Summary

  • Grantham A&E to stay closed overnight

  • Hoax bomb pair spared jail

  • Man jailed for 16 years for child sex offences

  • Burst water main in Washingborough

  • Disappointment at cancellation of air show

  • Updates on Friday 15 December 2017

Live Reporting

Hope Bolger

  1. Man charged with murder of Gareth Bailey

    Maggie Curtis
    News Editor, BBC Radio Lincolnshire

    A man's appeared in court charged with killing a Lincolnshire father of three.

    Steven Feeley, aged 39, of Eudo Road in Skegness is accused of the murder of Gareth Bailey.

    Mr Bailey was found with serious injuries at Chapman Court in Ingoldmells last Wednesday, he later died.

    Mr Feeley appeared at Lincoln Crown Court by a video link.

    He was remanded in custody until next month.

  2. Your headlines across the county

    Corazon Garcia
    BBC Radio Lincolnshire

    The top stories from our Lincolnshire newsroom:

    • Some traders say they'll lose thousands of pounds because of the cancellation of the last day of Lincoln's Christmas Market.
    • The University of Lincoln is opening a new multi-million pound building today.
    • A song by children in Sleaford has reached number seven in the Amazon chart.

  3. Will a Sleaford school get Christmas number one?

    Scott Dalton
    Presenter, BBC Radio Lincolnshire

    It's the time of year when artists battle for the Christmas number one spot.

    Will it be Ed Sheeran? Will it be Elbow? Will it be another X Factor track?

    Or will it be a primary school from Lincolnshire?

    Christmas songWilliam Alvey

    Yes, that's right.

    The pupils of William Alvey School in Sleaford have written and performed a Christmas song.

    And it seems they're doing rather well! The single is available from iTunes and Amazon.

    It's got to number seven in the Amazon chart and there's even a music video online.

    The money made by the single will go to charity.

    So who knows, maybe they could get to the Christmas number one spot.

  4. Here's the focus on feeling festive

    BBC Weather Watchers

    The snow may be causing some problems, but it really is looking festive out there.

    Thanks to our Weather Watcher Helen's House for this cracker:

    berriesHelen's House

  5. Talks over closure of Christmas market

    Harry Parkhill
    BBC Local Live, Lincolnshire

    Organisers of the Lincoln Christmas Market say they'll be having talks with traders following the cancellation of the final day.

    The event commander Simon Walters says stallholders "should look to their insurance policy".

    This is an open air event, it's subject to weather conditions. We always advise traders to take their own insurance out. So we would expect traders to look at their own insurance policy first and hopefully that will cover them for eventualities like this"

    Simon Walters, Event commander

    The City of Lincoln Council has apologised but says it acted on information from the highways department.

  6. Lincoln Christmas Market closure: Your views

    Well it's not just stallholders who are angry about the cancellation of the last day of Lincoln's Christmas Market.

    Market closed

    With people travelling from across the country for the weekend it seems the punters aren't best pleased either:

    The council really need to communicate with their counterparts in other European cities to find out how they all manage to hold Christmas markets in the snow. The white stuff, as well as being perfectly normal in winter, definitely adds to the festive atmosphere.

    Kathryn Locke, Facebook

    Rubbish! I'm from Bucharest, Romania and our Christmas Market is held every year from 1st of December until 27th of December, no matter what the weather is looking like (usually up to -25 degrees, and 1-3 meters of snow).

    Korina Elena, Facebook

    Is it an April Fool Joke? It has to be a joke. Heads should roll, but it won't be any snowmen heads down Steep Hill.

    Chris W, Twitter

  7. University health building to open today

    Seb Tiley
    Reporter, BBC Radio Lincolnshire

    The University of Lincoln is opening a new £19m building today.

    Sarah Swift BuildingBAM Construction

    It's being named after the Lincolnshire-born founder of the Royal College of Nursing - Dame Sarah Swift.

    The £19m building will house two of the University's largest departments - the School of Health and Social Care and the School of Psychology.

    Dame Sarah was born at Kirton Skeldyke near Boston and is credited with transforming nurse education, training and professional status from what she learned in field hospitals in World War One.

    The Sarah Swift Building is another significant addition to our campus which will further bolster our ability to teach the next generation of healthcare professionals so desperately needed in our NHS locally and nationally, as well as to further develop our high quality research in the field.

    Professor Mary Stuart, Vice Chancellor of the University of Lincoln

  8. Regions divided over Christmas costs

    James Graham
    Journalist, BBC Radio5live

    People in less affluent parts of the country spend more as a proportion of their income on Christmas, analysis by the BBC indicates.

    Graph

    The North East, West Midlands, Northern Ireland and Yorkshire and the Humber region spend 25% of a month's disposable income.

    But in London and the South East, that falls to below 20%.

    The analysis by BBC 5 live's Wake up to Money matched official regional income figures with Centre for Retail Research spending forecasts for Christmas.

    Separate figures from YouGov show wealthier people are cutting back on Christmas and plan to spend less on gifts this year, down 8%, at £300, compared to £291 for lower earners, up 4%.

  9. Stallholders not happy after cancellation of Lincoln Christmas Market

    Harry Parkhill
    BBC Local Live, Lincolnshire

    Time to talk about the Christmas market.

    The City of Lincoln Council decided to call off the last day of the event yesterday after forecasts of 10cm of snow.

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    But the snow never arrived, and traders aren't happy.

    Some have said they've lost thousands of pounds because of the cancellation.

    Very frustrated, days takings down, wages to pay. I'm going to be out of pocket.

    Tom Wilkinson, German Sausage Stand

    The Christmas market organisers say they had no other choice after being told the message to people was to not travel.

    Were you a stallholder at the Christmas Market? Let me know how you feel about the cancellation.

  10. Today's weather

    Abbie Dewhurst
    Weather Presenter, BBC Look North

    Mainly dry and cloudy with any wintry flurries soon drying out.

    Very cold with a risk of icy patches during the morning, and temperatures struggling to climb above freezing.

    Here's my full forecast:

  11. Welcome to Monday's coverage

    Hope Bolger
    BBC Local Live, Lincolnshire

    Good morning and welcome to another week.

    Hope here, ready to bring you the latest news, sport, weather and travel from across the county.

    I'll also be keeping you across how snow and ice are affecting the county.

    And if you've got any great pictures of the snow do send them over by email, Facebook or Twitter.