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LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF... ► ► ► WLCT's Green Spaces team win prestigious award - see news release. ► ► ► Get Active and Keep Active with Your Choice. You don't have to be a champion athlete to participate in sport. Visit our Active Life site for more details. ► ► ► Wigan Leisure and Culture Trust’s Sports Development Team officially “excellent” - view full story. ► ► ► For information on all Trust news stories and articles, visit the TrustNews site. ► ► ► Wigan Leisure & Culture Trust - Getting Wigan Active and Improving People's Lives.

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► The Word is On!

► Santa Claus Is Coming to Haigh

► Wigan and Leigh’s Olympic Boost

► Cream Of The Crop

► An African Adventure

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►News for Young People

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19/11/2008 12:10

► Text a Story and Win!

Click here for Text Story competition details

Looking for a seasonal challenge? Why not try our Christmas micro-fiction text competition? And what is micro-fiction? Well, Ernest Hemingway once wrote a 6-word story and is said to have considered it his best work: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”
We are being rather more generous, however! To celebrate the end of National Year of Reading, Wigan Libraries are asking for your stories on the theme of “Christmas Future”. The prize for the best, and most original, entry will be £50 worth of High Street vouchers!

Click her to read African Adventure press release [Image: Sahara Desert]

► Donkeys, Sandals and Nothing but Sand
Meet the man who was at a 'boring New Year's Eve party' one year, and decided to undertake the daunting task of crossing the entire vast continent of Africa solo. Fran Sandham's quest included company from a stubborn donkey who refused to move for months, all of which is documented in his novel, Traversa. Fran will be talking about this epic journey as he visits two of the borough's libraries as part of National Year of Reading 2008.

Click here for Biodiversity [Image: Grey Squirrel]

► Our Borough, Our Responsibility
Biological diversity (or Biodiversity for short) has taken millions of years to establish and is still changing. It is essential to the Earth’s life support system, providing basic natural processes, which we take for granted, such as fossil fuels, fresh water, fertile soil, clean air, a stable climate and predictable weather conditions. Our borough has its own very distinctive ‘wildlife’ communities, which over time, have adapted to our local conditions and now form the basis of our 'local biodiversity'.