My PC has decided to lose my last 18 months emails. This would amount to a few thousand - some very important.

If you have emailed me, watch this space as I may be asking you to email stuff again. Inconvenient I know, and I apologise but thats Windows for ya!

I'm trying desperately to retrieve them, they're on my hard drive but not in the inbox. I need to re-index some files and am looking into it. Hopefully I can fettle it.

If I do retrieve them I will migrate them over to the Mac immediately. Life is never dull.

I've just added 4 websites to the wiganworld links page.

Bob Brierley - Independent Councillor for Hindley Green.

Road to nowhere - The British road network by a local. Lots of Wigan photos online.

Wigan History Search - Comprehensive forum website discussing Wigan's rich history.

Retro Yakking - Irreverent look at life in the north of England.

More soon...

A new 'Have Your Say' topic has been created, I would love to read about what you think of the plans for Mesnes Park, wherever you may live.

Have Your Say - Save Mesnes Park.

I'm clearing my PC of old stuff and have resurrected 2 more old picture quizzes I did for another website a while ago.

The are the last, I promise!

1970s TV programmes.

1980s TV programmes.

Have fun, the questions are numbered and if you're stuck the answers are not provided, lol. Feel free to ask on the message boards.

I can now concentrate on Wigan again.

The power of modern day advertising!

Nothing to do with Wigan, I know... but a few years ago I wrote a logo quiz for another website which I have resurrected.

See how many you can guess, and no cheating by asking on the message boards.

Have a go at the logos quiz. Have fun.

I missed a couple of things when I re-did the new look.

There was a problem with adding both classified ads and album photos to wiganworld.

These has been fixed this morning, if you have tried in the last couple of days without luck please do try again, thank you.

If you've discovered a problem elsewhere on the site, drop me an email at brian@wiganworld.co.uk

Out with the old and in with the new!

wiganworld has had another change - no more blue text - I must admit I'm not a lover of blue!

A new central layout (as most sites nowadays) and greys/blacks that really make the photos stand out - hope you like it.

The message boards have been changed too, big text, avatars and a public photo visible to anyone that rolls over a user name. Upload an avatar and public photo via your control panel.

Coming soon will be updates to forum colours and changes to news and album sections as promised.

If you find something is broken, please let me know, ta.