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Blackpool Gazette
  • 15/01/2025
Here are the top stories from across Lancashire
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00:00Hello, my name is Luke Patrick. I'm a reporter for the Lancashire Post and the Blackpool Gazette.
00:05Here is a Daily Bulletin.
00:07Mum and girlfriend of Ryan Wellings under investigation for coaching him during trial.
00:13The mother and girlfriend of Ryan Wellings, convicted of abusing his partner Keena Dawes before she took her own life,
00:20are both under police investigation for coaching him to give evidence.
00:26Before the jury was brought back into court on the first day back after Christmas during the six-week trial,
00:31Paul Greeney, KC Prosecuting, told the trial judge, the honorary recorder of Preston, Robert Alfman,
00:37that there had been developments during the break.
00:40Wellings, being held at HMP Preston, was in the middle of giving evidence
00:45and whilst entitled to speak to family and friends, he was not legally allowed to discuss his case with them.
00:52Boys aged 15 and 14 arrested after knifepoint robbery near Fleetwood, Aldi.
00:58Three boys aged 15 and 14 have been arrested after a knifepoint robbery in Fleetwood last night.
01:04Police were called at around 6.16pm after a teenage boy was threatened with a knife and mugged in Bolton Road.
01:12He was returning home from the YMCA leisure centre on the Esplanade
01:16when he was confronted by four males wearing balaclavas in Ribble Road near Aldi.
01:22One of them brandished a knife and demanded he hand over his phone, vape and silver chain along with some cash.
01:30The Lancashire Bakery oddies closed after 120 years and at the intriguing statement that could bring help.
01:37The Lancashire Bakery chain has been in business since 1905
01:42and has closed all of its 13 branches but it might not be the end of the story.
01:46Oddies, which are shops in Pendle and Burnley, closed its doors on Saturday after 120 years having sounded the alarm bells in November
01:54when new buyers poured out of a sale at the last minute.
01:57The family-owned business said it was beginning to see the shoots of recovery from economic slowdown compounded by the pandemic.
02:05However, cost pressures including energy prices had put a heavy strain on the company's finances
02:10and ultimately the cost to reinvest and recover.
02:14The Dog House pub in Bamber Bridge is up for sale at a bargain price of £45,000.
02:22The Dog House pub located at Unit 2 143 Station Road is up for sale for a snap-up price of only £44,995.
02:30Announcing the news on their business page last week, owner Ryan Griff said that after two years they had made the difficult decision to sell up.
02:39They said, after two successful years of owning and operating our beloved pub, we have made the difficult decision to sell
02:46due to them both having other long-term business ventures and the demands of raising young families.