Lincolnshire breaking news: Latest updates

Summary

Lincolnshire slavery gang found guilty by court
Gerbils abandoned in Walesby Woods at Market Rasen
Car crash survivor thanks 'First Responders'
Tata Steel awaits court judgement over toxic gases
Lincoln gears up for 1940s weekend
Gin Festival begins in Lincoln
Man threatened by 'masked gang' on bridge
Updates on Friday 11 August 2017

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Hope Bolger

Watch: Preparations for Scampton Airshowpublished at 11:19 British Summer Time 9 August 2017
Alex Rhodes
BBC Local Live, Lincolnshire
It seems the police are hard at work doing ahead of the Scampton Airshow, external:
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Flash flooding follows heavy rainpublished at 11:09 British Summer Time 9 August 2017
Roads and homes are flooded after heavy overnight rain.
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Theatre group given four stars at Edinburgh Fringepublished at 10:48 British Summer Time 9 August 2017
Scott Dalton
Presenter, BBC Radio Lincolnshire
A shadow puppet show from Lincolnshire has been given a rave review at this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Lincoln theatre group Echo Echo Echo are performing the family friendly show called Things We Find In the Dark, external.
It's been given four stars by one of the leading review sites, Fringebiscuit, external.
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We've got a lovely bite size review that just says 'It's been beautifully imagined'. "
Martyn Bignell, Artistic Director
Builder suffered 'accidental death' in crush incidentpublished at 10:19 British Summer Time 9 August 2017
Jake Zuckerman
BBC Look North
An inquest has found that a builder who died after being crushed by a concrete slab died accidentally.
Keith Greatrix, 64, was converting a horse stable when the slab weighing more than a tonne fell on him at South Rauceby, Sleaford.
He suffered multiple injuries and paramedics were unable to resuscitate Mr Greatrix.
Image source, Lincolnshire Police
Flooding in northern parts of Lincolnshirepublished at 09:48 British Summer Time 9 August 2017
Hope Bolger
BBC Local Live, Lincolnshire
Fire crews from Gainsborough, Market Rasen and Caistor have been called out to five incidents of flooding overnight in Keelby, Great Limber, North Kelsey, Willoughton and Scotter.
Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue used a pump to prevent water from entering properties.
Meanwhile, roads also flooded around the East Marsh and People's Park areas of Grimsby:
Tougher sentences wanted for animal crueltypublished at 09:33 British Summer Time 9 August 2017
Lizzie Musham
BBC Local Live, Lincolnshire
The government's being encouraged to hand out tougher sentences for people who are cruel to animals.
In Lincolnshire around 1 in 20 people convicted for cruelty were given custodial sentences.
Image source, RSPCA
A new report from the Centre of Crime Prevention reveals that in the majority of cases people convicted of animal cruelty have also committed other crimes - everything from robbery to murder.
The centre thinks that punishing cruelty with tougher sentences will also lead to a reduction in crimes against people.
Here in Lincolnshire figures over five years show that of 115 people convicted of animal cruelty six were sent to prison or a young offenders institution - that's just over 5%.
At the moment the most common result of a conviction is community service or a fine
The Imps are out of the League Cuppublished at 09:04 British Summer Time 9 August 2017
Su Whitaker
BBC Radio Lincolnshire sport
Lincoln City are out of the League Cup after losing 2-1 at Rotherham United in the first round.
Billy Knott scored the Imps' goal midway through the second half to draw the sides level but they were unable to match their FA Cup heroics of last season.
However, manager Danny Cowley was proud of the way City battled against the League One side:
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I thought we equipped ourselves really well, we're playing against a club that, in the Championship last year, got a huge budget in comparison to us and I thought we went toe to toe with them and did a really good job.
Danny Cowley, Linconl City Manager
Watch: Rain, rain go awaypublished at 08:31 British Summer Time 9 August 2017
Lisa Gallagher
Weather presenter, BBC Look North
A breezy and cloudy start with outbreaks of rain, heavy in places at first.
Becoming drier and brighter in the afternoon with some sunny spells developing.
Here's my full forecast:
Welcome to Wednesday's live coveragepublished at 08:00 British Summer Time 9 August 2017
Hope Bolger
BBC Local Live, Lincolnshire
Good morning from a rainy Lincoln. Hope here today, I'll be bringing you news, sport, weather and travel from across the county as it happens.
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Five things we learned todaypublished at 17:58 British Summer Time 8 August 2017
Harry Parkhill
BBC Local Live, Lincolnshire
That's it for our live coverage today, but we'll be back from 8:00 tomorrow. In the meantime here are five things we didn't know this morning:
- A police officer who has been arrested after using a force helicopter to film naturists in Lincolnshire has been jailed
- The number of mentally ill people who've been held in cells by Lincolnshire police has halved in a year
- A man who drove his car at a group of pedestrians in Tattershall faces jail
- A family is 'seriously concerned' about a man who's been missing since Monday
- Lincoln City face their first rivals in the Carabao Cup after a seven year absence from the competition
A1 remains shut after pasta sauce lorry firepublished at 17:52 British Summer Time 8 August 2017
Ben Truslove
BBC News Online
The A1 north remains closed in Rutland after a lorry carrying pasta sauce caught fire earlier.
Image source, Highways England
Highways England expects the road - shut between the junctions with the A47 and the A606 - to open by about 18:30.
Image source, Highways England
Thankfully the driver was unhurt in the blaze.
Rise in reports of children committing sex crimespublished at 17:48 British Summer Time 8 August 2017
Alex Rhodes
BBC Local Live, Lincolnshire
A special program investigating the apparent rise in reports of children committing sex crimes is on Radio Lincolnshire tonight:
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Dozens of new car parking spaces for Gainsboroughpublished at 17:37 British Summer Time 8 August 2017
Harry Parkhill
BBC Local Live, Lincolnshire
Shoppers in Gainsborough are to benefit from nearly 50% more parking spaces if plans go ahead.
Image source, Google
There are plans for 30 new spaces at Roseway Car Park by September 2018, there'll be a new car park at the former Lidl site later this year and 30 more at Bridge Street car park.
In total there'll be 147 new spaces in two years and a further 140 from 2020.
'Concerned' family appeals over missing manpublished at 17:24 British Summer Time 8 August 2017
Harry Parkhill
BBC Local Live, Lincolnshire
The family of a missing say they're "seriously concerned" about his safety.
Image source, Lincolnshire Police
James Stout (pictured above) is 6ft tall, of slim build and with short sandy brown hair.
He went missing from the Metheringham area.
James' half-brother Jon says he saw him on Saturday but that he "went off grid on Sunday".
Family and close friends are all very worried about him:
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I am not one for being dramatic, but even I am seriously concerned about him.
Jon Stout, James' half-brother
He has relatives in south London, but they have not seen him.
If you've seen James contact the police., external
Police officer jailed for using helicopter to spy on Lincolnshire naturistspublished at 16:53 British Summer Time 8 August 2017
A "sex-obsessed" police officer who used his force helicopter to film naturists in Lincolnshire has been jailed.
Image source, PA
Adrian Pogmore admitted four charges of misconduct in a public office. He was jailed for a year.
Two other officers and two pilots were cleared of misconduct following a three-week trial at Sheffield Crown Court.
The intrusive filming took place on four occasions between 2007 and 2012 when Pogmore was part of the South Yorkshire Police Air Support Unit.
One of the offences included using the police helicopter to film naturists in North Lincolnshire.
Colin Wood, the owner of the naturist camp, says he was very upset by the intrusion.
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It's an invasion of privacy."
Colin Wood, Owner of Candy Farm Campsite
Woman finishes walk to honour aircrew fatherpublished at 16:28 British Summer Time 8 August 2017
Katie O'Halloran
BBC Radio Lincolnshire
A woman who has walked 160 miles to commemorate her father who was in an aircraft that was shot down in World War Two has arrived at the International Bomber Command Centre in Lincoln.
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Linda Meredith's father was shot down on 28 July 75 years ago and was taken a prisoner of war.
He was a rear gunner and spent much of the war as a PoW, four of his crew mates never came home.
Linda set off from the Bomber Command Memorial in Green Park, London after laying a wreath honouring her father.
Man who 'drove at pedestrians' faces jailpublished at 15:50 British Summer Time 8 August 2017
Harry Parkhill
BBC Local Live, Lincolnshire
A man from Horncastle who drove his car at a group of pedestrians has been warned he faces jail.
Shane Steadman, 26, from Queen Street pleaded guilty to driving dangerously on Tattershall's High Street in July.
He also pleaded guilty to four charges of attempted grievous bodily harm with intent when he appeared at Lincoln Crown Court.
He will be sentenced later.
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"Please don't come on 25 August expecting anything other than a relatively lengthy custodial sentence."
Judge Hirst
County GP concerned over restriction on treatments at surgerypublished at 15:02 British Summer Time 8 August 2017
Harry Parkhill
BBC Local Live, Lincolnshire
A leading Lincolnshire GP says it's inappropriate for treatments like ear syringing or picking up hayfever prescriptions to be stopped at your local surgery.
Image source, LLMC
Dr Kieran Sharrock (pictured above) - from the Lincolnshire Local Medical Committee - says practices are having to cut back on some treatments because of a lack of funding.
Health bosses are no longer paying for ear syringing and hayfever medication to be available from some GP surgeries.
He says provision for this kind of care may only be available from hospitals in future.
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It seems inappropriate; you'll get 17 different letters, you'll have to travel and park...we have lobbied our local commissioners to provide this as a service from General Practice but so far they haven't commissioned it from General Practice."
Dr Kieran Sharrock, Lincolnshire Local Medical Committee
Lincoln City excited ahead of cup appearancepublished at 14:25 British Summer Time 8 August 2017
Su Whitaker
BBC Radio Lincolnshire sport
Lincoln City FC make a return to the Carabao Cup this evening after a seven-year absence from the competition.
The team are in the competition for the first time after being promoted to the Football League last season.
The Carabao Cup is the new name for the Football League Cup; only teams in the Premiership and the English Football League are allowed to compete.
They face Rotherham away this evening, there will be live coverage on BBC Radio Lincolnshire
Imps manager Danny Cowley says the team are looking forward to the competition:
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Cups, we do like Cups. We're respectful of Rotherham,this time last year they were championship team and we were a national league team... But it's a cup we're certainly looking forward to being involved in."
Danny Cowley, Lincoln City FC Manager
Number of mentally ill held in cells halves in a yearpublished at 13:47 British Summer Time 8 August 2017
Harry Parkhill
BBC Local Live, Lincolnshire
The number of mentally ill people being held in cells by Lincolnshire police has halved in a year.
The force is working more closely with health services to transfer people with mental health problems for professional treatment, instead of into custody.
A mental health nurse is also working in the police control room. Those involved say it's had an immediate impact on the provision of care.
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Even in the first week of operation, the mental health professionals have dealt with 60 incidents. Of those, 40 have meant that people have been diverted away from police cells or accident and emergency. To me that's 40 people who've received better care because of this service."
Chris Davidson, Ch Supt, Lincolnshire Police