Wigan holds a long-established dominance in three things - rugby league, Northern Soul and pies.
But while the town’s heritage as the capital of all-night soul parties is safe and sound, the Warriors’ success is being threatened by Saints.
More concerningly, though, there’s a new kid on the block threatening to be the pie capital of the UK.
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It’s a town in the heart of the Cheshire plain — and famous for a few things: salt, flooding and The Charlatans.
Northwich is also now claiming to be the UK’s true pie town, reports Cheshire Live.
A walk down its black-and-white timbered Witton Street is punctuated by the scent of freshly baked pies that wafts from two
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