Central Radio News from Sunday, February 8th, 2026

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Several business owners have been left heartbroken after a major fire tore through a commercial building on Waterloo Road in Blackpool’s South Shore.

Great Harwood’s historic Mercer Hall has been given a £60,000 grant to develop a new arts and culture programme.

A police operation in Blackburn targeting anti-social behaviour has led to the seizure of more than a dozen illegal bikes and e-scooters.

Two Blackburn with Darwen primary schools are to reduce their admission numbers.

A free business support programme in Fylde is helping local entrepreneurs turn ideas into successful businesses. 

The leader of Burnley Council has told his councillor colleagues they must do all they can to persuade borough residents to tell the latest consultation on Lancashire devolution-related Local Government Reorganisation they don’t want to be merged into a new authority with Blackburn with Darwen.

Blackpool is continuing to face homelessness levels more than twice the national average, according to a new council report. 

A group of under-threat Lancashire day centres should be given “the same assurance” about their futures that has been offered to care homes previously in the same position, a councillor has said.