North West News Update February 22

Digital reporter Emma Downey with today's top north west news headlines and weather

Transcript

00:00 Hello, I'm Emma Downey and these are your news stories from across the North West this

00:05 Thursday. Lancashire couple Richard and Debbie Knottall

00:08 have been named as the winners of a 61 million EuroMillions jackpot. The lucky couple, both

00:14 aged 54 from Cologne, won the jackpot while sat in the sun on a holiday in Portaventura.

00:19 They plan to buy a new family home in Lancashire and a holiday home in Portugal.

00:25 Blackpool mum Nia Rudder will appear on TV's Gladiators this weekend. The super-fit 38-year-old

00:32 will appear in the show's quarter-final this Saturday on BBC One after bottling her way

00:36 through the heats. She said it was a brilliant experience and as much fun as it looks.

00:41 A former Burnley pub that was transformed into a successful Italian restaurant before

00:47 it suddenly closed around four years ago has been sold. Nino's was sold by Paddyham-based

00:53 White Echres Property Ltd in a deal that was agreed before Christmas and completed last

00:58 week. The owners of one of Wigan community's newest

01:01 hospitality venues have already announced with sadness that it has closed. Mounting

01:06 costs have been blamed for Standish's, Istanbul's, Cafe's early demise. The Skylane premises

01:13 only opened last year and specialise in breakfasts, lunches and desserts.

01:18 A campaign for real ale has named Lancaster Brewery's Lancaster Black as the best in its

01:23 category in the Champion Winter Beer of Britain 2024 competition at the Great British Beer

01:30 Festival. The beer was awarded gold in the Session, Stouts and Porters category, beating

01:35 Church and Brewery's Stout Coffin and Colour Codes Brewery's Polly Duncan Oatmoole's

01:41 Strout to the title. On the weather, it will be sunny spells and

01:46 heavy rain throughout the day with a chance of hail and thunder going into this evening

01:51 and much of the same for the early hours of tomorrow.

01:54 Have a lovely day.