North west news update 27 Sept 2023: Train passengers describe ‘insane’ 11-hour journey

Digital reporter Catherine Musgrove with today's top north west news headlines and weather

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00:00 This is a bulletin for Wednesday the 27th of September.

00:04 Comedian James Nickersey has described his insane

00:07 11 hour journey from London to Edinburgh,

00:10 which was canceled by a event West Coast in Preston.

00:14 The comedian had to be driven 185 miles from Preston

00:18 to Edinburgh by black cab, which took three hours.

00:22 Hundreds of people were affected.

00:24 In Blackpool, the discount chain, Boys has announced

00:28 it will be opening a new shop in Lawson Road in Thornton.

00:32 The shop claims to sell everything.

00:35 In Wigan, a hit and run motorist who killed a dad of five

00:40 has been jailed for nine years.

00:42 Jamie Evans' Volvo struck Gareth Roper 35 in Lily Lane

00:46 in the early hours of New Year's Day, 2022.

00:50 In Lancaster, it's been revealed that Ashton Golf Course

00:54 will be up for sale by auction next month.

00:57 Bidding on the nine hole site,

00:59 which is about one and a half acres,

01:01 is set to achieve one and a half million pounds.

01:05 A new study has revealed that Burnley has the fourth worst

01:08 infestation of Japanese knotweed in Lancashire.

01:12 Across the county, there are 1.1 incidents

01:15 of Japanese knotweed for every kilometer.

01:18 And it's a real problem in terms of your housing.

01:21 It gets down into the foundations can cause a real problem.

01:26 And across the Northwest, the weather today,

01:30 well, get ready for a very blustery one.

01:32 In fact, it's gonna be storm Agnes.

01:34 It's coming at midday.

01:35 There's gonna be heavy rain and really bad winds

01:39 from about midday until seven o'clock tomorrow morning.

01:42 We're being warned that that could cause highways problems,

01:46 could bring down trees, we could have power cuts,

01:48 could therefore have mobile phone outages.

01:51 So you should have torches and blankets at the ready.

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