In this the first of two articles looking back on the past 12 months, we highlight some of the stories which made the biggest ...

Ray Smith has run a stall selling shoes at Wigan Market for 34 years Worried traders say they are being "kept in the dark" over their forthcoming move into a new indoor market hall being built in ...

Modern hotel in Wigan town center - 500 yards to Wigan Little Theatre and Wigan Wallgate train station, 2 miles to DW Stadium.

Wigan's new £15.7m bus station will be fully open this week but will it provide a ticket for an upturn in fortune for the town centre? The ongoing struggle of high street retailers coupled with ...

Work is under way on a "game changing" entertainment destination in a Greater Manchester town centre. The Stack leisure venue is being built over two floors of the former Debenhams store inside the ...

An entire town centre has been issued with a police dispersal order amid a 'crimewave' which saw two stabbings this week. Wigan town centre was issued with a 48-hour dispersal order on Thursday ...

A town centre was locked down after members of the public saw a 'gang armed with a machete' running riot. Wigan town centre was locked down, with shops shutting for their own protection, as police ...

A £125m redevelopment of The Galleries will take at least seven years, a Wigan Council boss has revealed. The council purchased the 3.2-hectare site, which includes the Makinson Arcade and Marketgate ...

North West developer Cityheart has been granted planning permission for its £135m redevelopment of the Galleries Shopping Centre in Wigan town centre.