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Landmark giant Wigan Pier clock stolen

Passers-by and drivers will have noticed that the clock in the tower of the former Orwell building at Wigan Pier has disappeared in recent days. Many may have presumed it had been taken away for ...

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 ...