A link road connecting the boroughs is set to be built - 70 years after it was first called for.
Developers want to build 2,000 homes alongside the South Hindley Link Road in Wigan.
Walid Saadaoui, of Wigan, is accused of plotting to kill Jewish people.
Jurors are told Walid Saadaoui hero-worshipped the man who orchestrated the 2015 Paris gun attacks.
Walid Saadaoui planned to kill as many people as possible in Manchester, a court is told.
Walid Saadaoui and Amar Hussein planned to kill as many Jewish people as they could, a trial hears.
Police say there has been a spate of incidents with objects thrown at cars in Hindley town centre.
A team of 'Balsam busters' in the North West ask for help uprooting the weed from local beauty spots.
Families say plans to build 2,000 homes in Wigan are not sustainable without more infrastructure.
