East Midlands

A National Grid worker from Grantham who inflicted 51 knife injuries during the “brutal” murder of his friend has been jailed for life. A judge told Nicholas Ward, 38, that he will have to serve a minimum of 21 years behind bars before he is even considered for release by the Parole Board. Lincoln Crown […]

Plans have been revealed for a new coffee store as part of a city centre shopping complex. Lincoln’s High Street will gain a new shop as part of redevelopment plans for the Waterside centre. Work is underway on the new addition, which is part of a £1m redevelopment from the shopping centre’s owners, Wykeland Group

Lincolnshire is getting ready to vote for a Police and Crime Commissioner to oversee policing in the county, and with well-documented funding struggles at play, the five candidates have been making their cases for votes. Ahead of the election on Thursday, May 2, Lincolnshire’s five candidates took part in debates to discuss priorities for the

A heartbroken single mum is attempting to raise money to fund her puppy’s life-saving heart surgery. Taya Murray, from Lincoln, was told that her 19-week-old puppy Mash must undergo surgery after being diagnosed with patent ductus arteriosus (PDA), which has a 60 per cent mortality rate by the age of one if left untreated. Taya,

A man has died following a crash on a busy A-road near a Lincolnshire town. Emergency services were called to a report of a two-vehicle crash on Monday, April 29, on the A1121 just west of Boston. The two vehicles involved were a white Audi A7 travelling towards Boston and a Scania HGV travelling towards

A former RAF airfield utilised during the Second World War will now be used as a large scale solar farm, following planning approval by district councillors. The site of former RAF Fiskerton was first given approval for use as a solar farm in 2021, with two conditions relating to time frames and the size of

Customers of a Lincolnshire village pub have labelled its closure a ‘big loss’ for the area. Landlords at The Dirty Duck in Woolsthorpe by Belvoir, near Grantham, announced that the pub is closed due to financial difficulties and will not reopen until a new tenant is found. A recent post on the pub’s Facebook page

Lincolnshire County Council has pledged to ‘double-check’ the findings of the Environment Agency’s report on the flooding in Horncastle caused by Storm Babet. Despite the rollout of an £8.1 million Flood Alleviation Scheme in 2017, a total of 197 properties in Horncastle and 31 homes in Kirkby on Bain were affected after the county experienced

Plans for an asylum centre at the former RAF Scampton base will be debated in the House of Commons after 30 MPs signed an Early Day Motion (EDM) against them. The motion was initially put forward by Gainsborough MP Sir Edward Leigh on March 21 when the Home Office laid down its Special Development Order

The number of compensation claims from Lincolnshire motorists after hitting potholes has jumped by a third in the last year, with the county council paying out at an average £175 per claim in 2023. A Freedom of Information request to Lincolnshire County Council has revealed an upward trend in both requests for compensation, and money