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• Future of Lancaster day care facility left unclear after council announcement

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• Police appeal to help find missing teenager with Lancaster links

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• Pedestrian critically injured in hit and run in Morecambe

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• Have you say on how £20m is to be spent in Morecambe’s West End

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• Paedophile who filmed himself having sex with teenage girls in Lancaster jailed

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