While it’s incredible to think that those days which seem so recent are now some 20 years in the past, it’s always nice to take a trip down memory lane and cast your mind back to days when everything seemed a little more simple and just that bit better, thanks to a tinge of nostalgia... For the latest Preston & Lancashire headlines in your inbox, sign up for the LEP newsletter.
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2. Taking part in a mammoth 24-hour pool marathon are Paul Brogden, Rebecca Tonge, Annmarie McGlynn, Steve Kay and Darren Kay, at the Sumners, Fulwood, Preston
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3. Children at St Gregory's RC Primary School in Preston with their puppets
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4. A Preston teenager is being tipped to punch his way to the top of the boxing world. Oliver Gooch delighted the home crowd at Preston Guildhall when he won his latest bout against Manchester's Larry Kenyon. And according to his coach Peter Wakeling at Kirkham Boxing and Fitness Club, there will be plenty more victories ahead for the 16-year-old Penwortham lad
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