Cops put £170k Bentley on display outside police station

'Septic patients' were held outside hospitals on ambulances without air conditioning on the hottest days on record in the UK, according to paramedics in North West Ambulance Service (NWAS). The news comes as doctors have admitted severe bed shortages, resulting in patients waiting for hours because there is no space to safely put them.

Pet dogs will be allowed on board Metrolink trams as part of a three-month trial due to launch next month, transport bosses announced today. It means people's pooches will get to ride supervised for the first time in the network's 30-year history.

Bosses at Oldham Pride claim they have been told that a Pride-themed police car has been banned from this weekend’s event due to concerns over ‘hate crime’.

Ten ambulances were spotted queueing outside a Greater Manchester A&E on the hottest day on record. Photos show ambulances waiting in line at Royal Oldham Hospital yesterday, while another eight vehicles queued for Fairfield General Hospital.

A man who has been hailed as Britain’s kindest plumber has helped a disabled man who was left without food and facing a debt with his gas company of nearly £1,500.

The bomb squad was deployed and a police station was cordoned off after 'ammunition' was found in a river in south Manchester.

Ambulances are being treated like ‘extra wards’ as patients are left outside hospital for up to three hours, say paramedics. Staff have told how ambulance handovers are taking hours, claiming ‘it isn’t safe’ as the NHS struggles under severe pressure.

pub has been named as one of the best pubs in the UK. The Cartvale in Busby, just outside Glasgow limits, made the cut as a finalist in the Great British Pub Awards, often dubbed 'the Oscars of the pub industry'. The village boozer was shortlisted for 'Star Pubs & Bars Pub of the Year'.

Police are appealing for the public's help to find a missing woman from Bolton. Jade, 31, was last seen on East Way, Hall I’th Wood at around 10pm on Monday.

Police have issued an urgent appeal to help find an elderly man reported missing in Trafford.

Police have closed a road in Littleborough following what witnesses have described as a 'quad bike crash'. Canal Street near Littleborough railway station is cordoned off following the incident.

Police are appealing for the public's help to find a missing man in south Manchester. Jerzy, 68, who uses a wheelchair, got lost from his partner on Sunday afternoon after a day in the park in Didsbury.

This is the wreckage left behind after a dramatic police chase was brought to a sudden halt - by a tree. Greater Manchester Police says the pursuit began after the driver of a grey Vauxhall Astra failed to stop for officers in Middleton.

Mindless attacks on cold water swimmers at Salford Quays could lead to someone being drowned, it is feared. Gangs of youths, as young as 15 and 16, have been hurling bottles and stones at them.

Finally, Manchester has its very own ball pit, and unlike Wacky Warehouse, this one’s just for adults. Bingo Balls opens at the Printworks this weekend and features not one, but two adult-only ball pits lit up with LED lights.

A new office block planned next to Victoria Station has been redesigned. The second phase of the New Victoria development in Manchester was set to be a predominantly glass building with eight storeys of office floorspace.