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Blackpool Gazette
  • 20/01/2025
A round up of 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.
00:04Here is the Daily Bulletin.
00:08Petrol stations have become a Eurogarage after takeover by EG on the move.
00:12Eleven petrol stations will become a Eurogarage after Lancashire billionaire
00:17Zuba Iser agreed a deal to buy 98 Fordcars from Apple Green.
00:23The Blackburn businessman is eager to build his own fuel station empire,
00:27EG on the move, separate from his brother Mohsin and their EG group.
00:33A sale of the 98 Apple Green Fordcars is expected to be completed at the end of January
00:39and will see EG on the move's estate grow by almost 150 sites.
00:44As of December 2024, the business had 45 Fordcar sites in the UK consisting of 34 acquisitions
00:51from the brothers EG group and 11 new site openings.
00:55Clifton Street closed due to a pub burglary in which one suspect was found unresponsive.
01:01At 8am, Blackpool Police stated that Clifton Street was closed at the junction with Abingdon
01:06Street due to an ongoing police scene. One approach about the incident, Lancashire Police
01:12confirmed they were called at 4.59am today to reports of a burglary at a pub in Dixon Road,
01:20Blackpool. It was reported that three men had been seen leaving with property from inside the
01:27premises. A few minutes later they received a report of an ongoing disturbance in Clifton
01:33Street, Blackpool. Officers attended and found a man in his twenties unresponsive.
01:40210 homes planned for either side of the road leading to Darwin Countryside.
01:46A major housing development is on the cards expanding Lancashire Town into the surrounding
01:51countryside. REAPER Ltd have submitted an environmental impact assessment screening
01:57report document to Blackburn with Darwin Borough Council ahead of outlining planning applications
02:02for 210 houses on land north and south of Marsh House Lane, Darwin.
02:10Currently, housing abruptly stops and the road leads into an open countryside in the direction
02:15of Hoddleston. Closure threatens Preston Gym, that's like a second home, seeks a mill move
02:22to survive. A bid has been lodged to save a popular Thai boxing gym in Preston by moving
02:27it into a former mill. Johnson's More Thai opened on Campbell Street near the city centre in 2021,
02:37however the club which boasts more than 400 members has been hit with a 50% increase in
02:42rent on its premises, forcing husband and wife founders Alice and Thomas Johnson to look for a
02:48new base for their business. The pair have now submitted an application to Preston City Council
02:54for permission to relocate to the greatly listed Maitland Mill building on Maitland
02:58Street in Fishwick, just over half a mile from the gym's current home.