Wigan Today on MSN

Wigan is set to become a Wonder Town from Christmas 2025

Something wonderful is coming to Wigan, and we want local families to prepare for imagination, performance, joy and wonder - ...
Wigan Today on MSN

See how a famous former Wigan tourist attraction has now become home to an award-winning theatre company

Award-winning theatre company ThickSkin have opened a brand-new and very special home in Wigan’s industrial heartland.
The Mirror

There was a certain way you had to look at private school: My Wigan Pier Story

As part of our Road to Wigan Pier project, eight decades after the publication of George Orwell's essay, Becky Joyce explains how she used her own experience of addiction and homelessness to launch ...
New York Post

Overdue copy of George Orwell’s ‘The Road to Wigan Pier’ returned to library 50 years later – and it ‘smelled downright awful’

A George Orwell book checked out of a library in the United Kingdom 50 years ago was finally returned by a mortified borrower. The hard-cover book of George Orwell’s “Road to Wigan Pier” was due at ...