PM says 'wait and see' on Red Arrows future
Choir serenades rail commuters for BBC Music Day
Live updates on Friday 28 September 2018
A party will be held to bid farewell to some of Sutton on Sea's beach huts today.
The local residents' association has leased 15 huts on the condemned colonnade for the past five years, but they're due to be pulled down or removed.
Today's party will double-up as a Macmillan Cancer Support coffee morning.
A choir has marked BBC Music Day outside Lincoln railway station this morning.
It's part of a series of concerts outside stations today.
In Lincoln, the BeVox choir has been serenading people arriving in the city with Cliff Richard's Summer Holiday and Magical Mystery Tour by The Beatles.
A recycling centre in Scunthorpe has ambitions to triple the volume of waste it recycles.
Image source, GoogleEllgia says it has invested "millions" in the old Bell Waste Recycling site.
It currently sorts through 80,000 tonnes of rubbish every year.
The company says it recycles or uses everything that comes onto site.
Quote MessageWhen we say we recycle 65 to 70% the residual product that's left goes to generate energy in power stations, so although it's still waste, we are reusing the energy contained inside it."
Cameron Murdock, Technical Director at Ellgia.
Robotics and online shopping are among the topics being discussed at a business conference today.
Up to 400 delegates are expected to attend the Lincolnshire Enterprise Partnership event at the showground.
Image source, LEPSir John Peace, former chairman of British fashion house Burberry, will be one of the speakers.
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Campaigners aiming to save the beach huts on the Sutton on Sea Colonnade, external say they want the council to preserve the resort’s skyline.
Image source, Lincolnshire reporterCommunities that had their street lights switched off by Lincolnshire County Council could get them switched back on again - but only if they're prepared to pay for it.
According to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, new proposals mean that town councils could upgrade their lights to LEDs - allowing them to remain on through the night.
It comes after the county council switched off more than half of the region's 68,000 street lights in an effort to save money.
The system means that they are turned off as early as 22:00 in some areas and only come back on at dawn.
Three paramedics who helped a woman with her "traumatic" birth have been reunited with the baby they delivered.
Katie and Tom Noble were planning a home birth but when Katie started having contractions on 22 August she was told by her local maternity unit that the midwifery team were busy at another home birth.
As her labour progressed the Lincoln couple began to panic and called 999.
Paramedics Mike Cooksley and Richard Charman and Emergency Care Assistant Mark Betts arrived on the scene and helped deliver baby Amaryllis.
Image source, EMASA few weeks later Katie got in touch with East Midlands Ambulance Service to track down the men who helped her.
Quote MessageNobody plans to have their baby delivered by paramedics but I was so relieved when they walked through the door. They are heroes... it was important to me to know the names of the ambulance crew and also tell them how invaluable they were.
Katie Noble, Mum
Christopher Rawson was put in a coma after being beaten with a length of wood, stripped and hosed down.
Read MoreWe told you earlier that the Red Arrows were doing their last display of the year over in Monaco.
Well take a look at these and drive yourself mad with envy.
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The man who runs Louth Hospital says a decision to close beds permanently is out of his hands.
Two wards closed for fire safety work last year and chief executive Andrew Morgan promised they would reopen.
But a consultation's now under way which would see 40 beds closed permanently.
Image source, ULHTMr Morgan says he has to listen to the local commissioning group, which is looking again at what it spends:
Quote MessageLife does move on around you. The Clinical Commissioning Group did subsequently say that we do want to see what the future of those beds are... and they have all of the pressures that the rest of the NHS have, about what can we do with the resources we have available
Andrew Morgan, Louth Hospital chief executive
Terminally-ill Sam McConnell had to fight for her RAF pension to go to her children after she dies.
Read MoreThe summer truly ends when the Red Arrows finish their display season for another year.
That's exactly what they've been doing in Monte Carlo today.
Image source, GRP Boat RepairsAnyone else wish you were there?
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Lincolnshire Trading Standards has had reports of unwelcome cold callers at doors in the county and has issued this warning:
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A new campaign has been launched to confiscate cash, cars and other property bought from the proceeds of crime.
It's being run across Lincolnshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire and Northamptonshire.
Police want members of the public to get in touch if they're suspicious someone is living beyond their means because they're involved in something illegal.
Quote MessageIf you know someone is a convicted criminal and they have a new car on the drive, a shiny watch on their wrist or have been on yet another holiday, then we want to hear about it.
Det Insp Jo Reeves, Lincolnshire Police
This vehicle is being taken down to the Cornhill in Lincoln this afternoon to help launch the campaign - called “Too Much Bling? Give Us A Ring!”.
Image source, Lincolnshire policePeople who fail to clean up dog mess in North East Lincolnshire could now land a £100 fine, but from Doncaster council.
Senior councillors approved the new outsourcing agreement this morning, in an effort to reduce dog fouling.
It means that fines will be issued by Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council on a two-year trial.
Council leader, Ray Oxby, said that the problem is at the top of the authority's list of issues to tackle.
"Littering and dog fouling is a number one priority," he said.
"We are using a model that is proven to work and has very little cost to the council."
"We are confident that it will make the streets of the borough cleaner."
A Willy Wonka inspired chocolate festival, external is coming to Lincoln early next year.
Image source, The LincolniteA Lincolnshire kale farm has seen a massive surge in demand because of the trend for healthy foods and smoothies.
Emmet UK, based in Fosdyke near Spalding, is the largest kale producer in the country and is the sole supplier for supermarkets like Tesco.
Nigel Patrick from the company says the supermarkets can't get enough:
Quote MessageThey have really pushed kale from two or three tonne a week to 120 tonnes. Kale sales have increased massively on the back of the healthy smoothie trend.
Nigel Patrick, Emmet UK
Police are renewing their appeal for witnesses to a crash on the B1397 that killed a woman in her seventies.
It happened on 25 August on London Road in Kirton and involved a red Suzuki Wagon and a blue Ford Focus.
Police want to talk to anyone who was walking in the area at around 21:15.
Yesterday we told you about a string of lead thefts from the roofs of Lincolnshire churches.
Four churches have been targeted over three days and Lincolnshire Police think the incidents are linked.
Image source, WikipediaThe Rural Dean Sonia Barron says worshippers have been left to clean up the mess.
Quote MessageIt's an awful thing to do. It doesn't help us, the small congregations that faithfully serve and look after these buildings - we have to rectify all the damage that's been done.
Sonia Barron, Rural Dean
You can't beat Lincolnshire's big skies - if you can get up early enough you're usually in for a treat, as the sun steadily rises.
Today was no exception. Thanks to Malc who captured these wonderful colours in Corringham.
If you want to join in with the Weather Watchers fun then click this link and follow the instructions.
