James Tozer

PC Mohammed Abid is one of seven current and two former officers facing disciplinary proceedings over allegations of using racist language while based at Bury police station.

The policeman brother of the siblings caught on camera battling officers at Manchester Airport described a black female colleague's braided hair as ‘looking like a mop', a misconduct hearing was told today.

After years spent calling for action on speeding, residents of Aughton in Lancashire reacted with incredulity when local officers announced the outcome of their search for 'inventive' solutions.

Romania-born Robert Cretu, 40, of Kirkby, Merseyside, puffed out his cheeks in apparent relief after being spared jail over his elaborate and lucrative fraud.

A conman taxi driver pocketed more than £30,000 with a string of bogus insurance claims after inventing dogs which had supposedly died in bizarre accidents.

Ketan Swali, 59, and his wife Sheetal, 55, had been looking forward to spending more time in the air after closing down the small family manufacturing business he had run for decades.

Rotting fish were found in the previously 'flourishing' River Tame after a huge 13ft wall of foam blamed on chemicals caused by a fire at a cleaning products factory near Oldham, Greater Manchester.

A retired businessman and his wife who died when their light plane crashed in Snowdonia last Friday have been praised as ‘the best of neighbours and the kindest of people'.

Police have been mocked for advertising a scarecrow-making workshop in response to calls from villagers for a crackdown on speeding.

Hundreds of fish have died after a huge foam wall 13ft high polluted a previously 'flourishing' river.