one eye and scarred ‘joker style’ for life.

The families of a young couple killed in the Manchester Arena terror attack have told of their anguish at a law that prevents them from registering the deaths of their children. Teenage sweethearts Chloe Rutherford and Liam Curry were among the 22 people killed in the attack in May 2017.

A man who was arrested after a child was grabbed from their mum as they walked down a Bolton street has been detained under the Mental Health Act, police have confirmed.

We have only just pulled out of the car park at Eccles Police station when PC Paul Ashworth begins getting information through his radio about a Ford Focus with part of its 'front end hanging off.'

A Greater Manchester cat rescue, that has rehomed more than 1,200 animals in the past two years, is being forced to close its doors unless it can be saved financially.

As Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham launched the latest scheme aimed at tackling knife crime in the region, a short distance from the press conference, a tragically appropriate case study was being laid bare in court. Just half a mile away from where Burnham addressed assembled reporters in Manchester city centre, a 17-year-old boy sat in the dock of an imposing, Victorian crown court, facing the most serious criminal charge possible.

A missing cat has been reunited with his stunned owners - after more than six years. The RSPCA - who found 'Raffi' injured in a garden five miles away from where he was last seen - shared details of the heart-warming story which will give hope to all those currently searching for missing pets.

More than 1,700 homes and businesses have been hit by a power cut in Stockport.

A sadistic convicted rapist has been jailed for a life after strangling a woman to death with her t-shirt. Simon Goold, 52, targeted 26-year-old Elizabeth McCann after meeting her at a Health and Wellbeing college in Ashton-under-Lyne.

A young mum claims she was told by her housing provider to use a powerful mould removal spray on her five-month-old baby's mattress.