Urgent appeal issued as police search for missing 14-year-old boy

Police are searching for a woman who lives in a tower block where a fire broke out yesterday (June 14).

A young Aitch superfan has finally got to meet his idol after a video of him at the rapper's concert went viral.

A teen followed a young mum before stabbing her in front of her five-year-old son in a brutal attack.

Mandy, Indiana are often described as a Manchester band, but in reality, their links to the city are loose. “I left for a reason,” the band’s co-founder Valentine Caulfield says from her native France, “because I fucking hate it.” She speaks with the same withering tone that makes her band, co-founded with Scott Fair, so bracing to listen to (Fair also feels little kinship with Manchester beyond personal ties, and has also left it behind). The band’s dismissal of the English city they formed in is just a taste of the barely concealed rage simmering on their debut album i’ve seen a way, released last month.

A heartbroken mum is desperate for answers after her teenage son drowned at Salford Quays - and has warned people not to go swimming in open water this summer in fear of more tragic deaths.

The first heat-health alert of the year has been issued for parts of England this week by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) and the Met Office.

Heartfelt tributes have been paid to a 'brilliant' sportsman who was found dead two days after being reported missing. Greater Manchester Police confirmed last night (June 6) that a body found by the Peak Forest Canal in Marple was that of Christopher Barlow.

A Cheshire businesswoman attacked two policemen during a bust up as they handcuffed her. Carol Holcroft pushed out at one officer and kicked another when she was arrested, a court has heard.

Officers are hunting down a wanted man who is believed to have links across Greater Manchester. Jacob Ricketts is wanted for outstanding offences, according to Greater Manchester Police.

Manchester United are 'interested' in signing highly-rated Chicago Fire midfielder Brian Gutierrez ahead of this summer's transfer window officially opening for business next Wednesday.

Rogue beauty salons in Greater Manchester could be flouting the law by offering potentially ­dangerous lip fillers to underage teens without checking their ID. It's a criminal offence to give Botox to under-18s for cosmetic reasons.

Concern is growing for a missing 13-year-old girl from Tameside.

Police have issued an update after a a 17-year-old boy and 12-year-old girl died in the sea off Bournemouth beach.

The staggering amount of bus lane fines issued to drivers in Manchester over the year has been revealed - along with the millions of pounds of revenue collected.

Britain's Got Talent judge Simon Cowell was blasted by viewers for his critique of young singer Tina Connolly's performance. After 15-year-old Tia belted out Katy Perry's hit Firework in the second live semi-final on Tuesday (May 30), Simon bluntly told her she was put through from the audition stage "not because you're the best singer in the competition, but because you've got guts."

Police have issued an urgent appeal to trace a missing man who has not been seen for almost two days. James, 35, whose surname was not given, was last seen in the Ormskirk Road area at around 9pm on Friday (May 26).

A woman is missing from home in Greater Manchester. Charlotte, whose surname has not been released, was was seen on Fountain Street at around 10.20pm on Thursday (May 25).

A watchdog has launched an investigation after a boy was left fighting for his life when hit by a police car. The vehicle was reportedly responding to a 999 call with blue lights at the time of the crash.

The mother of a 20-year-old brutally murdered as violence erupted at Manchester's Caribbean Carnival said she will be forever haunted by her son's death. Javell Morgan was stabbed to death in Moss Side last summer, when two groups of young men from Huddersfield clashed in the street, one side armed with guns, the other with knives.

Bury’s former post office building is set to be transformed into ‘high end’ apartments. The Crompton Street building, which is a striking example of 19th century Queen Anne style architecture, is the subject of plans which would see it converted it into 16 apartments.