Uncle Joe

Flashback to 2013: Uncle Joe's, Stephenson's, Beech Hill Book Cycle and Cavalry ...

Jess Davies and Lisa Burney, from ReDoo, with Scott Williams and Craig Bourne from Wigan Pride committee and Anita Taulty from Uncle Joe's

Wigan Pride to welcome drag queen Madame Mint Ball

Chris Winnard (left) accepts a jar of Uncle Joe's Mint Balls from John Winnard (no relation) at the Wm Santus and Co factory in gratitude for his cheery new song about the company

Mint Ball factory song and video hailed by Uncle Joe

Lisa Burney (left) and Jess Davis, founders of ReDoo

How ReDoo’s viral Uncle Joe's sweatshirt is celebrating local businesses

Visits to Wigan by the now King Charles

Look-back on King Charles visits to Wigan

The Big Wigan Walk Week returns next month

Walk Week takes step forward

Joint managing directors John and Antony Winnard

Uncle Joe’s Mint Balls marks 126th year with first major Vietnam order

The special edition Richard Ashcroft tin

Rock legend Ashcroft gets celebratory Mint Balls tin

Blackpool Pleasure Beach in the evening.

The top 4 UK news and entertainment episodes to watch this weekend

Left to right: Danielle Bagley, Michelle Skett, Lynzi Holland, Bernie Anderton.

Team of nurses in Wigan hope to raise awareness during Pancreatic Cancer Month

New new Wigan Casino 50th anniversary Uncle Joe's Mint Balls tin

Wigan Casino continues to be celebrated in its 50th anniversary year

Left to right: Anita Taulty, John Winnard, Antony Winnard and Carl Taulty

Uncle Joe's factory celebrates loyal staff member's silver anniversary

REWIND: pictures from Wigan's Heinz and Uncle Joe's factories in the 1970s and '...

Lora Marsden hopes that more poeple can enjoy locally-created artwork in their homes.

Teacher's quest to bring original and local art into people's homes

Directors John and Antony Winnard from Uncle Joe's approved of the stout

Wigan brewery teams up with Uncle Joe's Mint Balls for limited edition stout

Wigan's flashes were some of or readers' favourite views

Eleven of the very best views in and around Wigan, according to our readers
While Wigan is mostly known for its pies and Uncle Joe’s, it is also home to some incredible views.
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John Winnard, left, and Antony Winnard, right, joint managing directors of Uncle Joe's

Wigan sweet company Uncle Joe's Mint Balls scoops top prize in its 125th year

Laura Nuttall learns how Uncle Joe's mint balls are made

Wigan firm Uncle Joe's pays tribute to cancer campaigner Laura Nuttall

Sweet factory offers a Wonka-like golden ticket tour

HRH Prince Charles visits the Wm Santus factory in Wigan, makers of the famous Uncle Joe's Mintballs with John and Anthony Winnard. Children from St Andrew's Primary School wait for the Prince's arrival. Picture by Paul Heyes, Wednesday April 03, 2019.

LOOKING BACK: The soon-to-be King Charles's visits Wigan

HRH Prince Charles visits the Wm Santus factory in Wigan, makers of the famous Uncle Joe's Mintballs with John and Anthony Winnard. Picture by Paul Heyes, Wednesday April 03, 2019.

Uncle Joe's Mint Ball boss on his pride at royal connections

Joint managing directors John and Antony Winnard

Uncle Joe's named as finalist in regional business awards

Wigan Casino in the 1970s

Uncle Joe makes sweet music as he helps celebrate Casino's 50th anniversary

The Uncle Joe's minted lamb pie

Baldy's creates ultimate Wigan pie

Uncle Joe's Mint Ball tins have been made into artwork, Woah Botz, multi-media robot sculptures created from recycled, reused and repurposed materials, created by an artist in America.

Mint Ball factory celebrates landmark with a VIP visit and robots!

Wigan's famous sweet factory celebrates its 125th anniversary

Laura Nuttall spent the day as a firefighter

Terminally ill woman hailed as a 'real hero' as she spends day at fire station
A Wigan-born mum and her inspirational daughter spent the day at a fire station as they continue to tick items off her “bucket list”.
Gaynor Clarke

Uncle Joe’s Mint Balls has seen a 27.3 per cent rise in sales as the cost of living crisis prompts people to buy sweets instead of expensive luxury items.

Cost of living crisis sees sales surge for Uncle Joe's

Ant Winnard and Helen May with one of the brownies outside the Uncle Joe’s factory

Avanti West Coast bespoke bake celebrates Uncle Joe's Mint Balls

Kristi with her friend Alice Kinley's nephew Paul Phillips, who also has an Uncle Joe tattoo

American loves Wigan so much she got herself an Uncle Joe's Mint Ball tattoo!

Uncle Joe's Mint Balls

Wigan's Uncle Joe's Mint Balls to reveal special tin for 125th anniversary

Uncle Joe's Mint Balls are made in Wigan

Wigan firm hopes to attract sweet lovers in London and South East

John and Ant at Uncle Joe's Mint Balls.

Uncle Joe’s secures first order from the other side of the globe in a decade

Antony Winnard, left, and John Winnard, right, owners of William Santus and Co the makers of Uncle Joe's Mint Balls, with the Tommy Tins, created to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of VE Day, with a percentage of each sale donated to charity. Here they present £400 to The Armed Forces Community Hub, Wigan, represented by Armed Forces key worker Gillian Burchall and Hub managing director Laura Ingham, second from right.

Special mint balls make it a sweet success for Wigan armed forces veterans

Joseph Thomas with his namesake

Wigan sweet firm gears up for big birthday by discovering a real-life Uncle Joe

Luke Marsden and Kay Burley

LUKE MARSDEN: Proud of Wigan in the face of the cost of living crisis

The royal goodwill message on the gable end of the William Santus factory in Dorning Street

Famous Wigan sweet factory pays its royal tribute ahead of platinum jubilee

A label for the toffee vodka made with Uncle Joe's Mint Balls

Uncle Joe's tipsy treat project

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Wigan sweet firm launches hunt for the 21st century's real Uncle Joe

The Houghton Weavers

Uncle Joe's Mint Balls providing free sweets at a folk band's concerts

The shop has a wide selection of sweets

Coronation Street stars to cut ribbon at new Wigan sweetshop

Molten mint ball mixture at the Wm Santus factory

EU regains taste for Uncle Joe's mint balls

Talal Al Hammad at the DW on Saturday

Wigan Athletic 'branding' a focus for Talal Al Hammad

Ethan Rowbotham, 10, at the Toffee Works where Uncle Joe’s Mint Balls are made

Wigan schoolboy gets sweet job as new chief taster for Uncle Joe's Mint Balls

Joe Wicks and his Gousto recipes

LUKE MARSDEN: Expanding my culinary boundaries

Uncle Joe's mint balls

Uncle Joe’s plea for volunteers to taste new creations

Uncle Joe's Mint Balls being made at the Santus factory

Wigan Mint Balls sent to another Joe in the White House

Lifelong Uncle Joe's fan Robert Hilton

Wigan Mint Balls' super-fan nearly choked to death on one as a toddler

Uncle Joe's Christmas pudding-flavoured sweets

COMPETITION: Win Uncle’s Joe’s festive treats

Darren outside the sweet factory

Wigan sweet fan's two-wheeled tribute is in mint condition

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Celebrate VE Day by winning a year's supply of Uncle Joe's Mint Balls!

Uncle Joe's Mintballs factory in Wigan

Why Wigan Warriors sponsors Uncle Joe's think they have a record

US President Donald Trump

LUKE MARSDEN - I’d offer Donald Trump a tin of Uncle Joe’s Mintballs

Antony Winnard with "Ethel"

Wigan sweet-maker celebrates a century-old piece of machinery's billionth mint b...

The commemorative Uncle Joe's tin

Wigan Mint Ball manufacturer to launch VE Day special edition tins

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