North west news update 10 Jan 2024: Woman's body found in estuary

Assistant editor Iain Lynn with today's top north west news headlines and weather

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00:00 Hello and welcome. These are the top headlines making the news today from our newsrooms

00:04 across the North West. A farmer placed a mauled sheep at a Burnley beauty spot as

00:08 a warning to dog walkers. The sheep was placed at the entrance to the reservoir

00:12 at Hurst Wood on Sunday with a handwritten placard tied to the gate

00:16 saying 'Sheep 24/7 365 Dogs on Leeds'. The bloodied animal appeared to have his

00:23 throat ripped out. Councillors and residents have called for an urgent

00:28 rethink over major roadworks in suburban Preston amid reports of multiple

00:32 accidents in a matter of days. Gas mains works have closed the northbound side of

00:36 Tag Lane at the junction with Tanterton Hall Road in Ingle but the route remains

00:40 open to vehicles travelling the opposite way. The crossroads where the two roads

00:44 meet have now become a scene of chaos according to locals because drivers are

00:48 making incorrect assumptions about the directions from which traffic will be

00:51 emerging. A woman's body was discovered in the estuary in Lytham on Tuesday

00:56 morning. Police received a call at 6.15am from a member of the public who

01:01 reported a woman in the water near Dock Road. The emergency services responded

01:05 with fire crews and police searching the area with torches before dawn. A woman's

01:09 body was sadly recovered a short time later said police. Her death is not

01:13 thought to be suspicious. Three people have been arrested in pre-dawn Wigan

01:18 raids during a new police crackdown on County Lines drugs crimes using children

01:22 as dealers. Officers from Greater Manchester's Police Wigan Complex

01:25 Safeguarding Team, supported by Wigan Challenger Team, local neighbourhood

01:29 officers and a tactical aid unit executed warrants at three addresses in

01:33 Asphalt, Inns and Wigan as part of an ongoing probe into a county drugs line

01:37 operating in the area. An 18 year old woman, a 17 year old boy and a 21 year old

01:42 man were all arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to sell the Class B drug of

01:45 cannabis and modern slavery. And the case of a mystery body found in Morecambe Bay

01:51 is now featured on a national missing persons website. Just after 2 p.m. on

01:56 April 30th 2023, Furness Coast Guard contacted Cumbria Police to report that

02:01 a body of a man had washed up south of Rampside in Barrow-in-Furness. Efforts to

02:05 identify the man have so far not been successful. Cumbria Police have now

02:09 submitted details of the mystery body to the UK missing persons unit in the hope

02:14 of identifying him. In the weather Wednesday will bring a few showers but

02:18 generally it'll be a dry day with some sunny spells. Similar on Thursday and not

02:22 feeling quite so cold with a maximum temperature of 7 degrees. That's it for

02:26 now, thanks for watching, see you tomorrow.