Crime

Wigan Police are working to stop gangs from grooming children and vulnerable adults to commit serious crimes.

Police have put an end to rumours that a shopkeeper was stabbed during a robbery in Wigan earlier this week.

A man has admitted bursting into a Wigan town centre eatery armed with a knife and meat cleaver.

Taxi drivers are warning Wigan residents of a doorstep scam being carried out on elderly and vulnerable people in the borough.

A Wigan teen faces accusations of assaulting a man and smashing the window of a train at Hindley station.

A fifth of local secondary schoolchildren have witnessed animal cruelty and neglect on social media.

A woman was stabbed in the leg with her own garden tool as she apprehended two teens burgling her garage.

Police believe a fire bomb at a Wigan house, which left a woman in a critical condition with severe burns, was a targeted attack.

Offences sparked by hostility to men or the elderly could become hate crimes following a review of existing laws.

A man has been jailed after trading standards officers uncovered £33,000 worth of illegal tobacco and £22,000 in cash stuffed into wardrobes and under his bed.

Police are appealing for witnesses after the wheels were stolen from a car parked at a Wigan railway station.