The headlines for the North West region on August 23, 2023.
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00:00 Here is your bulletin for Wednesday the 23rd of August.
00:04 A fifth of all households in Preston are classed as among the most privileged in society.
00:10 A social grade using the latest census data takes into account household income, qualifications, economic activity and the tenure of the household.
00:20 A gay naturist hotel is set to open in Blackpool, but its owners insist it will not be a sex club.
00:28 Well Hornies in Bank Street is set to open in the former Graydon Hotel.
00:33 Owners say that it won't be a place where there's going to be all kinds of unruly activity, late night music and unsociable behaviour.
00:42 They say it will be a place for like-minded people to chill.
00:47 In Wigan, a cat has been blamed for starting a kitchen fire in a family home.
00:52 It's believed that the moggy was walking across the work surfaces at the property in Hedder Grove when it stepped on the touch control for a halogen hob.
01:00 Nobody was seriously injured there.
01:03 In Burnley, plans to convert a farmhouse into a holiday home have been rejected.
01:08 The proposal was to convert Cold Soil Farm in Kebbs Road into a hub for 12 tourists,
01:13 but council planners have ruled that the scheme would be inappropriate in the countryside location.
01:20 A man has sadly been found dead at a beach in Heysham.
01:24 Emergency services attended at 3pm yesterday, but the man was pronounced dead at the scene.
01:30 The death is not being treated as suspicious.
01:33 And the weather for the North West.
01:35 It's going to be a cloudy start all across the region, but it's going to get drier in the afternoon with sunny intervals and a maximum of 22 degrees.