Police are investigating after a second arson attack at a former nightclub in the space of two weeks.

What was most recently Mokai in Church Street was targeted during the Tuesday (10 April) evening.

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Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service were called to the building where a fire had been started deliberately at the back of the premises – off St John’s Place.

Crews put out the fire and no one was injured.

A spokesman for the service, who went crews from Preston and Penwortham, said the police had been notified of it as arson.

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It follows another fire on Sunday 25 March where rubbish at the back of the building was set alight.

Plans were lodged in late 2016 for the building to become a new restaurant but no progress has been made on these since.