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A pair of primary school children were given cocaine instead of sweets when they went trick or treating. Plastic bags containing the white powder were handed to youngsters taking part in traditional Halloween fun in Royton, Greater Manchester, at around 7.50pm yesterday. The wraps were taken to police and examined and confirmed to contain cocaine.

It is not clear whether the children had tried any before it was discovered.

Donald Junior Green, 23, has been charged with possession of Class A drugs and is due before Oldham Magistrates' Court tomorrow morning.A 21-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of possession of Class A drugs and was later released without charge.

Superintendent Catherine Hankinson, of Greater Manchester Police, said: 'The parents and police acted quickly when this report was made, in the interests of public safety.

'We understand this to be an isolated incident.'

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The scale of the devastation left by Superstorm Sandy is mounting today as the death toll continues to rise - currently 33 people across the US and Canada have been reported dead, but the final figure is expected to be significantly higher. President Obama declared a “major disaster” in New York and Long Island as flooded streets were littered with cars, homes were razed to the ground and tankers washed up on shore. Hundreds of thousands of people are without power in New York and the transit system, schools, the stock exchange and Broadway are all out of action after a 13ft wall of water caused by the storm surge and high tides brought severe flooding to subways and road tunnels. 

Sandy, one of the biggest storms to ever descend on the country, hit the mainland at 6:30pm local time yesterday having laid waste to large parts of the coast during the day. The storm that made landfall in New Jersey yesterday evening with 80 mph sustained winds, cut power to more than 7.4 million homes and businesses from the Carolinas to Ohio, caused scares at two nuclear power plants and stopped the presidential campaign cold. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg says the death toll in the America’s most populous city is up to 10 - two children who were killed instantly in the city by a falling tree. Nearly 800 firefighters spent the night battling to get a blaze under control in the Queens, but over 80 homes were flattened by in the fire. 

Firefighters told WABC-TV that the water was at chest height on the street, and they had to use a boat to make rescues. They said in one apartment home, about 25 people were trapped in an upstairs unit, and the two-story home next door was ablaze and setting fire to the apartment’s roof. FIrefighters climbed in an awning to get to the trapped people and took them downstairs to a boat in the street.

Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims at this time.

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