Hope Bolger
BBC Local Live, Lincolnshire

I've been out in Lincolnshire with the crews harvesting the sprouts set to grace many a Christmas dinner table across the country - and it's hard work.

Lincolnshire's veg is in high demand over Christmas.

Here's a rundown of what we produce as a county for the festive dinner table:

• 650,000 tonnes of potatoes
• 100,000 tonnes of sprouts
• One million turkeys

Basically, the country couldn't do Christmas without Lincolnshire!

You can see how the sprout harvest is carried out right here:

Amanda White
BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire

People are being warned over the dangers of being burned in their beds after 44,000 illegal cigarettes were seized in Scunthorpe.

Many of the counterfeit cigarettes found by North Lincolnshire Trading Standards weren't self extinguishing - the kind blamed for some house fire deaths.

The illegal stash was found in three shops on Frodingham Road and Cemetery Road.

Martin Slack
BBC Local Live, Lincolnshire

Here's a statement from Lincolnshire Police about the fatal fire in Sleaford earlier:

"We can confirm an 88-year-old man has died at his home on Claremont Park, Sleaford.

"A woman, also in her 80s, was taken to hospital with injuries relating to the fire. Her injuries are not thought to be serious.

"The incident is not being treated as supicious and a file will be passed to the Coroner."

The fire broke out at the bungalow at about 07:20 this morning.

Fire officers are still investigating the cause.

A council in Lincolnshire has successfully applied for an injunction to stop travellers repeatedly pitching camp alongside a main road through the county.

Image source, Google

Sleaford-based North Kesteven District Council says the High Court in Birmingham has granted the order for Byard's Leap, on the A17.

The authority says there has been persistent unauthorised caravan camping on this stretch of the High Dike and at least two encampments on the land each year.

Rail passengers across East Yorkshire and northern Lincolnshire are set to be hit with further strike action.

Members of the RMT union at six companies - Arriva Rail North, Southern, South Western Railway, Greater Anglia, Merseyrail and the Isle of Wight's Island Line - are to stage a series of 24-hour walkouts in January.

It's part of a long-running dispute about the role of guards.

The union said it had tried to resolve the disputes, which it has insisted are about safety.

Martin Slack
BBC Local Live, Lincolnshire

A man has died in a fire at his home in Sleaford, police have just confirmed.

The victim was rescued from the bungalow, on Claremont Park, off Lincoln Road, this morning but died later in hospital.

A woman who was also at the address escaped on her own.

Fire crews were called to the blaze at about 07:20 this morning.

Can you help stop graffiti vandals in Lincoln?

Lincolnshire Police have put out an appeal this afternoon:

The Kelvin Helmholtz or "wave cloud" formation is caused by faster air streams moving above slower ones.

Seb Tiley
Reporter, BBC Radio Lincolnshire

The completion of a revamp of Lincoln High Street has been postponed for a second time.

The project, which is costing taxpayers about £800,000, is supposed to see one of the city's main shopping areas repaved.

The scheme, between St Mary's Street and Tentercroft Street (pictured), was supposed to be finished before Lincoln Christmas Market at the beginning of December.

But it was put off by contractor North Midland Construction and temporary asphalt surfacing was laid.

It was promised then that the work would be done by Christmas.

But now that deadline has also been missed because of "freezing temperatures", according to North Midland Construction.

It's hoped the work will now be completed in the new year.

Lucy Parry
BBC Local Live, Lincolnshire

I'm out today with police officers who are clamping down on hare coursing in Lincolnshire.

They've been stopping suspects in the south of the county, confiscating dogs and moving hare coursers on.

But before they leave, the police are telling them to clean up their cars:

A so-called dispersal order is in place to allow police to move on groups of suspected coursers.

But in order to make any arrests police have to catch them in the act - which is very difficult.

Martin Slack
BBC Local Live, Lincolnshire

Paramedics working in Lincolnshire over Christmas say they fear being assaulted on a daily basis.

There have been more than 470 reported assaults on East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) staff over the past seven months.

EMAS has put the figures out this week because it's one of their busiest of the year.

The service is urging people celebrating Christmas to drink sensibly.

Have you seen Andrew Prince? He's wanted in relation to a stabbing in Eastbourne, but police believe he may currently be in Lincolnshire.

Image source, Sussex Police

Sussex and Lincolnshire Police have joined forces to ask for people's help in locating the 20-year-old after a man was attacked in Eastbourne in October.

He is also wanted on a warrant after failing to appear at Hastings Magistrates' Court for possession of an offensive weapon.

Officers believe he may be in the Boston or Spalding areas and are asking for anyone with information to get in touch.

Martin Slack
BBC Local Live, Lincolnshire

Firefighters in Lincoln were called to a blaze in the early hours of this morning caused by hot ashes in a wheelie bin.

There was damage to the outside of the house in Burton Road, with gutters melted and fencing burned, according to a Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue Service spokesman.

The incident happened at about 04:00 this morning.

Lisa Gallagher
Weather presenter, BBC Look North

Generally cloudy with hill fog and light rain is possible in some areas.

A better chance of bright spells in the east, and then also in the north during the afternoon.

Feeling rather mild with light winds.

Gemma Dawson
BBC Look North

A grieving daughter was left in tears when her father's funeral procession was forced to pull over as a highway maintenance driver overtook it.

Lindsay Stubbs said the driver broke into the cortege on the A16 near Spalding as they made their way to the crematorium on 15 December.

"I could not believe how disrespectful [the driver] was," she told the BBC.

She and her family now hope people will think twice about overtaking a funeral procession.

Barbara Stimpson
BBC Radio Lincolnshire News

The top stories from our Lincolnshire newsroom so far today include:

• Two people are treated in hospital after a house fire in Sleaford
• There's a call to use or lose a bus service which links the uphill and downhill areas of Lincoln
• A Lincolnshire village is the most Christmassy in the country, according to internet search data

People in Britain make more Christmas internet searches than anywhere else in the world, according to internet giant Google.

And the village of Keelby, near Caistor, made the most searches per person in the country according to the statistics.

So why is Keelby so Christmassy? We went to the village to find out:

Scunthorpe winger Hakeeb Adelakun, the EFL's Young Player of the Month for November, on growing up and swapping Croydon for Lincolnshire.

Jake Zuckerman
Journalist, BBC Look North

I'm at the scene of a blaze at a house in Sleaford where firefighters had to rescue a man earlier this morning.

Police are guarding the scene at Claremont Park, off Lincoln Road, where the fire broke out at about 07:20.

We know that one woman managed to get out of the affected property on her own.

Meanwhile, a man had to be rescued by firefighters wearing breathing apparatus.

Both are being treated in hospital and there are no details of their injuries yet.

Martin Slack
BBC Local Live, Lincolnshire

This looks like a painting - but it's actually a photograph taken yesterday at Swinhope, near Market Rasen.

Image source, Arlene Towriss

It's been sent to us via Twitter by Arlene Towriss and I just couldn't resist sharing it.

I'm told the cloud formations are called Kelvin Helmholtz waves.

They're named after scientists Lord Kelvin and Hermann von Helmholtz who studied the physics that lead to this beautiful type of cloud formation.