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An eight-year wait - and possibly longer - is being faced by countryside campaigners wanting to get a new borough footpath adopted.

Violent robbers who held up a convenience store in the borough – wielding a sledgehammer and crowbar – are expected to receive significant jail terms when they are sentenced next month

A protest ride has been arranged by horse riders to highlight the dangers posed to those tackling a popular route in the borough.

Campaigners say that a controversial decision to abandon a long-awaited park and ride scheme for a Wigan railway station is a "scandal".

Police are hunting a teenaged flasher who exposed himself to a schoolgirl.

Work is yet to be completed on Leigh’s promised homeless hub - despite rough sleepers facing the coldest week of the year.

A suspected cannabis farm said to contain drugs with a street value of up to £40,000 has been busted in Leigh.

Pet-friendly oxygen masks are being rolled out to North West firefighters to assist our four-legged friends in the event of a house fire.

A third case of financial irregularities in two years concerning the schools sector has been identified by the council’s spending watchdog.

Almost 1,500 residents are trapped in a rent arrears crisis caused by the government’s controversial changes to the universal credit system.

Leisure bosses are set to spend nearly £500,000 on repairing the walls at a showpiece sports centre.

An academy trust which manages Atherton Community School has been propped up with a £750,000 cash injection from one of the government’s executive agencies.

A major building in Leigh - said once to be a “blight” on the town centre - might be transformed into an apartments block.

Forty new homes could be introduced in the grounds of Leigh Infirmary - under plans lodged with Wigan Council.