The GM Walking Festival is back for 2025 and it's bigger than ever. Coordinated by Greater Manchester Moving, the month-long ...

Jacob Battersby was planning to sail along the canal from Leigh to Liverpool. However, after one day the engine seized, ...

A guided walk of scenes from a new crime thriller set in Wigan has been added to the Borough’s walking festival.

Aaron Ritchie, 49, and his 60-year-old carer Ceri John Jenkins drowned after falling into the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in Wigan, Abram, in November 2023. The pair had been on a walk along the ...

Ceri John Jenkins, 60, and Aaron Ritchie, 49, drowned in Wigan in a double tragedy in November ... The two men were on a walk by the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in Abram, near Crankwood Road ...

"The jury was told Mr Jenkins, 60, had previously saved the life of a a student who had fallen into a canal when he worked at a high school in Wigan. In her statement Mrs Jenkins continued ...

Police dogs and underwater search teams were deployed to search the Leeds and Liverpool Canal and the river Douglas. Wigan Athletic manager, Ryan Lowe, even took time out of a press conference to ...

Darren Orme was last seen at the junction of Woodhouse Lane and Beech Hill Lane, not far from the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, in Wigan on the night of Wednesday, March 5. Nearly 100 people took to ...

Torrential rain caused Greater Manchester's Bridgewater Canal to burst for the first time since 1971, flooding nearby fields. Homes in Manchester, Stockport, Wigan, and Bolton were evacuated due to ...

A man and his carer have died after falling into a canal near Wigan. Greater Manchester Police said Aaron Ritchie, 49, and his 60-year-old carer, who has not been named, came into difficulty at ...