The man's Staffordshire Bull Terrier has undergone emergency surgery to remove a bullet from its body, but is expected to survive.

Salford council and developers Peel Holdings want a new ‘town centre’ to be built next to the BBC’s MediaCityUK headquarters.

Greater Manchester Police bosses looked at one complaint about an officer who boasted about arresting a looter on social networking site Facebook.

Passengers were left cowering in fear after a bus was stopped in Pendleton and pelted with bricks by up to 20 balaclava-clad youths.

A gang of between ten and 15 hooded youths surrounded the packed bus after it pulled into a stop in Salford. Police believe the yobs were all aged between 13 and 15-years-old.

Salford council is to re-think plans to cut its specialist teaching team for deaf youngsters, and close three day-care centres for vulnerable people.

War veteran Harold Massey, 83, died at BUPA-run Barton Brook Residential and Nursing Home in Eccles.

Peel Holdings have submitted proposals to transform a half-square-kilometre site with a 30-storey skyscraper, more than 1,000 flats, and hundreds of offices.

When they caught up with him at Wiseman’s Trafford Park site, where he had worked as driver for several years, he was found with keys to a locker. There, in a portable strong-box, was a Glock 26 handgun, two magazines and 143 bullets.

A fire crew from Eccles attended at about 8pm and rescued him by hoisting up a ladder.

It follows 14 months of forensic analysis and interviews.

Danny Holt, 33, was discovered behind a sofa by a police officer at his Eccles home after fire teams said no one was inside.

The weekly market, which has met for decades outside Salford Shopping Centre, has been shut along with the precinct’s Sunday car boot sale.

The walkway, the latest stage in a £72 million transformation of the river corridor, connects Manchester with Stanley Street in Salford, the Mark Addy pub.

A driver for Salford council, Keith was a keen fisherman and was devoted to his three grandchildren, Karl, Jack and Louise.

And now, in Olympic year, she is moving up a gear to represent her country in the winter World Transplant Games.

Watch Commander Andrew Roughley told the hearing that ‘mistakes’ had been made. But he said his firefighters were ‘good men’ who would ‘run through brick walls to protect the public’.

Council bosses said they had worked hard to minimise the impact of the cuts on the weakest members of society. But they said the sheer scale of the savings required meant it was impossible to protect them altogether.

But when she switched on her torch she saw the face of Danny Holt, 33, who had collapsed and was partially hidden behind a sofa in the smoke-filled lounge.

Managers at the highest levels of the town hall will be offered retirement or voluntary redundancy in the coming months.

The incident happened at around 11.20am on the M602 link road, close to junction 12 of the M60.

The incident happened after the victim spotted a cat run out of his bedroom and went to investigate.

It comes ahead of a rumoured announcement that five members of the original line-up are to reform for a series of concerts this summer.

But the lack of confirmed candidates hasn't stopped bookmakers from offering odds on a range of runners and riders.

Salford council and landowners Peel planned to make them safe within six months. But work has not begun – and one desperate homeowner is demanding the town hall buy her house.

CCTV released today shows the moment a hooded figure wearing a grey tracksuit grabbed the hand-held computer from the van. The cat was helped down from the tree - only for Ms Jennings to discover the theft.

The female driver, who is in her mid-twenties, was driving in the fast lane of the M60 near Pendlebury, travelling eastbound when her Ford Focus and another vehicle collided last night at 5.20pm.

Hundreds of parents at Bridgewater School in Worsley, Salford, voted to back Judy Nairn – who had quit as head in a row over payments to one of the school’s board members.

But his neighbour – healthcare consultant Mark Duman – has been given permission to keep the tree house following a meeting of Salford planners.

Eccles-born Michael, 24, is starring as Tony in Billy Elliot at the Victoria Palace Theatre, but it was during his time at Wentworth High School that he first got the acting bug.

And it is predicting a ‘significant housing crisis’ in the next 12 months because housing benefit among the under-35s has just been cut.