North west news update 14 Nov 2023: Girl, 12, raped in Lancashire Park

Assistant editor Iain Lynn with today's top north west news headlines and weather

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00:00 Hello and welcome. These are the top headlines making the news today from our newsrooms across

00:03 the North West. A 12-year-old girl was raped in a Preston Park and Lancashire Police are

00:08 asking for the public's help to identify her attacker. The child was raped in Conway

00:12 Park, Fullwood sometime in July 2022 but the attack was only reported to Lancashire Police

00:18 six months later on, in January 25th of this year. The police did not make the public aware

00:23 of the incident until last week when it released a computer generated image of the rapist as

00:27 described by the young victim. Lancashire Police said an investigation into the rape

00:31 has been ongoing for 10 months but detectives have failed to make an arrest. Storm Debbie

00:36 wreaked havoc across the North West yesterday. In Lancaster a tree has fallen onto a house

00:41 amid the high winds. The house appeared to have been largely protected by scaffolding

00:44 erected in front of it. The fire service blocked the terrace off using both tape and a fire

00:49 engine parked across the road. In Blackpool all trams were cancelled yesterday evening.

00:54 Initially Blackpool Transport announced that the storm had meant that their tram service

00:57 was curtailed with no trams travelling south of North Pier but that was then escalated

01:01 to a full service suspension. Police were called to Burnley's Alster store after a suspected

01:07 security incident yesterday. Sections of the car park at the Princess Way store were cordoned

01:11 off but the store remained open while officers were at the scene. A much loved Wigan mum

01:16 of three who died at home had been poisoned by a cocktail of cocaine and ecstasy in inquestors

01:21 heard. Bernie Burgess died suddenly on May 29th leaving behind an 11 year old son and

01:26 twin girls both aged 9. An inquest at Bolton Coroner's Court heard that the 39 year old

01:31 who had worked for many years at the Springfield Hotel and also ran her own cleaning business

01:36 was found collapsed and unresponsive in the toilet of her home in Victoria Street, Newtown

01:40 on May 29th of this year. In the weather sunshine and showers are expected

01:45 through much of Tuesday with a risk of thunder and hail. Wednesday will start off breezy

01:50 but should ease by the afternoon bringing cloudy, showery conditions and a top temperature

01:55 of 11 degrees. That's it for now, thanks for watching, have

01:58 a great day and we'll see you tomorrow.

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