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13. Retro Tom Finney pops into the Moor Park Pub in Preston for a pint. March 1988
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15. Four students at Tuson College have produced a play to highlight the effects of the killer disease AIDS on modern society. The ten minute play was staged as a part of an open day at the Preston college. Rachel Fallows, 19, Catherine Waller, Craig Moran and Cyrus Gabrysch, all 17, devised, wrote and produced the play in three weeks
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16. England soccer skipper Bryan Robson scored a big hit with his fans when he made an appearance in Preston to open his own shop - Birthdays - in St George's Shopping Centre.
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