BIN collection dates in the borough will change next week due to the Easter bank holidays. Wigan Council has asked residents to check their calendars to see which day their waste will be collected. If residents have waste picked up on Tuesday
A WOMAN has been charged with arson after a flat fire on Tuesday. Shannon Hunt, of Richmond Drive, Leigh has been accused of committing arson at a property on the same road. The 23-year-old is due to appear at Bolton Crown Court on Wednesday
A SOAP star will be at Spinning Gate Shopping Centre tomorrow morning, Saturday, to cut the ribbon at the opening of a travel agency. Coronation Street's Alan Halsall, who has played Tyrone Dobbs for 21 years, will be at the ceremony for independent
PLANS have been submitted to turn a newsagents into a taxi office. A change-of-use application has been issued to turn a newsagents property on Market Street in Hindley into a taxi office. In the pre-application advice section of the application
CONCERNS were raised yesterday evening, Thursday, over the state of an "unsafe building". Wigan Council was alerted that scaffolding was removed from the Marklands building, which is at the corner of Elliott Street and Stanley Street in Tyldesley
AN amateur mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter with a rare genetic condition has overcome the physical battles he faces to fulfil a dream. James Gallagher Young, from Leigh, has Prader-Willi syndrome which causes symptoms such as dangerous weight
