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00:00Hello my name is Luke Patrick, I'm a reporter for the Lancashire Post and the Blackpool Gazette.
00:04Here is the Daily Bulletin. Two months after £14,000 worth of items stolen during a burglary
00:10in Preston. £14,000 worth of items were stolen during a burglary in Preston prompting police
00:16to launch a CCTV appeal. The incident took place in the Moorpark Avenue area around 6.40pm on
00:23Friday January 3rd. A spokesperson for the Lancashire Police said our officers have been
00:29conducting numerous enquiries and we're now asking for your help to identify those in the video.
00:36Officers today released CCTV footage of two individuals they wanted to identify as part
00:41of their ongoing investigation. Blackpool MP Chris Webb demands Britannia's Metropole Hotel
00:48evict 500 asylum seekers immediately. Blackpool South MP Chris Webb is leading calls for asylum
00:55seekers to be moved from the Metropole Hotel immediately, claiming the situation is placing
01:00an unbearable strain on local services. Mr Webb says he will continue to lead the charge as concerns
01:08grow over the continued use of the resort hotel as accommodation for asylum seekers.
01:15It's time for the owners of the Metropole to take action said the Labour MP for Blackpool South
01:20in a video filmed outside the hotel last week. Mr Webb wants the hotel on Central Promenade owned
01:26by Britannia and used to accommodate asylum seekers since 2021 to be returned to its tourism
01:32use and restored to its former glory. Preston Weekender is back for 2025 here's everything you
01:39need to know. Attention festival goers the dates for the Preston Weekender have been announced for
01:452025. The 2024 event was hugely popular attracting more than 3,500 festival goers.
01:53The Preston Weekender is a two-day music festival that takes place on the flag market at 4 Cheapside
01:59Preston and PL12AP. The two-day festival will take place across the bank holiday weekend of May 3rd
02:05to May 4th. I stayed in a Blackpool hotel for just £12.80 per night
02:14with breakfast included. Liverpool based blogger Zach has filmed his visits to some
02:21memorable places and some from some of the swankiest hotels to the worst reviewed hotel in
02:25the UK and even accommodation over in Ukraine. For his trip to Blackpool he couldn't believe
02:31that the 26 capacity Highbury Hotel on St Chad's Road in South Shore was charging just £12.80 for
02:38a room. Reviews have not been kind to this establishment with a number of one-star
02:43put downs using words like disgusting and they should have paid us. However there will
02:48have also been some five-star reviews praising it for its value for money.