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

Here are some of today's top stories.

• 🔵 A senior heart surgeon at Blackpool Victoria Hospital allegedly squeezed an administrative worker's breasts and said 'I'm just looking for a pen' when she handed him a leaving card to sign, a jury has been told.
• 🔵 After two years of closure, public disquiet and little movement, the people of Southport have reason to celebrate after Chancellor Rachel Reeves confirmed the Government’s intention to back the re-opening of Southport Pier.
• 🔵 It's a hard pill to swallow but the 1970s weren't thirty years ago, in fact anyone who enjoyed music at the turn of that particular decade, did so more than 50-years-ago - here are 51 photos of Preston taken more than five decades ago.

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