Latest headlines from across Lancashire and the North West on Thursday, August 22, 2024.
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00:00Hello, I'm digital reporter Matt with your headlines from across Lancashire today.
00:05An ex-cell bully dog was destroyed by a Lancashire police after killing its owner during an attack
00:10at a home in Accrington.
00:13A man died after being attacked by his ex-cell bully in Accrington yesterday. Police were
00:16called by the ambulance service to report that the man was being attacked by a dog inside
00:20a house at Ashley Court shortly before 9.30pm on Tuesday.
00:26Officers attended and found that a man in his 50s had died. He can now be named as David
00:30Daintree, 53, who was the legal guardian of the dog and who lived at that address. The
00:35dog has since been confirmed to be an ex-cell bully, Lancashire Police said.
00:39Officers said they were left with no alternative but to discharge a police firearm to destroy
00:43the dog as it was continuing to pose a significant threat of serious harm.
00:49Drone footage shows how work on a new £18.5 million road for Blackpool Earthprise Enterprise
00:55is progressing. New drone pictures reveal how a multi-million pound road is beginning to take
00:59shape near Blackpool. Work began in spring this year on the scheme to build a new spine
01:04road linking Common Edge Road with Amy Johnson Way to provide a two-way access into the business
01:09park. It includes the demolition of a house at the junction of Common Edge Road and School Road
01:13in order to widen the junction and so far two-way traffic flow is being maintained at the site.
01:19The project will take about 18 months to complete and will open up 10.5 hectares of land
01:24for future business development as part of the Blackpool Airport Enterprise Zone.
01:28It will also ease congestion on the existing business park.
01:33An American family's one-year-old Lancaster business has won two prestigious Guild of Fine
01:38Food Great Taste Awards. The Lancaster company, Peppered Pallet, based at White Cross Business
01:45Park, has been recognised among the world's top food and drink producers, earning prestigious
01:50Great Taste Awards for its kicking key lime and zipping lemon toad hot dessert sauces. The
01:55products were selected in the highly competitive Great Taste Awards where 13,672 food and drink
02:02products were judged for a rigorous blind tasting process. Plans to turn the Shakespeare Hotel into
02:08shop and flats have been given a green light in Padihem. A former Padihem pub is to become a shop,
02:14barbers and flats despite more than 100 objections from nearby residents.
02:19Councillors approved the conversion of the Shakespeare Hotel in Witham Street
02:22when they met last week. Balacandran Paka Thiran had applied to make the changes to the two-storey
02:28post-war building known locally as The Shake. Burnley Council's Development Control Committee
02:33granted planning permission for the conversion with 19 conditions despite 128 objections from
02:39nearby residents. And in Wigan, the tragic death of a man found in a flat after he went missing
02:47has been confirmed. The body of Simon Ardrey was found at his flat in Norley on Sunday after
02:52concerns were raised for his welfare. It was only after the police asked for help to find his next
02:57of kin, which was published on social media by Wigan Today, that his loved ones were informed
03:02he had died. Coroner Shari Owen concludes Simon died by suicide, saying she had found his death
03:08was both deliberate and intentional. And they are your headlines for today. Thank you.