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

Here are some of today's top stories.

• 💔 A Lancashire father has spoken of his heartbreak after his son tragically drowned on a school trip to the Lake District. 
• 🔵 South Ribble MP Paul Foster insists “nothing has changed” regarding plans for a new Royal Preston Hospital - in spite of a review being ordered.
• 🔵 A man accused of stabbing his wife to death as she pushed her baby in a pram along a city street has denied murder.

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