Wigan Today

Wigan Athletic icon Will Grigg has joined Forest Green Rovers after parting company with Chesterfield

Even for someone as ancient as mid-50s me, the appalling disaster in the Welsh mining village of Aberfan has already faded into memory by the time I was old enough to watch John Craven's Newsround. But as Aberfan: The Village that Fought Back (BBC2, Mon, 9pm) showed with devastating poignancy, the scars of the catastrophe inflicted on the village on October 21, 1966, are still fresh.

Wigan Observer photographers have spent many a weekend morning at the side of a cold football pitch capturing the action from amateur football games over the decades.

Stacey Solomon has hailied this Shark vacuum as the “vacuum of dreams” thanks to multiple features that make tackling dust and dirt more satisfying - and she’s offering a £160 discount.

NHS data reveals how Wigan’s casualty department performed last month.