BBC Radio Lincolnshire

Police have released the name of a man who was killed on the A631 Gainsborough Road at Hemswell Cliff earlier this month.

48-year-old Andrew Charity from Doncaster died after his motorbike crashed at around 08:20 on Monday 7 August.

Police say they would still like to speak to anyone who saw what happened.

Lisa Gallagher
Weather presenter, BBC Look North

Early dull and misty conditions will lift and clear, with some warm sunny spells developing. It will also remain humid.

Staying largely dry until late afternoon when isolated heavy or thundery showers may develop.

Alex Rhodes
BBC reporter, Lincolnshire

Earlier we told you about the success Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue had in recruiting more firefighters, well they're not the only ones adding people to the books.

Now 13 new GPs from overseas will start working in Lincolnshire by the end of this year.

The NHS has been trying to get more doctors to work in areas where there are a number of vacancies.

Two men who carried out a catalogue of sexual offences in an hour long attack on three Louth teenagers have been jailed.

Paul McDowall 41, of Louth Road, South Somercotes, and Alistair Evison 43, of Stanley Close, Louth offered a lift home to two 15-year-old girls and a 14-year-old-boy after meeting them outside the Gas Lamp Lounge pub in Louth.

Lincoln Crown Court was told that the teenagers were all drunk with one girl so intoxicated that she could hardly stand up. Evison and McDowall each denied a string of offences but were found guilty following a trial which ended last month.

Today both men were sentenced to 14 years in prison.

Barbara Stimpson
BBC Radio Lincolnshire

The latest from the Lincolnshire newsroom:

• A Lincolnshire woman has been compensated by the council after being placed on a dementia ward for ten months while recovering from a hip operation
• The number of swans on the Brayford has dropped drastically
• Jekyll and Hyde the musical has its opening night at the Cathedral tonight

Hope Bolger
BBC Local Live, Lincolnshire

Now it may not be a sport you're familiar with but Lincolnshire has a Roller Derby team and they've been doing pretty well for themselves.

The Lincolnshire Bomber Girls have been promoted to the 3rd tier of the British championships.

They also win the prize for best team photo in my book:

Image source, Lincolnshire Bomber Girls

Their next season will be mark their tenth year. Team captain, Alissa Moody, says the team has grown a lot since they started:

The Lincolnite

The full line-up of the Lincoln Book Festival , externalhas been announced with top broadcasters, authors and historians to appear across the six-day event.

Image source, Lincoln Book Festival

Hope Bolger
BBC Local Live, Lincolnshire

Campaigners say it's a race against time to save the last remaining swans in Lincoln's Brayford before they disappear for good.

Figures from the British Trust for Ornithology show in 2011 there were 91 compared to 24 in 2016.

Anne Goodhall, former chair of the Lincolnshire Bird Club, blames development in the area:

BBC Newsbeat

The Shed of the Year competition has included a non-shed category for the first time which is good news indeed for Colin Furze, the Stamford-based Youtube invention sensation, who's scooped first place.

He built an "apocalyptic bunker" four meters under his shed at his home in the south of the county.

The "ultimate man-cave" is kitted out with a flat-screen TV, drum-kit and several video consoles.

Image source, Colin Furze

Lincolnshire Echo

The mayor of Skegness, external has branded a male accused of knocking over a woman before running off with her handbag over the weekend as “scum”.

Image source, Getty Images

David Sykes
Reporter, BBC Radio Lincolnshire

Nineteen new firefighters are donning helmets and manning hoses in Lincolnshire after a successful recruitment campaign in the county.

Historically the fire service has struggled to fill on-call firefighter positions in Lincolnshire.

Station manager Andy Dixon says they've been working hard to attract new people:

A Lincolnshire couple has received almost £2,000 in compensation - after the county council failed to find them suitable home care.

The married couple were separated for 10 months after the woman had a hip operation and was forced to stay in a dementia unit - even though she didn't have the condition.

The local government watchdog said she should have returned home with the help of a care package.

The woman was placed in a residential home some 15 miles away because the council's contracted providers didn't have capacity to care for her.

This meant her husband drove a 30-mile round trip everyday to visit.

The council has apologised for causing them distress.

Alex Rhodes
BBC reporter, Lincolnshire

The cast and crew of Jekyll and Hyde are gearing up for their first performance tonight in Lincoln's most famous building.

All the world's a stage and that's exactly what Lincoln Cathedral is serving as for the next two weeks, lending a suitably Gothic atmosphere to the Victorian classic.

Some of the proceeds go to the cathedral itself - Director Ben Poole says he's feeling confident:

Corazon Garcia
BBC Radio Lincolnshire

The latest from the Lincolnshire newsroom:

• A Lincolnshire couple has won a £2,000 payout from the council after a woman was kept on a dementia ward for 10 months, despite not having the condition
• The numbers of swans in the Brayford Pool in Lincoln has fallen by 75% in five years
• 19 new retained firefighters have been recruited in Lincolnshire

Lisa Gallagher
Weather presenter, BBC Look North

Feeling mild but cloudy and misty to start with a little drizzle in places.

Here's my full forecast.

Alex Rhodes
BBC reporter, Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire's 999 and 101 service is back up and running.

It's after both lines experienced technical problems - from around 18.30 yesterday evening.

The force has apologised for the inconvenience.

Alex Rhodes
BBC reporter, Lincolnshire

Hello from Lincoln, Alex here, ready to bring you all the very latest from across the county.

We'll have news, travel, weather and sport updates throughout the day so keep checking back throughout the day.

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Lizzie Musham
BBC Local Live, Lincolnshire

That's it from me for today, thanks for the company!

I'll leave you with a five things we didn't know this morning:

• A Lincoln woman's been speaking after being caught up in the Barcelona terror attack
• Lincolnshire Police say they're sorry if local residents were left feeling anxious and upset by a protest in Grantham at the weekend
• Fake goods valued at a quarter of a million pounds have been seized on the Lincolnshire coast
• This year's Mablethorpe Marathon's had to be called off because of a shortage of volunteers
• Lincolnshire racing driver Jack Harvey is to make his return to the Indy Car Championship

BBC Look North
East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire

Here's Peter Levy with tonight's headlines on Look North

Lizzie Musham
BBC Local Live, Lincolnshire

Police are appealing for witnesses to a fight involving five people in Skegness that left one person with serious injuries.

It happened outside the Rock Shop on Lumley Road Skegness near the LA Café at around 01.20am on Friday 18 August.

The incident involved a group of two men and three women.

A man in his teens has been arrested and has been released under investigation and a second man in his 20’s remains in hospital in a serious, but stable condition.