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• Appeal over gun killing robbery 10/12/09 A week after a student was shot dead and robbed of £10,000 in Greater Manchester, police make a new appeal. Read more

• Council bosses call for cheap alcohol ban 09/12/09 THE region's top powers - including council bosses and the Chief Constable - are calling for a minimum price on booze.n Leaders of the area's ten local authorities and Greater Manchester Police's Read more

• 461 arrested in Christmas crime crackdown 09/12/09 More than 460 suspected robbers and thieves were arrested as part of a Christmas crackdown in Greater Manchester. n Follow the operation as it happened.n Read more

• Boy charged after shop stabbing 09/12/09 A 17-year-old boy is charged with the attempted murder of a shop worker stabbed during a robbery in Manchester. Read more

• 400 arrested in Christmas crime crackdown 09/12/09 More than 400 suspected robbers and thieves were arrested as part of a Christmas crackdown in Greater Manchester. n Follow the operation as it happened.n Read more

• Raids police use third of force 09/12/09 Nearly 350 people are held across Greater Manchester in raids targeting robbery, burglary, violence and theft suspects. Read more

• £100m boost for Wythenshawe centre 09/12/09 n A £100m regeneration scheme will bring a new bus station and a major office development to a south Manchester suburb.n Wythenshawe will benefit from the transport boost under radical plans Read more

• Tributes to man stabbed to death 09/12/09 The family of a man stabbed to death at his home in Bury, pay tribute to him as police appeal for help to find his killer. Read more

• Children's boss axed after death 09/12/09 The director of a children's services department which admitted failings in the protection of a murdered toddler is sacked. Read more

• Men in court over robbery killing 09/12/09 Three men are in court charged with the murder of a student who was shot dead in a street robbery. Read more

• Children's boss sacked over death 09/12/09 The director of a children's services department which admitted failings in the protection of a murdered toddler is sacked. Read more

• Salford child care boss Jill Baker sacked 09/12/09 A CHILDREN'S services boss has been sacked after refusing to resign with a pay off.n Jill Baker – the woman in charge of children's services in Salford - had been suspended from her £105,000 po Read more

• Darling delivers Pre-Budget Report 09/12/09 CHANCELLOR Alistair Darling is making his last Pre-Budget Report to Parliament before the next General Election. You can keep up to date with developments here. Read more

• Kick-boxing teacher to take charge 09/12/09 MOST rookie teachers struggle to keep classroom discipline - but students do what they're told in Kim Stafford's lessons.n The softly-spoken biology teacher has just taken up her post at Xaverian Read more

• Services get back to normal after hospital blasts 09/12/09 SERVICES at Withington Hospital are back to normal today following yesterday's gas explosion on Nell Lane. n Read more