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A 58-year-old woman from New York has labelled FaceTime as the reason she is still alive after a video call with her sister showed she was having a stroke.

Giovanni Abbondandolo, 45, from Rochdale, has been jailed for 6 years and 8 months after trying to meet a 12-year-old girl in Manchester. He was previously jailed in 2007.

Student officer PC Mohammed Nadeem, who can barely swim himself, "just had to go in" when he saw a distressed man fall off a bridge into freezing water.

Two officers from Greater Manchester Police's City Centre team, one of whom recently saved a man's life with CPR, were shamed online for taking a break in Caffe Nero.

Local woman stumbled on a 'gathering of bones' while out with her one-year-old daughter.

A 22-year-old man fell 50 feet to his death while trying to take a photo atop a luxury Manchester hotel in abject weather conditions.

Greater Manchester Police attended an incident at an Asda store where several shoppers got into a fight at the reduced section stock just before closing time.

Greater Manchester Police have asked parents to monitor the activity of their children on a popular gaming app, Roblox.

31-year-old Michael Pickering was sentenced to life after being found guilty of stabbing a man to death and attempting to sell his stolen possessions.

Time Out has ranked 32 major world cities and three United Kingdom cities have managed to make the top 15.

David Dawson known by his DJ name 'Dave the Butcher' ran 'Kage Club' events in Bury, Greater Manchester, before a USB stick was found that contained disgusting images.

Ryan McDowell, 33, from St Helens in Merseyside, who was a youth player at Manchester City has now been jailed after police made cash seizures in 2014, totalling over £230,000.

The frontman of the Fall, Mark E Smith, has died aged 60 months after he had to cancel a number of gigs due to medical issues.

Parents in the Blackley area of Manchester have been warned of a hooded man following an 11-year-old girl. There have been two incidents in the same area.

Halton McCollin was shot in the back of the head in China Garden takeaway on Chester Road in Trafford just before 9pm on Saturday 19 January 2008.

A Manchester mother of three will not serve jail time despite admitting to beating her wife after a Christmas Eve party.

Greater Manchester Police rushed to St Joseph's Church on Gorton Road after devil mask-wearing subjects robbed a priest and the charity box.

Police officers investigating a distraction theft against a 96-year-old woman in Chorlton, Manchester, have released CCTV images of three people they want to speak to.

Jason Coman and Jennifer Gold, of the North West Counter Terrorism Unit, were dismissed for gross misconduct after spending extended periods of time' in their office on nightshifts

Twelve fire engines tackled the fire at a 12-storey apartment block in Joiner Street in Manchester's Northern Quarter.

Twelve people in Manchester were handed sentences totalling just under 69 years for conspiracy to supply crack cocaine and heroin.

Karl Anderson, 29, was sentenced to 16 weeks imprisonment after pleading guilty to racially aggravated common assault outside Manchester City's training ground.

Clip shows security guard kicking and throwing man's possessions outside Manchester city centre branch in wake of homeless crisis.

Demi Pearson, 14, Brandon, eight and Lacie, seven, and three-year-old Lia died following the suspected arson attack at their home in Walkden, Salford.

Demi Pearson, 14, Brandon, 8, and sister Lacie, 7, died in the fire on Jackson Street in Walkden, Salford, with 5 people now arrested in connection with the suspected arson attack.

A man in Farnworth has been jailed and banned from keeping animals after the RSPCA found him selling sick puppies to unsuspecting owners.

Change.org petition for some of Manchester's rough sleepers to be housed over Christmas period rejected by university staff.

A newborn baby died at Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport, Manchester after her mother's labour pains were dismissed as constipation.

Stephen Stott, 23, and Dean Jones, 34, were arrested after US Homeland Security investigators discovered large groups of paedophiles watching rape videos together.

David O'Brien, 39, in Strangeways prison, Manchester, got a second life sentence after pleading guilty to slashing a man's throat after he thought he had stolen his rosary beads.