A CHARITY support group has been forced to find a new venue after 28 years,
Leigh's Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Group, hit by the planned closure of the New Lodge Centre, Mealhouse Lane, Atherton, is to move to The Orchards, Chatham Street, Leigh, from February.
Meetings will continue there on the second Tuesday of every month, at 7.45pm.
The New Lodge Centre is one of three of the borough's seven centres due to close.
The other centres due to close are Laburnum Road, Lowton, and Larch Avenue, Pemberton.The remaining four centres, Central in Wigan, Etherstone Street, Leigh, Golborne and Hindley will be expanded to create a range of new, more specialised day support services.
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