Emergency crews, including the air ambulance, are at the scene of a crash between a bus and a car at Skellingthorpe near Lincoln.

It happened near to the Birchwood Road junction and the road is currently closed in both directions.

Motorists are being advised to avoid the area.

A cloudy start to this afternoon and it looks like we can expect rain throughout the evening and into tonight:

The trust which runs Lincolnshire's hospitals has confirmed it's had teething problems with a new payment system for its car parks.

It was introduced last week and includes a new number plate recognition system, meaning drivers won't be issued with a ticket when they park.

Machines at Lincoln County hospital are working but the system is down at Grantham and Boston, according to United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust.

As part of the revamp, parking charges were also increased from 10 to 50p depending on the length of stay.

A cross-party group of MPs will today urge the home secretary to find money to help cover changes to police pensions.

The MPs are due to meet Sajid Javid later to highlight concerns that jobs could be lost at Humberside Police if the rise in employer contributions comes out of existing police budgets.

Hull North MP Diana Johnson says: "One of the major drivers of higher crime in Humberside is the fall in police numbers to levels not seen since the 1970s."

Police and Crime Commissioners for both the Humberside and Lincolnshire forces have also expressed concerns about the impact of the change.

The Home Office say it's working closely with forces to understand the impact pension changes will have.

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Councillors have voted to apply for a High Court injunction to allow them to move unauthorised traveller camps on and to ban them from setting up in certain areas of Lincoln.

Since 2015, the authority has spent £44,160.47 on clearing up sites such as Skellingthorpe playing fields, South Common and Yarborough Leisure Centre.

Meanwhile, officials said travellers at Hartsholme Country Park were the "most difficult to manage" due to anti-social behaviour and abuse to officers.

Under the plans, the injunction would prevent traveller sites being set up on areas of land within the city boundary.

If one is set up, then the police would immediately serve an injunction order advising them that they are trespassing.

Anyone who refuses to leave could face prison, an unlimited fine and seizure of assets.

Lincoln is to play host to screenings of two major BBC family Christmas programmes.

The showings of Zog and The Midnight Gang will take place on Saturday 22 December at the Waterside Shopping Centre.

Lincoln is one of nine cities across the country to be hosting the events.

Tickets are available by a ballot - You can apply to see Zog here and to see The Midnight Gang here.

Former councillor is now in jail for her part in a conspiracy to supply cocaine and heroin.

A shopper in Lincoln says she'll refuse to pay a parking fine after the car park where it was issued changed its policy.

Wendy Beresford was given the £100 charge at the retail park on Tritton Road in Lincoln, even though she bought something from a store on the park.

But the rules at the park have recently changed and mean people cannot leave their cars and go off-site to other stores.

UK Parking Control, which operates the site, has been asked to comment but hasn't responded at this stage.

Plans for a £6.3m leisure centre in Market Rasen have been lodged by West Lindsey District Council.

Image source, West Lindsey District Council

It comes despite objections about the lack of a swimming pool.

The dry leisure facility in Gainsborough Road (artist's impression above) will feature a 3G pitch, fitness suite and sports hall.

It's part of a wider investment in leisure across the area, the council says.

The application will be decided by the local authority at a later date.

Burials of richly-dressed women interred with their jewellery and personal items have been unearthed at an Anglo-Saxon cemetery in Lincolnshire by a team from Sheffield University.

Image source, University of Sheffield

About 20 graves dating to the fifth and sixth centuries, including one containing a woman cradling a baby, have been found in the Lincolnshire Wolds.

The cemetery was discovered after a metal detectorist uncovered artefacts at the site in Scremby, near Skegness.

One of the burials contained a skeleton of a woman cradling a baby in her left arm.

Image source, University of Sheffield

Hugh Willmott, from Sheffield University, led the dig and said: "These women wore necklaces made from hundreds of amber, glass and rock crystal beads.

"They used items such as tweezers, carried fabric bags held open by elephant ivory rings, and wore exquisitely decorated brooches to fasten their clothing."

The burials are thought to be in keeping with funerary rites adopted during the early centuries of the Germanic migrations to eastern England.

The dig is featured on BBC Digging For Britain on BBC Four at 21:00 on Wednesday 28 November.

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Weather presenter, BBC Look North

A cloudy and cold start, but some bright spells with a risk of a few showers too.

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One of the smallest public Christmas trees you may ever have seen has appeared on a roundabout in North East Lincolnshire:

It's about 2ft tall, has a strange tin foil sculpture on top - and nobody quite knows who's put it there.

Scartho, in Grimsby, once had a magnificently lit-up Christmas tree, but it had to be chopped down.

The area's official - and much bigger - tree is due to make its appearance on 10 December, but until then it seems this is as good as it gets...

Any idea how this tree came to be there? Why not get in touch?

Five men are accused of assault and child cruelty at Witherslack Hall during the 1970s and 1980s.

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Variable, often large amounts of cloud overnight with occasional showers drifting in from the east, and some mist and fog could develop too.

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A leaked document has revealed Louth Hospital will see cuts made to bed numbers on two wards, but the new proposal is better than originally thought.

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More than half of the beds on the Manby and Carlton wards were cut after concerns were raised by fire inspectors.

It now appears instead of leaving just 16 beds, a document posted on social media has revealed 28 will be saved.

Fire crews from Brigg and Immingham have had a busy afternoon trying to rescue a horse that had been stuck in a ditch.

The animal is now being looked after by the RSPCA:

Lincolnshire County Council's chief executive Keith Ireland is leaving his position after only four months in post.

Mr Ireland, joined the authority in July after leaving his previous role with the City of Wolverhampton Council and commanded a salary of £170,000 a year.

He is leaving because he and the council "do not share the same approach to a number of important issues".

The council would not confirm if Mr Ireland had resigned voluntarily or had been sacked.

There are warnings that future sea level rises along England's east coast could lead to towns being abandoned and farmland destroyed.

In a report, the Met Office says global warming could result in sea levels rising by three to four foot by 2100.

The report says the east coast, including Lincolnshire, is the most vulnerable part of the UK to rising sea levels.

A 59-year-old man remains in custody for questioning after he was arrested, police say.

It looks like this afternoon is going to be cloudy and chilly in Lincolnshire.

There'll be a mix of scattered showers and bright, sunny spells across the county: