- Pay to freeze for MPs in 2012/13
- Airport tweet 'made law look silly'
- Mills will give evidence to Leveson
- Hacker 'in terror' over extradition
- Milly killer appeal bid rejected
- Gazza's phone-hacking 'distress'
- Met in gang crime crackdown boost
- Falkland military claims rejected
- RBS boss 'underestimated' bonus row
- River Cottage badly damaged by fire
- Drink-drive Merson handed road ban
- Harry Redknapp cleared of tax dodge
- Pensioner struck by stolen car dies
- Elderly suffering from care cuts
- Moves to combat scrap metal theft
- Lagerfeld: Singer Adele too fat
- More scrutiny for Lansley reforms
- TUC warns over pension reforms
- MPs warn over Libyan operation
- Job vacancies up, but more applying
Education
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THE CHAIRMAN of a Wigan high school’s under-fire governors has hit back in the row over admissions.
Councillor’s anger over Academy’s plan
BOSSES at Wigan’s first academy school are being accused of moving the boundaries in a bid to exclude pupils from a local council estate.
Book buddies
PUPILS shared their love of the written word with elderly residents in a care home as part of a themed storytelling week.
Latics ‘keeper Chris urges children to read
LATICS goalkeeper Chris Kirkland is urging youngsters in Wigan to get reading.
1 commentNew regulations will help discipline teachers
TEACHERS facing allegations of misconduct are expected to escape disciplinary action due to the abolition of the General Teaching Council for England.
Behaviour worse in schools
PARENTS are most likely to blame their child’s friends for naughty behaviour in the classroom.
Teenagers urged to take up jab
TEENAGE girls are being urged to take up the HPV vaccine, which helps prevent cervical cancer, after figures revealed that nearly 20 per cent of girls eligible for it did not receive it.
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Weather for Wigan
Wednesday 08 February 2012
Today
Sunny
Temperature: -6 C to 2 C
Wind Speed: 8 mph
Wind direction: South east
Tomorrow
Sunny spells
Temperature: 1 C to 3 C
Wind Speed: 3 mph
Wind direction: South
