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Wigan Council's emergency team swing into action when a fire breaks out in a block of flats. Volunteers help the council clear a cemetery.

Wigan's frontline council officers hit the heights to tame dangerous trees, step in when residents get revved up about a rusty van and tackle a feathered foe - pigeons.

Council officers in Wigan help a resident with rats in the roof, chase fly-tippers and, after a hundred years, give a war hero the homecoming he never had.

Wigan council's frontline officers make an unannounced inspection of a takeaway, teach school children how to save lives and help to make wedding history in Wigan.

Council officers in Wigan help an ambitious young man get a foot on the career ladder, clean up a community farm, respond to residents who are ratty about rodents and investigate a complaint about fish suffering from stress.

Council officers in Wigan help residents with rubbish in their alleyways, assist police with an emergency in the middle of the night and help those dealing with dementia.

Council officers try to wipe Wigan clean of graffiti, help residents compete at the Tatton Park Flower Show and give hopeful young people a chance to win coveted paid placements with key council services.

Wigan's council officers unearth a precious collection of Egyptian artefacts, inspect a business with exotic performing animals and rummage through rotting rubbish when bin wars break out on the borough's streets.

Wigan's council officers try to mend a resident's ceiling and her faith in the council. A new fish and chip shop owner faces her first inspection and love is in the air when registrars try to marry five couples in one day.

Wigan's council officers crack down on shopkeepers selling alcohol to children, deal with dangerous dumped waste and try to help tired residents in a flap about a cockerel disturbing the peace.

Fly tippers pose a problem for council officers in Wigan. History and heroes combine as the council names new streets, and as residents take part in a 10K run, officers step in to track down a missing person.

Council officers in Wigan protect the planet from a potentially dangerous chemical cocktail and use the full force of the law against a noisy neighbour.

Council officers in Wigan battle against rubbish and rodents in a backyard, inspect the health of all creatures great and small at an agricultural show and assess the safety of adrenalin seekers at a motocross track.

Wigan council brings a young offender and their victims together in a bid to preserve the peace, investigates complaints about a noisy fairground and helps a young man fulfil a lifetime's ambition.

Officers working for Wigan council battle to bring new business into the borough, provide safe foster homes for young people and fight the elements on a PR offensive.