The Road from Wigan Pier: Wigan Athletic's incredible rise from Non-League to The Premiership
Deadspin (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
After a shameful 9-1 thumping at Tottenham, Wigan's players will personally reimburse fans for their tickets. However, the trip from Greater Manchester to London was the first time Latics supporters...
Macbeth Insurance Brokers (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Business crime statistics from AXA show that Halifax currently tops the league for overall business crime, with businesses in Wolverhampton most at risk of theft and those in Kilmarnock of arson. The company has this week unveiled its Business Crime Index (details below), revealing that some areas which have been hit hard by the economic crisis such as the North and the West Midlands are suffering...
Marketing Jobs (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
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Marketing Jobs (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
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Lancaster Unity (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Nick Griffin, the British National Party leader, revealed [yesterday] that he would be contesting the Barking constituency, east London, in the next general election. He made his announcement in front of television cameras on the last day of his party’s annual conference in Wigan, Greater Manchester, over the weekend of 14-15 November. Yet a few days ago, in an appeal for donations to launch...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
Three Greater Manchester police officers plead not guilty to assaulting a soldier on a Wigan street.
Tandleman's Beer Blog (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
Marble Dobber of course. Of course? Well the panel I chaired put this through as our best beer by a fair old way. I was confident it would win and it did. Pale, bitter, hoppy, complex and at 5.9%, no pushover, it had a lot going for it. Beer writer and top blogger Pete Brown was on the final panel. I had a couple of chats to him. He looked tired after all his booky events, but the book is selling well....
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 05/10/2009
With the mist and the rain seeping down off Winter Hill, one of the great landmarks of the Pennines, the Reebok has never been a place for what the locals might regard as soft southern teams, or their pretty football. Although results here have improved since Sam Allardyce's departure, Arsenal never relish their journeys to Bolton, and Tottenham's last victory over them came before the Reebok was...
News: News blog | guardian.co.uk (Free subscription) | 01/10/2009
Welcome to the Northerner, guardian.co.uk's weekly digest of the best of the northern press The Sun may not be shining on Labour this week, but in blood-red Wigan there is good news for the party's progressives. The Wigan Evening Post is reporting that "well-placed party sources" have confirmed an all-female shortlist of candidates to replace the retiring MP, Neil Turner. Wiganers have voted-in...
Labourlist (Free subscription) | 26/09/2009
By Sam Wheeler “Manchester has a Harvey Nicholls!” The shock on the face of my Londoner friend was clear. I felt like assuring him that we had running water too, and had finally gotten the hang of this new-fangled electricity. It was the Labour conference of 2008 that brought the London media elite north, and with many it seemed expecting to still see the bomb craters of the Luftwaffe...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 14/09/2009
A 19-year-old British woman has drowned in Kenya, the Foreign Office has confirmed. Siobhan Meadwell, from Wigan, Greater Manchester, was on holiday in Mombasa when she died during a boat trip.
Busworld Photography (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
Buying mostly Massey and Northern Counties bodied Leyland buses Wigan used to have one of the most splendid fleets in Lancashire . Many years later in the Nineties Leyland's were still here but the Greater Manchester North Atlanteans allocated here were looking rather shabby and the once proud Corporation Melverley Garage looked decidedly unloved dirty and neglected. Indeed the whole scene is a bit...
Here Comes The GM Bus!! (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
Now I could do a blog on the usual things, there is a adventure I could waffle about or I could find something else to talk about, to be honest I'm moving towards the second one. In fact the adventure idea is filling me with dread! So we do the something else!! Manchester has a orbital motorway (But then everyone already knew that!) and the M60 has little blue signs every 1/2 mile in other words Mile...
Here Comes The GM Bus!! (Free subscription) | 04/09/2009
I did have a war post to post but something has just passed though me thats slightly more pressing right now , I'm going to post the article from the Manchester Evening News and then comment on it!! A SERIES of planned strikes by bus drivers will throw journeys into chaos across Greater Manchester. More than 900 workers at transport company First, the majority of them drivers, will take action in a...
Busworld Photography (Free subscription) | 21/08/2009
I'm sure my RN fans from Portugal will heartily agree that in the early Seventies SELNEC made a good choice when it selected this orange and cream livery for it's combined Manchester area bus fleet. I admit they were quite cheerful colours and looked rather pleasing on this ECW bodied Bristol VR with it's cream window mounts which had been ordered by the old North Western Road Car Company. The trouble...
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