North West Daily Bulletin 09/07/24

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

00:05Plans to convert an historic Morecambe hotel and pub into apartments and also

00:11build houses on the site have been revealed. Property developer Alex

00:15Petocchi bought the Park Hotel in Regent Road in March and has submitted a

00:20planning application to convert it into 17 apartments and build six houses on

00:25land at the back. The 17 apartments will include three one-bed, eleven two-bed and

00:31three three-bed flats while the proposed six houses on the site will have three

00:36bedrooms. A long-awaited new service station in the suburbs of Preston is

00:41fully operational after Greggs became the last site's outlets to begin

00:46trading. The Lancashire Post understands that around 50 jobs have been created in

00:51total across the five brands that make up the Saddle Inn services, named after

00:57the historic pub that used to stand on the plot. A man suffered serious injuries

01:03to his face during an assault in Blackpool. The victim, a man in his 20s,

01:08was attacked on Middle Walk at around 9.15 a.m. on June the 6th. He suffered

01:14serious injuries to his face during the assault. Budget supermarket giant Aldi

01:20has announced plans to create another new superstore in Wigan. It has

01:25identified land at Abbey Lakes off Oral Road, close to Oral's border with Upholland,

01:30as the site for its latest outlet. Aldi says that the store would be a boost to

01:35the local economy, creating around 40 full-time jobs for local people and

01:40representing an investment of around £7 million on the site. A

01:46Cone man has been charged with killing two wild birds with an air rifle. The

01:51Ribble Valley Rural Task Force investigated a report in March of a man

01:55putting two dead birds, a tourney owl and a wood pigeon, into a wheelie bin in

02:00Cone. Officers recovered the birds and it transpired they'd been shot with an air

02:05weapon. A suspect was identified and later interviewed under caution by

02:10officers. The man from Cone has now been charged with killing a non-Schedule 1

02:15wild bird, causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal and possessing an

02:20air weapon in a public place. He is due to attend Blackburn Magistrates Court on

02:25August 22nd. As for the weather, today there will be outbreaks of rain turning

02:30heavy at times. It will be an unsettled day and feeling cool under the rain and

02:35rather breezy. For all these stories and more please visit our websites.