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• Detective Sergeant Dismissed and Banned from Policing following Sexual Assault Conviction

  A Greater Manchester Police detective has been formally dismissed from the force and barred from ever returning to policing after being convicted of two counts of sexual assault.

• Each candidate hoping to win the Balderstone and Kirkholt by-election

  Seven candidates will battle it out at next month’s by-election to become Rochdale’s newest councillor.

• GMP and partners made more than 130 visits to business premises as part of a national intensification crackdown in March

  The three-week-long action, called Operation Machinize, began with three warrants on 3 March, which resulted in the recovery of 150 cannabis plants, the arrest of three individuals, and the detention of two individuals by Immigration Enforcement.

• Seven arrested and crossbow recovered following disturbance in Salford

  Seven people have been arrested and a crossbow recovered following a serious disturbance in Salford on the evening of Monday 14 April 2025.

• Oldham will have to bid for funding for inquiry into child grooming

  Oldham council will have to bid for government funding to support the local inquiry into local grooming gangs, the local democracy reporting service understands.

• Oldham to vote on axing 20 councillors from borough

  An Oldham Conservative group member has called on the council to axe a third of its members.

• Oldham pub has licence suspended following brawl and stabbings

  One of Oldham’s oldest pubs has been ordered to shut its doors until further notice following a stabbing and mass brawl on Sunday night (April 6).

• ’20 firefighters’ try to rescue single goose

  Around ‘20 firefighters’ and ‘four fire engines’ scrambled to rescue a GOOSE — only to see the avian ‘free itself’ and fly away.