Lincoln shop owner risks licence after police seizures
Bottles without duty stamps and prescription medicines taken
Zabka, on Portland Street, in Lincoln. | Photo: Google Streetview
A Lincoln store owner faces losing his premises licence after police seized illegal products, including medicines which required a prescription, unpriced alcohol and spirits without UK duty stamps.
City of Lincoln Council’s licensing sub-committee will decide the fate of Saman Osman Ali’s licence for Zabka on Portland Street next Thursday (February 11).
Lincolnshire Police chiefs say the business “conducted unauthorised licensable activity” .
In a series of reports to the council, the force outlines a visit to the premises on December 9, 2020, with officers from the authority’s Licensing and Environmental Health teams, Home Office Immigration and Trading Standards.
Council sets out £100k Thatcher statue unveiling budget
A big bash for the controversial statue
The plinth the Margaret Thatcher Statue will be placed upon in Grantham. | Photo: Kylie Warrington
A breakdown of the estimated £100,000 cost of the Margaret Thatcher statue unveiling event in Grantham has been revealed by South Kesteven District Council.
The £300,000 bronze statue of the Iron Lady, which will sit on a 10ft plinth (making it 20ft tall overall), on St Peter’s Hill Green, was brought to the town by Grantham Museum, SKDC and a Public Memorials Appeal.
South Kesteven District Council’s leadership previously agreed plans to underwrite an estimated £100k unveiling, attempting to reassure critics the money would be recouperated through fundraising. However, scrutiny councillors later called on the authority to show how that can be done.
Oh snap! Lincolnshire Police dashcam portal seeks road vigilantes
Footage can be used as evidence in prosecutions
What on earth are they doing? Dashcam footage capturing the dangerous overtaking manoeuvres in Boston. | Photo: Bill Philip
Lincolnshire Police finally launched an online portal where people can submit dashcam footage allegedly showing suspected driving offences.
They’re calling it Operation Snap, and they’re working together with Lincolnshire Road Safety Partnership.
This comes after 535 people were killed or seriously injured in crashes on the county’s roads in 2019, and a further 52 in 2020.
Once submitted online, evidence will be reviewed by police or an authorised person.
Lincoln release defender on deadline day
The defender leaves by mutual consent
Lincoln City defender Aaron Lewis has left the club by mutual consent on transfer deadline day.
The 22-year-old made just five appearances in all competitions for the Imps, scoring one goal.
He spent the first half of the 2020/21 season out on loan at League Two side Newport County, and will now be looking for a new permanent club.
Aaron leaves Lincoln on the final day of the January transfer window, after new arrivals made him surplus to requirements.
A spokesperson for Lincoln City offered thanks to Aaron Lewis and said: “We wish him well in his career.”
Courier conman targeting elderly victims jailed
He stole £24,800 from four victims
Vidunas Tutkus was jailed for 19 months. | Photo: Essex Police
A 23-year-old man who posed as a courier to steal over £24,000 from elderly victims, including in Lincolnshire, has been jailed for 19 months.
Vidunas Tutkus, of no fixed address, was jailed as part of a scam in which criminals posed as police officers and targeted mainly elderly victims, claiming to be investigating counterfeit money at the bank.
They persuaded the victims, who were aged in their 70s and 80s to withdraw large sums of money from their accounts.
Tutkus collected the cash from them and two victims were also asked to hand over bank cards.