Nine aircraft will fly from RAF Marham to Lincolnshire on Thursday afternoon as part of a retirement tour.

Three farm workers who kicked and prodded pigs with pitchforks receive suspended jail terms.

Nine Tornado aircraft have performed a final flypast over Lincolnshire today.

The historic jets are being retired from active duty but performed a special flypast over a graduation ceremony at RAF College Cranwell.

Tornados saw active service in the Gulf Wars in the 1990s.

Father and son Andrew and Callum Burn spent four years making Lancaster Skies

A catering firm is planning to close its site in Holbeach, putting hundreds of jobs at risk.

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Bakkavor, the parent company which owns Freshcook in Holbeach, says the site is no longer commercially viable.

But the company says it's offering 520 employees roles at other Lincolnshire sites.

That means at least 160 employees face redundancy.

In a statement released today the firm said that they're starting a 45-day consultation on closing the site.

Staff at Radcliffe Donkey Sanctuary in Huttoft said magpies were picking on the elderly animals.

Campaigners are calling for the government to fund a new hospital in Grantham.

Grantham's current A&E has been closed overnight since 2016.

Members of campaign group Fighting for Grantham Hospital, who are calling for the reinstatement of overnight services, say the existing site is in a state of poor repair and in need of "significant investment".

The group says the Prince William of Gloucester Barracks off the A52 could be a potential site for a new hospital.

Lincolnshire councillors have referred the closure to the Prime Minister.

Campaigners protesting against turning Lincoln's Usher Gallery into a wedding venue say their latest meeting was so popular they had to turn people away.

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The county council wants to move the gallery's exhibit into the nearby Collection Museum to save taxpayers £750,000.

A public meeting to coordinate protests against the plans was held in Lincoln's Drill Hall last night.

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Cyclists in Bourne are gearing up for a major cycling festival this summer.

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Organisers of the first Bourne Cicle Festival have published details of the routes for its biggest events., external

The main race will leave Bourne, pass Grimsthorpe castle, cross into Nottinghamshire and return to the county via Belvoir Castle.

Students at the University of Lincoln will be wearing recycled plastic bottles at their graduation next year.

Churchill Gowns, who provide the university's graduation robes, are to take hard plastic from bottles and other one-use items and break it down into threads to make the gowns.

Ruth Nicholls, from the company, says offering something environmentally sustainable "would especially appeal to students":

A school in Skegness has been forced to apologise after a public outcry about pigeons being left in traps on its roof.

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People complained that the birds were left for days at Skegness Academy without water before pest control officers came in to remove them.

In a statement, the academy said it wanted to apologise for any distress caused.

It added that it was now "working to explore alternative ways of controlling nesting and fouling to ensure this will not happen again".

A beekeeper in Lincolnshire has warned the recent spate of unseasonably warm weather could be damaging for hives.

Earlier this week, temperatures hit 18C (64F) in the county, making it the warmest winter day on record.

It's meant bees have gone out to forage for food earlier than they usually do.

However, there are fears that if cold weather hits again it could harm young bees.

People searching for the body of a Lincolnshire pilot whose plane crashed into the English Channel in January say his body may eventually wash up on the coast.

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David Ibbotson (pictured right), from Crowle in North Lincolnshire, was flying a plane carrying footballer Emiliano Sala (left) when he crashed in the channel a month ago.

Yesterday, the team searching for his body said they'd found "no trace" of Mr Ibbotson.

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A crowdfunded search has found "no trace" of the North Lincolnshire pilot of the plane which crashed with Cardiff City striker Emiliano Sala on board.

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David Ibbotson, from Crowle, was flying the footballer to the UK when their Piper Malibu aircraft crashed near Guernsey on 21 January.

A helicopter was used to search remote coastal areas and two divers went down to the aircraft wreckage.

Organiser David Mearns said that the "active search" had ended.

The shipwreck hunter, who led the successful search for Sala's body, said the divers had searched "every nook and cranny" of the plane

"Sadly there was absolutely no trace of David, no trace of any clothing, no trace of any of his personal items," said Mr Mearns.

Alison Skingsly is accused of killing Kevin Nix - who was thrown from a car - amid a row at a pub.

Teachers in Lincolnshire are warning the UK could suffer as a result of fewer pupils taking up foreign languages at school.

The county has been ranked as having one of the biggest falls in the number of youngsters taking French, German or Spanish.

Nationally the teaching of foreign languages in schools has hit an 18-year low.

A taxi firm received fines for "driving past", while an "overstaying" customer was in another town.

The government has pledged £700,000 for a new homeless shelter in Lincoln.

The money means YMCA Lincolnshire can start work on the new Nomad Centre in April.

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It will replace and extend the charity's existing gym and leisure facilities on St Rumbold's Street in the city.

The latest funding has helped the organisation move a step closer to its overall target of £1.6m.

Ramblers in Lincolnshire are able to enjoy a new 16-mile stretch of coastal path from today.

The new stretch of walkway runs up the coast past Skegness, Mablethorpe and bird watching hotspots at Gibraltar Point and Chapel St Leonards (pictured below).

The route also passes the Woola Bank Site of Special Scientific Interest - a submerged forest dating from the Neolithic Period.