NW Daily Bulletin

A round-up of headlines from across our North West newsrooms on Wednesday June 5, 2024

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00:00 Good morning, I'm digital reporter Claire Lark and these are the latest headlines from

00:04 across our North West newsrooms.

00:07 A dishonest nurse has been struck off after she was caught falsifying her timesheet to

00:11 claim £26,000 in wages for dozens of shifts she had not worked.

00:16 Francesca Kayleigh Del Greco from Preston was struck off following a misconduct hearing

00:21 by the Nursing and Midwifery Council on May 24th.

00:25 It was found that between October 2021 and February 2022 she claimed payment for 77 shifts

00:32 which she had not worked, signing her own timesheets in the space provided for her ward

00:36 manager's signature.

00:38 This resulted in Ms Del Greco being overpaid by £26,154 which was an average of £358.23

00:47 per shift.

00:49 A popular micro pub and a restaurant have closed after their building was seized by

00:53 the landlord.

00:55 Businesses have appeared in the windows of Tulkarth Taproom and Clockwork Bistro in Tulkarth

01:00 Brow in Ashton.

01:01 Both businesses have been shut for the last two weeks with the owner of Clockwork Bistro

01:05 telling customers it was due to an issue with the lease.

01:10 Thousands of pounds of illegal food has been taken out of the supply chain after a routine

01:14 inspection at a Wigan supermarket.

01:17 Wigan Council's Environmental Health Team carried out a routine food hygiene inspection

01:22 at Rann Nook Thai supermarket in Ashton.

01:26 The inspectors found a variety of food which was either not labelled or had no traceability

01:30 information.

01:33 Calico Homes has handed over keys to residents on its £9.5 million development Kinross Street

01:40 which has seen 61 new timber frame homes built in Burnley.

01:44 Kinross Street becomes the latest development by Calico Homes in south-west Burnley with

01:48 more work in the pipeline.

01:50 The new estate is made up of two and three bedroom bungalows and two and three bedroomed

01:55 houses and has been made available for affordable rent on six properties for rent to buy.

02:02 Officers from Morecambe Town Council will be conducting a survey outside the former

02:06 Queen's Hotel on Marine Road as they continue to gather evidence for an application to the

02:11 Community Ownership Fund.

02:13 The survey will be conducted between 11am and 4pm on Friday June 7th.

02:19 The fund exists to help communities save local assets that are otherwise at risk of loss

02:23 to them, with the possibility of up to £2 million of government levelling up funding

02:29 being granted for the purpose of restoring a historic local building for community use.