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Ingersoll Rand Factory on Swan lane, Hindley Green

Bid to save open space

HANDS off our open space - that was the stark warning from demonstrators campaigning against a “devastating attack” on land in Hindley Green.

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One of the new signs at Bryn Railway Station.that were showing the wrong destinations

passengers face delay in upgrade

ANGER is growing over delays to long-awaited works at a Wigan railway station.

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Members of Save Our Swim have formed a Friends of Hindley Pool group to help reduce costs of Hindley Pool

Community aiming to save pool

A COMMUNITY group has been formed to help save a swimming pool.

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Coun Don Hodgkinson with John and Barbara Pennington at the new car parking bays outside their home on Wigan Road, Landgate

Successful ending to park plea

RESIDENTS can now safely park their cars thanks to local a successful campaign.

Anglers are fishing for hospice help

A FISHING tackle shop in Wigan is angling for donations in aid of Wigan and Leigh Hospice.

MP blasts plan for green belt

AN MP has blasted a controversial planning review which it is claimed could destroy Wigan green belt land.

Meeting on house plans

RESIDENTS concerned abo-ut proposals to build hundreds of new homes in Lowton and Golborne are being invited to a community consultation meeting next week.

Coun Don Hodgkinson with John and Barbara Pennington at the new car parking bays outside their home on Wigan Road, Landgate

Fears of tip site closure chaos

THE controversial closure of a Wigan tip could lead to a fly-tipping epidemic.

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Pupils read their short stories to residents at Bedford Care Home in Battersby Street Leigh. Pupils Mackensie Parker and Holly Sudworth read with resident Mavis Grundy

Book buddies

PUPILS shared their love of the written word with elderly residents in a care home as part of a themed storytelling week.

Coun Gary Wilkes at Grange Road Park, Bryn, with Lisa Rowlands, who runs one of the shops next it, which have both been subjected to vandalism and anti-social behaviour by gangs of youths

Police in park crackdown

POLICE are clamping down on nuisance youths who are causing havoc at a Wigan children’s play area.

Ian Taylor in a scene from Echoes

Trio’s film success video

A TRIO of local cinema enthusiasts are hoping to take the festival circuit by storm after their first feature-length film was premiered in the borough.

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Thursday 23 February 2012

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