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  • Football fan collects 150 shirts for children in Tanzania

    A FOOTBALL fan has spread the love of his lifelong favourite club across the world, collecting 150 donated shirts for children in Tanzania. Bolton Wanderers fan Danny Thomas, 30, grew up in Leigh before becoming a P.E. teacher at a Dubai school

  • MP COLUMN: We have a duty to honour miners' lives

    THIS week marks the 40th anniversary of the Golborne mining disaster of 1979 when we lost 10 brave miners. The disaster still reverberates across our community and I know it understandably still affects the family and friends of all of those lost

  • Community arts organisation set to move into its first base

    A COMMUNITY arts organisation has picked up the keys to its first permanent base. Umbrella Arts, which has been working in the community on art and cultural projects in the last seven years, is moving into Leigh Spinners Mill. An artisan and