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00:00 A police officer who tried to hire a sex worker while on an overnight stay for a training
00:04 course has been dismissed for gross misconduct. PC Adam Abdo-Rehman, who was based in Preston
00:10 since 2021, was staying in London in 2023 on a trip funded by the British Transport
00:16 Police. A Blackpool hotelier has dismissed claims
00:20 the police are regular call to his premises due to raider behaviour and pledged to operate
00:24 a high-quality restaurant and bar if his licence is approved.
00:28 Jose Sanchez told a council licensing panel the Barons Hotel on Hornby Road wanted to
00:33 offer customers a place where they can order food and then relax afterwards with a drink.
00:39 Six fire engines were called out just after 8am today to a blaze at St John's Church
00:43 in Paddyham. Engines from Burnley, Clitheroe, Nelson and Heimburn were at the scene, along
00:48 with the aerial ladder platform from Preston. Detectives have made another arrest following
00:55 a Skelmersdale shooting at the centre of a murder inquiry. Lenny Scott was fatally injured
01:00 in the incident outside a gym on Peel Road in Skelmersdale at around 7.35pm on Thursday,
01:07 February 8. A 30-year-old man from Liverpool was arrested last week on suspicion of conspiracy
01:12 to commit murder and has now been bailed. Police are appealing for anyone with dashcam
01:18 footage after a large group of performance cars were seen racing on the M6 northbound.
01:23 Police stopped one performance car, which was already subject to a Section 59 warning,
01:28 which is a vehicle being used in an antisocial manner, and that was seized.
01:33 And finally the weather. The region looks set for a scatter shower as an average temperature
01:37 this week, turning colder but brighter at the weekend.
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