Yesterday evening, all but three members of Wigan council voted in favour of Labour councillor Terence Halliwell’s motion at a full council meeting

Stoptober campaigners are advising smokers in the North West to ditch the fags for a gag in an attempt to reduce the number of cigarette users in the UK throughout October.

Councillor Robert Bleakley escaped the sack for texts that claimed women were for ‘cleaning and washing material’ and that he hoped jailed Vicky Pryce ‘liked her fanny played with in the showers’.

Legal highs could potentially be a thing of the past as Wigan Council are cracking down on retailers selling them to children.

Innovative monitoring equipment has been switched on in Wigan to help battle residential road deaths.

Britain First’s Facebook page was taken down for publishing posts containing hate speech – but an hour later they were back online.

Wigan tapas bar and restaurant Deliciosa has been immediately closed after an inspection by health officials discovered it to have a rat infestation.

Less than 100 young people have fallen foul of the law in the borough in 2013/14, with Wigan Council’s restorative justice service playing a part in pushing the figures down

A groundbreaking Channel 4 documentary 15,000 Kids And Counting is heading to Manchester to focus on a family’s tearful goodbye to their foster children.

Wigan Council have given National Apprenticeship Week their seal of approval and are supporting a series of events all week.

Sarah Higgins was found guilty of falsely claiming £118,000