Scunthorpe sign midfielder Adam Hammill on an 18-month deal, while right-back Tony McMahon joins on loan from Oxford United.

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Hospital managers in Lincolnshire will spend up to £20,000 registering EU nationals to work in the UK ahead of Brexit.

After March all citizens from EU countries will have to have applied for "settled status" which is expected to cost £65 for an adult.

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust say it needs to register 300 EU staff to maintain essential services.

Lincolnshire Echo

Two people have been taken to hospital, one a woman with serious injuries, external, after a crash between a van and a car in Stamford.

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It's the most famous quote from the film Jaws, well here's the 'bigger boat' they needed, a giant ship seen on the Humber with shark's teeth painted on the front.

The company which runs ports in Hull, Goole, Grimsby and Immingham, shared a photograph on Twitter of the boat called the Nordic Oasis:

The final tickets for Lincoln City's hotly anticipated FA Cup clash at Everton this weekend have been snapped up.

The club had sold out its initial allocation of 5,500 tickets for Saturday's match.

Demand has been so great that Everton made extra tickets available.

Here's the last time the Imps took them on:

The Environment Secretary, Michael Gove, has told a farming conference today that the UK's withdrawal from the EU will present a "world of opportunity" for British agriculture.

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Mr Gove has also pledged further investment in farming to try to ease fears among farmers ahead of Brexit.

Lincolnshire farmer, Matthew Naylor, is one of the directors of the conference and says they've got a few worries:

Three teenagers on bikes are reported to have attacked a man in Humberston before taking his wallet and riding off.

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It happened just after 21:00 yesterday on Scouts Lane.

The boys are all described as being about 16-years-old.

Two of them are said to have been wearing dark coloured tracksuits, with the third in a brightly coloured jacket.

Anyone with information about the attack, or who may have seen what happened, is being asked to contact police.

The Lincolnite

Drivers in a Lincoln village will face 11 weekends of road closures, external due to Eastern Bypass works starting later this month.

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Administrative errors were to blame for the majority of hospital operations which were cancelled in Lincolnshire last year.

That's according to information revealed as part of a Freedom of Information request.

It revealed nine operations were called off every day in the county on average.

Matthew Frost, from Scopwick, who had his minor operation for a blocked saliva gland cancelled four times in the last month, says it's getting frustrating:

United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust said it is changing the way operations are planned to reduce cancellations in the future.

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Some of the county's snowdrops are beginning to poke their heads up through the previously frozen soil.

The county's weather watchers have been out and about to capture them.

TwoWei in Dunham spotted this bunch:

Mikey66 took this picture at Knipton, near Grantham:

Lincolnshire Reporter

Over £23,000 has been donated to a special fund for the family of the mother and children who died in a house fire in Collingham, external.

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Police in Lincoln have issued a new appeal to find those responsible for a spate of graffiti in the West End of the city.

A tag has been sprayed in different locations in the area.

The City of Lincoln Council said it was also investigating.

Work should start on the second phase of Grantham's southern relief road later this year, according to highways engineers.

Image source, Lincolnshire County Council

A public inquiry into the project took just a few hours yesterday after all objections to the scheme were withdrawn.

A report will now be sent to the government to give the final go-ahead.

Project manager Sam Edwards says Lincolnshire County Council will now be pushing ministers so they can make progress:

Lincolnshire County Council's former chief executive has been awarded an OBE.

Keith Ireland, who suddenly stepped down from the role in November after just four months, was one of those featured in the Queen's New Years honours.

At the time of his departure from the job, a joint statement from council leader Martin Hill and Mr Ireland said the pair "did not share the same approach".

Mr Ireland was recognised for his work at City of Wolverhampton Council.

Investigators say there will be a "visible police presence" in Kirton, near Boston, today following a fatal house fire on New Year's Day which killed three people.

Two men aged 24 and 32 and a woman aged 27 were killed in the blaze on Pear Tree Road. Two others have been released from hospital.

Police say they've launched a domestic-related murder investigation and are not looking for anyone else in connection with the fire.

Abbie Dewhurst
Weather Presenter, BBC Look North

A cold and cloudy start this morning, but a dry day to follow with some bright spells.

Watch my full forecast here:

A Lincolnshire charity hopes to get a new year boost of thousands of pounds by collecting Christmas trees.

Staff from St Barnabas Hospice in Lincoln, which gives free, specialist palliative care to people across the county, will pick up old trees on 12 January in return for a donation.

It's one of several charities to raise funds in this way.

St Barnabas events fundraiser Laura Stones says: "The collection raises about £10,000 each year and it's absolutely crucial we keep on doing this.

"Fund-raised income pays for two out of every four people we see, so it's massive to us."

Scunthorpe United re-sign striker Kevin van Veen from Northampton Town on a two-and-a-half year deal.

The officer leading the triple-murder investigation in Kirton has said officers and members of the public have had to deal with very upsetting scenes:

There've been a few developments in the investigation into a house fire in Kirton in which three people died.

Here's a brief summary of what we know so far:

• The fire broke out at around 03:00 on New Year's Day
• Initially police said one person had died in the blaze, however today they've said that a total of three people were found dead in the house
• Two others sustained non life-threatening injuries and have since been discharged from hospital
• A murder investigation has been launched and the fire is being treated as "domestic-related"
• Police have said the suspect is likely to be among those killed in the blaze.
• The investigation is being led by a regional major crime unit
• Investigators say because of the ferocity of the fire it could take days to establish the cause.