Job centre officials say offers to employ redundant Fogarty workers are already coming in from "all over the place".

Nearly 200 workers lost their jobs at the bedding manufacturer earlier this week after it went into administration.

Image source, Google

Employment advisor Stuart Roberts says they've organised special sessions for workers and they've already had an impact:

The head of the trust which runs hospitals in Goole, Grimsby and Scunthorpe says he wants the organisation to be out of financial special measures by next year.

Image source, Google

Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals Trust was put into financial special measures in March 2017.

It is forecast to have a £43.5 million overspend by the end of this year, £12m over the planned target.

The chief executive of the trust, Dr Peter Reading, said the finances are beginning to stabilise.

He said: "We're beginning to reverse the negative position and my timetable for getting out of financial special measures is next year."

The trust is just one of four in the country to be in both financial and quality special measures.

This is all that's left of a stolen school bus found in a field this morning:

Tealby Primary near Market Rasen say they're devastated and have had to cancel trips as a result.

Image source, Tealby School

A teenager has been left with head and face injuries after being robbed of his bike in Cleethorpes, say Humberside Police.

Image source, Google

The 15-year-old was riding his bike down an alleyway between the cemetery and Trinity Road on Saturday evening when he was approached by two teenage boys who had their faces covered.

Officers say one of the boys hit him then stole his bicycle.

They're asking for anyone who might have seen the distinctive orange mountain bike to come forward.

The Lincolnite

Popular E4 show Tattoo Fixers is returning soon and is looking for new inks to fix and transform, external in the new series.

Image source, Studio Lambert

The bus, which belonged to Tealby Primary School, was found burnt out about 15 miles away.

Almost £1.5m worth of fire improvement works on a Lincolnshire hospital ward is nearing completion.

Image source, ULHT

Branston Ward at Lincoln County has undergone a major refurbishment and has benefited from new ceilings, flooring and patient bathrooms.

It's part of a wider £46m capital investment programme being carried out at the county's hospitals.

BBC News Travel

A lorry has shed its load of bricks on the A17 at East Heckington.

Police are asking you to avoid the area if you can.

Staff and pupils at a Lincolnshire school say they've been left "devastated" after their minibus was stolen and left burnt out in a field.

Image source, Tealby Primary

Tealby Primary discovered their bus was missing this morning, only for it to turn up destroyed in a field.

Police are appealing for witnesses.

Christa Haslam is the deputy headteacher of the school near Market Rasen.

She says they used the bus to take children on trips.

Police want to speak to this man after two drones were stolen from a store in Lincoln.

Image source, Lincolnshire Police

It happened yesterday at about midday.

A person picked up two boxed drones and left the store without making any attempt to pay for them.

The individual also threatened a member of staff at the store.

Lincolnshire Echo

The manager of a Co-op store that was wrecked in an early morning ram-raid, external has thanked shoppers and neighbouring businesses for their support.

Image source, Roger Barnard

The high-street butcher Crawshaws has collapsed into administration.

The group, which has stores in Lincoln, Scunthorpe, Grimsby and Gainsborough, says 600 jobs are at risk across the chain after discussions with investors to raise cash failed.

The Yorkshire-based business opened in 1954.

It was a struggle for students at Tealby primary school near Market Rasen to get to classes today.

Overnight their bus was stolen and the school posted photos of it on social media to try and help locate it.

Image source, Tealby School

The bus was eventually found burnt out in a field:

A man who organised the distribution of heroin and cocaine in Lincolnshire has been jailed.

The group transferred drugs from Coventry into Grantham using a network of couriers, before sending them out across the county using a music promotions business Shireboy Events to hide their activities.

Image source, Lincolnshire Police

During the investigation around a kilo of class A drugs were recovered.

A "significant" quantity of cannabis and around £20,000 in cash was also found.

The ringleader Jermain Alcide, 37, of West Street, Barkston, near Grantham, pleaded guilty on the fourth day of his trial at Lincoln Crown Court.

He's been jailed for 16 years and two months.

Support sessions are being held in Boston today to help former Fogarty workers.

Staff from the Department for Work and Pensions and the local council will be on hand to answer questions and offer guidance.

It's after the historic pillow and duvet firm unexpectedly went into administration on Monday afternoon.

Up to 12 people can attend each session at the Municipal Buildings in Boston between 10:00 and 15:00.

More than 30 affordable homes could be built near Lincoln's mosque.

City of Lincoln councillors have been advised to support the plans for 36 homes.

The scheme is part of the redevelopment of the former Boultham Dairy on Boultham Park Road.

A picture of whales beached on sand at Skegness has been selected for this year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition.

Image source, David Higgins

The image was taken by amateur photographer David Higgins.

After being "highly commended" by the judges, it's now on display at the Natural History Museum in London and is set to go on tour around the world.

Lisa Gallagher
Weather presenter, BBC Look North

Mostly dry and bright today with the best of the sunny spells in the east. p06qbn3h

The number of new houses needing to be built in Lincolnshire could be lower than previously thought, new figures suggest.

Image source, PA

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has revised downwards the number of new households needed in the county over the next decade.

Previously, the figure was about 1,000 a year - but that figure's now been revised by the ONS to about 900.

The projections relate to central Lincolnshire, which includes Lincoln, Sleaford and Gainsborough.

Second-half goals from Corey Whelan and Shaun Miller earn Crewe their second win in three games as the Railwaymen see off Grimsby.