Manchester, England News

A SKIP hire firm and its owner have been ordered to pay more than A 10,000 after a probe into fly-tipping in Bolton.

A POLICE officer is injured on Bolton's streets every 56 hours - more often than anywhere else in Greater Manchester - according to new figures obtained by The Bolton News .

A FORMER director and club accountant of Chester City FC has been charged with drug dealing following a huge police operation.

Mohammed Razaq, aged 53, is accused of making insurance claims, using his work computer to create fake quotation documents and using numerous identities.

Rush 's entire album catalog has been remastered specifically for iTunes to commemorate the band's recent induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Company director Paula White was one of 12 people investigated over the sale of A 3.8 million of drugs through www.wide-mouth-frogs.com A businesswoman has been charged with drug dealing after the biggest ever police raids on suppliers of party drug 'Meow Meow'. Former accountant and company director Paula White, 44, was held at her A 800,000 home ... (more)

Jaguar is rolling out a plan to refurbish its U.S. dealerships in preparation for a wave of new products.

An engineer from Greater Manchester was unlawfully killed by his kidnappers in Nigeria minutes after a UK-led rescue operation stormed in, an inquest found.

A hit and run driver mowed down two anti-blacklisting campaigners on Wednesday night at a protest against construction firm BAM in Manchester.

File photo of a security officer walking down one of the corridors of Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre, Europe's largest detention centre for illegal immigrants, in Bedford.

Hayley Bond found sanctuary at the Narrowgate night shelter, run by Manchester City Mission.

A HIGH speed train line through the borough 'looks as though it will give Warrington all pain and little gain' says Council leader Clr Terry O'Neill. Warrington Borough Council has written to the developers HS2 Ltd for more information about the controversial proposals which would see the new railway line travel through part of east Warrington.

As promised yesterday when announcing the new UK thriller White Settlers from director Simeon Halligan and writer Ian Fenton, the film's lead actor has been selected, and we have all the details right here.

CROWDS braved the rain in Hale village for All Aboard Hale 150, a celebration of 150 years of Hale station.

Jaguar is rolling out a plan to refurbish its U.S. dealerships in preparation for a wave of new products.

Two stray kittens pose for a photograph at Battersea Dogs and Cats Home on August 18, 2009 in London, England.

Prison: Steven Quinn, 33, was jailed for six years and four months today at Bolton Crown Court for mowing down 16-year-old Callum Hilton while drunk A driver who knocked down and killed a 16-year-old boy was so drunk he told his petrified passenger that he had only struck a bollard.

A play about the lives of young soldiers from a Lancashire town and the women they left behind during the First World War has helped people young and old to understand what makes a strong community.

John Ward, 29, of Orton Road, Manchester and Richard McCann, 26, of Brantwood Terrace, Manchester, both unemployed, appeared before Brighton magistrates court on Friday May 10 and have been remanded to appear before Lewes Crown Court on July 19.

The brains behind GrimmFest - Manchester, England's annual cult and horror film fest - have lined up their second feature film, White Settlers , a suspense thriller starring Pollyanna McIntosh that began shooting this past weekend.