Today will be dry with some sunshine but cloud will tend to increase at times.

Feeling warm with a gentle to moderate westerly wind.

Craft gin worth £50,000 has been auctioned after a festival firm went into administration.

Any heavy showers or thunderstorms in the evening will die away to leave it mostly dry.

However, there'll be a fair amount of cloud.

A man in his 30s was left with serious head injuries after being attacked in Ingoldmells.

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The assault happened outside Castaways Bar on Sea Lane at about 02:00 on Sunday.

A 35-year-old man from Nottingham has been arrested in connection with the incident.

Lincolnshire Police are appealing for witnesses.

A motorist from Nottinghamshire who almost killed a pedestrian as he fled police in Lincolnshire has been jailed.

Kain Masey, 25, from Wallis Street, Basford, in Nottingham, was trying to avoid a police stinger, when he lost control of the car in April this year.

Lincoln Crown Court heard on Friday how he rolled the car, narrowly missing a pedestrian, near a caravan site at Trusthorpe.

Mr Masey admitted a range of charges including dangerous driving.

He was jailed for 16 months and banned from driving for two years and eight months.

The remains of an ancient forest have emerged from the sea off the Lincolnshire coast.

Crowds have been flocking to the beach at Trusthorpe to see it:

The submerged trees, dating back over 6,000 years, are only visible during the lowest tides of the year.

Police are searching for a man who burgled a 77-year-old woman's home in Grimsby at the weekend.

The victim woke up at about 03:15 on Friday 10 August to find a man crawling on his hands and knees around her bedroom at her home in Barry Avenue.

She challenged him before he ran out of the property, taking with him a yellow make-up bag containing money and bank cards and two cordless house phones.

The woman wasn’t hurt.

Anyone with information about the burglary is being asked to contact police.

Work has begun on a £13m project to protect villages on the River Trent in North Lincolnshire from flooding.

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The scheme will see more than two miles of sheet piling installed along the river from Keadby Bridge down to the M180.

It's designed to provide protection to the villages of Burringham, Gunness and East Butterwick.

The remains of an ancient woodland could be revealed off the Lincolnshire coast this afternoon.

An exceptionally low tide could mean the fossilised tree stumps at Trusthorpe are exposed.

The last time the tide was this low was more than 20 years ago.

A Lincolnshire man who downloaded and distributed indecent images of children has been told he faces jail.

Peter Belton Storr, 62, from Market Rasen Road in Dunholme, has pleaded guilty at Lincoln Crown Court today to distributing 20 images and making more than 180.

He's due to be sentenced in September.

A government plan to eradicate homelessness has been broadly welcomed by groups in Lincolnshire.

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£100m has been promised to tackle rough sleeping in England over the next decade.

Half will go towards providing homes for people who leave hostels or refuges.

Charities, including P3 which supports projects supporting homeless people in Lincolnshire, have welcomed the investment, but say more needs to be done to tackle the root causes of homelessness - in particular the lack of safe, affordable housing.

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BBC Weather

A fair amount of cloud today with showers.

Some of these are likely to be heavy with the risk of thunderstorms bringing locally torrential downpours.

A few sunny spells at times.

The top stories from across Lincolnshire so far today include:

• Man attacked at village festival
• Plans to expand Scunthorpe Hospital A&E
• Nearly 900 extra prison days handed out in Lincolnshire

The woman posted on Facebook about dealing with "nightmare parents and demonic children".

Prisoners in Lincolnshire were handed 859 extra days behind bars last year, according to new figures out today, external.

The sentence extensions are for rule breaking for offences like bringing drugs into prison or not obeying officers' instructions.

The Howard League for Penal Reform, external says nationally the number of additional days has doubled in the past three years.

The Ministry for Justice says people would expect any prisoner who attacks a member of staff or fellow inmate, or who smuggles in drugs, to be punished and spend more time in prison.

A man has been left with a head injury after being hit over the head with a bottle at a village festival in Lincolnshire.

Police say the victim, who's in his teens, was attacked at the Saltfleet Festival at about 23:45 on Saturday

He was taken to hospital for treatment after the assault in Louth Road.

Officers have appealed for witnesses to come forward.

An auction of gin worth about £50,000 closes in Scunthorpe today.

The bottles are being sold off after Gin Festival Limited, based in Keighley, West Yorkshire, went into administration in July.

Festivals due to take place, including ones in Lincoln, Wakefield, and Sheffield, were subsequently cancelled.

The bottles are being sold in an online auction which ends today.

Plans to extend Scunthorpe's accident and emergency department have been put forward to try an ease pressure on services.

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The hospitals trust wants to improve its urgent care streaming service, which diverts patients away from A&E if they don't need it.

It plans to spend £900,000 on improving the unit.

It's been revealed over four million people visited Lincoln in the past year, boosting the value of tourism to over £250m.

Visit Lincoln said accommodation, restaurants and bars and transport all saw an increase in numbers.

Employment levels in the city's tourism sector has also grown.