Assistant editor Iain Lynn with today's top north west news headlines and weather
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00:00 Hello and welcome. These are the top headlines making the news today from our
00:03 newsrooms across the North West. Lancashire councils are issuing updates
00:08 over the wrack concrete collapse concerns in schools as precautionary
00:12 checks are carried out in the county. A second Preston school will stay shut for
00:16 the first two days of the autumn term so that a structural survey can be carried
00:20 out. Fullwood Academy contacted parents and carers on Sunday morning to advise
00:24 them that it will be closed to its more than 700 pupils on Monday and Tuesday.
00:28 The news came after Our Lady's Catholic High School in Fullwood told parents and
00:32 carers of its 900 pupils on Friday afternoon that it will be unable to
00:36 reopen as planned on Monday pending further investigation. All of Blackpool's
00:40 schools will reopen as normal for the autumn term as it emerged that none are
00:44 amongst those ordered to close because of the presence of a type of concrete
00:47 that can suddenly collapse. However one of Blackpool's facilities, Bisbomme Endowed
00:51 Primary on Bisbomme Road, has seen its hall take out of use as a precaution.
00:57 Hundreds of people including far-right activists gathered in Wigan to protest
01:01 against plans to turn a second of its hotels into an asylum seeker hostel. There
01:06 was a heavy police presence in Standish Village Centre to keep a large crowd and
01:09 the smaller group of anti-racism protesters apart. The main demonstration
01:14 had been organised by Ince and Scholes Independent Councillor Maureen O'Byrne
01:17 after Wigan Today revealed last month that McDonald's Hotel and Resorts had
01:21 done a deal with the Home Office and its asylum seeker accommodation contractor
01:25 Serco to close Kilhay Court to the public and use it instead for a purpose
01:30 in which the government had recently been saying is turning away from because
01:33 of the huge cost to the public purse. A Dad of Two has spoken of the dramatic
01:39 moment he rescued a young woman from a first floor of a Burnley pub after the
01:43 premises set on fire. Damien Whitton dashed to help when he saw flames
01:47 shooting from an extractor fan at the side of the turf pub in Yorkshire Street.
01:51 When he realised someone was on the first floor at the rear of the building
01:54 Damien and a couple of road workers used garden furniture and items from a
01:58 nearby wheelie bin to build a makeshift tower so that one of them could reach
02:02 the window. And a pub in a village near Lancaster is up for auction with a
02:07 guide price of £600,000. The Dragon's Head pub on Main Street in
02:11 Whittingham near Carnforth has planning permission for five houses on the plot
02:15 and agents say it will be an exciting residential development opportunity. The
02:19 development site extends to around 1.65 acres and apparently will be of
02:24 interest to a range of developers or private individuals seeking a unique
02:28 project. In the weather Monday will remain a dry day with plenty of very
02:33 warm sunshine, bit of fog to start Tuesday but otherwise another sunny day
02:37 with a maximum temperature of 27 degrees. Enjoy. That's it for now. Thanks for
02:42 watching. We'll see you tomorrow.