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  • Blooming marvellous hanging basket workishop

    A FREE hanging basket workshop is being held tomorrow, Friday. The workshop, organised by Leigh Neighbours is being held at the community garden at the top of Gordon Street from 10am until noon. It will include demonstrations from by Damian

  • Leigh on top in disappointing encounter

    Leigh 39 St Benedicts 11 IN a first encounter between Leigh and St Benedicts on a pitch that said 'please play rugby on me' what should have been a rugby spectacle turned into a stop-start penalty-strewn disappointing affair. After three minutes

  • Safe passage for Pennington

    PENNINGTON FC got through to the next round of the Lancashire Cup with a 3-2 win at Daten, with Rowlands, Giles and Warburton finding the net. Two goals by Nicky Errington earned Pennington Ladies a 2-2 draw at home to Penwortham Ladies. A

  • Blow for Hopkins as Centurions march on

    LEIGH Centurions’ history-making team will be missing a third frontline forward when they return to play-offs action. Sam Hopkins, who figured in Leigh’s record-breaking side in the weekend’s defeat of Doncaster, will not play again this year.

  • 'Don't take our respite away from us'

    THE closure of a respite centre would take away a lifeline for many of its users, according to a woman who regularly attends the centre. Tina Alden has been attending Fourways in Tyldesley for six years, allowing her 82-year-old mum and full-time

  • Tyldesley fan handed football ban for tirade of racial abuse

    A FOOTBALL fan who directed a tirade of racist abuse at players and a manager has been given a banning order. Philip John Ward, of Tintern Avenue, Tyldesley, was found guilty of a racially aggravated public order offence following a trial at Bolton

  • New McDonald's to open in Leigh

    A NEW drive-thru McDonald’s will open in Leigh next week. The new double storey restaurant will open on Parsonage Way on Wednesday bringing with it 75 jobs to the area. McDonald’s franchisee Lawrence Hilliker, will operate the new restaurant

  • Residents ‘thrilled’ with Atherton housing plan rejection

    A PLANNING committee received a standing ovation for rejecting an application to build up to 100 houses in Atherton. The application was rejected unanimously by the committee at a meeting that was packed with residents and members from the community