Lizzie Musham
BBC Local Live, Lincolnshire

Engineering companies in West Lindsey are being urged to join a new group aimed at creating jobs in the sector.

Image source, Lincoln College / Made in Gainsborough

Companies are teaming up with the local College and District Council for a project called Made in Gainsborough.

Those behind Made in Gainsborough want to develop a centre of excellence in the town that could see selected students being employed by top Gainsborough firms.

Hope Bolger
BBC Local Live, Lincolnshire

A Lincolnshire-based company has been awarded further funding to develop drone technology.

Waldeck in Sleaford, external is working with the University of Huddersfield to research how the flying unmanned cameras can be used in the future.

Image source, Waldeck Consulting

Melvyn Prior
Presenter, BBC Radio Lincolnshire

A new book's being launched all about the fans who travel the country supporting Lincoln City.

Image source, Lincoln City Football Club

'Impvasion: On the road with Lincoln City' is the work of supporters and the director of the club Roger Bates.

The book is an an informal history of the club over the past 50 years featuring 29 fans telling their stories and sharing their memories of following the Imps round the country.

BBC Weather

Dry, sunny but colder weather will come through this afternoon.

Hope Bolger
BBC Local Live, Lincolnshire

A toy bunny is rather sad after becoming separated from its friend.

Image source, Tia Capri Redpath

Tia Capri Redpath found it at Donna Nook and posted on facebook, external asking people to share the picture with the hope to reunite the pair.

The picture has been shared more than 2,500 times, so come on Lincolnshire, let's get this bunny back home!

Barbara Stimpson
BBC Radio Lincolnshire

Our top stories this morning from our Lincolnshire newsroom:

• The police are urging farms and churches in Lincolnshire to check their security measures.
• A Lincolnshire company says we should expect a rapid expansion in the use of drones.
• A new project aims to put engineering back on the map in Gainsborough.

Hope Bolger
BBC Local Live, Lincolnshire

Ceremonies will be held later to bless the county's gritters.

Image source, Lincolnshire County Council

Road teams will gather for the annual services at five depots this afternoon.

The Bishop of Grimsby will be at Sturton by Stow near Gainsborough.

Kate Sweeting
Reporter, BBC Look North

A Grimsby landlord has defended sending letters to tenants warning them of eviction if they can't keep up with their rent payments after they switch to the government's new Universal Credit benefits system.

Yesterday the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and the Prime Minister clashed over the letter sent to some tenants of GAP Properties in North East Lincolnshire.

The new benefit can take six weeks to go through and Guy Piggott from GAP says he won't wait that long.

He added the letter to tenants was not an eviction notice but instead a warning for people to make arrangements to carry on with their payments.

Image source, Google

The Department for Work and Pensions say advance payments are widely available from the start of anyone's Universal Credit claim, and that urgent cases are fast-tracked so no one should be without money.

Su Whitaker
BBC Radio Lincolnshire sport

Christmas lights in Lincoln and Gainsborough will be switched on tomorrow, mince pies are on sale and the Christmas shopping is well and truly under way.

Image source, ULHT

But for many Christmas is hard - the pressure to spend money, the cost of buying presents and even putting food on the table.

So staff at Lincolnshire's hospitals are lending a helping hand to people who may struggle over the Christmas period by collecting food hampers.

Clinical Education Nurse Samantha Macarthy-Full began collecting food hampers for local food banks...and the idea has spread.

Lara King
North East Lincolnshire reporter

Wow that's a pretty big tree!

Here's Grimsby's Christmas tree arriving on a container ship from Norway:

Amy Woodfield
BBC Local Live

A 76-year-old man has been charged with two counts of rape.

It's alleged the rapes occurred in 1975 in Littleover and in 1984 in Allestree, when the girls were 17 years old.

John Storer, from Mablethorpe in Lincolnshire, is due to appear before magistrates today.

A cyclist in in his seventies has died following a collision with a car in Boston.

It happened on Broadfield Lane last night.

The driver, a 30-year-old man, has been arrested.

Any witnesses who have not already spoken to the police are being asked to contact them.

Seb Tiley
Reporter, BBC Radio Lincolnshire

Now earlier today we told you that Lincolnshire Police are urging churches and farms to check their security measures.

It follows a rise in metal prices which makes it more attractive to thieves.

Well this is something members of Tydd St Mary's Church know all too well.

Its roof has been targeted by thieves three times.

The All Churches Trust, external sponsored them to get a roof alarm earlier in the year, Richard says it's been really effective.

Hope Bolger
BBC Local Live, Lincolnshire

The Pudsey goes Viking team - lead by Rod Whiting - are off on their penultimate day of their challenge to walk to 147 miles of the Viking Way over seven days.

So far you've helped them raise more than £6,000, external for Children in Need.

If you want to find out more about the challenge for Children in Need and how to donate all the information is on the BBC Radio Lincolnshire website.

You can follow their progress on Twitter, external or through their tracker, external.

Seb Tiley
Reporter, BBC Radio Lincolnshire

Churches and farms in Lincolnshire are being advised to check their security measures because of fears of a rise in metal thefts.

The police say the price of lead, copper and steel has increased making it attractive to thieves.

Chief Inspector Colin Haigh says premises need to be aware of the risk - and check security measures are in place...

Jake Zuckerman
Journalist, BBC Look North

An 88-year-old man who lost thousands of pounds to scammers has been speaking to the BBC about his experience.

The victim, who didn't want to be identified, says he still gets letters from people trying to catch him out.

It comes after trading standards revealed that people in Lincolnshire lost over £2m to postal scammers in just 18 months.

BBC News Travel

The A46 southbound has reopened following an accident this morning with a car and a motorcycle at the Skellingthorpe Roundabout.

Hope Bolger
BBC Local Live, Lincolnshire

Good morning from Lincoln, Hope here, ready to bring you the latest news, sport, weather and travel from across the county as it happens.

Got something happening near you? Well we love to hear from you, you can get in touch by sending an email or a message on Facebook, external or Twitter, external.

Bomb disposal teams previously removed 150 canisters from two sites near Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire.

Hope Bolger
BBC Local Live, Lincolnshire

Well that's it from me today, I'll be back tomorrow with the latest news, sport, weather and travel from across the county as it happens.

For now, I'll leave you with five things we've learned today:

• More than 100 workers are on strike at the Metsa Wood Timber Yard in Boston
• Trading Standards officers in Lincolnshire have issued a new warning over scam mail after revealing that hundreds of people have altogether lost more than £2m
• Two Lincoln men have been sentenced after admitting smuggling tobacco

• The Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt promised to 'look very carefully' at the idea of restoring 24-hour services at Grantham Hospital's Accident and Emergency next month
• A Lincoln man has started a petition calling for a Lincoln street to be named after the Beechey family, external

Have a good evening.