Digital reporter Lucinda Herbert delivers the latest North West headlines for Thursday, March 7
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00:00 Hello and welcome to your daily news bulletin. These are your headlines for the North West.
00:07 A mum has praised the doctors who saved her son's eye after a horrific accident during an archery demonstration.
00:14 17 year old James was holidaying with his mum Sarah when his eye was accidentally pierced by an arrow as he bent down.
00:22 The Preston mum describes the terror of watching blood pour out of the eye of her autistic son who was 15 at the time.
00:30 Now on an episode of 24 hours in A&E she praises the surgeons who saved his sight.
00:38 James who is now a student has a tiny scar on his eyelid and he says he won't be trying archery again.
00:46 A boy has died while trying a dangerous TikTok craze during a sleepover.
00:52 The 11 year old boy tragically died on Saturday when he suffered a cardiac arrest while attempting the latest TikTok craze called 'chroming'.
01:02 Tommy Lee Gracie Billington had been staying at his friend's house in Greenset Close in Lancaster
01:09 where he sadly died instantly after trying the dangerous stunt.
01:14 Chroming is where a person inhales toxic chemicals such as solvents, cleaning products or petrol.
01:21 Paying tribute to her grandson Tina said Tommy Lee was a bright energetic boy and the life and soul of any room.
01:30 Now the family are warning others of the dangers of TikTok.
01:34 A road in Blackpool has reopened after a long period of construction work as the £350 million Talbot Gateway project wraps up.
01:44 High Street has opened again as a new hotel complex in Underpass get ready to launch.
01:51 The four star Holiday Inn is set to open in May 2024 and will have 144 rooms.
01:59 A neonatal unit at Burnley General Infirmary has been gifted with some very special items of clothing.
02:09 Tesco have donated packs of essentials for premature babies which will be a big help to mums and dads who have unexpected births where the babies are unusually tiny.
02:21 Jan Marchant, Managing Director for Tesco's Home and Clothing said "Premature babies are often unexpected and it can be difficult to find clothing items to fit at such short notice."
02:35 A grieving Wigan son said he is considering his legal options since the coroner ruled his father's death an accident after choking to death on a hospital sandwich.
02:48 Darren Hayes was angry that his father, who suffered from Parkinson's disease, had been allowed to eat the sandwich unsupervised.
02:57 An anti-choking device was deployed but it wasn't working properly which delayed efforts to save his father when he choked on Jan 10th.
03:07 The man had been a resident of Brown Court Sheltered Accommodation in Pemberton where carers visited him daily.
03:15 Darren said he had difficulty eating. Why wasn't someone monitoring him? This wasn't the first time.
03:23 I'd gone to see him one afternoon and he'd had bread hanging out of the corner of his mouth.
03:28 He also went on to say that the alarm didn't work properly and the anti-choking device's batteries were flat too.
03:37 It was a shambles Darren said.
03:41 Now for the weather. It's going to be a bright day with some isolated showers.
03:46 It'll feel pleasant in the sun with maximum temperatures 12 degrees Celsius.
03:51 That's all for now. See you next time.