This year's Lincolnshire show is taking to the skies for themed activities to commemorate 100 years of the RAF.

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Among the attractions at the annual show, held at the Lincolnshire Showground in Lincoln, external, are the RAF parachuting team the Falcons (pictured), a flypast by a Spitfire and a Dakota.

There will also be mini tank driving for kids, an aviation themed treasure hunt and a replica Red Arrows Hawk Jet.

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Two tonnes of solar panels and power inverters have been stolen from the village of Casewick, near Stamford.

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The equipment, which police say is worth £50,000, was stolen during the early hours of Monday 26 March, with about 100 panels being stolen.

Police are appealing for anyone who may have seen a large lorry or truck heading towards Uffington, near Stamford, that morning to get in touch., external

A new EU rule could mean "lights out" for theatres across our region, it's being claimed.

Due to environmental concerns, The European Commission is considering banning tungsten bulbs and light fittings by 2020.

But some theatres say the cost of replacing lights would be "crippling", with the New Theatre Royal in Lincoln saying it would cost about £150,000 to replace its lights.

Both the East Riding Theatre in Beverley and the Embassy Theatre in Skegness say it would cost them "tens of thousands of pounds" to replace their lights.

A church in Lincolnshire will screen its first ever film tonight.

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St Wulfram's Church has stepped in to provide screenings after the town's only cinema closed last week.

The first film is Armando Iannucci's black comedy The Death of Stalin.

The church is becoming increasingly famous for its unusual attractions, having played host to an ice rink, toboggan run and a beer festival within its walls in the last few years.

Polling stations have opened this morning for voting in local elections across our region.

A third of the seats on City of Lincoln Council and North East Lincolnshire Council are up for grabs.

Meanwhile, it's the first all-council election in Hull for some time.

Polling stations will be open until 22:00 tonight.

The removal of CCTV cameras in an estate in Boston could lead to an "infestation of crime" in the area, it's feared.

The borough council has taken down all but two of the cameras in the Fenside area (pictured), after a local housing association ended its voluntary funding.

Fenside is among the bottom 10% most deprived neighbourhoods in the country, external.

Boston Council says it can't justify spending council tax on cameras for just one area of the borough.

But one of its councillors, Anton Dani, is worried crime will now increase.

The Prime Minister says "every effort will be made" to ensure that children's services continue at Boston's Pilgrim Hospital.

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The short-term closure of the children's ward is one of the options being considered by United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust bosses because of a shortage of medical staff.

No decision has been made yet, but local Conservative MP Matt Warman (pictured) has sought reassurance from the government after telling the Commons about how hard it is to recruit specialist childrens' doctors and nurses.

Lincolnshire's top stories today include:

• A woman has died from a fall in Sleaford
• Concrete plans for the future of Lincolnshire's beleaguered hospitals are still "months away"
• A Lincolnshire man has called for more understanding of Lyme Disease
• The holder of £9.5m lottery ticket has been found after a four week search
• Birdwatchers in Boston have been all a flutter after the sighting of a rare "Harry Potter Owl"

Police are appealing for the owner of a laptop to come and collect it.

All they know is that the owner is called Natalie:

Hilda Moore was injured walking along a path in Sleaford, Lincolnshire on Friday and has since died.

Lincolnshire County Council says it can't guarantee an end to a catalogue of errors by an external company it uses to pay some staff.

The company Serco was fined £1m in 2015 for poor performance after teachers and firefighters weren't paid properly, new teachers didn't get their contracts on time, suppliers to the county council weren't getting paid on time and some pension contributions were incorrectly filed.

But Lincolnshire County Council says it can't provide assurance that these problems will stop until Serco's contract ends in 2020.

Debbie Barnes, Executive Director of Children's Services, said "We're not in a position to be able to give that reassurance at the moment" when asked if they could guarantee that problems with payment would end.

The authority hopes to move their payment system used by Rutland and Herefordshire County Council when the current contract ends.

Serco has previously said that it's "fully committed to putting things right".

Forget cats up trees, fire crews in Louth rescued a dog from a hole in the ground yesterday.

Teams from Louth and Sleaford Fire Stations went to Crowtree Lane in the town to rescue the Jack Russell from a rabbit hole.

The crew used a snake eye camera and other "specialist equipment" to rescue the terrier...

They included "spade, shovels and portable lighting", also known as a torch.

A rare Snowy Owl, which resembles Hedwig from the Harry Potter series, has been spotted at Frampton Marsh in Boston.

The owl was spotted and captured on film by birdwatchers.

John Saunders said it was roosting on the salt marsh whilst he was at the RSPB site.

"It didn't do an awful lot while I was on site," he said, but added it flew across the River Witham and then vanished this morning.

The owls are rarely seen this far south, but it certainly ruffled a few feathers at the RSPB in Lincolnshire and Norfolk yesterday evening.

Image source, John Saunders

A four-week search for the Lincolnshire winner of a £9.5m Lottery jackpot has yielded a winner .

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Camelot, who run the lottery, had organised two events in the Grantham area in the hope to find the winner from the draw on 7 April.

They say the winner is under no obligation to reveal their identity.

A group of bowls players in Gainsborough have led a demonstration against the loss of their indoor bowls facility.

The indoor bowls club in Gainsborough is to be replaced by an indoor health and wellbeing centre.

West Lindsey District Council say they'll provide alternatives, which include facilities for a variant of Bowls called "Short Mat Bowls".

A Lincolnshire man is calling for a greater understanding of Lyme Disease after his partner suffered "terribly" after contracting the disease.

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Simon Fell, who lives in Kirton in Lindsey, wants people to understand how devastating the condition can be.

It is usually caught via ticks (pictured).

Simon's partner caught the disease while on holiday in Scotland, she fell ill with what she thought was flu but three ticks were discovered in her stomach when she went to hospital.

He says her health has deteriorated rapidly because of post-infectious Lyme Disease, external.

She has had delusions, bells palsy, seizures, convulsions, loss of speech and parasthesia (pins and needles) as a result of the condition.

Scunthorpe United are celebrating reaching the League One play-offs with two award nominations for their interim manager and captain.

Nick Daws is in contention to become League One manager of the month, external and Rory McArdle is among the nominees for player of the month.

The winners will be announced on Friday morning.

Concrete plans for the future of Lincolnshire's hospitals are still months away, according to the group drawing them up.

The Sustainability and Transformation Partnership have spent millions of pounds and two years trying to create a plan for the future of local NHS services.

The plan is supposed to address issues such as staff recruitment and the quality of care.

John Turner, from the partnership, said the public would also get a say:

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