A round-up of headlines across the North West.
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00:00 It's Friday the 22nd of December. In Preston, fraudulent builder Billy
00:05 Hopkinson has been ordered to repay more than £60,000 to customers he scammed.
00:09 In May he was jailed for 20 months but attended the proceeds of crime hearing
00:14 this week as a free man, meaning he's been in jail for less than half of his
00:18 sentence. Blackpool raised Colleen Nolan has revealed that at the age of 58 she's
00:25 finally stopped smoking. She says the decision has come since suffering a
00:29 severe chest infection that left her struggling to breathe. In Lancaster a
00:35 heavily pregnant mum has revealed that her council house in Rylands Road has
00:40 been invaded by rats for the fourth time. Jessica Park, 33, believes the rats are
00:45 coming from an abandoned house next door. Lancaster City Council's Pest Action
00:50 Team say that they've begun treatment to deal with the problem. In Burnley a large
00:57 cannabis farm has been dismantled after police executed a warrant at a house in
01:02 Oxford Road. 3,000 plants have been found and the electricity had been bypassed. In
01:09 Wigan a man is being treated for hypothermia after falling into the River
01:12 Douglas in the early hours of this morning. The 35 year old was found after
01:17 an ASDA worker heard his cries for help. And the weather across the North West
01:21 today, it's grey and it's blustery and that looks like it's going to continue.
01:26 Temperature is going to be around 10 degrees so it's going to be mild but it's
01:30 going to remain very windy, drizzly for most of the day with rain becoming
01:35 heavier over the weekend.