North west news update 6 Feb 2024: Flowers left at tragic accident scene
Assistant editor Iain Lynn with today's top north west new headlines and weather
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00:00 Hello and welcome, these are the top headlines making the news today from our newsrooms across the North West.
00:05 Flowers have been left at the scene of a tragic crash which killed a baby girl aged 17 months and a 50 year old man in Tarleton on Sunday.
00:12 The pair, believed to be a father and daughter from Lancashire, were pronounced dead at the scene in Hesketh Lane after their Land Rover Discovery collided with a Mini Cooper and a tree at 8.26am.
00:23 The driver of the Mini was taken to hospital with minor injuries.
00:26 Blackpool Town Centre looks set to benefit after a new owner snapped up one of the town's iconic features.
00:32 A prominent Art Deco building in Blackpool has been bought by a property developer famed for breathing life into disused parts of the UK's high streets.
00:39 ALB Group of Nottingham has formally announced that it has purchased a former Price Busters building on the Resorts Bank Hay Street in the hope that a new hotel chain can come in to occupy the buildings of upper level.
00:50 Residents are to be moved from a Lancaster Tower block after inspectors found it to have structural failures.
00:56 Bridge House is part of the main way estate, currently in line for regeneration by Lancaster City Council, but the 20 occupied flats will now be vacated and the residents re-homed.
01:05 The 11 storey block was built in the 1960s and upgraded in the 1980s, but the cladding used, which is not the same type as used on Grenfell Tower in London, has now come to the end of its expected lifespan.
01:17 Residents on a Wigan housing estate are fighting plans to install telegraph poles for fibre broadband.
01:23 Letters were sent to properties on the Wood Edge estate in Ashton to inform householders that 20 poles would be erected by high speed fibre broadband provider, Brusk.
01:31 But residents are strongly opposed and they say it would spoil the aesthetics of the estate, which does not currently have a single telegraph pole.
01:39 Burnley people will have the power to help decide how to spend £20 million on the town.
01:45 A Burnley MP helped to secure a third pot of levelling up funding from the government in October.
01:50 The public will have chance to suggest how it should be spent before a town board made up of local people will make the final decision.
01:56 In the weather it's looking a bit grim out there, plenty of rain about and heavy at times, even some coastal gales.
02:02 Wednesday looks a little better, a fine and dry day, and you might even get treated to the odd spell of hazy sunshine.
02:08 It's as good as you're going to get.
02:10 That's it for now, thanks for watching. See you tomorrow.