North West Daily News Bulletin 10/09/24

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

00:06Police have charged a man with five sexual offences on Morecambe Promenade following

00:11reports made to them last week. The offences were against three girls under 16.

00:18Dean Moroney, 34, of Marine Road East, Morecambe, appeared before Lancaster magistrates on September

00:245th and was remanded to appear at Preston Crown Court on October 3rd.

00:31A man in his 50s from Preston has been charged with attempted murder after a British Transport

00:38Police officer was stabbed. At around 9.30pm on Saturday, the officer was on duty when

00:44he was seriously assaulted. The man was taken to hospital and treated for his injuries,

00:49which are not believed to be life-threatening or life-changing.

00:53Russell Smith, 53, of Shakespeare Road, Preston, has been charged with one count of attempted

00:59murder and one count of possession of a bladed article. He was due to appear at Preston Magistrates

01:05on Monday morning.

01:08Plans for a new driving test centre on the Fylde Coast have been unveiled. Last week,

01:13a planning application was submitted to Fylde Council for Unit 8, the pavilions on Avro

01:18Crescent in Lytham St Anne's, seeking a change of use from offices to driving test

01:23centre. The application was submitted by the Driving Standards Agency, the department for

01:30transport agency responsible for carrying out driving tests amongst a variety of road

01:34safety concerns. The 153.94m2 site is currently vacant but was last used as the offices for

01:44a marketing agency called Huddle Media.

01:48A cricket club is set to sell off two chunks of land so that five upmarket houses can be

01:54built and put cash into the kitty to save it from extinction. The committee of Standish

01:59Cricket Club wants to use the money raised to replace its dilapidated pavilion which

02:04was badly damaged in a flood in 2021 caused by a burst pipe. They also want to renew their

02:10practice facilities and upgrade the car park. The proposal has prompted objections from

02:15Sport England over the potential loss of playing field space.

02:21The police have conducted a joint operation against vehicles being parked on the highway

02:25in Burnley with no tax. Officers from Burnley Neighbourhood Policing Team, the DVLA and

02:31Burnley Council addressed concerns in Dane's House with Stoneyholm around vehicles being

02:36left in situ without tax causing residential streets to become overcrowded. Police recovered

02:4315 vehicles without tax from the roads.

02:47As for the weather, today it's windy with rain moving south followed by sunshine and

02:52showers. The maximum temperature will be 16 degrees centigrade.

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