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Grantham could soon have a bronze statue of its most famous daughter, the former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

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Plans have been unveiled for a 10.5ft statue, standing on a 10.5ft plinth, on St Peter's Hill in the town.

The statue of the "Iron Lady" was originally intended to stand in the square opposite the Houses of Parliament, but was rejected by Westminster Council in January.

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All the time, councillors said it could attract "civil disobedience and vandalism".

Planning permission for the statue has been submitted to South Kesteven District Council.

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Four people have been jailed for a robbery in which a man was attacked with an axe.

Porcher Toynbee (top right) arranged to visit her victim at his home in Worksop in May but arrived with three masked men.

The victim was attacked and suffered a 10 inch gash on his head and a fractured eye socket.

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Toynbee, 22 and of Bawtry Close, Lincoln and her boyfriend, Aaron Meehan (bottom right), 37, of Wiltshire Road, Lambeth, were arrested when they tried to flee the country through the Euro Tunnel, police said.

They added that Carwood-Charlton (top left), 26, of Raglan House, Lincoln, was arrested by armed police at the University of Lincoln on 23 May, which was captured on video.

Meehan, Toynbee, her father Alan O'Neil, of Heavitree Road, London, (bottom left) and Carwood-Charlton admitted conspiracy to commit robbery and were sentenced to four years, three years, two years and 18 months respectively at Nottingham Crown Court yesterday.

Toynbee, Meehan and Carwood-Charlton were also charged with possession of a firearm and causing GBH, which will remain on file.

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TransPennine train services are currently suspended between Doncaster and Scunthorpe due to a problem with a swing bridge.

Disruption is expected until at least 12:45, according to National Rail Enquiries, external.

A Lincolnshire pub which has been closed for two years is to be turned into a children's day nursery.

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Permission for The Dovecote, on the A46 near Lincoln, to be changed into a nursery for 140 children has been granted by North Kesteven District Council.

It's estimated that 30 jobs will be created by the change of use.

Lincolnshire Police officers are to start using new technology to make front-line policing more efficient, the force says.

It says it is the first in the country to sign up to what's described as a cloud-based control room and dispatch system.

The police say the technology, run by Motorola Solutions, will allow officers to access records at the touch of a button.

Those records would include things such as previous case files, drone footage, and interviews.

A family of peregrine falcons nesting at a Boston church have to move because of repairs.

A growing number of car boot sales in Lincolnshire are having a negative impact on the fortunes of local markets, according to a councillor.

Stephen Palmer, a district and town councillor and Mablethorpe's mayor, said stalls are losing customers to car boots.

Many of these, he told a meeting of East LIndsey District Council, are being held without the proper permission.

He said more enforcement was needed.

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A singer has complained of being "racially profiled" after she and her 50-year-old mother were stopped by police.

Soul singer Harleigh Blu, from Nottingham, was driving to the airport when she was stopped by an officer near Grantham.

After questioning Ms Blu, the police said they could smell cannabis in her car and searched her mother's handbag. They let the pair go when they did not find anything, she said.

"I believe that I was racially profiled," she said.

"I believe that due to the colour of my skin and my hair being in dreadlocks, they projected a stereotype on to me."

Lincolnshire Police says it will not comment while an investigation into her complaint is ongoing.

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Andrew Green confirmed his win with Betfred, but days later the firm called and told him it was void.

Tonight will be predominantly cloudy with outbreaks of rain.

Feeling chilly in a brisk easterly wind, although this will ease later on:

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The owners of a printing business and former village pub in Sibsey have applied to demolish the building to make way for housing.

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Agent Terry Sykes, on behalf of Print Labels, on The Old Main Road, has told East Lindsey District Council that the business is set to leave the address.

The application asks for outline permission to build up to eight houses on the site.

Extra police patrols will take place on Monks Road in Lincoln over the next few days following a robbery last night.

A "vulnerable" victim was targeted leaving the Dog and Bone pub on John Street at about 20:00, police say.

The offender grabbed and threatened him before taking his phone.

A man in his 20s has been arrested on suspicion of robbery.

New traffic measures designed to control an influx of visitors to the Lincolnshire coast to see the seal pups there are said to be mostly working.

A one-way system has been brought in and visitors now have to pay £5 to park at Donna Nook.

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Five former teachers and staff members from a specialist residential boarding school in South Cumbria have denied charges alleging physical abuse and cruelty during the 1970s and 1980s.

The charges relate to four boys, now grown men, who were sent to what was then called Witherslack Hall, near Grange over Sands because local authorities deemed them unsuitable for mainstream education "for a variety of reasons", according to prosecutor Keith Sutton.

At Carlisle Crown Court (pictured) Roger Whitehouse, 78, of Seaview, Haverigg, denies two actual bodily harm assaults and two charges alleging child cruelty.

Three other men, Andrew Elliot, 68, of Main Street, Greatford, Stamford, Lincolnshire, Michael Lynch, 72, of Kirkhead Road, Grange-over-Sands, and Glyn Waterhouse, 62, of Stainton, near Kendal, all deny one charge of assault causing actual bodily harm to different pupils.

A fifth man, 69-year-old Alec Greening, of Dalton, near Burton-in-Kendal, denies one charge alleging child cruelty.

The trial is expected to last up to five weeks.

Police want to speak to a man who tried to stop a thief stealing a pram from a shop in Lincoln.

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The thief, a man in his 30s wearing a blue coat and a red cap, attempted to take the pram at about 15:30 on Saturday from the Mothercare store on St Mark's.

A member of the public gave chase and an "altercation" took place near the Post Office, before the man who stole the pram escaped.

Five men are accused of assault and child cruelty at Witherslack Hall during the '70s and '80s.

Police are appealing for witnesses to the robbery of a lorry in Ruskington.

It happened in the early hours of last Monday morning on the High Street.

A lorry had parked up to deliver goods to a shop when two men wearing head coverings reportedly made the driver open the rear of the lorry.

They then made off with some goods in a large bag.

Anyone who saw what happened is being asked to get in touch with police.

Six former staff members at Witherslack School in Grange-over-Sands are charged.

The trust which runs Lincolnshire's hospitals is failing to hit any of its key waiting time targets, it's emerged.

The trend mirrors the national picture which shows the NHS is now routinely failing to meet waiting time targets for cancer, A&E and routine operations in England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.

United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust, which runs hospitals in Boston, Grantham and Lincoln, says it's seeing an increase in demand and is working hard to resolve the situation.