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Cigarettes and alcohol – illegal stash seized (03/07/2008)
Trading Standards and Customs officers have confiscated large amounts of tobacco and counterfeit vodka after swooping on pubs, off-licences, shops and homes in the borough.
Success on a plate as café society comes to Worsley Hall (01/07/2008)
The doors are about to open on an ambitious new project in Worsley Hall which has seen residents’ dreams come true.
Town centre enters the green zone (01/07/2008)
Wigan businesses are pledging to go green in a new partnership between the council, Wigan town centre management and Encams, the Tidy Britain campaigners.
Fly posters ready for a pasting (01/07/2008)
Wigan Council is waging war on illegal fly posting.
We are scientists (01/07/2008)
How do you go from Bunsen burner to boardroom? How does the formula influence the factory floor? And how can the test-tube transform trade and industry? Well, 120 students from four Wigan high schools are about to find out when they put theory into practice and discover all about the appliance of science.
Lesson for life – primary pupils prepare for future (01/07/2008)
Today primary school, tomorrow the world! That’s the message from Wigan’s Education Business Partnership (EBP) as it prepares to take its show on the road.
Wigan’s Green Goddess – Cath’s team gets top honours again (01/07/2008)
Green hero Cath Lomas can’t have much room left on the mantelpiece! And it’s all because her team of environmentally-friendly workers just keeps winning awards. Year after year, Cath and Wigan Council’s Youth Offending Team (YOT) have been recognised in one of the country’s most prestigious eco-awards, the Green Apples.
Everyone for tennis? (01/07/2008)
The covers are off… The courts are ready… The barley water’s on ice… In fact everything is set for the grand finale of the tennis event of the season. But this isn’t SW19, it’s WN7 and for one day only the magic and Wimbledon is heading north to Leigh.
Field to fork – food for thought down on the farm (01/07/2008)
Wigan school children will be in a field of their own this week when they go back to the land to find out where food comes from. Almost 100 pupils from Leigh Central and Garret Hall primary schools will be donning their wellies on Wednesday July 2 to spend a day at Leyland’s Farm, Mosley Common.
Teamwork is blooming as council celebrates its unsung heroes (01/07/2008)
The work of twelve top council teams that have made a huge difference to local life has been celebrated at a special awards night.
