Passers-by and drivers will have noticed that the clock in the tower of the former Orwell building at Wigan Pier has disappeared in recent days. Many may have presumed it had been taken away for ...

OVER the past few weeks, debates over British fiscal policy have been conducted under the shadow of George Orwell's "The Road to Wigan Pier", a powerful description of the poverty he found in the ...

More detailed plans have been submitted for the transformation of what was once the largest cotton production site in the north west in the famous Wigan Pier area. Redevelopment plans were approved in ...