🔵 Lancashire child rapist dies in prison cell

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🔵 An investigation has been conducted after a child rapist, who carried out his crimes in Lancashire during the 1980s was found dead in his Wymott Prison cell. Read the news story and probe findings here.
🔵 A Preston school has been given the green-light to move forward with ambitious plans to build a new music and drama unit, a development school bosses insist is 'critical' to the development and progress of its students.
🔵 It may be little more than a golden memory however during the 1990s, Preston Indoor Market was a bustling part of the local economy, relive some of those memories with today's fab photo gallery.

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Probe after child rapist died in his cell at this prison near you

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💬 Lancashire Post - Photo of the Week

We found this photo of Blackpool beach, seafront and pier eye-catching this week - thanks very much to Zoe Louise Photography for sending us the incredible image.

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