Police called over gnome theft

A woman reporting her grandchildren for not doing their homework and the theft of a garden gnome were among emergency calls received within 24 hours by one of the UK’s largest police forces.

Greater Manchester Police (GMP) used Twitter to highlight all 2,626 calls it received from 5am on Tuesday to 5am yesterday to show the challenges its officers and staff faced on a daily basis.

Among the calls featured as part of GMP24 were the report of a gnome theft in Salford, and the grandmother from Oldham who called to say her grandchildren were misbehaving and not doing their homework.