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

Here are some of today's top stories.

• 🔵 A local family are now offering a £10k reward for the safe return of their pet dog Bear, who has sadly been missing since January.
• 🔵 A 'prolific' Preston burglar who stole 'sentimental' wedding rings from a pensioner, and preyed on elderly people across the city has been handed a jail sentence.
• 🔵 If you had one wish, what would you bring to Preston and the wider Lancashire area? We asked LEP readers, here’s what you answered.

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