Digital reporter Catherine Musgrove with today's top north west news headlines and weather
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00:00 It's Thursday the 15th of February and here's a roundup of news in the North West.
00:06 A popular fish and chip shop has announced it will be closing.
00:09 Peaks Fish and Chips in Station Road, Hesketh Bank will serve its last takeaway on Saturday
00:14 February 24th.
00:16 In Blackpool, UFOs like two spinning balls were filmed in the sky.
00:21 Jack Atkinson spotted the metal orbs from the log yard in School Road at about 4pm on
00:26 Monday.
00:27 The 24-year-old waited for about 90 seconds and watched them before they suddenly disappeared.
00:34 And there's a new bobby on the beat in Lancaster.
00:36 PC Sean Foster has spent the last three years responding to 999 calls throughout Morecambe
00:41 and Lancaster and will now be concentrating on patrolling the city centre in Lancaster.
00:48 In the Burley area, angry Hapton residents have been told there's nothing they can do
00:52 to stop what they call an 'I saw industrial development' being built in their village.
00:59 The land which was safeguarded for development in 2018 is being developed but ward councillors
01:05 are now trying to get trees and bushes to screen the development on Ackrington Road
01:10 from the view of people who live there.
01:13 In Wigan, plans have been launched to demolish the Village Inn in Skelmersdale High Street
01:18 and replace it with two blocks of terraces totalling 10 houses.
01:22 The pub has not been in use since 2022.
01:26 And the weather for the North West.
01:27 It's going to be a very cloudy day with persistent outbreaks of heavy rain.
01:32 The maximum temperature will be 13 degrees which is mild for the time of year.