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

Here are some of today's top stories:

🔵 Chorley and South Ribble councils have failed in a bid for funding to help keep their leisure centres and swimming pools open.

🔵 A police investigation is under way after a canal boat caught fire in Preston.

🔵 Preston has been named as one of the worst places in the UK for a night out.

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