MARKET traders are furious about having to pay two lots of rates on their stalls. The price hike comes after the government’s Valuation Office Agency (VOA) this month introduced a new ratings system for markets. Under the previous system, Leigh Market
TYLDESLEY man David Brooks got a shock when he took a nostalgic walk through the fields where he played as a boy. For the retired engineer and local businessman stumbled on what appeared to be two uncapped mine shafts at the site of the former
DON'T tell anyone there's nothing to do in Tyldesley and Atherton. PC Andy Wright and fellow police officers in the area have been involved with schools in the Nowt2Do project where thousands of teenagers have tried their hand at bricklaying
MEN who helped turn the Leigh Sports Village dream into reality will look at ways of securing and expanding leisure activities in Tyldesley. Tyldesley Pool could be run by a community group as Wigan Council examines ways to ensure public services remain
PETER Riley, rated by many rugby critics as the best uncapped scrum-half ever to play for Leigh, has died aged 90. The man whose playing skills earned him a place in the Leigh RL Hall of Fame, signed for Leigh in 1938 from Tyldesley Rugby Union Club
I ENJOYED reading the piece about The Last Shift in the Journal. I too, like Brian Gildart - 'a proper owd pit mon', remember the two brothers who lived in the original pub building as shown in the photograph. They had a couple of fields and one of
REGULAR readers are determined to save Golborne Library from closure. Members of the newly-formed Golborne Library Action Group say the community has been particularly badly hit by economic woes. Group spokesman Ian Massey told the Journal: "The library
