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COMMENT - A good deed done

Wed, 22 May 2013 11:40:34 GMT

WHAT a marvellous thing it is to see a football fan do the right thing and hand in a very sentimental wedding ring to club officials at the Aston Villa game.

CHARLES GRAHAM - New Youth Zone lives up to Dave’s dream

Fri, 17 May 2013 16:10:28 GMT

THREE years have passed since I first got wind of Dave Whelan’s Boys’ Club Mark II.

CHARLES GRAHAM - Comedy, easy? That’s a laugh...

Fri, 17 May 2013 16:10:18 GMT

BOB Hope once hailed Sid Field as “the greatest comedian of them all.”

CHARLES GRAHAM - Win was a shoe-in after Roberto polished Powell

Fri, 17 May 2013 16:09:53 GMT

IT has long amused me that a red hot Labour town like Wigan should have a superstitious belief in the wish-granting properties of a statue to its last Tory MP.

Catherine Scott: Pupils under pressure as tests bring stress

Wed, 15 May 2013 10:44:20 GMT

IT’S SATS for thousands of 10 and 11-year-olds across the UK.

COMMENT - Did the FA meddle with medals?

Tue, 14 May 2013 15:18:23 GMT

IT almost seems fitting of such a momentous achievement for the vast majority of Wigan Athletic’s players to forget to pick up their medals.

COMMENT - Worthiest of winners and pride of the town

Mon, 13 May 2013 11:55:06 GMT

WHAT a stupendously proud day for Wigan.

NATURE NOTES - Barking mad blue tit targets cottage

Fri, 10 May 2013 15:19:19 GMT

SOON again I heard a tapping something louder than before.

CHARLES GRAHAM - Denials just prolongue victim’s anguish

Fri, 10 May 2013 15:15:30 GMT

STUART Hall not only succeeded in traumatising numerous young victims. He also succeeded in blackening many a Britons’ happy memories.

CHARLES GRAHAM - You will be tough to follow, Sir Alex

Fri, 10 May 2013 15:15:23 GMT

SO the hairdryer is finally to be switched off.

CHARLES GRAHAM - An act of integrity by Dame Helen

Fri, 10 May 2013 15:15:22 GMT

CONGRATULATIONS to Dame Helen Mirren for playing merry hell with noisy protestors outside her theatre.

CHARLES GRAHAM - We’re out in force to support Latics!

Fri, 10 May 2013 15:14:52 GMT

WIGAN has always punched above its weight.

TALKING SPORT - Believe? This feeling’s unbelievable

Fri, 10 May 2013 15:03:34 GMT

Wigan Athletic don’t do dull endings.

COMMENT - Another reason to give up smoking

Tue, 07 May 2013 13:28:26 GMT

GREAT, positive steps have been taken for the women’s cause over the last century.

PETER RICHARDSON - Our one day Spring

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:16:27 GMT

SO, did you enjoy the Spring? In case you missed it, the season of new life and fresh hope occurred last week on the third Saturday of April.

COMMENT - Arrow jobs a welcome change

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:32:37 GMT

IN the current economic climate many a column inch has been taken up by stories of business decline.

COMMENT - Measles threat

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 10:42:20 GMT

Despite months of warnings from health experts the measles epidemic has descended upon Wigan.