It is an Orwellian joke - Wigan's 'pier' was never a seaside attraction, just a couple of bent-up rails where coal-wagons on...

 Richard Wilcocks writes: It's all coming together for our Road to Wigan Pier event on Saturday 5 March ! Yesterday, I knocked on the d...

Sally Bavage writes: War comes to Ireland Wood Well, it does when published poet and author James Nash comes.   James was commissioned by ...

Spring Bank find their inspiration James Nash writes: I’m working with Year 3 at Spring Bank Primary School, and they ar...

 Quarry Mount Pupils Write Ballads James Nash writes: We are in the world of the Arabian Nights, eight young writers from Year 5 at Quarry M...

  It was the Best of Times, it was the Worst of Times … Sally Bavage writes: Never was Dickens more accu...