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  1. Business park set to create 3,000 jobspublished at 17:49 Greenwich Mean Time 29 November 2016

    Plans for a business park which would create about 3,000 new jobs in East Yorkshire have been given the go-ahead.

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  2. Watch: The weather with Abbiepublished at 17:47 Greenwich Mean Time 29 November 2016

    BBC Look North
    East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire

  3. Rail upgrades to disrupt travelpublished at 17:42 Greenwich Mean Time 29 November 2016

    Rail services will be disrupted across south Wales over Christmas due to "essential modernisation work".

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  4. Watch: Peter with the Look North headlinespublished at 17:27 Greenwich Mean Time 29 November 2016

    BBC Look North
    East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire

    A look at Tuesday's headlines from Look North.

    Full stories from 18:30 on BBC One.

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  5. CCTV released after food theft from shoppublished at 17:24 Greenwich Mean Time 29 November 2016

    Police believe the men here might be able to help them after food was stolen from a Spar shop in Pinchbeck, near Spalding.

    If you recognise them, call PC Ryan Ellis on 101. The incident happened last Wednesday, 23 November.

    Spar PinchbeckImage source, Lincolnshire Police
  6. RAF engineer fulfils Spitfire dreampublished at 17:16 Greenwich Mean Time 29 November 2016

    Martin Slack
    BBC Lincolnshire Live

    When Sgt Alan Robinson from Market Rasen had a motorcycle crash five years ago losing part of a leg he thought his ambition of piloting a plane would never be achieved.

    But now he's made his maiden flight in a Spitfire as part of a training scheme sponsored by Prince Harry (pictured with Alan below and other scholars below).

    Alan Robinson Spitfire pilotImage source, Andy Annable

    The Spitfire Scholarship is paid for from the Royal Foundation's Endeavour Fund - which was set up by Prince Harry and his brother the Duke of Cambridge to help injured servicemen.

    Alan, who works at RAF Waddington, near Lincoln, is the first amputee pilot to have flown the Spitfire since World War Two aces Douglas Bader and Colin Hodgkinson.

  7. Postman 'attacked with meat tenderiser'published at 16:57 Greenwich Mean Time 29 November 2016

    Martin Slack
    BBC Lincolnshire Live

    A postman who was on his rounds in Lincoln yesterday had his van windows smashed and was assaulted by a man with a meat tenderiser, police say.

    The incident happened on Ripon Street, off Lincoln High Street, at around 17.00.

    Generic Royal Mail vehicles

    Officers say the man who carried out the attack was wearing a dark jacket, jeans and a bobble hat, and was of slim build with stubble.

    The postman, in his 50s, was not seriously injured in the incident. 

    A Royal Mail spokesman has confirmed the attack and said the postman was "recovering at home". 

  8. Traffic and travel: Lincoln burst water main still causing problemspublished at 16:48 Greenwich Mean Time 29 November 2016

    BBC Travel

    The A15 Wragby Road in Lincoln is still partly blocked and there's heavy traffic at the B1308 Outer Circle Road junction, because of a burst water main. Two lanes out of three are closed on the outbound side.   

  9. Gritters are out this eveningpublished at 16:38 Greenwich Mean Time 29 November 2016

    Here's a timely warning to commuters this evening:  

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  10. Thousands pledged for Cathedral pinnaclespublished at 16:25 Greenwich Mean Time 29 November 2016

    Maggie Curtis
    News Editor, BBC Radio Lincolnshire

    Lincoln Cathedral is to get £38,000 to carry out urgent repairs to the Minster's pinnacles. 

    The money comes from the government's World War One centenary project. 

    It's hoped the repairs will protect the landmark's 12 pinnacles until conservation work can begin on its towers.

    Lincoln Cathedral pinnacles
  11. EFL Cup: Hull win shootout v Newcastle, Liverpool defeat Leedspublished at 16:11 Greenwich Mean Time 29 November 2016

    Hull defeat Newcastle in shootout, while Ben Woodburn breaks Liverpool record on a dramatic night of action in the EFL Cup.

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  12. GPs 'face pressure' amid closurespublished at 16:07 Greenwich Mean Time 29 November 2016

    The closure of four GP surgeries in Lincolnshire will put pressure on other "oversubscribed" practices, opponents of the plan say.

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  13. Listen: Pilgrims chairman on search for new bosspublished at 16:02 Greenwich Mean Time 29 November 2016

    Scott Dalton
    Presenter, BBC Radio Lincolnshire

    David Newton, the chairman of Boston United, external, has been talking to me about manager Dennis Greene's departure and the plan to find a successor:

  14. Jewel thieves strike on switch-on nightpublished at 15:44 Greenwich Mean Time 29 November 2016

    BBC Radio Lincolnshire

    Gainsborough's Christmas lights switch-on was far from fun for a town jeweller who was raided on the night of the festivities.

    Staff at Stanley Hunt, in Marshalls Yard, discovered that five diamond rings and a diamond necklace had been stolen during the evening of Friday 18 November, while the shop was open. 

    One person has been arrested and bailed in connection with the theft.

  15. Ambucopter's busiest day of the yearpublished at 15:17 Greenwich Mean Time 29 November 2016

    Martin Slack
    BBC Lincolnshire Live

    The Lincs and Notts Air Ambulance is usually called out three times a day on average - but last Thursday crews were called to six incidents.

    The charity which runs the ambucopter says it was the busiest day of the year so far - with five of the six calls to Lincolnshire incidents. 

    HelicopterImage source, Lincs and Notts Air Ambulance

    The aircraft answered emergency calls in Louth, Stamford, Grantham, Waddington and Immingham. It also went to a crash in Mansfield, Notts.

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    It was one call after another all day as our crew travelled from Mansfield in the west to Louth in the east"

    Karen Jobling, Lincs and Notts Air Ambulance

  16. Accident in Grimsby leaves pedestrian with serious injuriespublished at 14:56 Greenwich Mean Time 29 November 2016

    BBC Radio Humberside

    A man in his 20s has been airlifted to hospital after a suspected hit-and-run in Grimsby. 

    It happened on Freeman street just before noon today.

    Humberside Police say the pedestrian suffered serious injuries and they are looking for the driver of the car involved.

  17. Your headlines across Lincolnshire this lunchtimepublished at 14:49 Greenwich Mean Time 29 November 2016

    Barbara Stimpson
    BBC Radio Lincolnshire

    Here are the top stories from our Lincolnshire newsroom:

  18. Watch: A look at the scheme which could end flood miserypublished at 14:11 Greenwich Mean Time 29 November 2016

    Take a look at this project that could protect Louth from flooding:

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  19. Traffic and travel across Lincolnshire: Main line delays continuepublished at 13:46 Greenwich Mean Time 29 November 2016

    BBC Travel

    There have been problems on the East Coast main line this morning - it's after an incident in Edinburgh. And it looks like services through Lincolnshire could be affected for the rest of the day.

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