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Welcome to your daily round-up from the Lancashire Post.

Here are some of today's top stories.

• 🚨 A Lancashire teen charged with Southport stabbings named for first time. Despite the boy being 17-year's-old a judge has ruled that the accused can now be named as Axel Rudakubana.
• 🔵 A Lancashire town has been branded a ‘price hotspot’ after the value of the average house rose by 7% in the past year alone.
• 🔵 I can't believe it's that long ago... from local schools to cars. We take a look back at what life was like in early ‘70s Preston.

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