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Blackpool Gazette
  • 01/04/2025
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 today's bulletin.
00:07Teenage boy hospitalised after stabbing in Preston's Moor Park.
00:12A teenage boy was hospitalised after being stabbed in a park in Preston today.
00:17The boy was found with a stab wound after officers responded to a report of an assault
00:22in Moor Park area around 4pm. He was taken to hospital for treatment following the attack.
00:30A spokesman for Lancashire Police said an investigation is underway and is in its early
00:35stages. There is currently a road closure in place on Garstang Road.
00:42Former Blackpool doctor avoids being struck off by panel over one-off rape.
00:47A doctor who formerly worked at Blackpool Victoria Hospital has avoided being struck off
00:52despite a tribunal panel finding that he had raped a young woman in his home.
00:56Dr Aloi Foyyama, who was at the time a consultant at the hospital,
01:01had his medical licence suspended for 12 months for the attack on the woman
01:04instead of being struck off. Although Dr Foyyama denies raping the woman,
01:10the Medical Tribunal Practitioner Service concluded on the balance of probabilities
01:15that the attack had taken place. 450 new homes, a new school and park planned for Preston.
01:22A major new estate of almost 450 homes planned for the suburbs of Preston will feature more than
01:27half a dozen different sizes and types of properties ranging from one-bedroom apartments
01:32to four-bedroom detached houses. The site in Cotham has been earmarked for the proposed
01:38Morris Homes development, which would form a key part of the ongoing expansion of the
01:43north-west of the city. The sprawling plot, bound by a road, will be the site of the
01:50The sprawling plot, bound by William Young Way, Side Grooves Lane and Maxey House Road,
01:57would also accommodate part of a new park.
02:03I'm one of Fleetwood's last fishermen and I'm banned from the docks.
02:07One of Fleetwood's last surviving fishermen says he's been banned from Fleetwood docks.
02:13John Worthington, 59, runs two commercial fishing boats, the Trawler Miramore and
02:18Shrimper East Bar, along with a charter fishing boat, Kingfisher. For around half the year,
02:24he lands fish such as sole, place, dogfish, skate and as well as shrimps,
02:30and sells them locally to fish merchants on Fleetwood docks.