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Ambulance loving Lincolnshire boy walks over 970k steps for charity Lucas dreams of becoming a paramedic in the future Lucas Artiss dreams of becoming a paramedic and in March 2021 he raised over £1,500 for a national ambulance charity. A 12-year-old boy from Gainsborough who dreams of one day becoming a paramedic walked nearly 979,000 steps to raise over £1,500 for The Ambulance Staff Charity (TASC). Ambulance loving Lucas Artiss beat his target of 930,000 steps by almost 50,000 with a final total of 978,824, which is the equivalent of walking from his Lincolnshire home to Portsmouth and...

South Kesteven is among three areas in Lincolnshire to have infection rates more than twice as high as the England average.

River Witham footpath to close for a month Making the path safer to walk down Work to extend a stone footway will mean the footpath at the River Witham will close for four weeks. | Photo: Lincolnshire County Council The riverside path near Newark Road in Lincoln will temporarily close for around a month due to improvement works. Work will start on Monday, April 12 and is expected to last until Friday, May 7. The footpath will be closed for the duration of works. During the improvements, there will be an extension of the existing stone footway along the bank of the River Witham, behind the Ess...

Four arrested after woman seriously injured in Spalding She was seriously injured and taken to hospital Police remain at the scene on Cradge Bank in Spalding. | Photo: Stephen Daniels Four people have been arrested after a woman was found with serious injuries at a property in Spalding. Officers were called to a property on Cradge Bank just after 11am on Monday, April 5, where a 39-year-old woman was found injured and taken to hospital. Lincolnshire Police are trying to establish what caused her injuries and arrested three men and one woman, aged 50, 51, 55, and 48 respectively. All four rem...

Twice weekly COVID testing welcome amid warning of false negatives COVID Passports “inevitable” for travel but health bosses on fence over home need | Photo: Stuart Wilde for CoLC Government’s move to get people testing twice a week was expected and welcomed, but “don’t think you’re scot-free” if you get a negative result, health bosses have warned. Professor Derek Ward, Lincolnshire County Council’s director for public health, said the move was “another tool in the toolbox”. However, he added the “primary line of defence” was to carry on with social distancing, hands,...