- Korean firm wins MoD tankers deal
- Mother and daughter given Asbos
- 'Exceptionally' mild weather on way
- Teenager 'repeatedly raped by gang'
- Man quizzed over women's murders
- Tributes to 'jolly jester' Carson
- Cherie Blair makes phone hack claim
- Man accused of murdering vicar
- Peacocks saved, but 3,000 jobs go
- Sex attacker was under surveillance
- RBS set to unveil £400m bonus pot
- 'Anxious' teacher 'set self alight'
- 'Crush racism' in football: PM
- Protesters refused cathedral appeal
- Man accused of starting riots blaze
- PM urges 'thorough' fraud probe
- Fox urges Budget business tax cuts
- UK reporter dies in Syria onslaught
- Private firm to run police station
- Ex-bouncer guilty of Nikitta murder
Columnists
TALKING SPORT - Let Haye and Chisora get it on - for free!
DAVID Haye and Dereck Chisora are far too big for me to even think about slagging them off following their press conference scrap at the weekend.
COMMENT - Fine tribute
IT might be nearly a year on, but the murder of Lt Cdr Ian Molyneux is still very much in the minds of people across the borough.
CHARLES GRAHAM - Salute a Wigan medical hero
DOCTOR Nayyar Naqvi is just as famous in Wigan for his fund-raising exploits as he is for the countless lives he has saved.
CHARLES GRAHAM - Another great escape?
WHAT a spirit-lifting performance by Wigan Athletic at the weekend.
CHARLES GRAHAM - Expenses hike’s bad example
MP expenses are set to soar by a massive £47m this year after a relaxation of the rules.
CHARLES GRAHAM - Baring all isn’t a wizard idea
I SEE Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe is stripping off again.
CHARLES GRAHAM - Weaker beer won’t change society
IS watering down beer really going to be the longed-for cure to Britain’s binge drinking epidemic?
COMMENT - Grim start
AFTER a rollercoaster year for unemployment in Wigan, the sight of a rise of almost 600 jobless in the first month of 2012 makes bleak reading.
NATURE NOTES - Deer in Wigan
AFTER last week’s Nature Notes I’ve had a deluge of phone calls and emails from residents of the borough, many who thought their eyes were deceiving them and they had not seen what they thought they had – deer!
COMMENT - Retro years
EVERYONE seems to be making a comeback in the music nowadays so why not our very own Limahl?
NATURE NOTES - A problem with deer?
I WAS invited to attend a Deer Seminar last week organised by the Forestry Commission and the Community Forests. The growing number of deer in Wigan has quite a few impacts that people are not aware of (and that was myself included!)
COMMENT - Belt battle
GREEN Belt zones slap the brakes on land-hungry builders anxious to turn this land into a red brick and pleasant one.
CHARLES GRAHAM - At last, a plan to stop boy racers
I AM beginning to lose count of the number of articles I have written about the imposition of what are rather drily called Section 30 Dispersal Order zones around Wigan borough.
CHARLES GRAHAM - Warnings from history
IN a beautifully-tended cemetery in northern France lies my great-uncle George Smith along with thousands of his fallen fellow comrades.
COMMENT - Foul eyesore
THE site which greets visitors to the Kirkless Industrial Estate is nothing short of a disgrace.
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CHARLES GRAHAM - Ultimate sporting contest
RARELY can there have been so titanic a sporting struggle as the one played out over almost six hours at Melbourne Park at the weekend.
COMMENT - A fine effort
IT is always good to see young members of our community going the extra mile for a good cause.
TALKING SPORT - Expect a Super season with Wane in charge
THERE was a common misconception about the Michael Maguire-Shaun Wane partnership.
COMMENT - Stay loyal
THE verdict of shoppers and a Wigan retailer on what the town centre has to offer is an admittedly downbeat one.
1 commentLISA NANDY MP - Inspired by brave women
I WAS inspired this month by a group of women from Wigan who have used their own tragic experiences to help others.
CHARLES GRAHAM - This time we must accept the cap fits
I CERTAINLY don’t agree with every austerity measure this Government is taking, nor some of the gut-wrenching concessions it is still making to those who could afford to spend more.
CHARLES GRAHAM - Silent movie fans have last laugh
I TAKE plenty of stick for some of my fogeyish views.
CHARLES GRAHAM - Braving the belly-busting meal
IT is part of the job that journalism sometimes carries an element of risk.
CHARLES GRAHAM - The dilemma over roadside memorials
COUNCILS, the police and even members of the public have few more sensitive issues to wrestle with sometimes than roadside memorials.
TALKING SPORT - Plight has not dented Martinez’s enthusiasm
I DON’T know how he does it, but Roberto Martinez was his usual bubbly mixture of positivity and optimism when I popped into the training ground this morning for our weekly chat.
NATURE NOTES - The owl but no pussycat
WE were leaving Borsdane Wood just as the sun had set and were treated to a fantastic sight of a tawny owl.
COMMENT - Your choice
A HEALTH magazine has named a meal served in three Wigan pubs as the nation’s least healthy sit down.
COMMENT - Getting offenders into work
YOUNG offenders may not be the recession’s most sympathy-inducing victims, but research shows Wigan Council is struggling to rehabilitate those who have been in trouble with the law and get them working.
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Weather for Wigan
Thursday 23 February 2012
Today
Sunny spells
Temperature: 10 C to 15 C
Wind Speed: 16 mph
Wind direction: South west
Tomorrow
Light rain
Temperature: 3 C to 11 C
Wind Speed: 16 mph
Wind direction: West
