NW Daily News Bulletin 11/09

A round-up of the latest headlines from across north west newsrooms

Transcript

00:00Good morning, I'm senior reporter Clare Lark and these are the latest headlines from across

00:05our North West newsrooms.

00:07Wetherspoons will now stay in Fleetwood after scrapping plans to shut its pub in the town

00:12centre.

00:13The Thomas Drummond in Lord Street is to remain as a Wetherspoons pub after the company decided

00:18to take it off the market six months after it was put up for sale.

00:23They say the U-turn means the pub is likely to remain open for many more years to come.

00:29Police have issued an update after a 53-year-old man from Preston was charged with attempted

00:34murder after a British Transport Police officer was stabbed.

00:39Russell Smith, 53, of Shakespeare Road in Preston, has been charged with one count of

00:44attempted murder and one count of possession of a bladed article.

00:48A spokesperson for British Transport Police added that the defendants will appear at Preston

00:53Crown Court on Monday October 7th.

00:57The officers' injuries are not believed to be life-threatening or life-changing.

01:03Police are investigating what seems to have been an arson attack on a new Wigan speed

01:07camera which had only been installed this week.

01:11Pictures posted on social media show a fire blazing around the base of the new safety

01:15device which had been erected on Warrington Road in Platbridge a short time earlier.

01:22Burnley have snapped up the signing of experienced free agent John Egan on a short-term deal

01:28The 31-year-old has been training with Scott Parker's side over the summer in a bid to

01:33prove his fitness following his departure from Sheffield United at the end of last season.

01:39The Clarets have now moved to secure his signature, tying the centre back down to a contract until

01:44the end of the season.

01:48A new £4.5 million apartment project in Morecambe is now ready for residents.

01:53Bay Mill comprises 42 1-2 bedroom apartments in Bold Street in the West End.

02:00The new properties are in addition to an existing 107 homes that Place First also developed

02:07and now manages at its West End neighbourhood nearby.