Plans to build five homes on a section of land near to where leisure narrowboats are moored in Wigan’s Bridgewater Canal Conservation have been refused. The Joseph Unsworth Trust wanted to build ...

Tributes to ‘loveable’ disabled man and carer who died after falling into Wigan canal. A local said one of the men entered the Crank Wood canal in Wigan to save another . Barney Davis.

The pair were walking along the Leeds and Liverpool Canal towpath, in the Abram area of Wigan in November 2023. Credit: MEN Media Mr Ritchie's aunt, Jacqueline Darbyshire, said he could not ...