The closure of a hospital's A&E department at night will waste hours of police time, Lincolnshire's Police Commissioner has said.

Julia Bryson
Journalist, BBC Local Live

Thanks for being with us today. We will be back from 08:00 tomorrow.

In the meantime let's look at five things we didn't know when we woke up this morning:

1. Police are investigating after a man was found dead on Skegness beach 
2. Four women from Lincolnshire are in the women's hockey team which has made it into the final at the Olympics, guaranteeing Team GB at least a silver medal
3. Police say the closure of Grantham A&E will impact on policing in the area, as officers will have to transport people to the next nearest A&E in Lincoln
4. Hospital staff in Scunthorpe have offered to pay people living nearby to park on their driveways
5. Students across the county have been receiving their A-level results, including one local musician who was 3,000ft above sea level when he found out

More great results from Lewis who studied at Lincoln College and who now hopes for a career in forensics.

The closure of a hospital's A&E department at night will waste hours of police time, Lincolnshire's Police and Crime Commissioner has said.

The unit at Grantham and District Hospital closed for the first time last night, in a trial which bosses said was needed due to a lack of doctors.  

Sleaford Standard

The Lincolnshire tourism industry is at a high after new figures show a rise of £80m in 2015. , external

Image source, Sleaford Standard

The latest STEAM figures have shown that in 2015 the county attracted almost 20m visitors, up 1.37m on the year before. 

A Lincolnshire musician has received his A-level results 3,000ft above sea level, while on a walking holiday in Scotland.

Image source, Will Crawford

Will Crawford, of band Mollie and Will, was climbing in the hills when he heard he had passed. 

He got an A in drama and Cs in Biology and Chemistry. Well done Will! 

Lincolnshire Echo

A 17-year-old man was chased through Lincoln's High Street and arrested by police on suspicion of theft., external

The teenager was eventually caught by police on Thursday,18  August after he made a break for it after being challenged and ran off from store detectives.

BBC Travel

Traffic is slow on the A158 Jubilee Way in Horncastle at the South Street junction. 

More from BBC Travel.

BBC Radio Humberside

Council leaders have agreed in a meeting to spending another £1m on repairing a listed building in Grimsby. 

The owners of Victoria Mill, which is in a bad state, have failed to pay for repairs. 

North East Lincolnshire council have already had to pay out £1m trying to keep it safe.

This afternoon's top stories from our Lincolnshire newsroom: 

• The Leader of Lincolnshire County Council, Martin Hill, is calling for a meeting with NHS managers about the overnight closure of Grantham's A&E
• A body's been found in a tent in the dunes at Skegness
• A 45-year-old van driver has admitted that his careless driving caused the death of a father-of-two in Lincolnshire

A man was found dead in a tent on Skegness beach yesterday, police have confirmed. 

Image source, Geograph

The body was found by a member of the public walking her dog at about 13:00 on Wednesday.

Police are investigating. 

Lincolnshire Echo

Parents and children across the city have been left 'devastated' by the closure of a new children's soft play area just five months after it opened.

Imagination Station opened in March, external at the old Pearl of Big Wok Chinese restaurant in Beaumont Fee, Lincoln.

People living in Lincolnshire are being urged to have their say in how crime and disorder are tackled in the local area. 

The Lincolnshire Community Safety Partnership works to improve the quality of life for people living, working or visiting the area.

They are asking people to fill in their annual community safety survey, external to help identify the priorities for the partnership to focus on.  

Martin Slack
BBC Lincolnshire Live

Nine people have fallen foul of the City of Lincoln Council’s littering crackdown after failing to clean up after themselves.

Magistrates issued fines of up to £392 to nine people who had failed to pay Fixed Penalty Notices after being caught dropping cigarette butts in the city centre earlier this year. 

The council says in one case, the litterer was standing just 1m from a street ash tray.

Seven people were found guilty in their absence at Lincoln Magistrates’ Court yesterday while two admitted to the offences ahead of the hearing.

Young people starting university or college this autumn are being urged to get a vaccine against meningitis.

Public Health England says the jab will help protect against meningitis W in particular  - a sometimes deadly strain that is on the rise.

Caroline Brockelbank
BBC Radio Humberside

The Lincolnite

Four Lincolnshire hockey stars put their bodies on the line as Team GB women’s team beat, external New Zealand 3-0 to progress to their first Olympic final.  

The quartet of Georgie Twigg, Hannah Macleod, Crista Cullen and Shona McCallin will now have to recover by Friday for their gold medal match against the Netherlands.  

Students across Lincolnshire are joining those across the country in receiving their A-level results today.

Record numbers of UK university places have been offered as results show a marginal fall in top grades for the fifth successive year.  

Read more stories from around England on our A-level results live page.

Scott Dalton
Presenter, BBC Radio Lincolnshire