Martin Slack
BBC Local Live

Lincolnshire Live has finished for today. 

Thanks for joining us. We're back from 08:00 tomorrow with more news from around the area. Please join us then.

Keeley Donovan
BBC Look North

Here's Keeley Donovan with the detailed weather forecast:

Here are the headlines from our Lincolnshire newsroom this evening:

• Taxi drivers in Lincoln protest after council tells them: "Take new qualifications or lose your licence"
• Some residents allowed back into Grimsby flats block - but others told they could be out for six to eight weeks
• Operation to remove three dead whales from Skegness beach cost taxpayer £26,000

BBC Look North
East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire

Yesterday Lincolnshire Police revealed arrest figures for Operation Galileo - its anti hare coursing effort.

Here's more detail - and footage from hare coursers themselves - there's more on this on Look North on BBC One tonight at 18:30.

Natasha Turney
BBC Radio Lincolnshire

These taxi drivers in Lincoln say they're angry they've been told they now need to take a new course or risk not having their licence renewed. 

The training includes health and safety, customer service, routes and fares. The qualification costs around £240 plus a loss of earnings.

The City of Lincoln Council says it's committed to giving a high standard of service to the city's residents and visitors and the BTEC certificate brings it in line with other authorities.

Martin Slack
BBC Local Live

Eastern Airways which runs the aircraft that made an emergency landing earlier at Humberside Airport has issued a statement:

A spokesman said: “The captain operating a charter flight EZE102 from RAF Marham to RAF Coningsby made a precautionary diversion to Humberside due to a cockpit warning indication relating to the nosewheel landing gear.

“The Jetstream 41 aircraft with four passengers and three crew on board landed safely at 10:08 and passengers disembarked the aircraft as normal via the aircraft steps. 

"We have launched an investigation and engineers will be inspecting the aircraft."

Officers from Lincolnshire County Council's Trading Standards department are warning of a scam with farmers being targeted:

Martin Slack
BBC Local Live

North East Lincolnshire Council says 57 residents at Victoria Mills apartments in Grimsby are to be allowed back in this afternoon.

The block was evacuated yesterday afternoon because of concerns about stability of part of the building in high winds. The nearby A16 was also closed.

Image source, Google

A council spokesman said 13 flats would remain empty and those affected would be helped to find alternative accommodation.

BBC Look North
East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire

We're hearing that a plane with seven people on board has made an emergency landing at Humberside Airport.

Eastern Airways says the flight was heading from RAF Marham in Norfolk to RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire when a warning light indicated a landing wheel problem. 

It was diverted to Humberside - where an emergency response was prepared on the ground. 

The plane landed safely just after ten this morning.

Lincolnshire Echo

A house, external being built in a village near Lincoln, just yards from an overhanging hedge which has grabbed national headlines, has been dubbed 'The Shed' by neighbours.

Image source, Lincolnshire Echo

Rod Whiting
BBC Radio Lincolnshire

We're hearing this afternoon the neonatal unit at Lincoln County Hospital is to get a £2m revamp.

Good news for expectant mums and dads in the county - and for the staff:

Martin Slack
BBC Local Live

Police are looking for a burglar who assaulted a pensioner during a raid at a gun club.

Lincolnshire Police, external say the 69-year-old victim was attacked when he found a man in his late teens to early 20s raiding a shed yesterday afternoon.

It happened at about 14:00 at the club in Ingoldmells Road, Burgh le Marsh, near Skegness.

We've already told you about the Grimsby schoolchildren who've been talking to astronaut Tim Peake this afternoon.

Students at Lincoln's University Technical College have also been taking part. 

Lincolnshire County Council says it's planning to send gritters out as temperatures fall later:

Lincolnshire Echo

A council tenant has barricaded himself in his home in a protest, external over the bedroom tax. 

A police negotiator is , externalat the scene in Oval Approach, St Giles, Lincoln, where Andrew Mulrooney, 49, has been seen at an upstairs window.

Image source, Lincolnshire Echo

Martin Slack
BBC Local Live

We've just heard from East Lindsey District Council about the cost of removing three whales from Skegness beach last week.

The operation - which took place over about six hours last Wednesday night - cost the taxpayer £26,000.

The council said the carcasses were expected to be sent to landfill, but in the end were sent to a rendering plant to be melted down.

Martin Slack
BBC Local Live

If you're planning to be out and about around Lincoln at the weekend watch out for roadworks on the bypass.

A stretch of the A46 between the A15 Riseholme Road and the A158 Wragby Road will be closed from 07:00 to 17:00 on Sunday.

Lincolnshire County Council says it's for drainage works - there's more information here, external.

Martin Slack
BBC Local Live

If you had the chance what would you ask British astronaut Tim Peake? 

Children from Yarborough Academy in Grimsby are getting their questions answered at a live link up in Liverpool this afternoon. 

Oliver is among 300 children who have been selected to take part:

Martin Slack
BBC Local Live

Couldn't resist sharing the latest Weather Watchers picture. 

This one comes from TeeGee in Tetney and shows what we've now learned are called nacreous clouds.

Boston Standard

A robber who targeted lone women on the streets of Boston, external has been jailed for six years at Lincoln Crown Court.

Image source, Boston Standard