Wigan Council

Wigan Council has revealed its plans for bin collections over the festive period

The bin collection changes for Christmas and New Year

Natasha Hawthornthwaite and Scott Bradley, from Northern Heart Films, at Leigh Film Factory

Emerging documentary-makers can get grant and wealth of support

Coun Keith Cunliffe

Cash boost will help Wigan patients being discharged from hospital this winter

The Real Living Wage is based on the cost of living and is independently calculated each year by the Living Wage Foundation

Council to give Real Living Wage to carers

The official opening of the Warm Hub and community space at Fur Clemt, Wigan. Pictured are representatives of Fur Clemt, Milliken, AB World Foods (also known as Pataks) and local councillors.

Charity opens new space to keep residents warm this winter

Rather more delicate excavations will be taking place on the site of the former Galleries than there has been of late

Archaeologists to search Galleries site to search for historic artefacts

One of the development plan proposals is to bring Metrolink trams to the borough for the first time

Last chance to have your say on major borough plan

The former home of Got 2 Go Travel in Standish

New private health clinic planned for village in Wigan

The new programme will support people interested in a career in residential children's care

New programme to help caring Wigan residents change children's lives

How the houses planned for Hooten Lane in Leigh could look

Everything to be decided at Wigan's planning committee

Members of the community and local councillors pictured outside the former St John The Baptist School, New Springs

Fed up residents lobby council over eyesore former school

GRAPHIC IMAGE of dead otter found off Slag Lane, Leigh

The stretch of road that's a dumping ground for litterers and fly-tippers

The Wigan Council team celebrates

Council triumphs at prestigious local government awards ceremony

CGI of newly revamped Civic Centre on Millgate, Wigan

Gym, cinema room and café planned for start-up hub in old civic centre

Coun Laura Flynn with staff from Wigan Council and Meadows Psychology Service

Innovative approach to emotional health for young people launched

UNISON members say they wish to end pension poverty

Council retired UNISON members 'fight for the end of pension poverty'
Wigan unoin members are fighting to end the poverty that it says pensioners still face.

Harrogate Street Car Park

Free parking scheme in Wigan extended ahead of festive season

Kilhey Court fenced off to the public

How township became a hotbed of fury over second asylum seeker hotel

Representatives from DIAS and Wigan Council gather to mark the beginning of 16 days of action

Action planned to highlight council's dedication to tackling domestic abuse

Wigan Youth Zone Dragon’s Den challenge launches

Greenmount Projects donated £2,000 to Wigan and Leigh Hospice

Wigan charity gets £2,000 boost as award-winning business donates prize money

Pennington Flash team member Tai Scott, AMP EV lead project manager Ben Mulholland, Charge My Street project manager Eamonn Hennessy, and Deputy Leader of Wigan Council Cllr Keith Cunliffe

Charge your electric car in a Flash

Coun David Molyneux

Council campaign highlights difference made by local authorities

Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, is said to have more scope to be generous now that inflation has rapidly fallen back

Council chief calls on chancellor to give Wigan a 'fair deal'

An artist's impression of a new Leigh Market Hall

Leigh to get millions towards town centre regeneration project

From left: John Norcott, game show host; Liz Douglas, Roots and Branches Social Enterprise; David Baxter, Wigan and Leigh Community Charity; Alex Winstanley, Happy Smiles CIC

Not-for-profit businesses ‘come on down’ to celebrate Social Enterprise Day

Funds have been allocated to help create a smoke free society

Wigan to get £475k cash injection to phase out smoking and tackle youth vaping
Wigan is set to receive an extra £475,000 to create a “smoke-free generation”.

Student Freya Southworth, third from right, on one of the engagements during her day with Coun Chris Ready, centre

Wigan student experiences a day in the life of a councillor

Wigan poet, performer and author Louise Fazackerley will share her experiences in a creative masterclass

Creative masterclasses launched to inspire young people in Wigan

Bike repairs were carried out at Shevington High to encourage more pupils to cycle to school

Bike engineers set up stall at school to encourage cycling to class

Tom Aspinall realises he's just become champion of the world

Campaign to honour world champion with mural in his home town

Coun Chris Ready (seated) with, left to right: Be Well’s health and fitness development manager Paul Just, Wigan Life Centre assistant manager Rob Parkinson and instructors Alan Miller and Heather McAllister who have both completed a Level 3 Diploma in Exercise Referral with HFE

Education link-up helping Wigan borough residents Be Well

Green light for Northstone's Popple site in Atherton

Plans for energy efficient homes given the green light

Protesters gather in support of the Palestinian people during a rally for Gaza in Seoul, South Korea

Third vigil to be held in Wigan town centre to call for ceasefire in Middle East

The car park at Orrell Water Park

Pensioner rescued after her car plunged into Orrell Water Park lake

Some of the knitters show off their moving and impressive handiwork

Crafty knitters create spectacular poppy wall

Coun Keith Cunliffe

Residents encouraged to consider a career in care

Homes in Logwood Place, Worsley Hall, was hit by fire several years ago. This is the proposed replacement

Old council homes could make way for two new Wigan blocks of flats

A range of services and parades have been scheduled across the Wigan borough ahead of Remembrance Sunday

Where will Remembrance Day commemorations be taking place?

Standish Library was one of those affected by the internet crash

Library users unable to use the internet either side of the weekend

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

D-Day for controversial housing development

Light Night trail will return in November

New home and 'incredible artists' promised for Wigan light festival

Wigan Council representatives host an event for residents as part of the authority's cost of living campaign

Cost of living campaign helps surge in welfare support

Sabine Dunstan Capital&Centric development manager and Tim Heatley founder of Capital&Centric outside Wigan Civic Centre.

Work begins on the re-birth of Civic Centre

The award winners with cabinet member Coun Jenny Bullen

Young care leavers in Wigan recognised at annual awards

Frost Festival will return to celebrate Christmas across the borough

Frost Festival returns as sparkling series of Christmas events announced

Stuart Keane with the mask he wore while receiving radiotherapy treatment as he battled cancer

Former Wigan councillor backs charity campaign after his own cancer battle

Coun Nazia Rehman

Wigan Council backs calls for ceasefire in Middle East

Nick Mapson, grandson of Bill Ashurst, with his new baby son Thor in front of the mural

Club mural fits the Bill

Macdonald Kilhey Court only began being used by asylum seekers last month

Confusion over which of Wigan's asylum hotels is soon set to close - if either

Anchor institutions in Wigan have officially signed a civic agreement with Edge Hill University

Edge Hill officially becomes 'flagship' university of Wigan as deal is signed

Macdonald Kilhey Court only became a hotel for asylum seekers a few weeks ago

Wigan does not figure in first wave of migrant hotel closures

Coun David Molyneux

Next stage of plans for the future launches

Michael Green, who sleeps in a damp and mouldy room, with his dog Milly

Wigan resident fed up of living with mouldy walls and wet carpets

UPDATE: The Galleries demolition