POLICE have released dashcam footage of a high-speed chase on the M61.

The video shows officers in an unmarked car following a driver down the motorway just after noon on Thursday, September 12.

The vehicle, a silver BMW, is thought to have been stolen during in an incident in Lancashire.

However, once police spotted the car, the driver attempted a dramatic escape - even trying to "drive the wrong way along M61".

After hunting the vehicle along the motorway police were able to shunt the car to a stop at the exit for junction two for Salford and Manchester city centre.

Nobody was injured in the chase and the driver was arrested on suspicion of burglary.