Daily news bulletin 26 December 2023

Here are your headlines from across the North West on Boxing Day

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00:00 Morning, my name is Jack Marshall and these are your headlines from across the North West.

00:05 Mrs Kirkham's Lancashire Cheese Ltd has taken the precautionary step of recalling various

00:10 Lancashire Cheese products because of possible contamination with E.coli. The products potentially

00:15 contaminated with Shiga toxin-producing E.coli are the brands Mild & Creamy Lancashire Cheese,

00:22 Tasty Lancashire Cheese, Mature Lancashire Cheese and Smoked Lancashire Cheese. Symptoms

00:27 caused by such organisms include severe diarrhoea, abdominal pain and sometimes

00:32 hemolytic uremic syndrome, a serious condition that can lead to kidney failure and which can be fatal.

00:37 In Blackpool, statistics have shown that there were a record number of drug-related deaths in

00:43 the past year. Office for National Statistics figures show that there were 45 drug poisoning

00:48 deaths in Blackpool in 2022, up from 33 the previous year and the highest on record,

00:54 with health and social care provider Turning Point calling for further investment in addiction services.

00:59 In Wigan, a man has been given a community order after being found with a Class B drug,

01:04 amphetamine. Stuart Harrison, 42, of Church Street in Galburn, was in possession of the

01:09 drug on Railway Road in Leigh on March 21st. Magistrates imposed a 12-month community order

01:15 with six months of drug rehabilitation and 15 days of rehabilitation activities.

01:21 He was also fined £50. In Burnley, officers from East Lancashire Police have paid tribute to PC

01:28 Claire Mace as the 20th anniversary of her murder approaches. Claire, 23, was a serving police

01:34 officer based in Nelson when she was stabbed to death by her husband, whom she had recently

01:38 separated from, on Christmas Eve in 2003. Officers gathered at her dedicated memorial bench at Nelson

01:44 Police Station to lay flowers and remember Claire. Churches in Lancaster, Morecambe, Halton, Lower

01:52 Bentham, Carnforth and Milnthorpe have been awarded funding as part of a £76 million package to help

01:57 vulnerable people. Projects tackling food poverty, homelessness charities and the services offering

02:03 financial advice amongst those to benefit from lottery funding, providing a much-needed boost

02:08 for those meeting increased demands for their critical services. And finally to the weather,

02:13 the Met Office is forecasting a fairly cloudy start to Boxing Day with some showers with the

02:18 conditions becoming drier and brighter in the afternoon and a maximum temperature of around

02:22 six degrees. Evening clouds and heavy overnight rain are also forecast with temperatures expected

02:28 to drop to around one degree. Thanks and have a lovely day.