PLANS for a rail service that would take passengers from part of the St Helens borough directly to London have hit a hurdle.

Bury's huge outdoor market is filled with shoppers as a hum of conversation drifts through the maze of aisles along with the occasional whiff of bread, cakes, fresh flowers and cooked breakfasts from ...

Cash Atherton, of Turner Street, Leigh, had previously appeared before Wigan magistrates charged with the intentional ...

But the number is more likely to be much higher at around 40,000, as Salford has also adopted the Greater Manchester ... as Eccles and Ordsall, and further out towards the edges of the borough.

and would stop at Manchester Victoria, Eccles, Newton-le-Willows, and Warrington Bank Quay, meaning that the service would also improve the local transport network. The proposal had been hailed as a ...

The council has plans to construct at least 33,000 homes by 2042, but this figure could rise to around 40,000 as Salford has also adopted the Greater Manchester ... such as Eccles and Ordsall, and ...

But at his latest hearing at Manchester Magistrates' Court he changed his plea to guilty and will be sentenced by Wigan justices on May 13. A convicted Wigan borough sex offender who made indecent ...

Bury Market is the shopping area with the third largest footfall in Greater Manchester after the Arndale and Trafford ... The Local Democracy Reporting Service spoke to visitors from outside the ...