North west news update 4 Jan 2024: Treasured artwork left to rot after storms

Digital reporter Michelle Blade with today's top north west news headlines and weather

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00:00 Hello, I'm Michelle from the Lancaster Guardian with your latest news from across the region.

00:06 An autistic artist and her mum will have devastated after her artwork was tossed behind a temporary

00:12 fence when bad weather blew down the Morecambe Frontierland hoarding. Josie Conroy had painted

00:18 a large picture of a mermaid which was installed on the hoarding along with other pieces of

00:23 art. Her mum Karen noticed the hoarding had blown down and paintings were dumped behind

00:28 a temporary fence and left to the elements. The council have since returned Josie's artwork

00:34 after retrieving it.

00:36 Two teenagers have been charged after a mother youth was assaulted at a Star Store in Walton

00:41 Leedale. Police were called to the shop in Sandringham Road on New Year's Eve where the

00:47 victim was ambushed by two teenagers at 5.48pm. The boy was assaulted and allegedly threatened

00:54 with a knife before his two assailants fled the scene before police arrived. Officers

01:00 later arrested two 17-year-olds who have since been charged with multiple offences including

01:05 common assault and possession of knives.

01:09 A Lancashire woman started 2024 with a bang after winning £50,000 jackpot on the bingo.

01:17 The 58-year-old woman from Fleetwood, who asked not to be named, was playing in the

01:21 afternoon session at Club 3000 Bingo in Blackpool on Tuesday when she won. The bingo player's

01:28 lucky numbers came up on the national bingo game resulting in the top prize of a whopping

01:33 £50,000 jackpot.

01:36 One of Burnley's oldest and best known pubs is up for sale. The Angel Inn, which dates

01:42 back to the mid-1800s, is on the market for £150,000 with licensed property specialist

01:49 Sydney Phillips. The pub pays homage to the Clarets as the walls are decorated throughout

01:54 with Burnley FC memorabilia. There is also a distinctive mural of Jimmy McElroy in an

02:00 outdoor sheltered patio area.

02:04 An out-of-control van smashed into four cars in a Wigan Borough main road before the driver

02:10 made off. Firefighters say that at least four of the vehicles were written off by the early

02:15 hours collision on Bolton Road, Atherton. A silver Mercedes minibus-type van had crashed

02:21 into a line of stationary cars only for its driver to flee the scene.

02:27 As for the weather for the North West, there will be sunny spells and scattered showers

02:31 and it will be drier later.

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