As the country prepares to head to the polls, Northern business and elected leaders have joined forces to publish the first ever Manifesto for the North – outlining the ambition to power up the North with support of the incoming Government.
Wigan-born Sky News presenter Kay Burley has earned praise and criticism in equal measure after asking questions to an empty chair, after the Conservative Party chairman she was due to interview ducked out.
The Conservatives will have to target traditional Labour voters from regional towns such as Workington in order to win the Christmas general election, according to a think tank.
Two of Wigan borough's MPs are among the signatories to a letter of female parliamentary solidarity sent to he Duchess of Sussex against the "distasteful and misleading nature" of newspaper stories about her and her family.
Drug and alcohol support workers in the borough embroiled in a major pay dispute with a national charity have once again escalated the row by announcing a week of strike action.
Britain will remain in the European Union until next year unless Parliament ratifies Boris Johnson's Brexit deal sooner, the remaining member states have agreed.
