Feast at The Mills, the award-winning street food and entertainment hotspot in Wigan, has announced today that applications ...

Join us for an unforgettable night as we celebrate 34 incredible years of Wigan Pier at the iconic Park Hall nightclub, Charnock Richard! Get ready to relive the golden era with classic Pier ...

But it’s a long time since Wigan Pier drew huge crowds. And for those anxious to witness its revival, their patience will ...

British coal mining was a rough, tough and exceptionally dangerous occupation, writes Emily P Webber. In The Road to Wigan Pier, his 1936 account of the industrial North of England, George Orwell ...

For instance, in The Road to Wigan Pier George Orwell states that “the real secret of class distinctions in the West” can be summed up in four words: “The lower classes smell”. It seems we ...

At first glance and from certain angles it looks like a pristine white new marquee has been erected behind Bithell’s Waste Management on Westwood Road. But closer inspection shows it to be ...

In The Road to Wigan Pier, his 1936 account of the industrial north of England, George Orwell presented a hellish vision of the conditions miners faced underground, with “heat, noise, confusion, ...

and it also has the cranky peevishness of Orwell’s fine attack in Wigan Pier on pseudo-leftists, progressives, and food faddists, but it seems to have dispensed with the very middle-class biases ...

Further filming locations in Lancashire have included Burnley’s Towneley Hall, Accrington Stanley‘s home ground and Blackpool’s North Pier, as well as Haigh Hall in Wigan and Arley Hall in ...

Bringing their high energy indie anthems is northern band The Lilacs, hailing from Wigan. In just a few years ... Island Line ...

Substitute Luke Robinson scored the only goal with 13 minutes remaining to give managerless Wigan a 1-0 victory over League One strugglers Cambridge. Robinson's strike moved the Latics 10 points ...