Central Radio News from Thursday, June 26th, 2025

Health secretary Wes Streeting said Blackpool was a place he enjoyed visiting when he was younger but was a place he now needed to visit to highlight health inequalities in the nation.

Lancashire is in line for its first branch of a chicken chain restaurant that has more than 1,500 outlets around the world.

Work will start on the first £400,000 phase of the transformation of Great Harwood’s historic Mercer Hall leisure complex later this summer with a view to it fully reopening in December with a pantomime.