19th December Daily Bulletin.

Here is a round up of the top stories from across Lancashire.

Transcript

00:00Hello, my name is Luke Patrick. I'm a reporter for the Lancashire Post and the Blackpool Gazette.

00:04Here is today's bulletin.

00:07Plans to revive and develop a run-down overwire pub go back before planners.

00:12A scheme to revive an overwire pub which has fallen into near-dereliction

00:16is back with wire planners a year after it was approved.

00:20The Golden Ball pub based in Redbrick, Victorian premises on School Lane and Pillink has been

00:25closed since March 2020 after the business' previous run-through Threats Brewery began

00:30to struggle and it has been well-known for its two boulder greens and beef carvery meals.

00:36An application was submitted in September 2022 for an extension and extra development

00:41of the site entailing a smaller pub and new apartments in the upper storey.

00:46We lost everything in a fire which destroyed our home and we are devastated but we feel

00:51lucky to survive. Our Blackpool family say they are devastated after losing everything

00:55after a huge blaze ripped through their home but they are just thankful that everyone survived.

01:01Now kind-hearted residents from the Fylde Coast and beyond have helped raise more than £4,000

01:06in just one day to assist the Alpsen family after the devastating fire on Henson Avenue,

01:10South Shore. The blaze started on the early afternoon yesterday, Tuesday December 17th

01:16with firefighters called out at 1.25pm. Hygiene horror as health inspectors find a takeaway

01:22infested with rats. A rat infested takeaway has been closed after being slapped with a

01:27zero hygiene rating by Preston health inspectors. The city's food safety officers visited Chico's

01:35Inn at Acre Gate Lane, Vibleton after a tip-off revealed the takeaway was riddled with rats.

01:42During their visit on October 8th, inspectors found rat droppings on floors, worktops,

01:46shelves and boxes containing packets of food. A 51-year-old man dies in an explosion at a farm

01:53near Longridge. A man has died following an explosion at a farm near Longridge.

02:00Emergency services were called to the scene on Monday morning at a farm in

02:04Hotherson Hall. Lancashire police said the man died at the scene and the

02:08explosion has not been treated as suspicious.

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