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The Lincolnite Person of the Year: Jonathan Van Tam A “Van-tastic” achievement Professor Jonathan Van-Tam has a gift of using metaphors to explain various situations during the COVID-19 pandemic. Boston-born Jonathan Van Tam, England’s Deputy Chief Medical Officer, has become known for his colourful metaphors and straight forward nature when delivering the latest news about the coronavirus pandemic. From late-minute equaliser goals, to waiting for a train and how coronavirus is not like a...

The next in our series of reflections on 2020 in the on-trade, award-winning chef and pub operator Nicholas Hack looks back on a ‘yoyo’ of tiers and lockdowns and building his business on 12 months of shifting sands. It started as a positive year for us here at the Cadeleigh Arms. We had just received news we had been nominated in to the Estrella Damm Top 50 Gastropubs, won Exeter Living Awards best Gastropub and runners up for the Most Dog Friendly Pub in the So...

More than 14,000 sign up for Universal Credit during coronavirus pandemic More than 14,000 people in Lincolnshire impacted by the coronavirus crisis have claimed for Universal Credit since the pandemic began. The latest job centre figures have been released by the Department for Work and Pensions and show how COVID-19 has seen a big increase on the number of claimants. Universal Credit covers six major benefits and the figures cover those both in and out of work, including self-employed and tho...

More than £80m handed to local businesses during coronavirus pandemic Photo: stock More than £80 million has been given to nearly 6,800 businesses across Lincolnshire to help support the local economy against the impact of the coronavirus lockdown. Lincolnshire’s district councils have been given £192,109,000 by government to support local businesses during the Covid-19 pandemic. The money was part of a swathe of measures announced by government covering loans, small business grants and gr...

All Lincolnshire MPs vote for second COVID lockdown One spoke against but then backed down | Photo: Adobe Stock MPs have backed a second four-week lockdown in England which it is hoped will “contain a surge” in COVID cases and protect the NHS in the run-up to winter. A total of 516 MPs voted for the latest measures with 38 marked up in opposition. All of Greater Lincolnshire’s Conservative MPs voted in favour of the lockdown, with Lincoln MP Karl McCartney voting by proxy through Pudsey M...

Lincolnshire councils and coronavirus: Meetings cancelled and older councillors at risk Councils across Lincolnshire could soon start to feel the strain of the COVID-19 outbreak, with some already postponing meetings. The latest considerations by government could also see some councils lose a number of older members temporarily. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps told BBC Radio 4 that over-70s could be asked to stay at home in the coming weeks. As of Monday, the number of reported COVID-19 cases ...

Updated: December 29, 2020, 9:45 am © Kami Thomson / DCT Media Thank you for signing up to our Politics newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up In no year has this felt more apparent than 2020. From Boris to Nicola, McPake to Mellon, Mum, Dad, Holyrood and Hollywood, you will scarcely find anyone who does not want to see the year 2020 AD consigned to the history books. So, with 2020 hindsight (ahem), let’s look back at the year that was, our new normal. Jan...

Ursula Von der Leyen: the EU’s model of elegance steadies the ship  “I always wanted… to come home,” said Ursula Von der Leyen, 62, last year, when she became the European Commission’s first female president – her family actually hails from Lower Saxony in Germany. But it was in Brussels that the gynaecologist-turned-politician was born, grew up and first “nurtured a passion for the European project”, says the Financial Times. Her first year in the job has been more turbulent t...

It’s a wet Wednesday morning, one of those days where the sky meets the land and the spray from wagons on the A590 makes driving tricky. It’s a minute to nine when we reach our destination, Bakehouse Born and Bread. Five tables are already taken. By ten past it’s full and a queue has formed. It’s safe to venture to owners Kirsty Postlethwaite and Chris Small that they might be rather pleased with how things are going just two weeks into their new café at Greenodd. On a trading esta...

A POPULAR waterside pub says it is being forced to close its doors because of too many customers from outside the county not sticking to the rules. The Heron Inn at Malpas has posted on Facebook claiming it is being forced to close temporarily because it says too many customers from tiers three and four were trying to find loopholes to get around Covid rules. They said they no longer feel they can keep their staff or their customers safe in this situation. The post on Facebook said: "Co...