Plans for a plant which would convert chicken waste into gas have been approved despite strong public opposition and against officers’ advice.
September 8, 2026 | News Editor
The decision to reorganise Lincolnshire’s councils will be paused and reviewed, the government has said.
September 8, 2026 | News Editor
A misconduct hearing has begun into the conduct of six Lincolnshire Police officers following the search of a mentally-ill woman who was hiding drugs inside her.
September 8, 2026 | News Editor
Marshall’s Yard in Gainsborough is inviting visitors to step back in time this September as its popular 1940s Day returns to the centre on Saturday, September 12.
September 8, 2026 | News Editor
My father, John Smith, who has died aged 86, was an architectural historian and a specialist in church conservation who played a major role in preserving the beauty of the ancient town of Stamford in Lincolnshire.
He served on Stamford Civic Society’s executive committee for more than half a century and led the campaign for the town’s attractive Northfields area to become a conservation area, which it did in 2004.
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September 7, 2026 | News Editor
Intensive farming has all but destroyed England’s ancient woodlands and freshwater wetlands. On a farm in Lincolnshire a radical aristocrat hopes to show there’s money in protecting nature
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September 7, 2026 | News Editor
CCTV footage shows a man jumping from a first-floor window before running into the street and, by chance. approaching a police car. The man jumps in and tells the officer he had been kidnapped and informs him of the location. Lincolnshire police subsequently arrest four men and a woman in connection with the incident
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September 7, 2026 | News Editor
Five jailed after targeting victim and subjecting him to ordeal linked to past relationship breakdown
Dramatic footage shows a kidnapped man jumping from a first-floor window into a tree before running into the street and, by chance, coming across a police car.
Lincolnshire police said the ordeal of the unnamed man had been “horrifying” and the presence of a marked police vehicle “may have saved his life”.
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September 7, 2026 | News Editor
Lincolnshire Police are again appealing for witnesses following the death of a young woman in Skegness.
September 7, 2026 | News Editor
The owner of a Sleaford hand car wash business says a 10-week council highways project to resurface and upgrade a key route into Sleaford has decimated his livelihood.
September 7, 2026 | News Editor