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

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.

When you have translated into English some of the best Iceland Noir novels on the market, it would be a crime not to write your own Scandinavian thrillers.

Light the fire, draw the curtains and cuddle up with two beautiful wartime tales that will whisk you away to the dangers, dramas and romance of the Second World War.

When a strange list of house guests assemble for a séance at a remote island mansion in Devon in the winter of 1917, the shadows that engulf them come from more than just the spirit world.

A well-known environmental campaigner and activist has swapped political horses in his latest bid to protect the borough from development.

While the common cold and the flu can both give you the sniffles, they are caused by different viruses and vary in severity.

Reporter Charlie Bullough looks at how a once reviled part of the beer market is on the up.

Banter has a bad press. The word has become shorthand for sexist, unsubtle, humourless chat, usually between men with fixed views on ‘the football’, or politics or women.

Regional words are at risk being phased out as north battles south for supremacy.

Reporter Charlie Bullough looks at reports on the demise of dialect and the people who are fighting to keep it alive