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'Transformation' for town as shopping centre demolition work starts

"This game changing development will transform Wigan into an even greater place to visit for local people and visitors from further afield."

Manchester Evening News

The 10 cheapest homes that sold in Greater Manchester for less than £50,000 this year

These houses and flats were bought for bargain prices across the region

Manchester Evening News

"Only in Wigan": Pie shop worker splits up town centre fight in dramatic TikTok video

“The company policy is that we would never ask, or expect our employees to put themselves at risk in any way."

Manchester Evening News

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Urgent appeal issued to find man wanted just a month after prison release

Ellis Rocks served half his four-month sentence

Manchester Evening News

Bristol City verdict: Trouble on the left, Conway stakes his claim and an ongoing trend

All the talking points as the Robins picked up their first point of the season in a scrappy affair against Wigan

Bristol Post

Liz Truss makes 'Lexit' pledge at Tory leadership hustings in Leigh

The frontrunner to be next Prime Minister had her say on calls for Leigh to break away from Wigan

Manchester Evening News

Good Samaritan saves elderly couple who were stuck in car after collision in Wigan

“I just saw my grandad in him. If my grandad was in an accident I would expect someone to sit there and talk to him.”

Manchester Evening News

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Mystery of ex-Wigan Warriors star 'in really bad place' when he vanished six months ago

When police were called to his apartment in January, they discovered that it was unlocked but all of his belongings were there, and his shower was still running

Manchester Evening News

Bargain homes up for sale in Greater Manchester this month... the cheapest is just £20,000

Each of these properties can be bid for at an auction

Manchester Evening News

Lionesses hero Ella Toone is fuelling Keely Hodgkinson's pursuit of Commonwealth Games glory

Toone - who scored England’s opener at Wembley as they won Euro 2022 on Sunday - and Hodgkinson go back all the way to their time at Fred Longworth High School in Tyldesley near Wigan, close friends despite being two years apart

Manchester Evening News

Today's rugby news as Shaun Edwards turns up to rugby league training and sits in silence three times a week

Former Wales defence coach Edwards made his name in rugby league

Wales Online

Police appeal as man goes missing after leaving shift at hospital

Mohamud did not return to work the next day

Manchester Evening News

Police appeal for help to find missing 17-year-old last seen in June

Callum is missing from the Wigan area

Manchester Evening News

Police 'increasingly concerned' over missing man last seen in Wigan

Benjamin was last seen at around 7pm last night

Manchester Evening News

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Lisa Nandy visits striking workers despite ban on Labour frontbenchers joining picket lines

The Wigan MP is understood to have told Sir Keir Starmer about her plans to visit striking workers

Daily Mirror

Labour frontbencher visits picket line days after shadow minister's sacking

Lisa Nandy was this morning pictured speaking with striking members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) who walked out of their jobs at BT and Openreach in her Wigan constituency

The Independent UK

Labour frontbencher Lisa Nandy pictured visiting picket line

Ms Nandy was photographed meeting striking workers on a picket line in Wigan, her constituency, despite comments made by Sir Keir Starmer.

The Guardian - UK

Labour facing ‘breakdown in discipline’ as Nandy visits picket line

Shadow ministers say Keir Starmer’s ban on visiting picket lines has ‘effectively broken down’ as frontbencher visits CWU members

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Manchester Evening News

Police search for missing teen, 14, who was last seen on the way to Wigan three days ago

Lewis Aspinall, 14, has been missing since Tuesday, July 26, when he left Rishton Train Station heading towards Wigan

Manchester Evening News

Man brutally battered colleague with hammer over message sent from partner

Dean Simpkin, originally from Wigan, 'completely overreacted', a court was told

Manchester Evening News

Huge funding boost to tackle fly-tipping and anti-social behaviour in Wigan

£750k earmarked for Platt Bridge and Scholes Village

Manchester Evening News

Millions to tackle anti-social behaviour in trouble zones across Greater Manchester

Brinnington in Stockport, the Fallowfield Loop, and three parts of Wigan will benefit

Manchester Evening News

Demolition work set to begin in £135m town centre regeneration scheme

The former Galleries shopping centre will be knocked down to make way for the new regeneration plans, including a hotel, cinema, and indoor mini golf site

Daily Mirror

Desperate efforts to save 'best neighbour ever' who died in devastating fire

Andy Pickwell, a care worker in his 50s, died as a result of the tragic blaze in Wigan in the early hours of yesterday

Manchester Evening News

Neighbours describe desperate attempts to save care worker from 4am house fire

Andy Pickwell, who died in a fire at his home, was 'the best neighbour you could ever have', according to devastated residents

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