The Latest Breaking News from Horwich

The M.E.N's Tom Molloy reviews Poppins Tea Room in Horwich

The project, at Old Station Park In Horwich, will protect around 200 homes during extreme rainfall

Customers were told to leave the Greater Manchester store after the alarm sounded

Twenty council seats were up for grabs in wards Astley Bridge, Bradshaw, Bromley Cross, Crompton, Farnworth, Great Lever, Halliwell, Harper Green, Heaton and Lostock, Horwich and Blackrod, Horwich North East, Hulton, Kearsley, Little Lever and Darcy Lever, Rumworth, Smithills, Tonge with the Haulgh, Westhoughton North and Chew Moor and Westhoughton…

The Conservative run council is finely balanced with a third of the 60 seats up for grabs this week

More than one extravagantly feathered bird has been spotted on the streets of the town during the election campaign

An area of Horwich town centre was most recently inundated with water during the Boxing Day floods of 2015

Bolton, Heywood and a mysterious Greater Manchester bid are among the 42 hopefuls trying to make the most of their rail heritage

Horwich and Blackrod First leader Marie Brady said relationships with members of her former party within Bolton Council had 'been torn apart'

The disgreement arose after plans were revealed for Bolton Council to bid to house a national railway centre in the town centre

A competition for the locations of a new railways agency has been announced by the government