North West daily news bulletin 26-06-24

Lancashire Post

Here are your headlines from across the North West on Wednesday, June 26

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00:00Morning, my name's Jack Marshall and these are your headlines from across the North West.

00:06An ex-el bully type dog has been seized by police after attacking a woman in Preston.

00:12Police were called to Kingsway, a quiet residential street in Ashton where the woman was mauled

00:17by the loose dog around 8.44pm on Monday June 24th.

00:22Officers seized the out of control dog while paramedics treated the woman who suffered

00:26serious bites to her chest and leg.

00:28She was taken to hospital by ambulance for further treatment.

00:32A Blackpool mum who uses a wheelchair said she felt embarrassed and discriminated against

00:36after being told a meal deal could only be served upstairs and not on her restaurant's

00:40lower floor.

00:41Becky Halliwell had gone out to the West Coast Rock Cafe on Abingdon Street with her husband

00:46Andy and some pals, specifically to enjoy the Mexican meal deal on offer, but was told

00:51that the food items she wanted, including the half-priced fajitas, were only available

00:56upstairs and could not be served on the restaurant's smaller ground floor space, which was the

01:01only one she could access.

01:03Robert Wynne, the owner of West Coast, said the incident was regrettable and one that

01:08he and the team would have to reflect on to avoid similar disappointment in the future.

01:13A fed-up mum is taking legal action against a builder she claims owes £4,800 for failing

01:18to do work on her Wigan home.

01:20In April, Abbey Ashcroft and her husband Thomas hired Stephen Mooney of RS Building Services

01:25to do three jobs on the property and claims she was told that work on the roof, windows

01:30and doors would be completed within five weeks.

01:33After paying a £6,800 deposit, Mrs Ashcroft alleges that Mr Mooney started to fail to

01:38turn up and after three weeks they decided to cancel the rest of the work.

01:42Mrs Ashcroft says she asked him to finish the roof and either return the remaining £4,800

01:49or give them the materials he had bought.

01:51She claims he agreed to deliver the materials and complete the work on the roof, but this

01:55has still not been done.

01:57Mr Mooney himself claims that Mrs Ashcroft refused him access to the site four times,

02:01citing domestic matters and illness, so he's not been able to do the work.

02:06Police are looking to speak to a certain person after a large-scale fight in Paddyham left

02:11a man unconscious.

02:13Officers were called shortly after 4.30pm on Saturday May 18th to a report of a disturbance

02:18on Wells Street where a number of people were fighting.

02:20During a fight, a man in his 50s was knocked to the ground and briefly lost consciousness.

02:24He is now recovered.

02:26A hotly debated project to upgrade two blocks of flats in Lancaster has been given the go-ahead.

02:32A planning application for improvements to Loon House and Derby House in Skirton as part

02:37of a wider regeneration work was backed by councillors at a Lancaster City Council planning

02:42meeting this week.

02:43The project, which will include new flat roofs to replace existing pyramid-shaped roofs,

02:48new balconies, doors and windows, new brickwork and a new communal and courtyard area, has

02:54been the focus of political debate and protests over affordable homes and council housing

02:59in recent months.

03:00On to the weather now, and the Met Office is forecasting a cloudy start to the day,

03:03which is set to clear up and lead to another very warm day with plenty of sunny spells

03:07across Lancashire.

03:09Temperatures are also expected to remain light, with maximum temperatures of around 27 degrees

03:13Celsius.

03:14Thanks very much for watching, have a lovely day.

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