Lucinda Herbert reads the latest headlines for the North West
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00:00 I'm Lucinda Herbert for the Blackpool Gazette and these are your headlines for the North West.
00:05 The body of a man was found on Blackpool Beach over the weekend.
00:09 The body was discovered near Queen's Promenade shortly after 11.30am on Saturday morning.
00:16 Emergency services attended and a man in his 20s was pronounced dead at the scene.
00:21 A canal boat caught fire in Preston early on Monday morning.
00:25 Fire crews were called to the Lancaster Canal in Ashton where a barge was found ablaze.
00:31 Three engines attended and the fire service launched its water rescue teams to tackle the boat fire near Stocks Road at 1.43am.
00:40 No injuries were reported. A police investigation is now underway to determine whether it was started deliberately.
00:49 A man who was credited for changing the lives of hundreds of children in Burnley has died at the age of 90.
00:56 Gordon Waddington was appointed to the role of play leader at a new project set up by Burnley Borough Council in 1970 in the Stoneyholm area.
01:06 The scheme was a tremendous success mainly thanks to Gordon.
01:10 The centre attracted youngsters from many different backgrounds and Gordon encouraged all of them to play a sport or learn a skill they would not otherwise have access to.
01:20 A team of United Utilities engineers rescued a mum and her three kids after a Morecambe Road accident.
01:28 The workers found themselves in the right place at the right time to leap to the rescue when they came across a smashed up car with a family still inside.
01:37 Mark Moss from Preston is a mechanic on the Wastewater Network in North Lancashire and was on his way to a team meeting at the Orks Cliff Road pumping station when he spotted the family in need of help.
01:51 Wasting no time he donned his high-vis jacket and went to the rescue.
01:56 After first helping the driver and her children get safely out of the badly damaged car, Mark and his colleagues Andy Taylor and Matthew Culkin got to work directing traffic and clearing up the debris scattered across the road.
02:10 The driver had been taking her kids to school when she was involved in a collision with a van.
02:15 Mark said she was understandably very shaken up and her children were upset.
02:21 As he was getting them safely out of the car his colleagues arrived and they also stepped in to help as he called emergency services.
02:29 Men made off with 14 motorbikes in three separate showroom raids in Wigan.
02:35 Between 9pm and midnight on Friday 13th and Saturday 14th October a white transit van and a white VW Golf attended the showroom located on Pennyhurst Street in Wigan.
02:49 The offenders, all wearing dark clothing and face coverings, climbed on the van roof and smashed a first floor window.
02:57 They then entered the showroom via the broken window and proceeded to wheel out several KTM off-road motorbikes worth £120,000.
03:07 One by one they wheeled the bikes out of the window onto the van roof and then dropped them off the van onto some drop bags below.
03:16 The offenders make a total of three visits to the showroom throughout this time frame, loading the van up with motorcycles on each occasion.
03:25 They were seen leaving via Wilcox Street in the direction of Mairie Lane, however the direction of travel from Mairie Lane is currently unknown.
03:34 Weather is turning increasingly cloudy this evening with hill fog on high ground as showery rain edges in from the south east overnight.