The latest headlines from newsrooms across the North West on Wednesday April 3 2024
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00:00 Good morning, I'm digital reporter Claire Lark and this is a roundup of the latest headlines
00:07 from across our newsrooms. A £30m new hotel on Blackpool Promenade is poised to get the
00:13 go ahead with conditions including that messy bedrooms are not on full display. Blackpool
00:19 Council's planning committee is being recommended to approve an application by the Singapore-based
00:24 Fragrance Group to build a 143 bedroom hotel between the Promenade, Woodfield Street, St
00:31 Chad's Road and Bolton Street. The former St Chad's Hotel which has stood on the land
00:36 was demolished in May last year to make way for the new investment but concerns have been
00:41 raised about proposed floor to ceiling windows which means messy bedrooms could be on view
00:46 to people strolling down the prom. The Lancashire village of Wiswell has been named as one of
00:51 Britain's 48 poshest villages after the list was revealed by The Telegraph. The list, which
00:57 is based on the most desirable rural locations in the country, Wiswell appears as the only
01:02 village in Lancashire to make an entry. Property prices also played a factor in the list which
01:07 shows that moving to the picturesque countryside does come at a price. A new tanning hair and
01:13 beauty salon is opening in Morecambe in April. Glow & Co will be opening at the former TSB
01:19 Bank in Market Street on April 8th and will combine luxury state of the art UV tanning,
01:25 all aspects of beauty therapy and advanced aesthetic procedures as well as unisex hairdressing
01:30 and barbering. A Wigan hotel that has been home to asylum seekers for 8 years will cease
01:37 such work within weeks it has been confirmed. Politicians have welcomed the news that the
01:42 Britannia at Almond Brook in Standish will be wound down as migrant accommodation by
01:47 July after being the focus of long-running controversy. Since it was requisitioned by
01:53 the Home Office and its asylum seeker accommodation operator Serco in 2016, local people and their
02:00 political representatives have argued that it was an inappropriate location, while community
02:05 members have been divided in their approach to residents, some being more hospitable than
02:09 others. Police have charged a man with murder following a fatal stabbing in Colne. Officers
02:17 were called to New Market Street at 2.26pm on Sunday where paramedics were treating a
02:23 man with a number of serious injuries. The man, 34-year-old Richard Chamberlain of Colne,
02:30 died a short time later. Following consultation with the Crown Prosecution Service, police
02:36 charged Frank Rona, 44, of New Market Street in Colne with murder after arresting him on
02:42 Sunday. He was remanded in custody to appear at Blackpool Magistrates' Court this morning.