FREE Father's Day family fun will be on offer at Spinning Gate Shopping Centre in Leigh on Saturday. Children's crafts workshops will take place between 11am and 3pm where young participants can create their own personalised medal for their dads
TOWN hall bosses are facing a longer wait than expected to hear whether they will receive cash for a major infrastructure project. A bid for around £132m to help bring forward schemes to create a borough-wide link between the M6 and M61 is still
A FORMER miner has released his second novel based on his experiences of living in Leigh. Edmund Birchall, who grew up on Leigh Road, left school at 15 and worked at collieries at Parsonage, Bickershaw and Clock Face from the mid-50s to 1970.
JORDAN Thompson has re-joined Leigh from Hull FC. Thompson made a big impression last season at Leigh Sports Village before moving to Leeds Rhinos towards the end of the campaign and subsequently re-joining his former club Hull FC for the current
LEIGH East travelled to Woolston on Friday night but found the hosts in good form and went down 40-16. The visitors were temporarily reduced to twelve men after two minutes when returning Zac Nicholls was sin-binned in the third minute for a late
LEIGH play their final home Betfred Championship game for more than a month when they host Bradford Bulls on Sunday. But head coach John Duffy says the impending road trips won’t derail Centurions’ top five ambitions. Leigh travel to Dewsbury
A MAN grabbed his mum round the neck and bit her hand in a bid to steal £10. Thomas Wood, of Glebe Street, Leigh, a drug addict, called at his mum's home in Wigan on the evening of April 22. At Bolton Crown Court, Brian McKenna, prosecuting
