Tributes are being paid today to police constables Fiona Bone and Nicola Hughes on the ninth anniversary of their murders.
Pc Bone, 32, from Sale, Trafford, and Pc Hughes, 23, from Saddleworth, Oldham, were killed in an ambush at a house in Mottram in Longdendale, Tameside, on September 18, 2012.
Their killer Dale Cregan will never be released from prison.
Messages of support for the families of Pc Hughes and Pc Bone and Greater Manchester Police are being posted on social media.
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Greater Manchester Police led the tributes this morning tweeting 'Nine years on #Neverforgotten'.
A service attended by their police colleagues and families is normally held in a memorial garden outside Hyde police station in Tameside, where both officers were based.
In July a £4.5m national memorial to all police officers and staff killed in the line of duty was opened.
It came after Pc Hughes and Pc Bone's fathers, Bryn Hughes and Paul Bone, took part in a traditional ground-breaking ceremony at the site of the UK Police Memorial, at the National Memorial Arboretum at Alrewas, Staffordshire.
