Eighty years after George Orwell set off on The Road to Wigan Pier, The Wigan Pier Project is recreating his journey using 21st-century technology. Throughout the anniversary year, we will be bringing ...

Professional services consultant Turner & Townsend has completed the first phase of the A49 link road in Wigan. The £20m scheme linking Wigan town centre to the M6 motorway was delivered within time ...

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The town has tapped into local pride and self-reliance to maintain and even improve public services as austerity bites Wigan council has achieved a remarkable feat. Despite cuts of £140m, it has ...

Plans for a long-awaited £200m trunk road linking Bolton and Wigan are to be revived. Bolton and Wigan councils are set to work together to push for the massive infrastructure project which would link ...

Plans would transform former coal jetty featured in George Orwell’s 1937 book Wigan Pier, made famous by George Orwell’s 1937 book on the bleak living conditions of the working class, may be ...

Only three percent of A roads and two per cent of B and C roads were in urgent need of repair last year, according to the Department for Transport. It puts the borough joint second across Greater ...