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 ...

A Wigan woman caught flouting a driving ban has ... to plead guilty to being at the wheel of an Audi A3 on Walmersley Road, Bury on March 27 when barred from the road. She was given a two-year ...

PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, Md. (DC News Now) — A Philadelphia man was arrested after an alleged road-rage shooting that happened late last month in Prince George’s County, Maryland State Police (MSP) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Officers stopped the driver of a car off Wigan Road in Daubhill after having first spotted the vehicle being driven in the town centre. Police say they found several suspicious documents.

In George Orwell’s 1984, at the climax of Hate Week, Oceania is suddenly no longer at war with Eurasia, but instead is at war with Eastasia, and always has been. The pivot comes with no ...

There is more good news for penguins as the Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Dr Dion George, has implemented agreed island closures with immediate effect to enhance the ...

The eco-justice organisation says that it congratulates the NGOs and hopes that this agreement signifies a move toward stronger protections for the African Penguin, which is on the “brink of ...