Authorities were called to Leigh Road around 11.45 am yesterday, following reports that a woman had been hit by a lorry.

Leigh MP Andy Burnham came under fire for insulting the victims of the Mid Staffordshire hospital scandal in a heated Twitter exchange on Saturday night.

Thomas Flanagan, 57, told police that he grabbed his wife Elaine, 57, by the throat after she slapped him during a heated argument over finances in the kitchen of their home in Leigh.

Police are searching for a man who flashed a schoolgirl as she walked down a residential street in Leigh on Monday morning.

The youngsters at Christ Church CE Primary School were among hundreds of thousands across the UK who pulled out all the stops to help disadvantaged children this year, raising more than £500 for BBC Children in Need in the process.

A violent thug repeatedly slams a woman’s head into a wall while trying to snatch her handbag in an attempted robbery in Leigh

Ed Miliband is the victim of smear campaign to stop him becoming Prime Minister because he has been brave enough to take on ‘vested interests’, according to Leigh’s MP.

Greater Manchester care home owner, and former NHS doctor, calls for more funding and radical change in the way the government look after our elderly

A man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a 62-year-old, who died in Wigan last week.

Oldham MP Michael Meacher has launched a vicious attack on Conservatives after the launch of a website showing criticism of Labour leader Ed Miliband – from his own party.

Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham has slammed David Cameron in a Manchester speech today –branding the Prime Minister ‘not honest’ about his plans to privatise the NHS.