Plans have been put forward for a new £2.6m business park in North East Lincolnshire.

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It's part of a £42m investment near Grimsby.

It is hoped the investment will help attract new businesses to the area.

The plans for the 62-hectare Stallingborough Enterprise Zone, off the A180, are being recommended for approval at a meeting next week.

If it gets the go-ahead it would be built over three phases, with work expected to be finished by 2032.

The family of a Lincolnshire man who died unexpectedly as a result of epilepsy is calling for more awareness and research into what causes the condition.

There are about two epilepsy-related deaths in the region every month - and in half of those cases it's as a result of sudden unexpected death in epilepsy, or Sudep.

Nathan Slade, 26, was found dead three years ago and was a victim of this condition.

His mum and twin sister say they believe more needs to be done to understand the cause and stop other families going through the same thing:

In a statement, the Department of Health said: ''Every death from epilepsy is a tragedy and guidance on how to minimise Sudep has recently been updated''.

A 12-year-old boy from Lincoln is due to compete in the World Masters, external darts contest in East Yorkshire today.

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In August, Leighton Bennett beat a host of professionals to win his first senior title at the Cambridge Open.

Today, Boom Boom, as he's known, will be at the Royal Spa in Bridlington competing against players from across the globe.

A self-styled "mumpreneur'" from Lincolnshire will appear on BBC TV's The Apprentice tonight.

Khadija Kalifa, from Stamford, runs an eco-cleaning business.

She's one of 16 people competing for a quarter-of-a-million pounds boost from Lord Sugar.

You can see Khadija on BBC1 tonight at 21:00.

A public meeting is due to take place later this week to discuss the future of a Lincolnshire hospital.

It's being organised by the area's MP Victoria Atkins after proposals were unveiled which would see up to 40 beds closed permanently at Louth Hospital.

At the public meeting on Friday, bosses of the Lincolnshire East Clinical Commissioning Group are expected to explain the proposals and a clinician will describe what they mean from a medical point of view.

The meeting is due to start at 18:00 at the British Legion Hall in Louth.

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Tranmere produce a superb second-half performance to clinch an impressive 1-0 victory over league leaders Lincoln.

Luke Hendrie scores the only goal as Grimsby Town win at Carlisle to end their run of six straight defeats.

Scunthorpe stretch their unbeaten run at the expense of Charlton's good form in an action-packed win at Glanford Park.

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It should stay largely dry.

A judge has told a man who was caught with 472 laughing gas canisters at a music festival he is "too old for this".

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Ediz Biler, 31, of Footscray Road in Eltham, south-east London, was arrested at the Lost Village Festival at Oak Hill Farm in Swinderby, Lincolnshire, last year.

At Lincoln Crown Court, he pleaded guilty to possessing a psychoactive substance with intent to supply others.

Biler was sentenced to 60 hours of unpaid work in the community and ordered to pay £1,200 in costs.

Sentencing him, Judge Simon Hirst said: "You are right in what you told the probation service in your pre-sentence report, you are too old for this.

"Do anything like this again and someone will lock you up.

"I also don't see why the public should pay for this, it is going to be a very expensive music festival for you."

Lincolnshire's longest serving MP has tweeted his disagreement with the change in the law to allow mixed-sex couples to have a civil partnerships:

It's sparked a lot of controversy on social media, external, with some twitter users accusing Sir Edward Leigh of advocating romantic relationships between siblings.

Sir Edward has been campaigning to give better rights to siblings who live together since 2004.

He has said "when one dies the other is left in limbo," referring to financial arrangements.

Sir Edward points out in those circumstances the surviving sibling has to pay estate duty.

Civil partnerships were initially designed to make sure gay couples, who at that time couldn't marry, weren't put in that position.

Since speaking to the BBC in Lincolnshire, Sir Edward has gone back to twitter to explain his position further:

Lincolnshire County Council has agreed to extend the contract with a private company which provides it with a wide-range of services in IT, finance and human resources.

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The council is three years into a five-year £70m contract with Serco.

It will now extend the contract until 2022.

Serco has been fined £1m by the council on two occasions after errors, including numerous blunders in paying staff.

In one case a school employee was almost paid £1.5m in wages.

Errors also led to a school phone line being cut and, in one case, sanitary facilities being repossessed.

The council said Serco had made significant improvements.

"The performance of Serco has improved and there is a risk of moving to a new provider at the moment," it added.

Ediz Biler, 31, is sentenced after he was caught with 472 canisters of nitrous oxide at a music festival.

Thousands of untaxed cigarettes, beer and spirits have been seized from two shops in Boston.

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Lincolnshire Trading Standards and Lincolnshire Police carried out the raids on Monday.

They found the illegal cigarettes in a purpose-built, hidden compartment in a wall at Euro Express on West Street.

More cigarettes and alcohol were seized from European Food & Wine Ltd on Red Lion Street.

Trading Standards officer Andy Wright says they are finding shopkeepers are using "more elaborate ways of hiding goods".

He said large quantities of untaxed goods were often being hidden in vehicles and other premises.

Mr Wright said help and information from people in the area was making a real difference to the work they do.

A man has been arrested in connection with a fire in Manby on Sunday night.

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It took ten fire crews to put out the blaze at the three-storey derelict building, thought to be a former RAF officers' mess.

The building was left severely damaged.

An 18-year-old man, from the Grimsby area, is currently in custody.

A group of former miners are protesting today against the closure of a convalescence home in a Lincolnshire seaside town.

The Miners' Retreat in Skegness was opened in 1939 to provide holiday accommodation for Derbyshire colliery workers and their families.

The remaining building was part of a larger holiday complex, originally known as the Derbyshire Miners' Convalescent Home.

The Coal Industry Social Welfare Organisation (CISWO) said the closure was due to the "increasing costs of retaining the building".

More than 1,000 people have signed a petition to keep it open.

Former pit worker Jeffrey Bird has organised three coach-loads of people to protest outside of the building.

"They've got the decision wrong, haven't they," he said.

"They haven't consulted nobody, they've just consulted their own people. That's just not how things should be done."

In a statement, the CISWO said it had spent a great deal of money on maintaining the building.

It added: "CISWO has money carefully invested which provides an income used to support more than 10,000 miners each year.

"We have to carefully consider how we use these funds to meet the current and future needs of those we work with, so that we can offer this support into the future."

Boston's Callum Johnson says he's confident he can bring a world title back to Lincolnshire.

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The British light-heavyweight champion is in Chicago to challenge Artur Beterbiev for the IBF world title on Saturday.

The 32-year-old won the British title with an emphatic stoppage win over Frank Buglioni in March.

He has 17 wins from 17 bouts, while Beterbiev has 12 and claimed the IBF title in his last bout.

The top stories from across Lincolnshire so far today include:

• Man jailed for sex attacks on two children
• Protest march over closure of miners' convalescent home in Skegness
• North Hykeham relief road gets green light

Plans for the North Hykeham Relief Road have been given the go-ahead by Lincolnshire councillors.

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Once built, the dual carriageway will create a complete ring road around the city.

The next step will be finalising the business case for the new road, which will then be used to apply for government funding.

Councillor Davies added this road will help reduce traffic congestion around Lincoln.