A woman survived her car crashing in a river near Boston because a householder was putting her bins out nearby and heard the incident, fire crews say.

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The woman was driving her car on Boston Road in Cowbridge (pictured) when she crashed into the West Fen Drain.

Rescue teams say the car was 80% underwater, with the driver leaning out of her smashed windscreen when they arrived.

Jamie Patton from Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue says that if it wasn't for a resident taking her bins out nearby, no-one would have known about the crash.

Crews from Leverton and Boston Fire stations attended and they used boat teams to rescue the stricken woman from the car.

Scylla spent two months in a rescue centre after he was found with neck wounds caused by netting.

A homeless man has been taken to hospital after he was assaulted by two men yesterday evening.

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The incident happened to the rear of Iceland on Garden Street (pictured) in Grimsby.

The suspects are thought to have attacked the man, who lives in a tent nearby, with a "blunt instrument".

He was left with injuries to his head, arms and back.

Police are appealing for witnesses.

A Gainsborough costume supplier says uncertainty over Brexit has so far cost the firm several millions of pounds.

Smiffys, which also has offices in China, USA and Australia, imports and sells costumes around the world.

Elliott Peckett, the company's director, says the drop in the value of sterling after the referendum in 2016 has cost it "£5m in profit".

Mr Peckett says while he doesn't dispute that the country voted to leave the EU, he believes there's been "very little planning".

He adds that navigating the complications around the change has also proved difficult.

The Unite union says it is seeking an urgent meeting with KPMG over unpaid wages.

People in Lincolnshire who are on the lookout for a new games console for Christmas are being warned about potentially dangerous fakes which are on sale in the county.

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Lincolnshire Trading Standards officers have seized a number of fake Nintendo consoles being sold at £20, a quarter of their recommended price of £80.

But the low price is, according to experts, an indicator of how badly made the copies are.

Officers are warning that if it looks too good to be true, it could be dangerous:

The current windy conditions are making driving across the Humber Bridge difficult, with the bridge now being closed to some vehicles.

High-sided vehicles like lorries and caravans aren't allowed to travel across the bridge due to the high winds:

The RSPCA has criticised the use of snares after rescuing a fox from a trap in Lincolnshire.

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The charity has criticised the traps "because of the suffering they cause, not only to animals like foxes that are often the target of such traps, but also to other animals like badgers and even domestic animals like cats".

RSPCA officers freed the fox from a field in North Scarle, on the Lincolnshire/Nottinghamshire border after a member of the public contacted them.

The trap hadn't caused any significant damage to the animal, according to the RSPCA.

The National Farmers Union (NF) says it's "crucial that farmers can control certain species for the benefit of agricultural production, animal husbandry, game management and the conservation of wildlife".

The NFU has a code of practice about the humane use of snares, external.

A Lincolnshire man has been jailed for three years and eight months for requesting sexual images from three under-age girls.

Francis Mowday, 27, of Carlton Park, Manby, had previously pleaded guilty to five charges of causing a child to engage in sexual activity involving three different girls aged 12, 13 and 14 between 1 February and 7 September 2017.

He also admitted a single charge of sexual communication with a child and three charges of making a total of 459 indecent images of a child.

Lincoln Crown Court heard his offences came to light when a relative found a series of conversations on a 12-year-old girl's phone involving requests for sexual images.

He had been pretending to be a teenage boy in his online conversations with the girls, the court heard.

The judge said Mowday's actions caused "incalculable" damage to the girls.

As well as jail time, Mowday has been put on the sex offenders' register for life.

The home of Lincoln City is no longer called Sincil Bank but the LNER Stadium.

The club has struck a three-year deal with the London North Eastern Railway company.

The change of name will be reflected on new signage around the ground, which is going up today.

The deal is expected to be worth tens of thousands of pounds to the club.

But it's not the first ground in the country to be named after the railway franchise; York City's ground has also been called the LNER Stadium.

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The Lincolnshire-based Red Arrows aerial display team is to be part of major national Armed Forces Day celebrations in Scarborough next year, it's been revealed.

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The Armed Forces Day National Event will also include a parade of more than 1,000 active and retired service personnel.

The event, on 27 June, will be the first time the national celebration has been held in Yorkshire.

A Scarborough Borough Council report's laid out the first details of the event honouring of the country’s military, with more than 100,000 people expected to visit the area on 27 June.

The authority estimates the cost of hosting the event, usually attended by members of the Royal family and the Prime Minister, will be more than £500,000 - a cost which the council hopes to offset through sponsorship.

Friends and family of a Lincoln boy who died after falling from a window have gathered to decorate a tree in his memory.

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The tree, in Lincoln's Arboretum, where six-year-old William Coy used to play, has been covered with homemade Christmas decorations.

William died after he fell from an open second floor window as he read a Mr Men book during last year's heatwave.

The decorations will be given to his family after Christmas.

Glitter-covered Christmas cards and other glittery items should not be put in the recycling bin once the festive season is over, a council is warning.

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Lincolnshire County Council says the sparkly addition to cards and gift wrap makes the recycling of paper products impossible.

The county's waste and recycling service is also urging people to avoid leaving grub and grease in recycling to avoid contaminating the rest of the bin's contents.

The Brexit Party's general election candidate for Lincoln says he's stepping aside.

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Reece Wilkes (pictured) says he fears splitting the Brexit vote if he continues to stand against his Conservative rival Karl McCartney.

Mr Wilkes has told BBC Radio Lincolnshire he wants his supporters to vote for Mr McCartney instead.

Responding to the move, Mr McCartney says Mr Wilkes has taken "an honourable and principled decision".

Karen Lee, Labour's candidate for Lincoln, said her party wanted to negotiate a "proper deal" with the EU before a second referendum.

Caroline Kenyon, the Liberal Democrats' candidate, says the country should remain in the EU with no further votes on the issue.

Lincoln voted 57% in favour of leaving the EU in the 2016 referendum.

The full list of candidates standing in the Lincoln constituency at the 2019 general election following Mr Wilkes' announcement is:

• Independent: Rob Bradley
• Green: Sally Horscroft
• Liberal Democrat: Caroline Kenyon
• Labour: Karen Lee
• Conservative: Karl McCartney
• Liberal Party: Charles Shaw

Bourne in Lincolnshire is one of the places set to take a share of £200m new investment by pub chain JD Wetherspoon over the next four years, it's been confirmed.

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The investment as a whole will create about 10,000 jobs, with the opening of new pubs and hotels as well as the expansion of existing pubs across the UK and Ireland, the firm says.

Most of the investment will be channelled into developments in small and medium-sized towns, including the opening of a new pub in Bourne.

Wetherspoons founder and chairman Tim Martin said: "We are looking forward to opening many more new pubs as well as investing in existing pubs over the next four years.

"We are especially pleased a large proportion of the investment will be in smaller towns and cities which have seen a decline in investment in recent years.

Wetherspoons operates 875 pubs and 58 hotels across the UK and Republic of Ireland and employs 44,000 staff.

Chronic pain sufferers in Lincolnshire are being urged to consider using new approaches to help deal with their conditions.

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The East Lincolnshire area has the highest level of opioid prescribing in the whole country and is now being targeted by a new NHS health awareness campaign.

The campaign aims to promote alternative approaches such as talking therapies and lifestyle changes.

Richard Pell, a member of the team delivering the NHS community Pain Management service for Lincolnshire, says there has been an over-reliance on painkillers.

He says: "We need to look to more than just tablets, medicines, injections and surgery. A more up-to-date understanding of pain really acknowledges it's about more than just biology.

"It's about the psychological and social components of living with long-term pain or conditions."