'My daughter came to visit me for her tea yesterday and it took her an hour to get two miles'
Villagers on the outskirts of Wigan are being ‘driven to despair’ by choked-up roads, too much new-build housing and a GP surgery struggling to handle the influx of new patients. That was the unanimous verdict of people in Standish as the Local Democracy Reporting Service watched the roads fill up in the village centre at school ‘going home time’.


