A TEENAGE girl was killed after being hit by three vehicles, including a lorry, when she attempted to cross a road. It is believed the girl was crossing the westbound carriageway of the A580 East Lancashire Road, near to the junction with Ellenbrook Road
ANDY Burnham had a double cause for celebration on Friday morning after being returned as Leigh MP for a second term - just over a week after becoming a dad for the third time. Leigh General Election result Andrew Burnham (Lab) 23,097 Laurance Wedderburn
TWO teenagers who laughed as they filmed themselves setting a sleeping man on fire at a bus shelter have been locked up for six-and-a-half years. David Smolinksi and Benjamin Mortenson both taunted 41-year-old Matthew Kitchen while he burned, shouting
BURY's two Labour MPs were returned, but with reduced majorities as Tony Blair clinched an historic third term as Labour Prime Minister on Friday morning. Bury South Ivan Lewis (Lab) 19,741 Alexander Paul Williams (Cons) 10,829 Victor David D'Albert (
NEW recruits Robbie Mears and Warren Stevens will be sitting in the stands on Sunday as Leigh Centurions battle for a place in the Powergen Challenge Cup quarter-finals. Aussie hooker Mears and on loan prop Stevens are not eligible to play in the fifth
ARMED robbers forced security guards to hand over cash in a raid in Radcliffe. The guards were dragged out of Barlows Corner Shop at 10.30am on Friday by two men who ordered them to lie on the ground. They told the driver, who was still in the security
