Central Radio News from Tuesday, January 21st, 2025

Hopes of converting Blackpool’s former Odeon Cinema into a family entertainment centre appear to have been revived with the owners now seeking a leisure operator for the site.

A Blackburn man has been handed a lengthy jail sentence after violently attacking a man with a hammer.

Wyre Council has lodged objections to controversial proposals to develop a sand and gravel quarry next to houses in the village of Preesall.

Building work on planned new hospitals for Preston and Lancaster will not now begin until the second half of the 2030s – the point by which the facilities had previously been expected to open.