Memorial bench installed in remembrance of 2 much loved and missed husband and wife ‘

Cllr Paul Wild died on December 27 in 2020, aged 76, after being diagnosed with cancer, and his wife Christine died suddenly in February 2020.

Cllr Wild had been an Astley Bridge councillor for nine years, he was elected in 2011 and, along with his wife, was much admired by family, friends and other councillors.

His wife had been a councillor from 2008 and served until 2012 becoming councillor for Westhoughton North and Chew…