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Ten people, including two children, have been hospitalised after gunshots were fired in Manchester on Sunday morning, as the multicultural city celebrates its ‘Caribbean Carnival’.

LONDON (AP) – Britain’s military are joining exhausted firefighters to tackle wildfires in dry grassy hills in northwest England that may last for weeks. Over 100 firefighters have been working rolling 12-hour shifts to tackle fires in six pockets across

Police are seeking drive-by shooters who sprayed a house in Cheetham Hill, an area of Manchester with an “entrenched criminal culture” and the site of several anti-terror raids.

The United Kingdom commemorates two deadly terror attacks whose anniversaries fall on the same date, as the nation remembers Drummer Lee Rigby who was killed on May 22nd, 2013, and the 22 victims of the Manchester bombing on May 22nd, 2017.

Backlash over messages reading “For the Love of Allah” on Manchester buses a year after the city was hit by a deadly terror attack has been slammed by transport bosses as “totally unacceptable”.

A mother said she has filed a formal complaint to police after they refused to investigate a vicious alleged attack on her 12-year-old daughter stating it would not be “cost effective” and that “crime has gone through the roof”.

A student in Oldham was hit in the head with a claw hammer and “stomped on” on Saturday — the third ‘Asian’ gang attack in Greater Manchester this month.

A judge in Manchester has issued an FGM protection order to stop a mother who took three girls to India to be mutilated from doing the same to a fourth.

A man has been jailed after subjecting a teenage girl to a brutal rape and beating, following which he forced her to clean up her own blood and filmed it on his mobile phone.

Police have stepped up patrols after a man allegedly tried to rape a 10-year-old child in broad daylight in Manchester.

LONDON (AP) — A homeless man characterized as a hero after the Manchester Arena bombing has admitted stealing from victims of last year’s extremist attack. Closed-circuit TV footage played in court showed 33-year-old Chris Parker stealing a purse and mobile

A Libyan who came to the UK as a ‘refugee’ has been linked to the Manchester bomber and convicted of being an Islamic State militant, despite arguing he “accidentally” joined the terrorist group.

Convicted sex offender Imran Rauf Qureshi will not be struck off for his attack on a student nurse.

Nasir Ali, who inflicted horrific injuries on a two-year-old girl he was asked to look after “for ten minutes”, did not “tolerate independence of mind” and had “strict ideas about how children should be brought up,” according to his sentencing judge.

A new Channel 4 documentary shows British teachers telling pupils there are “a lot of similarities between Hitler and Trump”, and suggesting the most important people to look after following the Manchester Arena terror bombing are Muslim pupils.

CAIRO (AP) — Libya’s prosecutor general says an investigation of the brother of the suicide bomber in a deadly concert attack in Manchester, England is still underway.

LONDON (AP) — A man who arrived at a British airport for a flight with a pipe bomb in his hand luggage was sentenced on Wednesday to 18 years in prison.

Britain’s most well-known cities have slipped down a global ranking, and are now seen as some of Western Europe’s least desirable, thanks to rising crime and terror threats.

LONDON (AP) — A homeless man who was praised for helping victims of the Manchester concert bombing has been charged with stealing a bank card from someone caught up in the attack.

A 19-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of terror offences Friday, nearly seven weeks after the Manchester Arena attack which saw 22 killed. The otherwise unidentified male was arrested at Liverpool John Lennon airport, although officers did not say whetrher he was

LONDON (AP) — The attacker who bombed an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester wasn’t part of a large network, but other people involved in the crime may still be at large, a senior police officer said Thursday. Russ Jackson, head

The controversial opinions and positions of Salford University National Union of Students (NUS) boss Zamzam Ibrahim are causing controversy after they were revealed

The latest EU Terrorism Situation and Trend Report (TE-SAT) reveals the number of jihadist terrorists being arrested “sharply increased” in 2016 – but their prison terms are only getting shorter. Prepared by Europol, the bloc’s supra-national law enforcement agency, the report

While Corbyn’s dalliances with Palestinian terror alienated some voters, the media were saturated by Hollywood celebrities like Ariana Grande telling young British fans — the primary terror targets — that the solution to radical Islam was to reach out and love one another.

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Katy Perry encouraged the citizens of Manchester to “choose love” instead of hate, “even when it’s difficult,” during her appearance at the the #OneLoveManchester benefit concert on Sunday, before encouraging the audience to touch the person next to them and say, “I love you.”

Musician Stevie Wonder branded those who attempt to associate the recent terror attacks with Islam “liars” during Sunday’s #OneLoveManchester charity concert.

LONDON (AP) — Manchester Police say they have released a man who had been arrested in the concert arena bombing investigation without charging him.

LONDON (AP) — British police say three of the 14 people arrested over the Manchester arena suicide bombing have been released without charge, and the investigation so far has found bomber Salman Abedi acted largely alone as he assembled his

The bomb squad has been called to Wigan as part of the investigation into the Manchester Arena attack, as police evacuated people from their homes in the town for the second time in five days.

LONDON (AP) — Police in Manchester, England issued a picture of the arena suicide bomber holding a blue suitcase and asked anyone who might have seen him with it before the attack to call a confidential hotline.

A combination of government benefits and low-interest loans meant to pay for further education were used to fund the terror plot of Manchester killer Salman Abedi, police believe. Police are investigating the finances of university dropout turned Islamist killer Salman

LONDON (AP) – British police have made an arrest on the south coast of England in the widening inquiry into the deadly Manchester concert bombing. Great Manchester Police said a 23-year-old man was arrested Monday in Shoreham-by-Sea on suspicion of

The FBI warned UK security chiefs that Manchester jihadi Salman Abedi was plotting an attack in Britain, an inside source has claimed.

Greater Manchester Police say the number of hate crime reports they receive have increased since the Manchester Arena bombing.

The pace of terror plots successfully intercepted and prevented by Britain’s intelligence and counter-terror agencies considerably quickened in the months leading up to the Manchester attack. Security service sources have revealed five terror plots were foiled between the Westminster attack