Manchester, England News

Victim was allegedly trafficked from Pakistan and forced to work for Ilyas Ashar and wife Tallat at their Manchester home A young deaf and mute woman who claims she was locked in a cellar, raped and treated as a domestic slave for almost a decade has been giving evidence to in court against the couple accused of abusing her.

A deaf and mute girl allegedly kept in a cellar, repeatedly raped and treated as a virtual slave has told a court of years of beatings and cruelty.

An evangelical Christian charity, a band of ex-soldiers and a top private school are among groups preparing to apply to open free schools .

Dead Press! conducted an interview with Ben Weinman , guitarist for American mathcore band THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN , prior to the group's February 6 concert at the Academy in Manchester, England.

Leeds-based VTR North will open a Manchester office in the Grade II listed Victorian building, on John Dalton Street, in the city centre.

Noel Gallagher is one half of the former band Oasis . Known as much for their meteoric rise to rock royalty with their first album, 1994's Definitely Maybe, as they are for their constant break-ups and public feuds, it may just be that these brothers from Manchester England have finally separated for good.

Italian web site SpazioRock.it conducted an interview with guitarist Mike Spreitzer of California metallers DEVILDRIVER before the band's November 13 concert in Milan, Italy.

The blokes and birds at Grimm Up North in Manchester, England, are hosting a "Samurai Splatter" double bill of Shogun Assassin and Baby Cart to Hades next Friday, February 17th, and we have all the details right here! : Censored, banned, bootlegged, mistreated, but ultimately unstoppable, this is unquestionably the most popular samurai film in the ... (more)

A leading criminal barrister who took more than A 70,000 from his own chambers after his sideline property business fell into "financial carnage" has been jailed for three years.

Fairfield University will be hosting Herman's Hermits, starring Peter Noone, in a special Valentine's Day concert at 8 p.m., Tuesday, Feb.

A deaf girl of 10 was trafficked into the UK, repeatedly raped, kept in a cellar and treated as a virtual slave for almost a decade, a court heard today.

A convicted rapist and a string of suspected burglars, thieves and sex offenders are among Greater Manchester's most wanted.

Results from a large experiment support the much-debated original hypothesis that industrialization favored a dark form of the peppered moth over the lighter one because hungry birds found light wings easy to spot against sooty backgrounds.

Rupert Murdoch's News International has succeeded in settling nearly all the cases in the first wave of lawsuits against it for phone hacking.

A soldier who was suffering from combat trauma after a tour of Afghanistan has been jailed for attacking two men with a kitchen knife after a drunken 21st birthday night out.

GUILTY: Scott Travis duped his victim out of A 100,000 by claiming he had cancer and that he was being threatened A heartless conman who posed as the heir to an Italian millionairess has been found guilty of duping a pensioner out of his life savings.

February 3 Tyreice E. Durham, no age given, of 525 Crown St., Meriden, was charged with sixth-degree larceny, criminal impersonation, second-degree forgery and interfering with an officer.A John Thomas Kelly, no age given, of 27 North Park St., Vernon, was charged with interfering with an officer and possession of marijuana.A Latoya Melissa ... (more)

The wayward writer was en route to the Super Bowl on Sunday night when he careened into another channel and ran smack dab into a program on National Public Television about the 1960s.

MANCHESTER, UNITED KINGDOM and ORLANDO, FL -- -- 02/07/12 -- At APEC 2012 this week, NXP Semiconductors is showcasing a wide range of highly efficient Power MOSFETs which can be used alongside its GreenChip switched-mode power supply controller ICs, to enable slimmer power supply, adapter and charger designs.

NOVEMBER 24: Street friends Julie and Paddy who look after each other whilst sleeping on the streets, share a humorous moment outside the Barnabus charity on November 24, 2011 in Manchester, England.