Repair works have officially begun on Wigan’s Old Courts, marking a major milestone in the revival of one of the borough’s ...

A planning application has been lodged with Wigan Council for the Cineworld cinema at The Loom retail park in Leigh. The ...

A man has admitted burgling Wigan's "football pub" to steal a TV and huge amounts of liquor. Anthony Concannon, 35, of ...

Wigan Warriors have unveiled their charity third kit warm-up jersey, in support of Derian House Children’s Hospice.

Amazingly in October last year in her acceptance speech Rachel Millward, the newly elected co-deputy leader of the Green Party said: "Thank you so much – it is beyond a privilege to be here. To be ...

A singing male will utter his song an unbelievable five or six times a minute, and up to 3,000 times a day. It was a real ...

Children's charity, Adoption Matters, which covers Wigan, and their not-for-profit fostering service, Foster Care Matters, is ...

Macaroni pie, Eccles cake and the Wigan kebab are among Britain’s most popular regional delicacies, a poll has revealed.

More than 1,100 A&E patients waited over four hours for a bed at Wigan’s hospitals last month, new figures reveal.