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Mums flocked to Surestart's latest pram push, a healthy walk from their Hindley headquarters. Pictured are Linda Vaughan, Surestart's Hazel Ridge and Joanna Dunnington

Looking back at Hindley in 2006

The future of Poundland is at risk unless a sale can be agreed (Liam McBurney/PA)

PM calls for Poundland to try to save shops

Wigan Council's homelessness partnership board

Pilot programme to tackle homelessness

Andy Burnham and John Vickers (right) during a visit to Wigan and Leigh Hospice

Why our care system needs to change

Andy Burnham on the day he became MP for Makerfield this summer

Looking back at Burnham's first 100 days as PM

Avanti West Coast

Rail service to be nationalised

A digital advert on Aytoun Street, Manchester, highlighting parents' support for free school meals for all. The NEU has launched 22 billboards across Manchester and Wigan

Campaign seeks free school meals for all

Andy Burnham with his parents Eileen and Roy in 2016 after he was selected as the Labour candidate for the Greater Manchester mayoralty (Peter Byrne/PA)

PM 'grateful' for messages after father's death

PM cancels engagements after father's death

Aspull Rugby Union players celebrate the opening of their new clubhouse at Woodshaw Park on Sunday 29th of February 1976.

A gallery featuring some of Wigan's 1976 headline makers

Bev Craig

Bev Craig succeeds Andy Burnham

The biggest by-election in UK history was triggered when Mr Burnham resigned from the post earlier this year, as part of his plan to become Prime Minister.

Greater Manchester goes to the polls

The biggest by-election in UK history was triggered when Mr Burnham resigned from the post earlier this year, as part of his plan to become Prime Minister.

Greater Manchester goes to the polls

All aboard Wigan's coporation buses for a trip down Memory Lane!

Andy Burnham says it was conversations with voters that proved how urgently change needed to come

I have begun to deliver on my by-election commitments

Sir Billy and Lady Joan Boston with Wigan Warriors CEO Kris Radlinski earlier this year

Lady Joan Boston mourned
Tributes have flooded in for Lady Joan Boston, following her death at the age of 90, with new Prime Minister Andy Burnham leading them.
Charles Graham

Then mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham on a Bee Network bus

Northern outpost 'not a gimmick' says Burnham

It's official, Andy Burnham is now Prime Minister as he entered Number 10 Downing Street yesterday.

As Andy Burnham begins his Downing Street tenure we look back at 25 years in the...

Andy Burnham with chief executive Keely Dalfen, second from right, and other representatives from The Brick

Charity welcomes PM's pledge to end rough sleeping

Andy Burnham shared this photograph of supporters from Makerfield at 10 Downing Street

Makerfield supporters welcome new PM to Downing Street

Andy Burnham and his wife Marie-France outside 10 Downing Street. One of the first phone calls he took as Prime Minister came from Donald Trump at the White House

Burnham's first phone chat with Trump since becoming PM

New Prime Minister Andy Burnham with his wife Marie-France van Heel outside 10 Downing Street

World leaders congratulate Burnham on becoming Prime Minister

Andy Burnham makes a speech outside 10 Downing Street, London, after meeting King Charles III and accepting his invitation to become Prime Minister and form a new government

Burnham makes first speech after King appoints him PM

Jo Platt MP

Why Andy Burnham is the right man to lead the party and country

Andy Burnham return to Parliament sparks mixed reaction in Manchester

Manchester reacts to Andy Burnham’s next move

Andy burnham

Burnham still faces challenge

The guy I'd have voted for in this picture, more left than Andy.

Suggested policies for Mr Burnham if he moves into No 10
Columnist Tony Porter comes up with a dozen policy suggestions for Andy Burnham if he becomes the new Prime Minister
Tony Porter

An emotional Sir Keir Starmer outside No 10 Downing Street this morning

PM quits, paving the way for Burnham

Andy Burnham

Burnham on his way to Westminster

Makerfield MP Andy Burnham

Starmer under pressure

Andy Burnham as he was announced as Makerfield MP on stage at The Edge

What next for Labour leadership

Makerfield by-election explained

Labour Makerfield by-election candidate, Andy Burnham

Burnham will challenge for leadership

Jess Phillips

PM to go even if Burnham loses, says Jess Phillips

Leader of Reform UK Nigel Farage speaks in Wigan as he supports Reform UK's candidate for Makerfield, Robert Kenyon (right)

Makerfield Reform UK candidate joined by Farage at press event

Departing Makerfield MP Josh Simons

Simons officially stands down as local MP

Wigan MP and Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy

Nandy calls Labour leadership challenges 'froth and nonsense'

Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham

Andy Burnham planning return to Westminster ‘within weeks’

Nigel Farage during a recent visit to the area

Nigel Farage's local elections pitch

Trudeau led one of the world's largest economies through complex trade negotiations, global market disruption, pandemic response, and evolving international alliances.

Ad Feature Former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to headline conference

The allegations over Mr Simons's conduct relate to a time before he became Makerfield's MP

Ethics watchdog to investigate Makerfield MP

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...

Prime minister Sir Keir Starmer

Prime Minister faces backlash after Andy Burnham decision

An old Wigan fisherman and his wife team up for a catch

Take a look at who and what was being pictured for Wigan news and sport stories ...

Prime Minister warned not to overlooked rural households

Prime Minister warned not to overlook the 13,000 oil heated homes in Lancashire ...

Wigan MP and secretary of state for culture, media and sport, Lisa Nandy, failed to declare she had received donations from her pick to chair the new football watchdog

Nandy's apology over public appointment rules breach

PM Keir Starmer has been urged to make good on his promise yesterday to support and work with the local news media sector by rowing back on damaging plans to remove alcohol licensing notices from local newspapers.

Calls on PM to show that he believes that journalism matters

Makerfield MP Josh Simons

Makerfield MP becomes cabinet office minister

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer says technical skills have equal merit to academic ones and Wigan and Leigh College will be at the forefront teaching and promoting them

Prime Minister speaks exclusively to Wigan Today

What's going on here at the junction 26 of the M6?

Tony Porter Ponders: I have seen more support for Trump than Keir, the Bell and ...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves.

New £500m fund will be launched during local school visit

The pair’s expertise will help the company ensure businesses make trusted operational decisions with data

Ad Feature UK-based software company welcomes two tech trailblazers to its team

Dan Jarvis - now Security Minister - served in Helmand, Afghanistan (2007)

Our Armed Forces are the very best of us - we must do right by them By The Newsroom

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Amazon’s You Buy. We Donate. initiative returns from now until 30 June, supporting The Brick Multibank in Wigan

Amazon expands customer donation campaign with leading household brands to tackl...

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