All news on the topic: Wigan

Having been on Reform UK’s target list as a winnable seat, Andy Burnham’s new constituency is a microcosm of Brexit Britain and the failed legacies of Thatcher and Blair.

Andy Burnham has won the crunch Makerfield by-election, setting him on course to challenge Sir Keir Starmer as Prime Minister.

Discourse is becoming more polarised and “communities don’t work together any more”, he said during a campaign speech.

St John Rigby College, in Orrell, has written to parents and carers about a ’suspected meningococcal case’ affecting one of their students following the deadly outbreak in Kent that claimed two lives.

That smell of maggots, rotting food, and maggots, that’s what my house smells like.

A teacher has been removed from the register after allegedly engaging in inappropriate sexual conversations with children at a Wigan secondary school, just two months into the job.

A significant IOPC investigation has been initiated regarding the death of 26-year-old Ellis Rocks, who was discovered collapsed in a cell at Wigan police headquarters last week.

Sophia, from the Leigh area of Manchester, died a day after the crash in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, on 2 January.

A two-year-old boy has died in a freak fireplace accident whilst playing with his sister at their home in Wigan, Manchster - leaving the community in shock and mourning

An infamous gangster known as ‘big Viking Stomper’ has been caught after escaping prison in late May.

A train has derailed blocking all lines at a station in Wigan, Greater Manchester. According to National Rail, the train came off the track this afternoon with engineers now at the scene

Witnesses said the crane "sliced through" a house, after a lorry carrying the crane toppled over in a residential street in Wigan on Saturday - leading to an operation to remove the huge metal lifter