PRESTON AND BLACKPOOL COURT BLOG: Live updates from Lancashire's courtrooms on February 27

Good morning and welcome to the Lancashire Post and Blackpool Gazette's live court blog, bringing you the latest from the Magistrates' Court, Preston Crown Court and Sessions House.
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There are 16 criminal courtrooms across Preston, as well as civil court rooms, and cases from across Lancashire's cities and towns - and sometimes Cumbria and Greater Manchester - are heard in them.