Latest updates on Monday 21 October 2019
£500,000 could be spent on Spalding and Holbeach town centres.
Image source, GoogleA report to South Holland District Council’s Cabinet later this month will lay out a three year plan of improvements.
They include refurbished toilets, free Wi-Fi along the high streets and events such as shows and specialist markets.
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A couple whose house is one of five earmarked for demolition under plans for a new relief road for Spalding say they have been left "shell-shocked" by the news.
Image source, LDRSFrank and Catherine Roberts spent £300,000 on building their mock Tudor property on Bourne Road 20 years ago and thousands more since.
Lincolnshire County Council confirmed last week its preferred route for the central section of the £100m Spalding Western Relief Road, however, the scheme will continue to cut through five homes while four others will also be at risk.
In its appraisal, the council has suggested three options to go before committee on Monday 9 December, including a route through nearby allotments (£50m), the “central” route through Bourne Road (£39m) and one through the Trojan Wood furniture company to the west (£45m).
It says bulldozing the homes would cost them £1.25m, while the Trojan Wood site would result in a compulsory purchase order of £4.5m.
But Catherine and other campaigners from the Spalding Against Relief Road campaign have queried the figures – which split to £250,000 for each of the five houses, or £189,000 if all nine were affected.
Image source, LDRSPassengers have welcomed the new direct train service from Lincoln to London.
Image source, LNERLNER is using new Azuma trains on the route which sees five direct services to the capital on weekdays.
A sixth service in the week is due to be added later in the year and there'll also be five more on Saturdays and Sundays by December.
Lincolnshire County Council is hoping to have a new chief executive in post by the end of the year.
The authority's appointment committee will discuss advertising the post at a meeting on Friday 25th October.
It's nearly a year since the former Chief Executive Keith Ireland left the council after just four months in the job.
He left the post with a £134,000 pay off.
Gainsborough MP Sir Edward Leigh missed the weekend's Brexit vote because it was his wife's birthday, it has emerged.
On Saturday MPs had been due to vote on Boris Johnson's Brexit deal but instead passed an amendment effectively requiring the PM to ask for a third extension to the UK's planned departure.
Sir Edward, who did not vote, has been unavailable for comment since the weekend but aides have now confirmed he did not take part because he wanted to attend the celebrations.
Two men have been charged in connection with disturbances inside and outside Elland Road following Leeds United's game with Birmingham City.
A number of people were arrested when violence flared at the end of the game with police officers and stewards being injured.
Bottles and cones were thrown at officers, West Yorkshire Police added.
A 44-year-old Leeds man has been charged with assaulting an emergency worker and a public order offence, and a 25-year-old Leeds man has been charged with criminal damage to a police vehicle.
Both are due to appear at Leeds Magistrates' Court next month.
Meanwhile, two men, aged 19 and 22, and a 17-year-old youth, all from Birmingham, were given a community resolution for being drunk and disorderly, as was a 56-year-old man, from Lincolnshire, who was arrested with them.
A 24-year-old man, from Leeds, and 20-year-old man, from Birmingham, were arrested on suspicion of assault and released under investigation, police say.
An investigation into the trouble is ongoing with CCTV being trawled.
Supt Chris Bowen said: “These were isolated incidents involving only a relative minority of the supporters of both sides and it is fair to say this is the worst trouble we have seen at Elland Road for over a decade."
Officers hunting for a man in connection with an attempted murder have arrested four people.
Image source, Liam MilliganHumberside Police said two women, aged 39 and 22, a man, aged 24, and a 16-year-old girl have been arrested as part of the search for Liam Milligan, from Grimsby (pictured).
They have been arrested on suspicion of offences including robbery, causing grievous bodily harm and conspiracy to supply class A drugs.
The force has advised people not to approach Mr Milligan if they see him but to contact police on 101.
Lincolnshire Police say they have found 19-year-old Aimee Coupland from Boston.
She was reported missing over the weekend.
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Work is getting underway today to build new crossing outside a school near Grimsby to keep students safe.
Image source, GooglePlans to rip up the Toll Bar roundabout near the Toll Bar Academy were thrown out after a huge outcry by local residents and businesses.
Today a Toucan crossing is being installed to try and keep students safe when trying to cross the road.
Quote MessageIt's something that the academy has been wanting for years, so I'm delighted we're addressing this major safety issue that we've had over the years."
Councillor Philip Jackson, Leader of North East Lincolnshire Council
Political leaders in the North are asking Northern Rail for a reduction in rail fares for passengers- after the firm revealed they'll be continuing to run Pacer trains.
Image source, Richard WoodwardNorthern Rail operate train services between Lincoln and Gainsborough and across North and North East Lincolnshire.
Pacers are 1980s-built rail-buses meant as a short-term alternative for trains.
Northern Rail has backtracked on its promise to get rid of all Pacer trains by 2020.
Manchester mayor Andy Burnham, Sheffield City Region mayor Dan Jarvis and Leeds City Council leader Judith Blake have told train operator Northern using the ageing units is unacceptable.
A man has been charged with assault after a bouncer was attacked at a cocktail bar in Boston.
Image source, GoogleLincolnshire Police said officers were called to Browns Cocktail Bar, in Dolphin Street, at 02.00 on Saturday following a report of an assault on a member of doorstaff.
The force said a 34-year-old man has been charged in connection with the assault after he was arrested nearby.
The man has also been charged with two other assault offences, including assaulting an emergency worker.
He is expected to appear at Lincoln Magistrates Court later today.
A petition has been launched calling for speed bumps to be installed on a Boston street amid safety concerns.
Image source, GooPeople living on Jubilee Avenue began the appeal after several pets were killed by vehicles.
Campaigners say they are worried it's only a matter of time before a child is hit.
Quote MessageIt's a great big worry for all of us parents who have kids on the street, one of these days one of them's going to get involved in an accident and they're not going to survive."
Stacey Chipping, Mother and campaigner
Lincolnshire County Council says there's only been one collision there in the last five years so it would be difficult to justify installing speed bumps, but it says it will monitor the situation.
Police say they are "concerned for the welfare" of a 19-year-old girl who has been missing since the weekend.
Image source, Lincolnshire PoliceAimee Coupland was last seen leaving an address in Boston at 23:30 on Saturday.
She is described as 5ft 2ins, with long, blonde/brown hair. She was last seen wearing an all in one black jump-suit and black high heels.
Lincolnshire Police have appealed for anyone who sees her to make contact.
There's a fair bit of cloud and a few showers around this morning but it will turn bright and sunny later this afternoon.
Temperatures will get up to about 13C in places:
Long awaited direct train services between Lincoln and London start today.
Image source, PA MediaLNER will now run five direct services to and from the capital on a daily basis, external.
The Azuma services will run alongside the existing daily LNER High Speed Train.
A sixth weekday service will be introduced in December alongside five additional services on Saturdays and Sundays.
The first of the Azuma services, which are modelled on the Japanese bullet train, is due to leave Lincoln today at 11:18.
