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

Here are some of today's top stories.

• 🔵 A violent Accrington rapist ‘blinded’ his victim during a sickening sexual assault in which he laughed and also boasted to a man about what he had done to his victim.
• 🔵 Lancashire Police found £600,000 worth of heroin in the footwell of a car after the driver was pulled over on the M6 motorway near Garstang in November.
• 🔵 Preston has been full of some fabulous, and not so fabulous pubs, clubs and bars across the decades - here are the 27 roughest venues through the years as voted by you!

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