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How cake, candles and a cartoon helped Eamon de Valera free Ireland from British rule.

Barnsley extend their unbeaten run to 10 games as victory over Scunthorpe puts them second in League One.

John Akinde misses a late penalty for League Two leaders Lincoln City as they draw with bottom side Notts County.

Jordan Cook scores twice as Grimsby Town move above Newport County in League Two with a deserved win at Blundell Park.

A member of the public photographed a Lincolnshire Police patrol car with its number plate obscured.

Do you recognise this man? Police are appealing for help to find him:

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John Holmes was last seen at South Kesteven District Council offices in Grantham on Monday 21 January at about 16:15.

Mr Holmes, who's 48, was wearing a woolly jumper, navy blue jogging bottoms with white stripes, a black coat, beige woolly hat and blue and white trainers.

If you have seen him, please call 101.

A Lincoln man who's on board a migrant rescue ship is being detained in Italy.

Jon Stone is part of the crew of The Sea Watch 3, a charity ship which has rescued about 50 migrants between North Africa and Europe.

The Italian authorities allege the ship has broken environmental laws, which the crew denies.

Gavin Bevis
BBC News

Mansfield Town's home match against Lincoln City has been put back two days to allow for live TV coverage, external.

The fixture was originally due to take place on Saturday 16 March but will now kick off at 19:45 on Monday 18 March.

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The authorities want the High Court to allow them to exit controversial bank loans known as lobos.

Lincolnshire's YouTube stuntman and inventor Colin Furze has unveiled his latest wacky creation.

The 39 year old, from Stamford, has designed a staircase treadmill - called the Travelator:

Image source, Colin Furze on Youtube

YouTuber Colin, who has more than seven million subscribers, is renowned for his extraordinary inventions, which include a homemade hoverbike and the world's fastest bumper car.

A masked man has threatened staff with a knife in a Lincoln corner shop.

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The robber went into the West End Food Store on West Parade at about 15:30 yesterday.

No-one was hurt and the thief escaped with a small amount of money, police say.

The suspect is described as being slim and was wearing a grey balaclava and jacket.

Detectives have released a CCTV image of a man they want to trace in connection with violence which broke out after a Lincoln City home match.

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Rival supporters threw coins and bottles at each other within the grounds of Sincil Bank following the Imps game against Mansfield Town, on Saturday 24th November.

One Lincoln City fan, a 51-year-old man, was hit in the eye by an object and seriously hurt.

Detectives say they're working closely with Lincoln City Football Club.

The man in charge of Lincoln's largest private employer says a no-deal Brexit will "make businesses think carefully about investment in this country."

Chief executive of Siemens UK, Juergen Maier, was speaking on the BBC's Question Time which was broadcast from Lincoln, last night.

Mr Maier said he wanted "a brexit which brings us more certainty than we've currently got."

More than 1,500 people work for the engineering giant in Lincoln.

Lincolnshire Police are appealing for witnesses to what they're calling a "road rage" incident in Spalding.

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A motorist racially abused another driver on Wygate Park in Spalding, just after 20:30 on Tuesday night.

Officers would like anyone with dash cam or CCTV footage to get in touch.

Plans for a medical school on Brayford in Lincoln are being considered by City of Lincoln Council.

The designs, which were revealed last summer, include lecture theatres and laboratories in a five-storey £21m building on the university campus.

Speaking last summer, the Vice Chancellor of the University of Lincoln, Professor Mary Stuart, said: "The medical school will make a huge difference to the people of Lincolnshire who will benefit from the establishment of this hub of medical expertise, training hundreds of young people, many of them local, to become doctors and encouraging them to stay in the county."

A petition's been started in protest over a new car parking system at Lincolnshire's hospitals which it's claimed is proving stressful for patients and visitors.

Sue McQuinn, who regularly visits Lincoln, Boston and Grantham hospitals, says the new system's not fit for purpose.

The new automatic number plate recognition system and pay machines went online at the end of last year, but initially there were a number of technical problems.

Now Ms McQuinn is calling for barriers to be reintroduced instead.

Hospital managers say they're confident the system is now working well.

The previous barrier system caused delays, didn't always work and was expensive to maintain, they add.

Hundreds of swimmers are gearing up to raise money as Grantham Rotary Club's annual Swimarathon begins.

1,600 people have signed up for the event which raises thousands of pounds for local charities.

The event's taking place at the town's Meres Leisure Centre over the next three days.

Lincoln's Drill Hall is in danger of closing 15 years after it reopened as an arts centre.

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Managers say their public funding has been cut and to stay open they need to raise £130,000 a year.

A fundraising campaign has begun today.

The Drill Hall was built in 1890 for the 1st Lincolnshire Volunteer Battalion.

After World War Two it was used as an events venue; the Rolling Stones performed on stage in 1963.

After falling into disrepair and in danger of closing, it was refurbished and reopened in 2004.

Northampton Town sign Burton striker Marvin Sordell and Scunthorpe defender Charlie Goode on loan until the end of the season.