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Under planned changes to the Game Act 1831, there will be the new offence of going equipped for hare coursing and powers for police to reclaim the cost of kennelling seized dogs.

An 11-inch blade was recovered by officers who searched an 18-year-old in Grantham. | Photo: Lincolnshire Police An 18-year-old man from Grantham has been arrested after police found an 11-inch knife and class A drugs in his possession. On Tuesday, April 20, officers were alerted to suspicious behaviour by CCTV operators in the town, which prompted a search on an 18-year-old man. When police searched him, they uncovered an 11-inch zombie style knife as well as a “significant amount” of clas...

Frontline police officers in Lincolnshire offered spare COVID vaccines Left over doses are used to vaccinate the force | Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite Lincolnshire’s frontline police officers are being offered doses of the COVID-19 vaccine that are left over at the end of a day. Lincolnshire Police’s force control room will be called each day with the offer of spare vaccines that weren’t used throughout the day. This is due to the vaccine not being able to be stored overnight, w...

A prolific gang who stripped the lead from dozens of rural churches across England were today jailed for a total of 22 years. The four Romanian men, who were all living in the West Midlands, targeted churches from Somerset to North Yorkshire during a two-year crime spree which left churches facing repair bills totalling more than £2million.   Among those counties hit hardest during the two-year crime spree were Lincolnshire, Somerset, Cambridgeshire and Yorkshire. The thieves also took lead ...

Muted New Year celebrations in tier 4 Lincolnshire One was a false alarm, but one party broken up in Cleethorpes Lincolnshire Police didn’t have to deal with any major COVID tier 4 lockdown breaches on New Year’s Eve, and one ‘party’ they were called to turned out to be two people watching re-runs of Countdown. Lincolnshire moved into tier 4 on Thursday, December 31, while North East Lincolnshire remained in tier 3 and there had been some concerns that trouble would flare up. Both tiers...

South Holland put under weekend dispersal order to target hare coursers  | Updated: 12:16, 11 December 2020 Police have put a dispersal order in place across South Holland this weekend to try and stop hare coursers from entering the area. Under the order, which also applies to Boston and East Lindsey over the next two days, anyone suspected of hare coursing or who is in the process of letting dogs loose on farmland in the area, will be ordered out of Lincolnshire. The order also gives police ...