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  • Red Arrows head to Greece for pre-season training

  • End of Belton International Horse Trials

  • Live updates on Tuesday 30 April 2019

Live Reporting

Lynsey Bradford

  1. 'Earlier lockdown would have been shorter' - Health boss

    Lincolnshire's health boss says going into coronavirus lockdown a few weeks ago would have meant it could have been much shorter.

    At the weekend, Boris Johnson announced a month-long lockdown from Thursday, in which pubs, restaurants and non-essential shops will close.

    Lincolnshire's director of public health, Professor Derek Ward, admits he was taken slightly by suprise by the Prime Minister's announcement.

    But he says it will have a big impact on rates of Covid-19 in the county, saying that it will keep our numbers "much lower".

    "When the lockdown does ease in December I've got no doubt that figures will start to go back up, but we'll be going up from a lower rate than the rest of the country - and that's a good place to be."

    Had we had some sort of lockdown five or six weeks ago it would have been much shorter because the rates were lower then."

    Professor Derek Ward, Director of public health, Lincolnshire

  2. Man denies resort murder charge

    Paul Bodell appears at court in Lincoln accused of the murder of Paul Barnett in Skegness.

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  3. Gainsborough Hospital minor injury unit gets upgrade

    Gainsborough Hospital's minor injury unit has been upgraded to an Urgent Treatment Centre.

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    From this morning, extra services, including x-rays and blood tests, will be offered at the John Coupland Hospital.

    It will continue to offer help for head injuries, sprains and bone breakages, as well as other non-emergency illnesses.

    The trust which runs the centre says it will speed up treatment of patients and reduce pressure on A&E.

  4. 'A real blow' - Lincolnshire businesses react to lockdown

    The group which represents small businesses in Lincolnshire says "heads are spinning" after the government announced a second full lockdown for England starting on Thursday.

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    Katrina Pierce, from the Federation of Small Businesses, says the announcement came as "a real blow" to Lincolnshire firms.

    Last week, Professor Derek Ward told BBC Lincolnshire based on "our current data, in my professional opinion there is no reason to change our alert level at this point".

    Ms Pierce says the latest announcement has hit particularly hard, coming only days after Public Health Lincolnshire said that the county wouldn't need to go into tighter restrictions.

    Ms Pierce says businesses are praying that the month-long lockdown doesn't "teeter over into December when that really is a very busy period for retail hospitality and many small businesses."

    It's a real kick. We've just got to face it and hope these small businesses are as supported as possible."

    Katrina Pierce, Federation of Small Businesses, Lincolnshire