City crews were called to Austin Road after a watermain broke on Wednesday, April 9. It happened just past the Save-On-Foods store. The incident forced the temporary closure of the Hart Highlands ...

Patriotic residents have submitted a number of applications for road-closure street parties, and the deadline for applications from residents for such events in Wigan has now passed. The ...

In “The Road to Wigan Pier”, George Orwell, the English essayist and political satirist, analysed the currents of social and economic discontent in the United Kingdom at a time of great social ...

Two off-road bikes were taken in Golborne and Ashton on Saturday, with a further four seized in Golborne on Sunday. A post on Wigan and Leigh police’s Facebook page said: “Today, neighbourhood ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. More than 50 vehicles were stopped and checked in a major crime crackdown on a main road in Bolton.

Stars Patrick Troughton and Sylvia Syms. George Orwell’s cautionary dystopian novel, first published in 1949. Dramatised by Eric Ewens. First broadcast as the Sunday Play on BBC Home Service in ...

The unsolved murder of Raonaid Murray, the secretive world of George 'The Penguin' Mitchell, and Niall’s big roundly birthday. Nicola and Niall answer your questions in a special episode of ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. GEORGE Johnston once fought to save Wigan Athletic’s League One status – now he would be pleased to add some pressure to their plight.

Few writers have had as profound an impact on young readers as Michael Morpurgo. With more than 150 books to his name, the former Children’s Laureate has a remarkable ability to craft stories ...

(ABC22/FOX44) – An Addison County man has been arrested and charged with assault for an alleged road-rage incident Wednesday ... to Justin Moulton, 43, of Orwell, who was also charged with ...

Plans were unveiled to turn the former Orwell ... Wigan Pier started as a music hall joke dreamt up by George Formby Snr who glamourised a small coal tipping jetty at the canaliside off Pottery Road.