Greater Manchester County, England News

A PENSIONER who locked himself in his home after he was targeted by burglars five times in three months has been found dead.

A WEDDING guest has admitted killing the groom's cousin after a row at a reception party.

A brave shop boss has told how he feared for his and his fellow victims' lives after they were terrorised by hatchet-wielding robbers in fright masks.

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Robinho's father has admitted his son's future at Manchester City is far from certain.

THE parents of a teenage girl who died after being shot in the head have joined the man who was holding the gun when it went off to issue a warning to others.

A Greater Manchester Police officer has been required to resign and another officer fined after an Independent Police Complaints Commission managed investigation into an allegation that excessive force was used on a man during his arrest.

METROLINK's new tram will be making an appearance on the Bury line over the next few weeks - but passengers will not be able to board it just yet.

A St Helens man who was arrested for an armed raid after a tip-off from his girlfriend has been jailed for attacking her with a hammer.

CORONATION Street star Kym Marsh has been named Celebrity Mum Of The Year. The actress and mother-of-two said it was a real honour to win the Bounty Celebrity Mum Of The Year 2009 Award, which was voted for by the public.

A teenage girl was shot in the eye by a "faulty" air rifle which went off by accident, an inquest heard.

A PAEDOPHILEa TMS victim was left terrified to leave home after her attacker walked free for a year.

A pair of beauty queens have been involved in a nightclub fracas over a television Gladiator.

A BURY man was among 19 people sentenced after one of the biggest investigations into a a oecrash for casha insurance fraud scam.

A BLACKBURN woman died after she lost control of her car and collided with another vehicle.

A fugitive drug dealer is being hunted in Wigan. Peter Prendergast is known to have links with Orrell and officers from the neighbouring Lancashire force today appealed for locals to be vigilant.

LINGUISTS have started an investigation into whether regional dialects are dead or, as they used to say in these parts, just a little "wambly". Publisher Collins hopes to trace whether dialect words such as wambly , fratching and dree , once common in Lancashire, are still in use.

A FORMER Rochdale footballer has been jailed for his part in the death of a nightclub bouncer.

A POLICEMAN has been forced to resign after punching a car thief who had crashed into a police vehicle to escape.

Two men who murdered their friend and dumped his battered body in Cheshire woodland have been jailed for life.