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Blackpool Gazette
  • 27/03/2025
A round-up of the top stories from across Lancashire.
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00:00Hello, my name is Luke Patrick and I'm a reporter for the Lancashire Post and the Blackpool
00:04Gazette. Here is the Daily Bulletin. Lancashire Police confirm body found in woods
00:09in search for missing Darwin man David Kaye. A body has sadly been found in the search
00:15for a missing man, say Lancashire Police. The force has to date confirmed a man's body
00:21was discovered by officers searching for David Kaye, 76, who was reported missing in Darwin
00:28on Sunday. The body was found in a wooded area near Clough Street in the town last night.
00:36Whilst no formal identification has taken place, police believe it to be Mr Kaye. Police
00:41said his death has not been treated as suspicious and a file will be passed to the coroner in
00:46due course. Blackpool pastor Joe Laudry died a hero saving his wife's life in a M60 Salford
00:54lorry crash. Tributes have been paid to our Blackpool pastor who was tragically killed
00:59in a lorry crash on the M60 last week. David Laudry, a pastor at Church of Life in the
01:05resort, was fatally injured in a crash involving a lorry and four cars on the motorway in Salford
01:10around 7pm last Thursday, March 20th. Greater Manchester Police said the lorry driver lost
01:17control and crashed into two cars before smashing through the central reservation barrier into
01:22the opposite lanes where it struck another two vehicles. David, 64, was behind the wheel
01:28of one of the cars struck by the lorry. He was taken to hospital in a critical condition
01:33where he sadly died. His wife, Jo, was a passenger in the car when the tragedy unfolded. She
01:41said David died a hero after saving her life in his final moments. Lancashire prison governor
01:50from Wigan had a relationship with a drug dealer inmate caught hers. A prison governor
01:57began a relationship with a drug dealer who gave a £12,000 Mercedes car paid for in drugs
02:02after she released him on licence from jail or court heard. Kerry Pegg, 42, was seen as
02:09a rising star in the Preston Prison Service, quickly climbing the career ladder from graduate
02:13entrant to prison governor in six years, Preston Crown Court heard. But Pegg didn't play by
02:20the rules and while governor at HMP Kirkham in Lancashire began a relationship with an
02:24inmate, Anthony Saunderson, who gave her the coupé car bought with drugs, it is alleged.
02:33When police raided her home in Orwell, Wigan, they found a toothbrush with his DNA on it.
02:37Jurors heard. Barbara Louise Webster opening the case for the prosecution told the jury
02:43of seven women and five men. Despite her success, she didn't play by the rules and everyone
02:48else had to follow. Greg's to shut down Lytton Branch near McDonald's
02:54in Preston Road permanently this week. Greg's to shut down Lytton Branch near McDonald's
03:00in Preston Road permanently this week. The Bakery chain will reportedly close the
03:06store next to the EG Garage in Preston Road on Friday, March 28th. A notice appeared at
03:14the entrance of the store last week, alerting customers to its imminent closure.
03:19The Greg's Branch opened in 2023 and is a standalone unit on the Forecourt of Lytton
03:26Petrol Station, which has recently been taken over by EG on the move, a chain filing stations
03:32owned by Blackburn billionaire Zuba Iser.