Since taking over as Lincolnshire’s Chief Constable, Bill Skelly has developed a reputation for straight talking - and he certainly pulled no punches this week when he outlined what he describes as the ‘stark choices’ the force is facing without an injection of additional Government funding.
Campaigners battling to halt a controversial oil drilling operation in the heart of the Lincolnshire Wolds have raised £10,000 to mount a legal challenge.
The public has given a massive ‘thumbs up’ to a Horncastle couple whose decision to open up their private collection of wild animals last weekend proved to be a ‘roar-away’ success.
The first ever open weekend at the Horncastle-based Wolds Wildlife Park was a spectacular success with hundreds of visitors gaining close up views of more than 200 animals - including lions and a tiger.
Ambitious plans to create a multi-million pound Coastal Highway in Lincolnshire are on track - and a long-awaited end to the misery of jams in Wragby and Langton is a key part of the project.
Lincolnshire motorbike star Ivan Lintin was critically injured in an incident in which another rider was killed in the Isle of Man yesterday (Thursday).
Aircraft from the Coningsby-based Battle of Britain Memorial Flight (BBMF) were set to take centre stage today (Tuesday) in a series of events to mark the 100th centenary of the RAF.
One minute she was dealing with residents’ complaints and fears about flooding and the next County Councillor Patricia Bradwell learned she had been awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list.
Lincolnshire County Council has admitted hundreds of millions of pounds of extra funding would need to be ploughed into its coffers to make a ‘massive difference’ to plans for repairing roads.
