Noth West Bulletin June 19, 2024

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00:00It's Wednesday the 19th of June and here are the headlines for the North West.

00:05It's been revealed that a dad and his 17 month old daughter died after the car

00:10they were traveling in crashed into a wall in a tree at 108 miles an hour.

00:14David Beckett, 50, had been driving around Hesketh Bank on February the 4th

00:19trying to get daughter Darcy Grace to sleep when the incident occurred. No

00:24alcohol or drugs were found in his system and he had been driving normally

00:28just prior to the accident. Since their death the community has raised more than

00:33£11,000 in memory and it's being donated to charity. In Blackpool the

00:40future of a listed Art Deco style pub is uncertain. The former Yates's Wine Lodge

00:45in South Promenade is starting to look derelict with smashed windows and

00:49rust marks down the walls. The pub has been closed since March 2022 and there

00:55is no evidence of activity at the site. In Lancaster police have arrested a 17

01:01year old boy after a man was assaulted at the city's bus station. The pensioner

01:06who's in his 70s was pushed over and received an injury to his neck. In Wigan

01:11a man is denied shining a laser at Greater Manchester Police's helicopter.

01:15Graham Lipshop, 39, of Knowsley Avenue, Goulbourne pleaded guilty to a series of

01:21motoring and drug offences but was denied dazzling helicopter pilot Captain Peter

01:25Delaney on November the 15th last year. In Burnley the old Reel Cinema has been

01:31demolished to make way for a new little supermarket. Reel has already relocated

01:36from the Manchester Road location to the new £23 million Pioneer Place

01:40leisure development. And the weather, in the northwest today it's going to be dry

01:45and bright across the region with highs of 18 degrees and be warned there's a

01:51very high level of pollen expected in the area.