Football fans heading to see Lincoln City play at Wembley Stadium at the weekend have had their travel plans thrown in doubt after a coach company went into liquidation.

Hodson Coaches stopped trading on April 2, just days before this weekend's football match.

A spokesman for the company says that fans who had bookings to travel to the match in London this weekend will be contacted by a rival firm "with a booking option" so they should still make it to the Imps' historic game.

Two men have been jailed after a cannabis factory was discovered in Grimsby.

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Karolis Matulaitis, 30, of no fixed abode and Gediminas Valiukevicius, 58, also of no fixed abode were sentenced after nearly 600 cannabis plants were discovered at a property on Eleanor street on 14 January.

Humberside Police said the drugs had a street value of £300,000

Over £4,000 in cash was also found.

Matulaitis was given three years and four months and Valiukevicius was jailed for three years.

Volunteers are trying to raise thousands of pounds to improve a park in Grimsby.

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The Friends of Weelsby Woods group needs almost £10,000 to improve a footpath so it's more accessible for people in wheelchairs.

Jemima Edwards from the group says it's going to be a big project.

Tributes have been paid at a charity football match to honour a Red Arrows engineer killed in a crash last month.

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A game between staff at RAF Coningsby and Red Arrows team members last night was initially postponed after the crash which killed Cpl Jonathan Bayliss (pictured).

Some of his colleagues who were playing in the game said he "filled a room with his presence".

The match began with a minute-long applause in his honour, and ended 2-0 to staff at RAF Coningsby.

Joseph Rooney denies keeping vulnerable men as slaves and feeding them on takeaway scraps.

The family of a Lincoln teenager who will be walking the ball on to the pitch at Wembley say they're overwhelmed by support on social media.

Jack Nottingham, aged 16, has inoperable cancer.

Thanks to a local charity Band of Builders, he'll take to the pitch for the Checkatrade final with fans chanting his name.

The charity has spread the message asking to make videoes of themselves chanting a song.

BBC Lincolnshire got in on the action above.

Rob Makepeace
BBC Radio Lincolnshire sport

Fears that Lincoln City's triumphant manager will move on to bigger and brighter things have been put on hold.

Danny Cowley - who has led the Imps through a hugely successful FA Cup Run, helped the team to promotion and into the Checkatrade Trophy Final at Wembley - was being touted for a move to bigger teams like Ipswich Town.

But in an interview with BBC Radio Lincolnshire, he said he's planning on moving his family up to Lincoln from their home in Essex indicating that he may be keen on staying in the county.

Work will start on a new Premier Inn hotel in Skegness by the end of the month.

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The new hotel will be on the Pierfield site in the town (pictured), which locals argued should only be used for community events.

A campaign to find a different site for the hotel failed.

Developers say final meetings are taking place with the council to discuss a launch date.

Wembley firsts, legacy and loyalty, naughty footballers and exploiting brotherly love, Danny Cowley is embracing life at Lincoln City.

The top stories from across Lincolnshire so far today include:

• A man denies holding homeless people as slaves on a Lincolnshire travellers site
• Hospital bosses apologise over '"worst in country" ambulance delays
• Business leaders claim shortage of lorry drivers could be putting county prosperity at risk
• Plans are being prepared for a dedicated building for Lincoln's new medical school
• A charity football match this evening will be used as a tribute to Red Arrows crash victim

A Lincolnshire coach company has stopped providing school bus services, forcing council bosses to make other arrangements.

Hodson Coaches, which is based in Saxilby, notified the county council on Tuesday.

The authority says the four school services will be operated by another firm after the Easter holidays.

It says it's working with local operators to find a replacement for a fifth public route in Sleaford.

The company has not responded to requests for comment.

A man accused of holding homeless people on a Lincolnshire travellers site and forcing them to pave driveways has been giving evidence at his trial.

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Joseph Rooney, 45, of Washingborough, near Lincoln, is accused of deliberately targeting people who were homeless or alcoholics and holding them against their will on the Washingborough Road travellers site near Lincoln (pictured).

Mr Rooney has told Leicester Crown Court that he never forced anyone to work for him and that they were free to leave.

He denies one count of conspiracy to require persons to perform forced or compulsory labour.

He also denies three counts of causing actually bodily harm.

The trial continues.

Here's a map from East Midlands Trains which shows a stretch of track which is closed this afternoon after an accident:

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It's been issued after a lorry hit a bridge near Ancaster.

East Midlands Trains says Network Rail staff are on the way.

Services between Skegness and Nottingham are currently affected.

Police are appealing for help to catch a man who stole a woman's handbag as she sat on a bench in Lincoln this lunchtime.

Officers say the woman was walking her dog on St Augustine's Road, in the Bunkers Hill area of the city, and stopped to sit down.

A man then approached on a bike and grabbed her handbag, riding off in the direction of Cherry Willingham.

The suspect is described as in his 30s, wearing a dark hoodie and jeans.

Anyone who saw what happened or has any information about the theft is being asked to contact police.

The University of Lincoln has announced it's preparing a planning application for its new medical school.

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The first students are due to start on courses in September this year, but will have no permanent base of their own.

Today, Mary Stuart, the vice-chancellor of the university, told BBC Radio Lincolnshire a planning application was being prepared for a dedicated building.

The body of a missing man has been found at a wind farm in North Lincolnshire.

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Kamil Mrzyglod's body was found at Bagmoor wind farm in Normanby, near Scunthorpe.

Mr Mrzyglod went missing from Scunthorpe General hospital on Friday 30 March.

His death is not being treated as suspicious.

His family has been informed and is being supported by specialist officers.

Lincolnshire NHS trust is the worst in England for getting patients from ambulances to A&E.

Pilots and engineers from two Lincolnshire-based RAF teams will pay tribute to Corporal Jonathan Bayliss ahead of a charity football match this evening.

Corporal Bayliss died earlier last month when a Red Arrows jet crashed in Wales.

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This evening members of the Red Arrows team will take on the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight at Lincoln United's ground on Ashby Avenue.

The fundraising fixture was cancelled after the crash at RAF Valley on 20 March.

Youth related anti-social behaviour is going down in North East Lincolnshire.

Last year there was a surge in offences in Grimsby town centre, but it looks like it could now be contained.

The police, council and voluntary groups are working together to spruce up areas to make them better places for young people to spend time there.

Hundreds of trees are being planted at the University of Lincoln to commemorate the 800th anniversary of an historic charter.

The Charter of the Forest gave people free access to woods once owned by the monarchy - and the document is now kept in a special vault at Lincoln Castle.

Academics have planted the 800 saplings that are part of a scientific study.

The walnut, sycamore and chestnut trees are being planted in rows between crops to see if they'll improve yields.