Five things we've learned todaypublished at 18:00 British Summer Time 16 September 2016
Carla George
BBC Local Live, Lincolnshire
Local Live has finished for today. We're back from 08:00 on Monday with more news from around the area.
Until then, here's what we learnt today:
- It's emerged that a man who's absconded from a Lincolnshire prison is a convicted murderer who strangled a woman after attempting to rape her.
- A temporary, evening only, walk in centre, will open its doors in Grantham on Monday. It's as Lincolnshire County Council's voted unanimously in favour of reinstating a full A&E service at Grantham Hospital.
- A Boston man who attacked two of his flatmates with a chair leg has been jailed for a year.
- The police have found the body of an 80 year old man near Grantham.
- The police have released the names of two people who lost their lives in separate road collisions in Lincolnshire this week.