More news, sport, weather and travel updates from 08:00 on Thursday
Live updates from Lancashire have finished for the day, but we'll be back from 08:00 on Thursday with the latest news, sport, weather and travel from across the region.
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Charlie Slater
BBC Weather presenter
Temperatures will drop tonight with a widespread frost and patchy fog developing.
A cold and frosty start tomorrow with patchy fog slowly clearing. Later in the day there will be more sunshine, although it will remain cold.
Highs tomorrow of around 8C.
A Lancaster-born author has been shortlisted for a national award.
Image source, Stefano MasseGuinevere Glasfurd is up for the Costa First Novel Award for her book The Words in My Hand.
Blackburn-based poet Melissa Lee-Houghton, from Manchester, is also nominated for the Poetry Award for Sunshine.
The winners will be announced at a ceremony in London in January.
A 41-year-old man from Ormskirk has been missing since Monday, prompting police to launch an appeal.
Image source, Lancashire PoliceNeil Baines, 41, was last seen at an address in Wigan Road about 20:30.
He has links to the Lancaster and Blackburn areas, and police believe he could have travelled to either Southport or Huddersfield.
He is described as white, 5ft 8in tall (1.76m), stocky build, with dark brown cropped hair. He was wearing a dark top, jeans and uses glasses.
A hospice has been praised for going "the extra mile" for patients and showing them "outstanding kindness and compassion".
Image source, East Lancashire HospiceEast Lancashire Hospice in Blackburn was rated "outstanding", external by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) after an inspection in September.
It reaches out to marginalised communities using "innovative methods" such as social media, the report said.
The CQC praised staff for treating people with "sensitivity and dignity".
A banned driver who tried to run over two police officers, threatened two others and rammed a police car has been jailed., external
Gary Hunt
BBC Radio Lancashire Sport
Fleetwood striker David Ball has suggested the current "camaraderie" at Highbury ranks among the best he has seen.
David Ball
Tuesday's 3-0 win over Shrewsbury moved the League One side to within a point of the play-off places.
Ball has scored eight goals this season, including two during the second half of last night's game.
Becoming brighter this afternoon with plenty of sunshine, although it will feel chilly.
Turning colder overnight with a widespread frost developing under clear skies and light winds. Some patchy fog may develop towards dawn as well.
Lows of 2C.
BBC Travel
Preston New Road in Blackpool is partially blocked westbound at the Clifton Road junction, because of a crash.
A councillor who represents the British National Party (BNP) on Pendle Council has defected.
Image source, Pendle CouncilBrian Parker was first elected to the Marsden ward in 2006 after gaining the seat from Labour.
He is now standing as an independent.
The switch means the BNP has lost its final borough councillor.
Pupils at a Lancashire primary school have nailed the "mannequin challenge".
The social media craze involves being videoed while staying as still as possible.
Youngsters at Flakefleet Primary School in Fleetwood have put paid to the idea children are unable to stay still for even a few seconds.
Lancashire Evening Post
A school is celebrating a blooming success after its spectacular gardens won a North West award, external.
Former England footballer Paul Stewart has spoken of being sexually abused as a youth player.
Image source, ALLSPORTMr Stewart, who played for Blackpool, Manchester City and Liverpool, told the Mirror, external an unnamed coach abused him for years.
He said his attacker threatened to kill his relatives if he told anyone.
It comes after two former Crewe players waived their anonymity to tell of being abused as boys by club coach Barry Bennell, who was jailed in 1998.
A meeting to discuss proposed boundary changes in Burnley will take place later.
Image source, GoogleThe full council meeting will decide how the authority should respond to Boundary Commission plans that would see Burnley gain eight wards and lose three.
The government wants to save millions of pounds by reducing the number of UK MPs by 50 to 600.
A pensioner collapsed after driving his car into a lamppost, external last night, police said.
Preston boxer Lisa Whiteside has won bronze at the Women's European Championships in Bulgaria.
Image source, Getty ImagesThe 31-year-old lost her flyweight semi-final after being beaten by Russian fighter Elena Saveleva in Sofia
An 80-year-old 'carpool karaoke' star with Alzheimer's disease has been named the UK's "most creative" fundraiser.
Ted McDermott - known as the Songaminute Man - helped raise £130,000 for charity after son Simon recorded videos of the pair singing in the car around Blackburn.
Mr McDermott is a former Butlin's Redcoat, who spent decades travelling the country singing in clubs.
His son's video of them singing Quando, Quando, Quando in the car has been viewed two million times.
