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Bosses at Lincolnshire’s hospital trusts have set end-of-year deficit targets totalling £95.7m, it's been confirmed.

United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust (ULHT) and Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust have agreed the plans with regulator NHS Improvement in an effort to keep down overspending.

But, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, both organisations are still in financial special measures and racked up a total deficit of £146m in the last financial year.

ULHT has set a £70.3m target for 2019-20, as well as cost-saving measures of £25.6m.

Paul Matthew, interim director of finance and procurement at the trust, said the organisation needs to meet the plan in order to get further funding.

Meanwhile, bosses at Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Trust are expecting a deficit of £25.4m.

The Brexit Party has urged the government to implement measures immediately to save British Steel after it went into receivership last month.

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Newly-elected MEPs have met with the public in Scunthorpe, where 3,000 jobs are at risk at the firm's main plant, to outline their policies on how the firm could be saved.

The party members, who are setting up a working group to monitor the situation with the company, said British Steel had collapsed due to EU rules and regulations.

John Longworth, Brexit Party MEP for Yorkshire and the Humber, said the company had been "badly let down" by public policy in the UK.

He said the government should implement new public policies immediately, against EU regulations, and not wait until the Brexit deadline of 31 October.

Motorists who have dash-cam footage of a serious collision involving a motorcyclist in Sutton on Sea are being urged to come forward.

Image source, Lincolnshire Police

The motorcyclist, a man in his 50s, was taken to Hull Royal Infirmary with serious injuries after his blue Yamaha motorbike collided with a tree on Jordan Grove at about 04:25 this morning.

The road was closed until just before 10:00 while emergency services attended the scene.

Anyone who has dash-cam footage or who witnessed the collision is being asked to contact Lincolnshire Police

No trains will travel from Lincolnshire to Kings Cross in London over the August Bank Holiday weekend, it's been revealed.

Image source, Network Rail

A major engineering upgrade on the East Coast Main Line will mean no trains are able to travel between Peterborough or Cambridge and London King’s Cross or London St Pancras International between 24-26 August.

It is part of a £1.2bn upgrade plan for the line and Network Rail says it's the first major line closure in 20 years.

Once the upgrade is finished, there will be extra capacity for 10,000 more passengers per day, the firm says.

A robber from Nottinghamshire who was part of a three-man masked gang which raided a Lincolnshire supermarket has been jailed for eight and a half years.

Image source, Lincolnshire Police

Corey Graley (pictured) was one of three men who carried out the early morning raid on the Tesco Express store in Winchester Road, Grantham at about 06:30 on 12 October last year.

Jonathan Dunne, prosecuting, told Lincoln Crown Court the gang travelled from the Nottingham area in a stolen vehicle.

The manager was taken at knife-point into the office and £4,000 worth of cigarettes were stolen.

Staff and the only customer, a 71-year-old woman who had gone to buy newspapers and milk, were ordered to sit on the floor as two of the masked men accompanied the manager into the office.

Graley was linked to the raid after his DNA was found on a sock found inside the vehicle.

His DNA was also found on a key fob discarded near the scene.

Police also traced CCTV footage of the robbers' vehicle stopping at a service station on their way to Grantham.

Graley, 47, of Wigman Road, Bilborough, Nottingham, admitted robbery.

More than £896,000 will have been spent on tackling rough sleepers in Lincoln by the end of this financial year, a report has revealed.

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According to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, Lincoln was named as one of the 83 councils to have the highest number of rough sleepers and received £376,747 in October, and a further £519,396 in December for the 2019/20 financial year.

The authority has had two lots of funding from a £30 million Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government pot set up to tackle the rise in rough sleeping across the country.

Tomorrow, councillors will examine how the money has been spent and how it is helping homeless people in the area.

The authority has set up a Rough Sleeping Team, and was named as one of 11 cities around the UK to get a Somewhere Safe to Stay centre which offers support on mental health and substance misuse, and providing short-term shelter.

The family of a Lincolnshire-born explorer has backed calls for his remains to be returned to the county.

Image source, Art Gallery of South Australia

The skeleton of Matthew Flinders, who led the first circumnavigation of Australia and is credited with naming the country, was found in London during the excavation of HS2 earlier this year.

There is a campaign to get it reburied in his home village of Donnington, near Spalding.

John Flinders, a distant cousin of the explorer: "His achievements are truly remarkable in comparison with the best of Great Britain's maritime explorers.

"Why he's never been raised to take his place alongside Captain Cook, William Bligh, Hanson, Vancouver, Franklin and others in annuls of maritime history remains a mystery."

The Bring Matthew Flinders Home group met last night to discuss the campaign.

Local business and political representatives from Lincolnshire have travelled to London today in a bid to convince officials from the Ministry of Defence to keep the Red Arrows in the county.

Image source, Cpl Ashley Keates/PA Wire

The world famous Royal Air Force aerobatic display team is currently based at RAF Scampton, but that site is due to close by 2022.

The delegation is going to the House of Lords to make a case for keeping the Red Arrows at RAF Waddington.

James Pinchbeck, an accountant in Lincoln who's part of the group, says the Red Arrows benefit the Lincolnshire economy.

He said: "On a recent visit by a delegation from [China's] Hunan Province, the one thing they were keen to see as part of their visit to the area was the Red Arrows.

"Trade missions to China are one thing, but when you can get the Chinese coming over here wanting to do business with Lincolnshire and the UK, that's an excellent thing to do."

A motorcyclist has been taken to hospital with serious injuries after a crash on the Lincolnshire coast.

The man was involved in a one-vehicle collision on Huttoft Road at Sutton on Sea at about 04:00 this morning.

Roads in the area were closed for several hours, but have now reopened.

Police say they want to trace this man in connection with a burglary at a pub yard in Lincolnshire.

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A man entered the rear yard of The Chequers Inn pub on High Road, Weston, at about 03:00 on Monday 20 May before taking a selection of meat.

He's described as wearing dark trousers and a dark hooded jacket.

Anyone who recognises the man in the picture is being asked to contact Lincolnshire Police.

Police in Lincolnshire say they're keen to trace Kevin Smith who has been reported missing from the Boston area.

Anyone with information about his whereabouts is being asked to get in touch with police:

Average speed cameras have been installed on the A15 north of Lincoln as part of work to upgrade all 52 devices across the county.

Image source, John Stillwell/PA Wire

They replace two fixed-point speed cameras just north of Caenby Corner, where historically there has been a high number of collisions.

It's part of a project to digitally upgrade all cameras because the film cannot be processed anymore.

It means the new cameras will never run out of film and miss a speeding driver.

Conservative leadership candidate and former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson is coming to Lincolnshire.

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Mr Johnson will be the special guest at a fundraising event hosted by the Conservative associations of Grantham and Stamford, Sleaford and North Hykeham and Rutland and Melton.

It will take place on 13 June in the grounds of Belvoir Castle, near Grantham.

Much-travelled striker Gary Taylor-Fletcher announces his retirement from playing football at the age of 38.

Lisa Gallagher
Weather presenter, BBC Look North

There will be a lot of cloud around this morning with showers and some heavier rain spreading in from the west this afternoon.

But the rain will clear away northwards as we head through the evening leaving it clear and dry:

There was no horsing around when two police officers in Lincolnshire came across this horse in the road.

It was swiftly returned to its owner: