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  • Building support for the Centurions

    HOME builders Taylor Wimpey is sponsoring Leigh Centurions' home game against Batley on Sunday. The team from Taylor Wimpey’s nearby Pennington Wharf development will be at Leigh Sports Village on the day to offer their support. Matthew Chantler

  • Drunk aged one

    A ONE-year-old child was treated in hospital for being drunk, and a six-year-old was admitted for being high on illegal drugs. They are among hundreds of children, including babies and toddlers, being treated at the Royal Bolton Hospital because of

  • Marriage is pure poetry

    MARRIAGE, love and romance are certainly hot topics at the moment with today's Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton. And it was a love of writing that inspired a budding poet from Leigh to enter a competition to get his work published.

  • Library fighters take to the streets

    LIBRARY users took to the streets to boost support for Atherton Action Group's campaign against the possible closure. Carrying placards created by pupils from St Michael's and All Angels primary school, Howe Bridge they were joined on their march through

  • Tons of bricks block country lane

    FLYTIPPERS completely blocked a pleasant country lane when they tipped tons of concrete house bricks in Tyldesley. On Saturday lunchtime a tipper wagon was seen turning off Lancaster Avenue on the Shakerley estate. It headed between the hedgerows