Angela Rayner

Jimmy and Gillian Morris of Latham House Farm, Kitt Green, have seen off would-be developers of their green belt land before and have welcomed the council's rejection of the latest proposals

Council bids to ditch green belt sites from development plan

Wigan MP Lisa Nandy, who will remain as culture secretary

Nandy remains culture secretary

Wigan MP and Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy

Nandy calls Labour leadership challenges 'froth and nonsense'

Leigh and Atherton MP Jo Platt

Leigh MP calls for PM to step down

Makerfield MP Josh Simons

Makerfield MP says PM has 'lost the country'

Breaking news: Pennington's building is now just a pile of rubble after the longest demolition in history.

Tony Porter Ponders: How many lives does a Prime Minister have and support Ellis...

A new junction is planned for the North Leigh Park development

Could government intervention get huge housing estate built?

How St Thomas CE Primary School could look

New school building on playing field gets go-ahead

I have had enough winter now, time for spring to spring into action.

Tony Porter Ponders: I agree with our PM, don't panic not about everything.

I am going to ask Santa for some common-sense in the Commons, its a big ask I know.

Tony Porter Ponders: Mixed messages, relanch or reset? Not a Car Park Car Park u...

The average private rent in Wigan reached £656 per month in the year to September – up 10 per cent from £599 a year prior

Wigan home rents soar

MPs Lisa Nandy, Jo Platt and Josh Simons

Wigan MPs make plea to Angela Rayner for £6m Levelling Up cash

In Wigan, 61 households were living in B&B hotels as of March

Homeless children scandal

Housing Secretary Angela Rayner will make local housing targets mandatory again

See borough's housing target under new government system

Wigan Town Hall

See how much the council spent on redundancies in a year

Jo Platt

Jo Platt column: A Momentous Week for Leigh and Atherton: a new MP, a new govern...
Well, what a month it has been! So far, July has been a whirlwind of historic events for our country. From the Labour Party’s landslide victory to England reaching the final of the European Cup. It’s been one to remember.
Jo Platt

Lisa Nandy comfortably retained the Wigan seat she has held since 2010

Lisa Nandy promoted to Cabinet in only surprise appointment by Sir Keir Starmer

John Newcomb, BMF CEO

BMF has key role to play in Labour’s drive to ‘Get Britain Building Again’ in Wi...

Wigan MP Lisa Nandy

Lisa Nandy named as shadow cabinet minister for international development

Dominic Raab is returning to his old roles. Credit: Getty Images

How to watch Dominic Raab face off with Angela Rayner

The Snowman creator and illustrator Raymond Briggs dies age 88

Angela Rayner, Labour's deputy leader and shadow secretary of state for the future of work

Conservatives ‘could have saved £420 per household with Covid cash lost to fraud...

Boris Johnson was reportedly told to cancel the No 10 garden party drinks “by at least two staff” (Photo: Getty Images)

Boris Johnson was told by ‘at least two staff’ to cancel No 10 garden party

Downing Street garden photo: No 10 says wine and cheese gathering during first lockdown was 'work meeting' (Photo by Tolga Akmen - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Downing Street garden photo: No 10 says wine and cheese gathering during first l...

Lateral flow home test kits are currently unavailable on the government website. (Pic: Shutterstock)

Lateral flow test shortage on same day people queue for Covid booster jab

Angela Rayner speaking during a Labour conference in Blackpool on Saturday, November 27, 2021 (Picture: Dan Martino for The Gazette)

Labour's Angela Rayner says Boris has 'sold out north' during trip to Blackpool

Labour calls for “full investigation” into whether Hancock and other ministers used private email (Photo by STEVE REIGATE/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Labour calls for “full investigation” into whether Hancock and other ministers u... Ethan Shone

Rachel Reeves (L) has taken over from Annaliese Dodds (R) as shadow chancellor (Getty Images)

Full list of changes to Labour's shadow cabinet following reshuffle

Lisa Nandy

Wigan MP Lisa Nandy to remain shadow foreign secretary

Lisa Nandy

Shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy in wait as Starmer to undertake Labour reshu...

Boris Johnson (R) and his partner Carrie Symonds (L) outside 10 Downing street (Photo by Tolga Akmen / AFP) (Photo by TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images)

Boris Johnson ‘told aides he couldn’t afford Downing Street refurbishment’

There is no plan to provide free school meals over February half term (Photo: Shuttestock)

Local councils forced to step in to provide free school meals over February half...

MPs will vote on plans to cut Universal Credit by £20 per week today - what it m...

Ministers are thought to be looking at a temporary two-week “circuit break”

Johnson urged to act ‘sooner rather than later’ to curb Covid surge

Sir Keir Starmer

Keir Starmer becomes new Labour Party leader

Sir Keir Starmer, Lisa Nandy and Rebecca Long-Bailey

Lisa Nandy thanks Labour supporters as leadership contest ballot ends

Wigan MP Lisa Nandy is among those standing for leader

Labour's ruling body to choose timetable for election to replace leader Jeremy C...

Teachers could be allowed to use 'reasonable force' in behaviour crackdown

Teachers could be allowed to use 'reasonable force' in behaviour crackdown

Pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds on average are 18 months in arrears with their studies by the time GCSE exams arrive

Wigan youngsters from poorer backgrounds are a year and a half behind in their s...

David Cameron

David Cameron moving back into politics 'entirely a matter for him', says No 10

Fewer children are being taught in larger classes in Wigan, new figures have revealed

Drop in large class sizes at Wigan primary schools

Jo Platt MP

Frontbench role for MP Jo Platt

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