INJURY has ended the playing career of Leigh Centurions forward Tim Jonkers. The ex-St Helens, Salford and Irish international is to retire immediately on medical grounds. The 2000 Super League Grand Final and World Club Challenge winner joined the
A multi-million pound health centre has opened its doors. The £4.5 million Bridgewater Medical Centre in Henry Street, Leigh, will treat 13,000 patients, combining the work of four local GP's surgeries, which had become outdated. The state-of-the-art
I'VE read with interest comments about me in various local papers. When I was offered the chance to go to Australia for three months I consulted Wigan Council who said that I would be OK as I had until May before I needed to make a decision on my future
Re Mr Carr's letter in the May 31 edition about off road bikes. Given that the majority party of Wigan MBC were proud to support' the illegal invasion of Iraq at a cost of £4 billion (latest Government figures ignoring the loss of 600,000 innocent lives
A COLLEAGUE who spotted water pouring from the yard of a shop at the junction of Thirlmere Street and Railway Road rang in and asked me to report it to United Utilities. He was told that copper piping had been ripped from the outside toilet and water
FOLLOWING my success in reuniting a couple of long lost footballing friends a couple of weeks ago I've been asked to find a Leigh girl who hit the hippie trail with a pal in the 60s. Sheila Hamer lived in Noble Street, Leigh, in 1964 when she and Maureen
VISITOR Joan Donlan was disgusted to see the state of Leigh Cemetery on Saturday after grass cutters had been at work. She claimed cuttings had been left, headstones were covered in dried bits of grass and silk and plastic flowers had been cut to shreads
FORMER Wigan MBC councillor Robert Bleakley has been chosen by the Liberal Democrat Party as its candidate for this month's Tyldesley ward bye-election. His nomination was lodged on June 1 - deadline day and the day after Mr Bleakley completed a three
AN Atherton woman was found guilty of causing unnecessary suffering to a horse when she appeared at Wigan and Leigh Magistrates Court. In February last year International League for the Protection of Horses Field Officer Chris Williamson was asked by
KEY forward Rob Roberts is to stay with Leigh Centurions following an internal disciplinary hearing. But there will be no immediate prospect of a recall to senior action, according to team manager Darren Shaw. The former Huddersfield and Halifax star
