Nearly 150 homes built on two brownfield sites in Leigh and Wigan have been handed over by housing association Torus.

A Sheffield-based house builder has launched a partnership division, with projects in place to deliver 286 affordable homes.

York Brass Against Cancer returns for its fourth instalment at The Grand Opera House in York on the February 23 this year. Featuring Hammonds Band from West Yorkshire as well as York’s own Shepherd ...

AN eighty-seven-home project has been completed on brownfield land in Leigh as part of a £20 million housing scheme.

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Anthracite coal converted this region from agrarian to industrial. The discovery of hard coal — and the discovery by Jesse Fell of how to burn the stuff — spurred booms in the economy and population.

Tom Dobbin is 97, and his life stretches back to a time when coal was king, when journalists went in search of scoops, and men were hanged ...

A new County Durham convenience store will be allowed to sell alcohol despite concerns over a rise in crime. Seaside Lane Minimarket in Easington Colliery applied for the licence, as it prepares to ...