At the wedding venue in Gorton and Denton the Green Party chose for the news conference to mark a seismic by-election victory on national television, it was clear that Zack Polanski and his team were new to all of this.

A man who left his partner paralysed in a "brutal assault" after she told him she was leaving him has been jailed.

A migrant from Afghanistan has been jailed for 10 years for the rape of a "vulnerable, intoxicated" woman.

A picture of a "rare" boot has been released as police try to identify a woman whose body was found off the coast of Iona last year.