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Contactless payments limit rising from £45 to £100 As early as next week in some places The limit for single use contactless payments will rise this year. | Photo: Adobe Stock Single contactless card payments will rise from £45 to £100 this year, after the coronavirus pandemic prompted a further move away from cash. Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced the move during his budget for 2021 on Wednesday afternoon in the House of Commons. It is believed that the limit increase on a single payment with a contactless card will encourage shoppers to go cashless for public health reasons. The £100 l...

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Lincoln train station. Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite Two teenagers who were involved in a county lines drug operation have been given suspended jail sentences at Lincoln Crown Court on Wednesday. Officers stopped and arrested two men at Lincoln railway station in April 2019, and the subsequent inquiry led officers to a property in the Monks Road area of the city which was being used as a base for selling ecstasy. Lisa Hardy, prosecuting, said that drugs were being brought from outside of the city to the ground floor flat in Cannon Street. The 18-year-old living at the flat was not...

'She always had time for everyone': Tributes as Salford school worker, mum and grandma dies of Covid-19 Margaret Gunshorn was just 59 years-old when she sadly passed away at Bolton Royal Hospital Margaret Gunshorn (Image: Glenys Hutchinson) Sign up to the MySalford newsletter and don't miss a thing happening in and around the cityInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. OurPrivacy N...

STACY SQUIRES Michael "Hooky" Walker was left with 50 fractures after crashing his motorbike. After a month in coma, he is now on the slow road to recovery at his home in Lake Coleridge. A quick motorbike ride before a family dinner could have been Michael “Hooky” Walker’s last. It was supposed to be a 20-minute journey on his cherished Harley-Davidson. But the 47-year-old’s next memory after the October 24 crash was waking up from a month-long coma with more than 50 fractures scattered throughout his body. Walker was about 6km from his Lake Coleridge Village home in rural mid-Cant...