The property had been, since Georgian times, been a family home. Over its front door is, famously, the face of a little girl ...

One of Wigan town centre’s main thoroughfares is set to re-open to traffic later today after work to make safe a blaze-hit ...

Every generation has its light-bulb moments: published in 1937, George Orwell's socialist hymn The Road To Wigan Pier set the tone for mid-20th century politics. Owell's examination of working-class ...

Work is under way on a "game changing" entertainment destination in a Greater Manchester town centre. The Stack leisure venue is being built over two floors of the former Debenhams store inside the ...

Ray Smith has run a stall selling shoes at Wigan Market for 34 years Worried traders say they are being "kept in the dark" over their forthcoming move into a new indoor market hall being built in ...

A police officer who tasered a knife-wielding attacker who had repeatedly stabbed a teenager in Wigan town centre says he was just doing his job and is “totally shocked” at winning a top prize for ...

The fire that engulfed former nightclub Jumpin Jaks on King Street, Wigan on Saturday night, November 22, is being treated as arson, police ...

Work to save a 1970s concrete civic centre built in Wigan that was once under threat from demolition has been completed after a major restoration. The Brutalist building on Millgate opened in 1970 and ...

A serial shoplifter is behind bars after flouting a ban preventing her from entering most of Wigan town centre for the second ...

Worried traders say they are being "kept in the dark" over their forthcoming move into a new indoor market hall being built in Wigan town centre. Several business owners told BBC Radio Manchester they ...