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

Here are some of today's top stories.

• 🚨 A police investigation is continuing after two grenade-type objects were found yesterday, one of which was a ‘viable explosive device’, with nearly 70 homes evacuated as a precaution.
• 🚨 Fire engines and police cars responded after a vehicle crashed into a Poundland in Preston today, with the car driving through the front window of the store.
• 🔵 The mum of the 19-year-old teenager who has disappeared in Tenerife has hit out at 'horrible' hoaxsters who have been calling claiming to be holding her son captive.
• 🔵 If you lived in Preston during the 1980s, you’ll love this selection of retro photos of the city in the early 80s - let us know what you remember of the era.

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