Two mothers found metal in Heinz baby food as a result of Nigel Wright's £1.4m plot, a jury hears.

The safety of workers in the food processing industry during the coronavirus pandemic must be a priority, a Lincolnshire MP has said.

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Sir John Hayes, Conservative MP for South Holland and the Deepings, says he's in close contact with public health officials after recent rises in Covid-19 infections in neighbouring counties.

The Bakkavor dessert factory in nearby Newark is testing its entire workforce following a spike in coronavirus cases in the last few days.

Sir John says he'll be keeping a close eye on the situation in Lincolnshire:

A Lincolnshire allotment group says they're in big demand and that their waiting lists have tripled since April.

Plots on Willoughby Road in Boston have been increasingly hard to come by since lockdown began.

Paul Collingwood, who's on the committee there, says they're particularly popular with doctors and nurses who need some relaxing time out:

Lincoln re-sign Tottenham's Timothy Eyoma on a season-long loan and bring in fellow defender Adam Jackson from Hibernian for an undisclosed fee.

Port officials have launched a review into how ammonium nitrate is stored at Immingham after the massive explosion in Beirut last week that killed more than 200 people.

It's believed the blast was caused by the detonation of 2,750 tonnes of the chemical that had been stored for six years without safety measures.

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Associated British Ports (ABP), which runs sites across the Humber, says it's being done as a precaution and that UK ports had to follow strict regulations and ensure the substance was stored and handled safely.

Former Rangers and Dundee United defender Bilel Moshni returns to England to join Grimsby on a free transfer.

Armed officers have been deployed in part of Lincoln after what police say is a report of a youth holding "what may have been a firearm" in the Tower Drive area (pictured).

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Police say they received the call at about midday today and the force helicopter has since been seen over various points in the city.

The report remains "unconfirmed", according to Lincolnshire Police.

Armed officers were spotted going into the Arboretum but have since left.

A police spokesperson says: "There will be a continuing police presence in the area as we continue to investigate this incident."

A woman in her 80s has died from the injuries she suffered in a collision last week in Tetney.

The crash, involving a blue Suzuki Alto and a white Mercedes van, happened on the A1031 Humberston Road at about 10:00 on Friday.

The woman was a passenger in the Suzuki. The drivers of both vehicles were also taken to hospital for treatment.

Police are still appealing for witnesses.

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Men with their trousers down, youths leaping between rooftops and people spitting and throwing items from the roof are just some of the incidents which have recently taken place at Lincoln’s council-owned car parks, according to a new report.

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The report includes a full breakdown of 706 incidents which took place across the facilities between January and December last year and 211 incidents between January and 15 July this year.

They include:

• Two males caught on the stairwell with their trousers down
• A teenage girl sliding down a fourth floor bannister who fell off and landed on the second floor

• Seven youths causing antisocial behaviour, including throwing a shopping trolley
• An incident involving youths throwing manhole covers

Documents before councillors say antisocial behaviour issues have "manifested across the city centre and have become a recurring problem, particularly within our multi-storey car parks".

City of Lincoln’s Police Scrutiny Committee will next week examine plans for a Public Space Protection Order aimed at giving the council and its officers further tools to tackle antisocial behaviour in the city's car parks.

If given the go-ahead, the order will cover the Lucy Tower (pictured), Broadgate and Lincoln Central multi-storey car parks.

The number of people in Lincolnshire claiming work-related benefits has risen by 94% since the start of lockdown in March.

Official figures published this morning show that 25,810 people in the county are now claiming either Jobseeker's Allowance or Universal Credit.

Five hundred people were added to the list in the past month alone.

Claimants include those out of work and those needing to top-up their incomes, including furloughed workers and the self-employed.

Nationally, about 730,000 people in the UK have lost their jobs since lockdown began.

RSPCA officers are dealing with around 15 calls in Lincolnshire each day, it's been revealed.

The animal protection charity says it's been called out almost 2,000 times in the county since the coronavirus lockdown began at the end of March.

It says the pandemic has increased its workload and is asking for donations to help it continue its work.

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More people should provide their contact details when eating out during the coronavirus pandemic, Lincolnshire's Director of Public Health has said.

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Professor Derek Ward is monitoring spikes of coronavirus cases in neighbouring counties and says it's important people support track and trace.

He says it's about striking a balance between "minimising the risk of infection and making sure we get the economy going again".

"Obviously, people coming into Lincolnshire is a source of income for the county, so we've got to get that balance right. A key way to do that is to make sure we're on top of any outbreaks," he says.

"If we don't get details of people then the risk is greater that we'll end up having some sort of local lockdown if we can't trace people."