Everything you wanted to know about the creator behind Thunderbirds, Stingray and more. Gerry Anderson: Life Uncharted is a brand new documentary, recorded before his death in 2012. It will now be released for the first time on Britbox on the 14th April. An Introduction to his Work Gerry AndersonContinue Reading
Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA), which represents 10 metropolitan borough councils, including Wigan, are planning to improve our bus services. They are pushing to take bus control into local public ownership. The aim is that they will operate the bus routes as a service rather than a privately outsourced profitContinue Reading
Following #winstanleywo article regarding the redevelopment of King Street, it appears we came across this request for help. King Street Photo Walks is looking for your involvement. Ciara Leeming is a writer and photographer who is looking to submit work as part of the Historic England funded projects to breatheContinue Reading
Just a few random ideas for the up and coming half term if you want to take the kids somewhere else than Wigan for a change. None of these half term break ideas are too far away. You can also combine sopome of them into the same day out PeakContinue Reading
This article is not intended as a political post in favour of any party locally or centrally. We merely present the facts where the government’s Town’s Funding went. Towns across the UK are struggling redefining their future. Online shopping, out of town retail parks and 11 years of central governmentContinue Reading
Our monthly suggestion of daily actions to help improve your happiness. Provided kindlkly by the Action for Happiness People. With 281,000 sunscribers in 190 countries, theer has to be something in it! Friendly February Daily Actions is all about connecting with others. A focus on being a good friend thatContinue Reading
is a pagan holiday celebrated from February 1 through sundown February 2. Based on a Celtic tradition, Imbolc was meant to mark the halfway point between winter solstice and the spring equinox in Neolithic Ireland and Scotland. The holiday is celebrated by Wiccans and other practitioners of neopagan or pagan-influencedContinue Reading
A concrete jungle of viaducts will ‘sever’ east Manchester if government plans for a cut-price high-speed railway station at Piccadilly go ahead, local leaders have warned – while 14,000 potential new jobs would be lost due to the amount of land required to build it. Under government’s existing proposal, HS2Continue Reading
A Merseyside high street is trying to buck the trend of dying trade as it looks to improve even further over the next 12 months and beyond. Lord Street in Southport has seen an influx in new businesses, as well as plans to bring new ventures onto the main street that runsContinue Reading