Councillors

Cllr Glynis Campbell Sinclair was spotted cleaning her windows while on camera during a meeting of Highland Council's Inverness Area Committee Picture: Highland Council / SWNS

Councillor cleans her home's windows during live-streamed meeting

From left: Coun Lawrence Hunt, Coun Ron Conway, Coun Michael McLoughlin, Coun Laura Flynn, Coun George Davies and Coun Chris Ready on a canal towpath between New Springs and Haigh Hall.

Councillors appeal to local businesses to help make towpath usable again

What the new 34-home development off Alderley Lane in Leigh could look like

D-Day for controversial housing development

Haigh Hall in Wigan as it undergoes a multi-million-pound transformation

Progress of iconic landmark's makeover is hailed

A taxi rank in Wigan town centre

Taxis operating in Wigan but registered in Wolverhampton spark concerns

The pothole on Greenland Avenue measures around six inches deep.

Councillors' fears over lack of action taken on "dangerous" pothole

Ormskirk Road, Up Holland, behind which plans have been unveiled to erect 16 new homes

Plans have been submitted to build 16 homes behind existing addresses

Important deadlines to be aware of to vote in May elections

Polling station

Everything you need to know about registering to vote in May elections

Wigan Life Centre

Gyms and leisure services hailed as “fantastic” despite being £1.8m overbudget

Coun Ron Conway presents the medals to the brothers

Brothers receive medals after supporting Wigan Warriors for 140 years

Coun Michael McLoughlin, Willpower theatre directors Tim Smith and Caroline Joynt, Coun George Davies and Coun Lawrence Hunt

Wigan youth group will tread the boards in musical with funding boost

The bungalow being transformed into six-bed home on Bowland Avenue in Ashton

The street row over a new Wigan home that "turned racist"

Nicola Bulley went missing on January 27

Nicola Bulley: Councillors remove contact details over harassment

The construction of the new Aspull health and wellbeing centre back in September

Health and well-being centre to open its doors

School pupils receive the new books from councillors Chris Ready and Laura Flynn

Wigan councillors buy books to help school pupils learn about health topics
School pupils will be able to learn about difficult health issues thanks to new books.

Members were puzzled as to how this mystery resident had been on the list for so long

Wigan resident waiting 44 YEARS for a council house leaves panel baffled

Mayor Coun Marie Morgan, Coun Pat Draper, award winners Sue Seager and Maggie Skilling, and Coun Mary Callaghan

Women hailed for their community work during special ceremony at Wigan Town Hall

People came together at the Christmas tree on Wigan Lane, Swinley

Wigan community turns out in force for carol service around Christmas tree

Jill Scott celebrates after England's UEFA Women's Euro 2022 final victory over Germany

Jill Scott to be awarded freedom of the city of Sunderland

One of Wigan's many dumped shopping trolleys

Council has a whole policy to deal with trolley dumping

The new youth hub building

New Youth Hub at Leigh Sports Village ‘for kids with nothing to do’ complete

Councillors David Molyneux and Chris Ready, seated, at Sunshine House

Councillors support Wigan teens hoping to get first step on career ladder

Abram Bryn Gates Primary

Bosses vow to fight for future of Wigan primary school

Residents are not happy with the use of off-road vehicles

Residents voice anger at the rise of illegal off-roads driving incidents

The bungalow saved from the wrecking ball

Councillors block plans to replace Wigan bungalow with six-bedroomed house on "h...

Paul McKevitt

Wigan council house tenants face three per cent rent increase
Council housing tenants in Wigan could face a three per cent rise in rent from next year.

An artist's impression of how the new Galleries development will look (the bottom of Makinson Arcade is on the left

Councillors approve £190m Wigan town centre transformation

Colette Dutton

Wigan Council expects to lose "good" Ofsted rating for children's services

The now demolished Abraham Guest High School in Orrell

Homes to be built on former Wigan high school site

Taxi drivers in Wigan have to sign up to regular DBS criminal records checks

Wigan taxi drivers face suspension if they do not sign up for criminal records c...

Chorley Road, Worthington, where campaigners want to see the speed limit reduced

Calls for speed limit to be cut on busy Wigan road

Coun Chris Ready, Laura Flynn and Coun Ron Conway outside the former school

Anger at state of empty buildings

The Makerfield Way recycling depot

The £5.7m plan to cut the borough’s carbon output

The site in Pemberton

Cabinet to rule on homes plan at former Wigan school playing field

Coun Marsh and Whittingham on land off Preston Road, Standish - which could be a parade of shops and a car park

Councillors slam 'wholly inadequate' Standish parking plan

Wigan town hall

New homes and jobs plan bid for Wigan borough

Couns Jim Talbot and Paul Blay by the gravestones

Clean-up 'needed' at unsightly gravestones in Wigan town

Wigan Town Hall

Seven year Wigan council tax freeze to end this year

Coun Nazia Rehman

Wigan council tax bills set to rise by 3.9 per cent as seven-year freeze ends

Experts are concerned there has been a fall in referrals during lockdown because they should really be going up

Number of children from Wigan who are in care outside of the borough still risin...

Golborne and Lowton West ward councillors holding a surgery at the library

Councillors seeking support for library expansion plan

There is a bumper set of elections slated to take place across the country in May

Wigan voters set to head to polls in May

Missed bin collections are a problem in Wigan

Wigan Council flooded with nearly 30,000 missed bin complaints

Coun Ron Conway with Tony Bailey and Tony McGarr from Aspull Juniors FC

Dismay at mindless vandals' wrecking spree on Wigan football pitches

Wigan Town Hall

Wigan's council tax bills set to increase for the first time since 2013

The dead tree in New Springs with disappointed community members

Suspicion growing over fate of Wigan village Christmas tree

Coun Adam Marsh

Councillors call for bus route to be reinstated

Frank Aspinall died of a short illness

Memorial bench in memory of borough postmaster

Residents protesting against the landfill plan

Councillors back controversial plan to build up ex-landfill site at beauty spot ...

Residents protesting on top of Parbold Hill

Councillors demand to see beauty spot near Wigan where tip is proposed

Natalie Heaton outside her new salon

Wigan home-working hairdresser to take on councillor "bullies"

The former Pemberton Colliery site

Outline plan for hundreds of homes on ex-pit site to be considered by Wigan plan...

Carers Week 2020 will say thank you to those who look after other people

Week thanking Wigan's carers and highlighting heroes who help others

Pedestrians and cyclists may get extra space on the streets during lockdown - bu...