North west news update 17 Oct 2023: Wedding couple don't let their big day ruin the match

Digital reporter Alan Weston with today's top north west news headlines and weather

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00:00 Hello, here are the top headlines today making the news across our newsrooms in the North West.

00:05 Two girls were sexually assaulted by a man who also exposed himself at a bus stop in Preston

00:12 city centre. Officers said the victims were not physically hurt but they were left shocked and

00:18 distressed following the incident on the afternoon of Tuesday October 10. A man in his 30s from

00:25 Preston was later arrested and was bailed until January. Police have stood down a manslaughter

00:32 investigation into the death of a 61 year old woman at a Blackpool bar. Mary Percival collapsed

00:39 after an altercation involving three men at bar 19 in Queen Street at around 5.15pm on Sunday.

00:47 Following a post-mortem examination yesterday afternoon the force concluded there was no

00:53 link between the woman's death and the bar fight. An appeal for witnesses is being made after a road

01:00 crash left a woman with serious injuries. Police said the collision happened at the junction of

01:06 Park Lane and Broad Lane in Wynmarley at about 7.10pm on Sunday and involved an Audi A4 and a

01:14 Ford Transit van. A 19 year old woman who was a passenger in the Audi suffered serious injuries

01:21 and was taken to hospital. Two fanatical Wigan Warriors fans whose long-standing wedding plans

01:28 clashed with the grand final came up with an unusual solution. Rather than missing out

01:34 they arranged for a digivan to screen the highly anticipated game for themselves and their guests.

01:40 Almost two dozen new build dwellings have been completed in Burnley this year

01:46 recent figures show. Some 20 new dwellings were built in the town by private developers

01:52 in the three months to June according to Department for Levelling Up Housing and Communities figures.

01:57 The stats also show that work began on 80 new properties over the same period. Now for the

02:04 weather. Today it will become cloudier increasingly breezier in the afternoon especially over the

02:09 hills. Tomorrow we'll see a largely dry start with some bright spells though increasingly windy.

02:16 That's it for now, thanks for watching.