Sir Keir Starmer, we the British public are not stupid. One in one out will not reduce numbers of migrants. That said you ...

Passers-by and drivers will have noticed that the clock in the tower of the former Orwell building at Wigan Pier has ...

The hard-cover book of George Orwell’s “Road to Wigan Pier” was due at the Hull Central Library all the way back in 1974. What would’ve been a hefty fee was eliminated thank… ...

Watch as photographers Gary and Nick reflect on snapping Oasis when they visited Wigan to shoot a cover for their single.

Canal-side walkways, houses, a food hall and events venue are all part of plans to bring Wigan Pier 'back to life' ...

The funding comes almost two years after Wigan council acknowledged The Road to Wigan Pier with a blue blaque which now sits in the Museum of Wigan Life, where Orwell worked on the book.

RAVE who said Rave? Its the Ukulele presenting a wigan pier classic night with mcs on the mic lets goooooo ...

Wigan-based property developer and contractor The Heaton Group has confirmed its acquisition of Eckersley Mill and Swan Meadow, a key regeneration site in the Wigan Pier Quarter.

In The Road to Wigan Pier, published in 1937, British writer George Orwell detailed the bleak living conditions among the working class in the north of England. The book immortalised the 18th-century ...