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

Here are some of today's top stories.

• 🔵 A man who strangled and bit a woman while raping her at a property in Blackburn has been found guilty at Preston Crown Court and will be sentenced on August 16. 
  
• 🔵 Police have appealed for the public’s help in identifying a man who was kicked ‘multiple times’ in the head during a weekend attack, with authorities hoping to ‘check on his welfare’.
• 🔵 Here are 33 adorable photos of early reception classes at Preston primary schools in the noughties, do you recognise anyone familiar? 

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