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The Latest Breaking News from Forest Bank

Overdoses double at prison where inmates say it’s ‘easy’ to get drugs

Exclusive: More than 100 overdoses at HMP Forest Bank in Salford, where drugs ‘fuel debt and violence’

The Independent UK

The criminals who want to get caught so they can 'run a business' in prison

'They will try every way imaginable to get illicit substances in'

Manchester Evening News

Crafty prisoner tried to walk out of Forest Bank in DISGUISE - but he didn't make it far

The prisoner in disguise tried to get through an internal gate

Manchester Evening News

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Date set to elect new council leader as Labour look set to take over in Bolton

A meeting will be held next Tuesday to elect the leader of Bolton Council

Manchester Evening News

Shocking footage shows teen driver dodging other cars in 80mph chase on 30mph roads

Zain Anwar was clocked by police driving at 80mph in a 30mph zone

Manchester Evening News

Detective's warning after horror crash lands driver in jail

Deborah Cubas De Souza had no licence or insurance when her vehicle struck the pensioner on a pedestrian crossing

Manchester Evening News

Sainsbury's cuts price of two supermarket essentials in response to falling commodity prices

The supermarket giant said it is "committed to offering" customers the "best value possible"

Manchester Evening News

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The prescription medicines you can now get without going to a GP

The new plans hope to put an end to long waiting times for appointments

Manchester Evening News

Illegal Curry Mile shisha bar has HUGE amount of cash confiscated

'Operating a premises without the correct permissions is not only illegal, but can also be dangerous'

Manchester Evening News

Prison helped pay for funeral of paedophile who died two years after he was jailed

Forest Bank prison made a contribution to the funeral of Gerald Coppel 'in line with policy', says a report

Manchester Evening News

Meet the little lad with a name fit for a king... literally

‘People are always shocked and ask if that’s his real name but we love it’

Manchester Evening News

The Mancunian Way: Who runs the wings?

MP calls for prison to be brought into state control PLUS The ‘warming stripes’ that show how dramatically temperatures have risen

Manchester Evening News

Prisoners 'running the wings', 'inmates off their t*ts', staff who have 'lost control' - the jail that's had £1bn of public money

An M.E.N. investigation has revealed claims of 'a dangerous jail where cost cutting managers have lost control'

Manchester Evening News

Yoga, sniffer dogs and dirty showers: A year in the life of a Greater Manchester prison

A report has shed some light on conditions at Forest Bank in Salford, the region's biggest jail

Manchester Evening News

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Daily Record

Prison inmates shoot viral YouTube rap video on smuggled phone under noses of guards

The short music video filmed by the "mandem" at Forest Bank prison shows inmates rapping in their cells and on the wings and has over 178,000 views.

Liverpool Echo

Liverpool prisoners shoot rap video in jail

L1 Manny and Mazza L20 filmed a music video and posted it to YouTube and TikTok

Daily Mirror

Inmates record rap video inside UK prison - and guards are nowhere to be seen

The professionally produced music video shows two Forest Bank prisoners mouthing the words to their rap in their cells and on the wing, with officers nowhere to be seen

Manchester Evening News

Vandals smash up staff cars at Forest Bank prison in Salford

Insiders say tensions among staff, rather than inmates, is behind the second attack in three months

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Manchester Evening News

Locked Up: The criminals jailed in Greater Manchester last month

Here are the people put behind bars in our region in September

Manchester Evening News

'Prison officer' arrested after disabled man allegedly 'punched' and called an 'idiot' outside Forest Bank prison

A disabled man claims he was punched, dragged around and sworn at after commenting that a woman had parked in a disabled bay.

Manchester Evening News

Mum caught on CCTV throwing tennis balls full of drugs into Forest Bank prison

Amanda Baker, 36, was jailed for 16 months

Manchester Evening News

Forest Bank Prison is damned by inspectors despite beefing up security and major refurbishment

"Leaders show limited ambition to improve situation"

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