A man from Spalding who has spent years working on a board game has finally had it released by a national retailer.

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James Smith said he invented the game, which involves guessing the title of a film, TV programme or song from the first letters alone, five years ago.

His family and friends enjoyed his prototype so he had a go at making a real version.

After years of work, the game is now being sold at national toy retailer Smyths Toys, external.

A man has been jailed for attempting to convince his blackmail victim his wife had been kidnapped.

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Daniel Fox, 29, of Humber Road in Coventry (pictured), was jailed for four years and 10 months after pleading guilty at Leicester Crown Court, to three counts of blackmail in January this year.

One offence involved attempting to blackmail a Lincolnshire man by claiming he'd kidnapped his wife.

He called the victim, using a technology to make it appear that it was his wife's phone number, and demanded money and threatened to hurt her if he didn't pay up.

He was found out when the victim's wife returned home while he was still on the phone.

The former Cleethorpes Pleasure Island ride was bought in error for £180,000 by an online bidder.

A church which has been under the threat of demolition is being restored to its former glory after a £400,000 cash injection.

The tower of St Margaret's at Thimbleby was at risk of falling down and the building had to be closed in 2010.

The cash and restoration project mean the tower will now remain standing.

The City of Lincoln Council is expecting to lose more than £1.1m in car park revenue by the end of the year.

A report going to the city council shows income from parking is already down by more than £300,000 this year.

The document says this is in line with a fall in the number of shoppers in the city centre - it has dropped by about a quarter.

Lincoln Prison staff have intercepted drugs worth nearly £5,000 hidden in letters.

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The Ministry of Justice says 30 sheets of A4 which were soaked in the psychoactive substance spice were detected by a drugs scanner at the jail.

Routine joint and bone procedures for patients from across Lincolnshire will take place at Grantham Hospital from today as part of a six-month trial.

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Hospital managers hope centralising surgery at one hospital will cut the number of operations cancelled.

Last year, 900 patients' operations were cancelled by the county's hospital trust.

A man who suffered with severe mental health problems is encouraging people to speak about their problems to help overcome the stigma.

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Tom Dunning, from Lincoln, says he had borderline personality disorder, severe anxiety, PTSD and suffered from psychotic episodes.

Tom imagined voices being critical of him and says he tried to take his own life on numerous occasions.

But, he says after overcoming bullying, the death of his brother and issues with his weight he began running.

He quickly lost eight stone in weight and it helped him tackle his mental health problems with the help of counselling .

Police are searching for a woman who is thought to have spat at a taxi driver in Lincoln.

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Officers wish to speak to the woman pictured about the incident last Wednesday.

They said they're treating the incident as a potential assault.

Doncaster Council is set to move into a shared service agreement to tackle littering and dog fouling with North East Lincolnshire Council, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.

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The Doncaster cabinet agreed to enter into a two-year agreement with the Grimsby authority to deliver "enhanced environmental crime enforcement" on its behalf.

Doncaster's services are currently carried out by private firm Kingdom Security, who issue fixed penalty notices for parking, littering, fly-tipping and enforcing public space protection orders.

A report before the council said it was expected that contractors would issue at least 6,000 fixed penalty notices in the first 12 months for North East Lincolnshire Council.

It said the current clean-up cost for fly-tipping alone in Doncaster is about £500,000 and the joint service would "give further scope to deliver value for money".

The major trauma centre for the East Midlands - which serves Lincolnshire - has already saved more than 570 lives since it opened in 2012, a new report says.

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Research by the University of Manchester shows the unit, at Nottingham's Queen's Medical Centre, is the busiest outside London.

It's treated nearly 10,000 patients in the past six years, many of whom will have been from Lincolnshire.

Adam Brooks, the consultant in charge, says even if patients have to travel further to get there, their chances of survival are greater:

Former Prime Minister David Cameron and ex-UKIP leader Nigel Farage are just two of the political heavyweights who've paid tribute after the death of Sir Peter Tapsell.

The 88-year-old former Louth and Horncastle Conservative MP represented the area for 50 years.

His death was announced at the weekend.

A Eurosceptic, Sir Peter was one of the rebels who opposed the 1993 Maastricht Treaty which established the EU.

UKIP grandee Nigel Farage paid tribute saying: "What a character. Once told me he was a Eurosceptic before I was born."

And former Prime Minister David Cameron described working with him as a "privilege":

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The death of a man found at a house in Boston is no longer being treated as unexplained, say police.

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A post-mortem examination has revealed the 36-year-old - who was discovered in Kyme Road on Friday evening - died of natural causes.

A motorcyclist has died after a collision with two cars near Boston.

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The rider is believed to have been a local man in his 60s.

It happened on Langrick Road at New York yesterday lunchtime.

Police are appealing to local residents for more information about the crash.