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Writer and broadcaster Stuart Maconie, rugby league legend Billy Boston and John Winnard, one half of the team behind Uncle Joe’s Mintballs have been honoured as three of Wigan’s most famous sons. They have had their names immortalised in a Hollywood-style Walk of Fame at the Wigan Life Centre.

Wigan schoolgirl Sophia Andrews has won the role as the voice of a lead character in a hit American TV show. She will be playing the lead character of Tiny in the animated series Dinosaur Train which follows the adventures of the Pteranodon family. It has gained millions of fans around the world and will be given a new English-accented soundtrack before it is broadcast on British screens.