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Figures from NHS England show new enquiries were raised around 1,900 times about adults in social care in Wigan

Adult care probes top nearly 2,000

Wigan borough's MPs

How much MP's accepted in gifts donations and benefits

Figures from the Active Lives Survey from Sport England, compiled by the Department for Transport, show 6.9 per cent of people in Wigan were cycling at least once a week in the year to November 2023 – up from 5.9 per cent the year before.

Cycling is becoming more popular

Bakkavor Foods at Ince is set to close in February 2025

Food factory to be axed with 750 job losses

National Highways is responsible for maintaining motorways and major A-roads, so closures of smaller roads will not be included in their schedule.

Major roadworks round-up

The former JB Fitness gym

HMO plan for former gym

School leaders’ union NAHT said significant bolstering of funds to support students is needed if the Government is "serious about getting more pupils back into the classroom".

Truancy levels on the rise since Covid

Atherton Baptist Church where one of the telecoms masts will be sited

Up to seven new telecoms masts scheduled for borough

National Highways is responsible for maintaining motorways and major A-roads, so closures of smaller roads will not be included in their schedule

Latest update on major roadworks

An aerial view of Haigh Woodland Park before the huge renovation project at the hall got under way

Borough's green space percentage revealed

Faith Shone, 16, has leukaemia, caused by chemotherapy treatment she had for previous cancer. Her family have launched an urgent appeal to fund raise for private stem cell treatment. She is pictured centre, with sisters Isla,10, left, and Skye,13

Leukaemia girl emergency appeal

Figures from the Ministry of Justice show the Criminal Justice System dealt with 1,026 knife and offensive weapon offenders in Greater Manchester in the year to March

Knife crime re-offending falls

Home Office figures show council taxpayers will have to shell out £207m to fund Greater Manchester Police in 2024-25 – a real-terms rise of six per cent from the £195m paid the year before

Council taxpayers' record pay-out to GM police

Daniel and Eleanor Cunningham with Darcy, 10, Ebony, seven, Blake, one and Alex Yoxall and Ben Yoxall from Wigan Council

The health benefits of virtual reality

NHS England figures show 2,049 of all 3,059 patients on the severe mental illness register in the former NHS Wigan Borough CCG area received all the required physical health check-ups in the year to March. This was equivalent to 67 per cent – up from 59 the year before

Crucial health checks for mentally ill people missed

The average Wigan house price in June was £192,580, Land Registry figures show – a 0.4 per cent increase on May

See how much local house prices rose by in June

Wigan house prices increased by 0.4 per cent – more than the average for the North West – in June, new figures show.

Will Grimond

St John Rigby College students celebrate with principal Peter McGhee

St John Rigby College A-levels

Police making their presence felt after a far right demonstration was planned in Wigan

Asylum seeker centre's 'business as usual' message

The charity footballers line up for their special tournament promoting Hope Not Hate and raising funds for Southport FC Community Foundation

Charity footballers' response to Southport tragedy

Housing Secretary Angela Rayner will make local housing targets mandatory again

See borough's housing target under new government system

From September to May an estimated 6,480 Covid catch-up courses were started by pupils in Wigan, with 85 of 125 (68 per cent) schools in the area using the scheme.

Benefits of school Covid catch-up scheme

The group of counter-demonstrators

Far right demonstration is aborted

Firefighters perform a guard of honour for former BBC TV presenter and firefighter Beccy Barr at Beetham Crematorium. Photo: Kelvin Lister-Stuttard

20 poignant pictures from funeral of former BBC presenter Beccy Barr

Wigan Council leader Coun David Molyneux

Wigan Council leader joins politicians in speaking out on unrest

A stark message from Safer Roads Greater Manchester

New crackdown on drink and drug-driving

House prices in Wigan have jumped 46 per cent over five years, reaching £194,100 in April 2024

House price challenges facing first time buyers

National Highways is responsible for maintaining motorways and major A-roads, so closures of smaller roads will not be included in their schedule.

Major roadworks update

Drivers in and around Wigan will have six National Highways road closures to watch out for over the next two weeks.

Andrew Dowdeswell

Typical terraced homes in Wigan

Terraced homes selling fast

Home Office figures show there were 4,289 rape offences recorded by Greater Manchester Police in the year to March. Of them, 115 resulted in a charge or summons – accounting for just 2.7 per cent

Tiny number of rape complaints lead to suspect being charged

Latest NHS Digital figures show there were 10,000 days lost due to staff absences at Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust in February.

The impact of stress on hospital workers

Shevington Surgery was among many Wigan GP practices affected by the global IT outage

GP surgeries take the brunt as global IT outage causes chaos

Below are some of the performers and crowd at Haigh Fest 2017 - did you go?

Wigan memories: Haigh Fest 2017 in pictures

The circular monument found on the outskirts of Aspull

Excavations at Wigan ancient monument

NHS England figures show 55,222 patients were waiting for non-urgent elective operations or treatment at WWL hospitals at the end of May – up from 54,550 in April, and 52,491 in May 2023

Rise in patients waiting for non-urgent treatment

Tracey Fletcher was first diagnosed with melanoma in 2003

Mum's warning about skin cancer risks to sunseekers

Jonathan Saunders operated from a flat at Trencherfield Mill

Dodgy 'dentist' suspended for botched work

Hindley Prison

Health fears for prison inmates subjected to lockdown

Wigan's police Chief Supt Emily Higham when she announced her retirement from GMP last November

Former police chief settles discrimination case

Shafaq Khan

Ombudsman rules that late prison inmate didn't receive proper care

National Highways is responsible for maintaining motorways and major A-roads, so closures of smaller roads will not be included in their schedule

National Highways' latest update on local road repairs

Leyton Kennedy

Tragic case of young rugby player whose life went off the rails through drugs

On average, 1,610 people were employed in manufacturing sectors related to the green transition across the Warrington and Wigan travel to work zone between 2016 and 2022

See how many 'green jobs' there are locally

Generous Wigan school boy Nathan Davies, nine, has been growing pea and tomato plants and selling them to raise funds for local food banks.

Heartwarming story of an exemplary nine-year-old

Below are some of the highest-rated pubs with beer gardens in Wigan on Google reviews

Highest rated beer gardens

Josh Simons delivers his acceptance speech after winning the Makerfield seat for Labour

Victory for all three Labour candidates

The polling station sign being put up at St Francis's Church, Kitt Green, before the general election polls opened this morning (July 4)

Polls are open in the 2024 general election

Office for Health Improvement and Disparities figures show air pollution was responsible for 6.1 per cent of the deaths of people in Wigan aged over 30 in 2022

Borough's shocking pollution death figures

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (and Labour leader SIr Keir Starmer who have been urged not to ditch their parties' green policies

Environmental visions for the borough

The spring vaccine is currently available to anyone aged 75 and over, or who will be aged 75 by this Sunday, along with older adult care home residents and people with a weakened immune system aged six-months and over

Last call for spring Covid jab

Figures from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities show there were 78 Traveller caravans recorded in Wigan in January – up from 64 the year before

Rise in traveller caravans stopping locally

The average Wigan house price in April was £194,095. Land Registry figures show a 3.5 per cent increase on March.

The latest local housing market stats

A familiar scene through the middle of Hindley

Borough's traffic congestion nightmare

Conservatives line up outside the under-restoration Haigh Hall, from left, former Standish councillor Adam Marsh, Lord Stephen Parkinson of Whitley Bay, Wigan Conservative candidate Henry Mitson, vice-chair of Wigan Conservatives Yamini Gupta, and Richard Mitson, the candidate's father

Meet the Tory hoping to unseat Labour in Wigan

Department for Education figures show there were 13,672 school children in Wigan meeting the eligibility criteria for free school meals at the start of the year, equivalent to 28.1 per cent of all pupils in the area

Free school meal eligibility figures

Mary Trannack with her granddaughter Claire Bennett at an armed services Christmas lunch hosted by MP Yvonne Fovargue last December

Call for veterans to attend funeral of the last of the land girls