Summary

  • Reprieve for children's services at Boston Pilgrim Hospital

  • 15,000 home's plan approved in South Kesteven

  • North East Lincolnshire hit hard by drug and alcohol funding cuts

  • Live updates on Friday 11 May 2018

  1. NHS Tracker: Check key targets in your areapublished at 11:07 British Summer Time 13 June 2019

    Use our tracker to check whether your local services are meeting waiting-time targets for cancer, routine operations, A&E and mental health treatment.

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  2. Lincoln City 0-0 Exeter Citypublished at 17:29 British Summer Time 12 May 2018

    Exeter resist a strong second-half performance from Lincoln to draw the first leg of the League Two play-off semi-final.

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  3. Scunthorpe United 2-2 Rotherham Unitedpublished at 15:21 British Summer Time 12 May 2018

    Cameron McGeehan levels late on in Scunthorpe's League One play-off semi-final first-leg against Rotherham.

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  4. Pub sign honours Dambusters pilotpublished at 12:19 British Summer Time 12 May 2018

    Dambusters Inn is next to the RAF station where the famous bombing squadron flew from.

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  5. League Two play-offs: Lincoln and Exeter draw goalless first leg - as it happenedpublished at 12:14 British Summer Time 12 May 2018

    Relive the action as Lincoln and Exeter draw 0-0 in the first leg of the League Two play-off semi-final.

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  6. League One play-offs: Scunthorpe and Rotherham draw first leg - as it happenedpublished at 12:10 British Summer Time 12 May 2018

    Relive all the action as Scunthorpe United and Rotherham United draw 2-2 in the first leg of their League One play-off semi-final.

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  7. This evening's weatherpublished at 17:30 British Summer Time 11 May 2018

    Tonight it will be rather cloudy with a risk of some patchy light rain or drizzle.

    Weather
  8. Dambusters Inn gets a new signpublished at 17:25 British Summer Time 11 May 2018

    The Dambusters Inn at Scampton has unveiled a new sign which is copied from a critically acclaimed painting.

    New sign

    The pub, near the RAF base, has been given permission to use the painting by the artist Simon Atack, external, to mark the 75th anniversary of the Second World War bombing raid.

  9. Elderly motorist killed in crashpublished at 17:11 British Summer Time 11 May 2018

    A female motorist, in her 80s, has died after the car she was driving collided with another vehicle at Kirton near Boston.

    It happened on London Road on Saturday.

  10. Louth school criticised for ditching sixth formpublished at 16:44 British Summer Time 11 May 2018

    Councillors have hit out at Louth Academy's decision to shut its sixth form from the end of the current academic year.

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    The withdrawal of six form facilities will have a direct and negative impact on the life-chances of local children."

    Adam Grist, East Lindsey District Council’s Portfolio Holder for Market Towns and Rural Economy

    But the school, which was recently formed by the merger of two comprehensives, says fewer than ten students wanted to join the sixth form in 2018.

    Senior teachers say they hope to reopen it if they get enough applications for September 2019.

  11. Castle to throw a 'right royal' wedding partypublished at 15:57 British Summer Time 11 May 2018

    Lincoln Castle, external is throwing a special royal wedding party on the day Prince Harry and Meghan Markle tie the knot in Windsor.

    CastleImage source, Lincolnshire County Council

    The wedding will be shown live on the big screen at the castle and you're welcome to bring a picnic and join in the party.

    BBC Radio Lincolnshire's Melvyn Prior and Harry Parkhill will host the grand day out on 19 May.

  12. Grieving mum urges Group B Strep test for pregnant womenpublished at 15:33 British Summer Time 11 May 2018

    A woman from Grimsby, whose baby was stillborn, is campaigning for all pregnant women to be tested for a bacteria which could put their babies at risk.

    Kim Poulton looking at a book of photos of her baby.

    Kim Poulton found out she had Group B Strep after losing her daughter Faith in 2015.

    She's since discovered that hundreds of babies in the UK develop the infection every year.

    A picture of a baby's hands.

    Kim now wants more to be done to stop babies being infected and thinks testing is the answer.

  13. County Council chooses new chairmanpublished at 15:16 British Summer Time 11 May 2018

    Councillors in Lincolnshire have elected Ron Oxby as the county council's, external new chairman.

    Ron OxbyImage source, Lincolnshire County Council

    Councillor Oxby was first elected to the authority as a Conservative councillor in 2007 - he was previously vice-chairman of the council.

    He said he was keen to promote Lincolnshire as a county and had chosen Lincoln's St Barnabas Hospice, external as his charity.

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    I will be supporting charities in Lincolnshire which help residents of the county and people who are less fortunate. With Lincolnshire's ageing population, it's important that people support each other."

    Ron Oxby, Chairman, Lincolnshire County Council

  14. Pregnant glass attack woman jailedpublished at 15:01 British Summer Time 11 May 2018

    Amy Coleman blinded Carl Benham in one eye when she pushed a glass into his face in Skegness.

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  15. 'Chaos' as part of M1 closes for weekendpublished at 14:54 British Summer Time 11 May 2018

    Drivers including football fans and people catching flights are being warned to expect disruption.

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  16. Man jailed for sex attack on studentpublished at 14:30 British Summer Time 11 May 2018

    A man who sexually assaulted a university student, after following her out of a supermarket, has been jailed.

    Nigel LeighImage source, Lincolnshire Police

    Lincoln Crown Court heard Nigel Leigh followed his young victim from Morrison's, on Tritton Road, back to her university accommodation in June 2015.

    The 38-year-old caught up with her in an alleyway and assaulted her.

    Leigh, from Ruston Way, Lincoln, denied a single charge of sexual assault.

    The court heard he had a number of previous sexual convictions, including a nine-year sentence for rape.

    He was jailed for two years and six months, and must serve a further two and a half years on extended licence.

  17. Assistant Wilkinson leaves Grimsbypublished at 13:43 British Summer Time 11 May 2018

    Grimsby Town assistant manager Paul Wilkinson leaves the League Two club after just over a year in the post.

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  18. Driving tutor faces sex assault re-trialpublished at 13:32 British Summer Time 11 May 2018

    A re-trial was ordered after a jury failed to reach verdicts on nine charges of sexual assault.

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  19. Boston MP under fire over Pilgrim's children's servicespublished at 13:32 British Summer Time 11 May 2018

    Boston and Skegness Conservative MP Matt Warman has been criticised at a meeting over the future of children's services at Boston Pilgrim Hospital.

    Meeting

    It was announced last night that paediatric services at the hospital will run until the end of July, after it had been feared they would close on Monday 4 June due to staffing shortages.

    During the meeting, campaigners accused Mr Warman of protecting the trust which runs the hospital and not his constituents.

    But Mr Warman says his priority is securing the long-term future of the services at the site.

    The MP has raised the issue at Prime Minister's Questions, to NHS England and the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt.

    The trust says it doesn't want to close the ward and says it's actively recruiting doctors to keep it open.