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Default Removing text from a date

Hi
I have a date field in a spreadsheet that is coming from another system as a
text fled and contains charatcetrs I wish to remove. And I want the output to
just be dd/mm/yy. Problem is I can't just count overall characters and remove
left and righ becuase sometimes there is an asterisk and sometimes the date
has 2 characters for the number ie 10 Jun as opposed to 5 Jun. Example
below....

Thu, 5 Jul 07*

Anyone got any cunning plans around a formulae to clean this up and output
just a date?