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Air ambulance attends A46 Lincoln bypass crash Road closed near Damon’s roundabout The air ambulance landing near the A46 on Saturday afternoon. | Photo: AR Police and an air ambulance attended a crash on the A46 Lincoln bypass near the Damon’s/Doddington Road roundabout. The road is closed between the Whisby and Doddington roundabouts after the crash which happened at around 3pm on Saturday afternoon. It’s unclear at this stage what vehicles were involved. Motorists are advised to avoid ...

Woman in hospital as man charged with attempted murder in Skegness The woman remains in a critical condition | Photo: Adobe Stock A 42-year-old man has been charged with attempted murder after an incident left a woman in critical condition in hospital. Leigh Pateman was charged and remanded into custody after emergency services responded to a call about a property fire on Firbeck Avenue in Skegness at 10.29pm on Thursday, April 22. A woman in her 40s was taken to hospital with severe burns and ...

139 Kirton homes back before council as developers slash affordable housing by 57% Plan originally approved in 2019 Site location for the proposed 139 homes in Boston. A plan for 139 homes near Boston will go back before councillors next week due developers wanting to reduce the number of affordable homes by 57%. Developers Ashwood Homes want to complete the southern section of a housing development in the town off London Road, Kirton, Boston. Their revised plans for the site are to now provid...

Meet the police officer with a world record collection of bagpipes His collection has expanded since the record A police officer living in Cleethorpes has the Guinness World Record for the largest collection of bagpipes. Daniel Fleming was born in the fishing town of Arbroath in Scotland and started playing the bagpipes at the age of 10, following in the footsteps of his musical dad and older brother, who play the drums and cornet respectively. His collection continued to grow over the years a...

Police have experienced two incidents involving young people concerning sweets which contain cannabis or spice. A Lincolnshire schoolboy was hospitalised and a man was arrested after two separate incidents involving young people and ‘drug sweets’ containing cannabis or spice. A Lincolnshire school pupil became ill after eating one of the ‘sweets’ on March 16. The boy believed they contained cannabis, but it was actually a synthetic cannabinoid, and he was placed on a drip to aid his re...

The unbeaten rubber band flight record set in Lincolnshire Martin has held the record for nearly four years Martin Pike achieved the Guinness World Record for the Longest duration for a rubber band powered model aircraft to remain in the air. Launching a handmade plane flight, powered by nothing more than a rubber band, is no mean feat. It’s no wonder this Grantham made Guinness World Record has been untouched for four years. Radiologist Martin Pike, 49, holds the Guinness World Record for ...

Grimsby village 66-home plan up for approval Plans for 82 houses on the site were previously refused Where the new homes would be built. A developer’s plans for 66 homes in a Grimsby village could be given the go ahead next week. Snape Properties’ reserved matters proposals for land at Bradley Road, Barnoldby Le Beck, will appear before North East Lincolnshire Council’s planning committee on Wednesday. In a report before the committee, officers will recommend it for approval, saying the p...

Taranaki did better than most. The tourism spend in January was $28 million up 13 per cent on January last year. And December’s figures also make good reading – $25m up 2 per cent on December 2019. The year to date expenditure was $211m, down 2 per cent from last year. Not bad considering the length of time the region was in lock down. Even before January’s figures came out the signs were there to indicate it was a bumper month with three concerts attracting 34,000 concert-goers to the ...

The man, Miguel Cruz, 41, charged in a 2000 homicide of a Milwaukee woman now has his fate in the hands of the jury.

Thursday, 18 February 2021, 4:15 pm Govett-Brewster Art Gallery / Len Lye Centre - photo credit Patrick Reynolds The Govett-Brewster Art Gallery / Len Lye Centre have teamed up with the Auckland Art Fair 2021 as its exclusive Museum Partner, forging a stronger connection between the national art event and Taranaki as a vibrant, creative place. The Auckland Art Fair is the biggest event on the nation’s visual arts calendar, and an important opportunity for Taranaki to connect to thousands of ...