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Reporter Sian Jones with the latest North=West headlines
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00:00Hello, my name is Sian Jones and these are the latest headlines from our newsrooms across the North West.
00:05A glimpse of what is coming in Preston City Centre has been revealed.
00:09Plans have been tabled to convert the former Aldi supermarket in Corporation Street into a British Heart Foundation charity store.
00:16Manchester-based Bobby Challender of CS2 Chartered Surveyors has applied for permission for one externally illuminated wall sign
00:25and seven non-illuminated wall signs at the building which has been closed since April.
00:29A body has been found in the search for a Wigan man who has been missing from home for more than a week.
00:36Police have confirmed that the body discovered is that of David Edmonds, 55,
00:40and a spokesman said,
00:42Today we sadly found the body which has now been confirmed as missing Wigan man David Edmonds.
00:47Specialist officers are continuing to support David's family at this difficult time.
00:53In other news, four men have been arrested after a significant cannabis farm was discovered in Fleetwood.
00:59Police attended a property on Station Road on October 30th and found evidence of cultivating the drug.
01:06In a statement they said,
01:08At 3.56pm our officers attended an address on Station Road, Fleetwood to execute a warrant under the Misuse of Drugs Act.
01:16A significant cannabis growth was found in the property and there was evidence that the electricity had been bypassed.
01:23One of Lancaster's longest standing businesses is set to expand.
01:27The historic Banks Lion shoe shop closed in August but the family is now converting it to expand their service into the jewellers next door in order to keep the building within the family.
01:38In July, the Lancaster Guardian reported how Banks Lion had submitted a planning application to the City Council to carry out refurbishment and expansion work to the front of their properties at 36-44 Church Street.
01:51They also applied for a listed building consent because the building which houses the jewellers and former shoe shop is Grade 2 listed.
01:59And finally, childhood sweethearts Trish and Jo Alston have married for the second time, 15 years after they first became Mr and Mrs officially.
02:09The couple married last weekend at the Higher Trapp Hotel in Symonstone in a picture perfect day which could not have been more different than their first wedding date on July 31st 2009.
02:20For Trish who had just given birth to their oldest son Thomas four days earlier and was diagnosed with a life-threatening condition for achromathea, Thomas was delivered by a major caesarean section at 32 weeks.