Abbey Hey: Last News

A couple have been left heartbroken after one of their two beloved Yorkshire terriers was ravaged by an 'XL bully-type' dog. Jean Scott, 73, had taken six-year-old Bosley and five-year-old Lottie for a haircut in east Manchester before tragedy struck.

Animal lovers may soon have to say goodbye to the much loved Donkey Sanctuary.

Mancunian motorists’ standard of driving has been slammed as ‘absolutely bizarre’.

A mum who thrust an electric drill into a disabled woman’s head is among those to have been jailed in Greater Manchester this week.

Until just a few years ago, it was simply an unassuming patch of empty grassland in east Manchester. But it was when the latest development work started on turning it in Abbey Hey, Gorton, that clues of the area's fascinating history truly came to life.

Manchester rapper Aitch delighted fans by filming a music video on residential streets across the city. On Saturday (23 April), the Moston -born musician, whose real name is Harrison Armstrong, turned up to residential streets of Manchester with a large camera crew and a crowd of fans in tow.

Landlords of more than 1,400 homes in Manchester will have to pay hundreds of pounds for a licence as part of a council crackdown on poor housing.

Residents evacuated after a huge sinkhole destroyed four houses and damaged others say they are trapped in the middle of a 'blame game' over who should compensate them.

The brother of a Mancunian boxer suspected of shooting himself dead after moving to Las Vegas seeking his fortune believes he was actually killed by his wife and her father, an inquest heard.

Fly-tipping reports in one part of Manchester increased by a huge 126 per cent during the first half of 2021, the city council has revealed.

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police in a stolen vehicle.What Amy thought 'was a gunshot at first' shocked her awake at 4.30am on Tuesday morning as her eight-year-old son was also fast asleep.Photos taken from inside and out of the family home in Abbey Hey, Gorton, Manchester, reveal the scale of destruction left behind by the out of control car.The vehicle completely bulldozed through Amy's front garden wall before sending bricks and the bay window above crumbling down. She told the Manchester Evening News: "Me and my son who is eight-years-old were asleep upstairs.

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direct to your inboxWhen it began on Tuesday afternoon, the demolition process was brutal.A man was winched in via a huge crane armed with a pickaxe and a chainsaw and simply began hacking at what remains of four homes on Walmer Street, Abbey Hey.First he pulled off roof tiles, then he cut through wooden beams, and eventually bits started falling off of their own accord.It was heartbreaking to see for those watching below.Through no fault of their own, four sets of families have lost almost their entire worldly possessions in the blink of an eye.Early on the evening of 20 January, in the midst of the downpours brought by Storm Christoph, huge cracks started to appear in the walls at numbers 23 and 25.Fortunately, both those families fled

direct to your inboxFour homes hit by a sinkhole that opened up in Gorton will have to be demolished, it has been confirmed.

direct to your inbox"It's my first home, I worked hard for that. I've been a single parent and I've slogged my guts out to pay that mortgage so I had something to leave the kids."Bernie Scanlon could do nothing but watch as two homes beside hers collapsed into a sinkhole in the road.The night before, a car was 'swallowed' by the gaping crater on Walmer Street in Abbey Hey, Gorton.Although her immediate neighbours were evacuated from their houses, Bernie claims she wasn't told to leave her home, which she says started buckling.