NW Tuesday Bulletin (May 7 2024)

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00:00Hello, I'm Michelle from the Lancaster Guardian with your latest regional news.

00:06Police at Lancaster Railway Station arrested a man 30 seconds after their shift had started.

00:12Police said they arrested a man who had assaulted a female passenger. The man has been interviewed

00:17and released under investigation whilst on-train CCTV is collected.

00:23Lancashire Constabulary have appointed Superintendent Sally Riley, who is the face of the Nicola

00:29Pui investigation, as the new Operations Manager for Preston. Superintendent Sally

00:35Riley will have overall responsibility for the Neighbourhood Response and Response Investigations

00:40team.

00:41A mum from Blackpool says her family and friends are lucky to be alive after all 11 of them

00:48were injured in a tour bus crash in Turkey.

00:52Danielle Carton Simmons, 40, was on holiday with husband Vinnie, 43, sons Reggie, 6 and

01:00Kai, 16, daughter Sasha, 20, and her boyfriend Kasper Zielinski, 24, and Danielle's mum

01:07Laura, 59, and brother Bobby, 19.

01:11Family friends Julie DeBurke, Gina Taylor and Tom Burke were also on board the open-top

01:16tour bus when it crashed and overturned before smashing into a metal utility pole. The bus

01:22trip was the first day the group had all been out together.

01:27Wigan's former General Post Office has been put up for sale three years after plans were

01:32unveiled to turn it into a bar. Bar chain tycoon Tony Callaghan bought the 140-year-old

01:39building on Walgate in 2021 after its closure two years earlier as part of a Post Office

01:46cost-cutting programme. He had a £2 million master plan to transform the historic building

01:52into a city bar and function rooms and offices, but he says that a drop in footfall in Wigan

01:58town centre and changes to people's drinking habits since the coronavirus pandemic mean

02:04he cannot justify the investment.

02:07As for the weather, it is becoming more settled with bright or sunny spells and feeling warm.

02:13The maximum temperature today is 18 degrees centigrade.

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