This collection of photographs dates back exactly 20 years and shows what and who was making the news in Hindley in 2006.
There are plenty of school activities, a man who rescued his neighbour from a burning building and the future prime minister.
9. Hindley news in 2006
Ethel Davies, 86, and Jack Bailey, 82, residents of Thorley House, on Hazelmere Gardens, Hindley, who were the winners of the Easter bonnet parade at a party to celebrate 15 years of being under CLS management
10. Hindley news in 2006
Gordon Brockley, from Sandy Lane, was engaged in a four-year battle with the council to have a speed hump outside his house removed he felt that slowing traffic was causing structural damage to his home
11. Hindley news in 2006
Stuart Wilson, 11, and fellow pupils at St Benedict's Catholic Primary School, Hindley, made posters and radio programmes about the effects of smoking in the home on Deanery CE High School's media bus with their teacher Lisa Young and Deanery pupil Rebecca Lack, 15
12. Hindley news in 2006
Andy Burnham was pledging to get investment to Borsdane Shopping Precinct, Hindley if he was re-elected