Updates on Tuesday 13 December
News, sport, weather and travel updates will return from 08:00 on Wednesday
Live updates from Lancashire have finished for the day, but we'll be back from 08:00 on Wednesday with the latest news, sport, weather and travel from across the region.
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Kay Crewdson
BBC weather presenter
It will a cloudy, damp and mild night, with outbreaks of patchy light rain and drizzle. There will also be a lot of low cloud and hill fog.
Cloudy and murky at first tomorrow morning, with patchy light rain and drizzle at times. It will become drier and brighter during the afternoon, with some sunny spells.
Highs tomorrow of 11C.
A boy remains in hospital after being hit by a car in Rossendale last Wednesday.
Image source, GoogleThe 15-year-old suffered head, face, ankle and wrist injuries after he was hit on Newchurch Road.
Police are appealing for witnesses.
Blackburn town centre has scooped the main prize in the Great British High Street Awards.
The town won the overall Great British High Street category, along with the Best Town Centre award
Blackburn's Business Improvement District picked up a £10,000 cheque at a ceremony in London.
A BBC programme has triggered an international criminal investigation that has broken up the infrastructure used by scam mail fraudsters.
The investigation was sparked by the story of a 74-year-old widow from Northern Ireland who lost thousands of pounds.
In one example, 38 of the woman's cheques - all crossed and made payable to 32 different names - were deposited into a single bank account in Chorley.
The pensioner, identified as Elizabeth, told BBC Spotlight how she was scammed out of £180,000 in one year.
Most of that money went on telephone scams, but more than £5,000 went to mail fraudsters.
An RAF serviceman with terminal bowel cancer has been praised for raising thousands of pounds for a hospice in Lancashire.
Shahbaz Saleem, 27, from Reedley, has been recognised for his efforts in raising money for Pendleside Hospice by the MP for Pendle, Andrew Stephenson.
Burnley boss Sean Dyche believes diving would be eradicated from football "in six months" with retrospective bans.
Image source, Getty ImagesHis comments come after two recent incidents in Premier League matches.
Robert Snodgrass apologised for going down without contact to earn a penalty for Hull against Crystal Palace, while Dele Alli won a debated spot-kick in Tottenham's 5-0 win over Swansea.
Quote MessageIntroduce retrospective bans and it will be gone. I'm stunned it's not been introduced.
Quote MessageCertain teams would have three or four players done immediately, from a warning in private to the manager up to a three-game ban. It's simple to officiate. You have a panel of experts and give out bans.
Sean Dyche, Burnley manager
Three lanes have reopened on the northbound M6 after last night's lorry fire.
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Four of the five lanes between junction 31, Salmesbury, and junction 32, Broughton Interchange, were closed to allow resurfacing work to take place.
Quote MessageWe appreciate the frustration this sort of incident can cause motorists and we appreciate the understanding and co-operation of those who are caught up in it. Our partner agencies are working hard with our assistance to get the motorway open again as soon as possible.
Ch Insp Damian Kitchen, Lancashire Police
Police are appealing for information after a girl was hit by a car in Preston.
Image source, GoogleThe 15-year-old was walking home from school about 15:20 on 30 November when she was hit by the vehicle on Ribbleton Lane. She suffered injuries to her shoulder and leg.
The female driver of the car failed to stop and police are searching for witnesses to what happened.
Brighter spells for many this afternoon, before patchy rain moves in from the south later.
A cloudy, damp and mild night, with outbreaks of patchy light rain and drizzle.
Lows around 10C.
The Crown Prosecution Service has said a music teacher jailed for sexual activity with a 15-year-old girl "showed utter disregard for any long term impact" to his victim.
Lloyd Garratt, 32, of Buckshaw Village, was jailed for 14 months for sexual offences against the girl at Preston Crown Court.
In a victim statement read in court, the girl’s mother said her daughter had always been a happy, carefree, child, but after the offences came to light, she had become withdrawn and had been prescribed medication for anxiety.
Speaking after the hearing, Senior Crown Prosecutor Claire Hilton said Garratt "would have been well aware that his actions were wholly unacceptable".
“He took advantage of a young and impressionable girl by trying to make her feel special.
"He showed utter disregard for any long term impact his actions could have on her.
"The impact his actions have had on the victim and her family have been devastating."
The judge who jailed a music teacher for sexual activity with a 15-year-old girl told him he had "encouraged the relationship to develop".
Lloyd Garratt, 32, of Buckshaw Village, admitted causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity, causing or inciting a child to send indecent images and sexual activity with a child.
Jailing him for 14 months, Judge Jacqueline Beech dismissed Garratt's defence that his sexual messages were "pure fantasy", adding: “You insist she was the one who started sending images, although you accept you were the adult in the relationship.
“Whatever the position... you encouraged this relationship to develop in the way it did.”
A music teacher has been jailed after admitting sexual activity with a child.
Image source, Lancashire PolicePreston Crown Court heard Lloyd Garratt, 32, embarked on an “wholly inappropriate relationship” with the 15-year-old girl, encouraging her to send him naked selfies and sending her images of his naked body.
The father-of-two from Buckshaw Village, Chorley, who was head of creative arts at Garstang Community Academy, was caught after a friend of the victim saw the messages he sent her on her mobile.
He was jailed for 14 months after pleading guilty to causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity, causing or inciting a child to send indecent images and sexual activity with a child.
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These two very atmospheric pictures have been sent in to BBC Weather Watchers.
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Stuart Flinders
Reporter, BBC North West Tonight
A hearing has begun in Manchester in a case brought by the president of Blackpool against the football club's owner, Owen Oyston.
Valeri Belokon is making a civil claim against Segesta Ltd - Mr Oyston's operating company that owns the club's ground Bloomfield Road - following construction of two stands at the stadium.
He claims he invested about £5m to support construction work and agreed in 2008 with Segesta that any future income from the stands would be split 50/50 between the two companies.
Image source, Getty ImagesMr Belekon says Oyston has failed to keep agreements made when he bought a stake in the club 10 years ago.
Early questioning from Mr Oyston's lawyers has centred on whether Belekon is claiming entitlement to half the revenue from the new hotel under the south stand.
Belokon is bringing the case to recover monies that he believes his company, VB Football Assets, is now owed.
An MP has praised the courage of an RAF serviceman who has raised thousands of pounds for charity since being diagnosed with terminal bowel cancer.
Andrew Stephenson, the MP for Pendle, recognised the efforts of Shahbaz Saleem, 27, in the Commons.
The 27-year-old from Reedley, near Burnley, served spells in Afghanistan and Libya.
