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The Wigan Reporter was a freesheet weekly paper delivered in the Wigan area. It was founded in 1978. It ceased publication in February 2017 with many of its supplements being incorporated into the Post instead. [4] It also had two other freesheets, St Helens Reporter and Leigh Reporter, which are published once per week.
The WN postcode area, also known as the Wigan postcode area, [2] is a group of eight postcode districts in North West England, within three post towns.These cover most of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan in Greater Manchester (including Wigan itself and Leigh), plus small parts of West Lancashire (including Skelmersdale) and the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens in Merseyside.
The name of the town has been recorded variously as Wigan in 1199, Wygayn in 1240, and Wygan in numerous historical documents. [5]The name Wigan is probably a Celtic place-name : it might be a diminutive form of Brittonic *wīg "homestead, settlement" (later Welsh gwig), plus the nominal suffix -an has also been suggested (c.f. numerous places in France named Le Vigan); the place name may ...
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Orrell is a suburb of Wigan in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. [2] The population of the ward had fallen at the 2011 Census to 11,513. [3] The area lies 3 miles (4.8 km) to the west of Wigan town centre. [4]
Dave Guest (born June 1959) is a journalist, and until October 2020, chief reporter and occasional presenter for BBC North West Tonight.. Guest started work at the BBC in 1983 after working as a reporter at the Lancaster Guardian, the Wigan Evening Post in Wigan and for national newspapers in Manchester. [1]
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