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• "Important milestone" as councils sign landmark partnership deal

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• Event held in Morecambe to share ideas for new Eden Project 'Bring Me Sunshine' Garden

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• Lancaster businesswoman completes six-month trek for Palestine

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• Lancaster City councillors vote to support plans to join with Preston and Ribble Valley

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• MP slams state of A&E department after claims ‘man with suspected broken leg turned away from RLI’

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