Two boys attacked by teenage knife thugs outside Swinton school

The violent scenes, captured in video footage now shared from behind both sides of the ornate metal fences of the Chinese consulate in Manchester, are clear to see and unequivocal. What's less obvious, perhaps, to many observers are the politics and feelings behind them.

A popular and much-loved dad and granddad who died 10 years after being attacked and left unconscious in the street was unlawfully killed, a coroner has ruled.

The Foreign Secretary has demanded a top-level explanation from China after 'apparent scenes of violence' against Hong Kong pro-democracy protestors in Manchester.

A man has been arrested for carrying a knife and child abduction in a Salford suburb.

An investigation has been launched after a protest erupted into violence outside the Chinese Consulate in Manchester on Sunday afternoon (October 16). Police were called to the incident, which involved pro-democracy Hong Kong protestors, outside the Consulate General of the People's Republic of China in Rusholme.

Update - Steven Geoffrey Brown has been found. In an update on Sunday night, North Wales Police said he had been found by mountain rescue teams and is being assessed by doctors.

Officers are appealing for help finding a teenage boy with links to Manchester. Mikro was last seen on Wednesday, October 12.

A suspended senior Greater Manchester Police officer is facing allegations of sexual harassment, it has been confirmed.

A primary school which runs a foodbank for struggling families has issued a heartbreaking plea.

A man accused of sending money to women in the Philippines to live stream the sexual abuse of children on Skype has appeared at court. Bernard Grace attended a short hearing at Manchester and Salford Magistrates Court today (October 13) and pleaded not guilty to 17 charges over a five year period, beginning in November 2017.

Former Bolton Wanderers loanee Marcus Maddison has had his contract at non-league Darlington cancelled by mutual consent.

A neonatal nurse accused of 'poisoning babies' allegedly attacked twin brothers, a trial has heard. Lucy Letby, 32, is charged with murdering seven babies and faces 15 attempted murder charges involving ten more children.

A climber has been airlifted to hospital with a suspected spinal injury after falling 65ft during a climb up Snowdonia.

An ex-soldier whose life 'spiralled out of control' after being kicked by a horse was caught with a knife and fake gun outside Tesco.

The neonatal nurse who allegedly ‘poisoned’ premature babies attacked one baby in front of his mother, a trial has heard.

Police have made an arrest after a street in Ashton was taped off due to a "nasty" assault which saw a man attacked with a bottle in broad daylight.

Police have appealed to the public to help trace a missing teenager from Wythenshawe.

Interviewed for the Strangeways ITV documentary, killer bodybuilder Michael Sharp painted a bleak picture of life inside Manchester's notorious prison. "There’s no light at the end of the tunnel, so there's a lot of stabbings, a lot of slashings, people boiling up tubs of butter, turning it into oil, throwing that over the faces, over the body, they don't care what they do," he said.

The heartbroken family of a Sikh leader who was left for dead after being attacked in the Northern Quarter said that the assault has 'left an ever bleeding wound' on their hearts. Avtar Singh, 62, suffered life-changing brain injuries after being knocked out by stranger Claudio Campos, in Tib Street, on June 23.