POLICE are searching for a man who threatened a resident with a gun on the Hag Fold estate today, Friday.

Officers were called around 2pm after receiving reports the man was making threats to another man with a gun on Blake Avenue in Atherton.

Armed response and helicopter crews are helping neighbourhood officers search for him, after he fled the scene.

The man is described as being in his 30s, around 5ft 7ins and of slim build. He was wearing a blue hooded track suit top and his face was covered with a scarf.

No-one was hurt in the incident.

A Greater Manchester Police spokesman confirmed this morning, Saturday, that no arrests have been made and enquiries are still ongoing. 

Anyone with information should call police on 101.