Police are investigating the tragic death of a 13-year-old girl – Lowton High School pupil Poppy Bracey was taken to hospital after being found at home in Broadwell Drive, on Monday evening last week. Doctors fought to save her life but were unable to revive her. An investigation into her death is now under way [...]

Firefighters are calling for information to help them stop an arsonist. A crew was called to a fire at the junction of Plank Lane and Crow Wood Road in Lowton at 1.30am on Saturday. They found a wheelie bin had been set on fire and pushed against a building. It is the latest in a [...]

A Wigan charity worker was left humbled after visiting a devastated area of Sri Lanka where a tsunami struck five years ago. Gill Dickinson, of the Epiphany Trust, Lowton, has for the past four years been working on projects that support the people of Sri Lanka. This was her first visit to the country to [...]

A mum’s 17-year compensation battle for her severely disabled son is set to make legal history. Jackie Fletcher has become the first person in the UK to be granted a form of legal aid to help take a claim to a Vaccine Damage Payment Unit tribunal. But while the successful application for “exceptional funding” sets [...]

A new Wigan film company is to make its professional debut with a hard-hitting drama about knife crime. And the educational mission of Headfirst’s first venture took on a new, tragic meaning when a pupil at the school where they hoped to film scenes was stabbed to death. Based in Golborne, Headfirst was formed by [...]

A teenager stabbed to death at the weekend has been named as a Wigan schoolboy. Fifteen-year-old John Marsh suffered severe stab wounds after a late-night incident on Saturday. Despite the best efforts of police officers, paramedics and hospital specialists, John, a pupil at Golborne High School, died in hospital shortly afterwards. Police have confirmed they [...]

KIDZ 4 KIDZ CHARITY PRODUCTIONS Proudly Present SNOW WHITE and the SEVEN DWARFS Staring KATE ILLINGWORTH and GEN MILLS as SNOW WHITE CATHERINE LIDDY as THE WICKED QUEEN TOM LOUGHLIN as the PRINCE and the amazing KIDZ 4 KIDZ GROUP! THURSDAY 26th November 7pm – STUBSHAW LABOUR CLUB SATURDAY 28th November 7pm – ST’ THOMAS’S [...]

Lowton Women’s Institute Present Thornton’s Chocolate Night of Fun, Quizzes & Raffles 11 November 2009 @ 7.30pm tickets are £5.00 each Golborne Parkside Sports & Community Club Rivington Avenue off Thirlmere Avenue Tickets from Norma, 10 Malton Avenue 01942 601934 Men are welcome but guests must be 15 or over.

WIGAN postal workers are to go on strike after a resounding ‘yes’ vote for the national dispute. The Communication Workers Union (CWU) today hailed the 76 per cent ballot result in favour of industrial action as a “huge vote of no confidence” in management. They claim that management have “never really” engaged in genuine negotiation [...]

Police have launched a hunt across Wigan borough after a dangerous convict escaped from a secure unit. Gavin Poyner gave his minders the slip while on an escorted visit in Lowton and police have warned members of the public not approach him. The 30-year-old is a patient at The Spinney psychiatric unit in Atherton and [...]