Blackpool Gazette
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00:00Hello, my name is Luke Patrick, I am a reporter for the Blackpool Gazette and the Lancashire Post.
00:05Here is the Daily Bulletin.
00:07Troubled Shirley teen was found dead at Dad's home after a night out.
00:11Samuel Prince of Shore Green Crescent, Yorkston, died in April after being found unresponsive in his bed at Father's Home on Collingwood Road.
00:20Shirley assistant coroner Richard Taylor has resumed the inquest into Sam's death at Preston Coroner's Court.
00:26The teenager was described as vulnerable with suicidal thoughts and had been diagnosed with ADHD and was also suspected of having autism.
00:35Dr Andrew McLean, a psychologist with the specialist mental health team at Shirley and South River Hospital,
00:41was told the hearing that Sam was being treated with medication and behavioural therapy to help him deal with his emotional problems.
00:49Dr McLean was questioned by Sam's mother, Julie Braithwaite, about a suicide plan that her son had spoken to him about.
00:56I was eliminated from Michael McIntyre's The Wheel game show on BBC One, even though my answer was correct.
01:02A Blackpool man who appeared on Michael McIntyre's BBC game show The Wheel says he was unfairly eliminated because he answered a question correctly.
01:11Removal firm boss Jason 51 appeared in the Saturday Night Show's November 30 episode,
01:16along with stars such as Harry Hill, AJ O'Doodoo, Alex Ander Armstrong and Alex Brooker.
01:22The primetime show sees seven celebrities skimming various expert subjects to help contestants win cash while seated in the giant wheel.
01:29Jason, who filmed the episode in June, answered a question about the body but was told it was wrong and was lowered out of the wheel and out of the competition.
01:38He says the question turned out to be one of those which have two possible answers, but they didn't take that into account.
01:44They should have let me have it, and who knows, I could have gone on to win the show and quite a bit of money, but I didn't get that chance.
01:51Go ahead for a long-awaited hotel which could help bring big conferences back to Blackpool's Winter Gardens.
01:57Plans to build a new hotel alongside Blackpool's Winter Gardens complex have finally received full approval after landscaping concerns were resolved.
02:05The scheme for a five-storey development with 266 bedrooms has been stalled after council has deferred making a decision at that meeting in November,
02:14but after the applicant came back with revised proposals for the tree planting, including a commitment to pay £26,000 towards off-site tree planting,
02:23the council's planning committee gave the go-ahead for the investment.
02:27Changes to bin collections over the festive period begin next week, so double-check your dates.
02:32Here are the changes to bin collection dates and the service provision over the festive period.
02:37Preston Council bin collection changes. Alternate week collections will continue over the Christmas period with most collections being unaffected.
02:44Your bin collection may be affected if it's on the following dates.
02:48Christmas Day, Boxing Day, January 1st, New Year's Day.