Many are picture opportunities, featuring fun events, charity presentations and awards. For quite a few of them, this is the first time they have been published anywhere in 20 years.
1. Wigan in news in pictures from September 2006
Mayor of Wigan, Coun. Eunice Smethurst, and Consort, Harry, have a go on the tombola stall run by resident, James Ashurst, and staff Diane Disley, Stephen Roche and Theresa Reeves at Eliot Gardens extra care mental health scheme home at Worsley Mesnes where a fund raising carnival fayre was being held. Photo: Frank Orrell
2. Wigan in news in pictures from September 2006
Mr Richard Slade, consultant gynaecologist, centre, shows Carl Sharpe and Janet Atherton, chairman and secretary of Wigan, Leigh and Chorley Fundraisers for The Christie, some X-rays after they presented him with a cheque for £10,000 at The Thomas Linacre Centre. The money, raised through numerous local events by various groups, was to be spent on a diagnostic hystroscope camera and lighting system that can see inside the womb for the diagnosis of gynaecological cancers Photo: Nick Fairhurst
3. Wigan in news in pictures from September 2006
Eva Nickeas with her Harry Potter display at Trinity Methodist Church, Pemberton, where Wigan Flower Club were using flower arrangements to depict childrens literature. Photo: Frank Orrell
4. Wigan in news in pictures from September 2006
Bernadette, Naomi and Martin Flynn and Helen Foster taking part in the Wigan and Leigh Hospice Walk for Life Photo: Frank Orrell