SUNDAY shopping has put an end to the weekly out-of-normal-hours rota operated by chemists in Leigh, Lowton and Golborne.

Wigan and Bolton Health Authority says lack of demand is behind the decision to drop the service which ended on May 3.

But chemists in Atherton and Tyldesley will maintain their Sunday service.

Neil Leatherbarrow, the Wigan and Bolton HA contractor services manager, said:"The decision has come from the local pharmaceutical committee.

"It appears there is a lack of demand for such a service now there is a pharmacy open each Sunday at Asda."

But Harry White at Cohen's chemists in Church Street, Atherton said the Sunday rota system would continue in Atherton and Tyldesley areas.

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