Trio of festive campaigns raise £92,000 for hospice in Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire-based St Barnabas Hospice has kicked off the year with a huge fundraising boost, thanks to its generous supporters.
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Lincolnshire-based St Barnabas Hospice has kicked off the year with a huge fundraising boost, thanks to its generous supporters.
Over 1,000 took part in the procession
From left, Green candidate Matt Parr, Labour leader Ric Metcalfe, Conservative leader Thomas Dyer and Liberal Democrat candidate Clare Smalley. There are almost 50 candidates across 11 wards hoping for your vote in the City of Lincoln Council elections next month. Labour currently has overall control of the council with 24 seats, while the Conservatives have nine and need to gain eight seats for a majority. Voters will go to the polls on Thursday, May 6 to choose who they want to represent them in at the city council for the next four years. We spoke to the leaders of the two parties currentl...
Multiple people were seen relieving themselves down the alleyway. | Photo: Phillip Cross City of Lincoln Council has vowed to “clamp down” on people using alleyways as toilets, after yet more were seen urinating down a passage known as “pee and poo alley”. CCTV footage of the alley at St Peter At Arches, between CEX and Caffe Nero, emerged over the weekend and showed multiple people using the alleyway as a toilet. That’s despite multiple signs warning them they were being recorded on CCTV. It is far from the first time this kind of thing has happened, with a similar incident being r...
Former Mablethorpe secondary school building to be demolished The school closed in 2016 The Monks' Dyke Tennyson site in June 2016. Photo: Google Streetview Lincolnshire County Council wants to demolish a former secondary school in Mablethorpe to prepare it for “future development”. In an application to its own planning department, LCC says the Monks Dyke Tennyson College buildings are “becoming unsafe, vulnerable to arson and attracting vandalism and anti-social behaviour”. It said the buildings are “no longer fit for purpose”. The Mablethorpe campus closed its doors for the fina...