League Two leaders Lincoln City sign Scunthorpe goalkeeper Matt Gilks and forward Lee Angol on loan from Shrewsbury.

Scunthorpe United sign Aston Villa defender Jacob Bedeau on a free transfer and Leeds full-back Tom Pearce on loan.

It's very cold and it isn't going to get much warmer for the rest of the day.

A weather warning is in effect and you could run into ice on paths or on untreated roads if you're heading back from work today:

It'll be slightly warmer tomorrow with temperatures peaking at about 3C (37F).

You don't have to be a mechanic to realise that maybe, just maybe, this car isn't quite roadworthy...

A man who forced a young girl to perform sex acts on him several times over a period of three years in the 1980s has been jailed for eight years.

Keith Gray, 65, of Fen Road, Methringham, began abusing his victim when she was seven-years-old.

The attacks happened between 1983 and 1987.

Passing sentence at Lincoln Crown Court today, Judge Simon Hirst said he would have given a higher sentence had he not been constrained by rules on maximum sentences at the time of the offences.

Gray's crimes came to life after his victim, now in her 40s, went to counselling before contacting the police in April last year about what had happened.

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It is cold, cold,cold today...

I felt as though my ears were going to fall off as I walked to the office in Lincoln this morning.

BBC Weather Watcher Lucy is clearly made of sterner stuff, however, and has been out on Lincoln's South Common walking her dog:

It looks like something out of one of those Scandinavian crime dramas:

Terrier Olive couldn't resist startling the geese however...:

Four British rescuers were on the rescue ship barred from docking by Italian officials for two weeks.

There have been some improvements at Boston Pilgrim Hospital's A&E department, but more still needs to be done, according to a new report by the health watchdog.

Last November, Care Quality Commission inspectors issued a damning report which highlighted failings in patient care.

Today's report covers a follow-up visit in December.

It identified some improvements, but said patients are still waiting too long inside ambulances and for assessment.

A boat which will be used to search the sea bed for the missing plane carrying a professional footballer and his North Lincolnshire pilot has arrived in Guernsey.

Striker Emiliano Sala was being taken from France to Wales by Dave Ibbotson, from Crowle, when the aircraft disappeared over the English Channel.

Two cushions believed to be from the plane were discovered off the French coast yesterday.

The BBC's Question Time programme will come from Lincolnshire this evening.

BBC1's topical debate programme is being recorded at Lincoln's Drill Hall.

The panellists include the footballer John Barnes, Daily Telegraph columnist Camilla Tominey, and the CEO of Siemens UK Juergen Maier.

An animal charity secretly filmed pigs being hit and prodded with pitchforks at a Lincolnshire farm.

Bottom club Notts County loan out striker Kristian Dennis to fellow League Two side Grimsby Town.

The Lincolnite

A Lincoln man is determined to get straight onto another migrant rescue mission after the ship he’s been trapped on is released from the Mediterranean, external.

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A cash machine at a Spa shop in North Somercotes has been targeted by thieves in the early hours of this morning.

Police say the thieves caused significant damage to the front of the building before taking cash from the ATM on Keeling Street at about 03:00.

Police are appealing for information.

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Lincolnshire's Police and Crime Commissioner is looking to raise the force's part of the council tax precept by 11%.

The increase equates to an extra £24 for a Band D property - and overall it's expected to bring in about an extra £5.5m for the force.

But PCC Marc Jones says the force still won't be able to meet a shortfall in funding and will have to dip into reserves to fill a potential gap of £6.9m by 2022-23.

A statue of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher should be mounted on a plinth to ward off vandals, police are warning.

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Councillors have been told that politically-motivated activists could target the statue, which is due to be erected in the former Prime Minister's hometown of Grantham,

Next week, South Kesteven councillors will vote on whether to grant permission for the bronze statue to be erected on the grassed area at St Peter's Hill - close to an existing statue of Sir Isaac Newton.

It's currently in storage at an undisclosed location after being refused planning permission in London over vandalism fears.

It really is cold out there today...

So much so that sections of the Brayford in Lincoln have frozen over:

I'd certainly not recommend putting your skates on just yet, though:

They say it would be a "huge loss" if the Usher collection was broken up or put in storage.

Rough sleeping has more than doubled in Lincolnshire over the past two years, official figures show.

A total of 78 people slept rough on a single night in Autumn last year, it's emerged.

That figure is a significant rise on the 33 people recorded two years earlier and is also an increase on last year.

The government published the data this morning and it comes after the coldest night of the winter so far.

A petition calling for RAF Scampton to stay open looks unlikely to hit the threshold required for it to be debated in Parliament.

At the time of writing the petition has just over 22,500 signatures, external.

It requires 100,000 by the end of the day.

It's being largely driven by the Save RAF Scampton and its Red Arrows, external facebook page:

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As we've said previously, the MOD plans to shut RAF Scampton in 2022.

It's not yet known where the Red Arrows, who are based there, will move to.