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Jan 15, 2025 | 
yahoo.com | Sharon Edwards
Tracy Borman's passion for history and the royals has been recognised by being appointed an OBE for services to heritage. The Tudor expert is the new chief historian at the Historic Royal Palaces, and the BBC spent the day with her at the home of Henry VIII. Sitting in her office at Hampton Court Palace, once the residence of the Tudor king, his wives and children, Prof Borman recalls how her passion for history was first ignited.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
yahoo.com | Emma J. Petrie |Sharon Edwards
A council has defended the management of rough sleepers following backlash on social media over the death of a homeless man. Lincolnshire Police said the man was found dead in Drummond Road, Skegness, shortly after 08:30 GMT on 27 December 2024. His death was not suspicious and the coroner had been informed. Posts on social media had criticised the local authority for not helping him.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
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A supermarket chain is giving body cameras to staff following a rise in abuse by customers. Lincolnshire Co-op has spent £200,000 issuing the technology at its 99 food shops and 44 pharmacies. Security manager Mark Foulds said there had been "a steady increase" in confrontations, with staff at some stores experiencing "threats and abuse on a daily basis". The government has pledged to bring in a specific offence of assaulting a shop worker, alongside stronger measures to tackle shoplifting.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Sharon Edwards
Owners of campervans and motorhomes will be banned from sleeping in their vehicles overnight while using council-owned car parks in Lincoln. City of Lincoln Council said it had seen a marked increase in overnight stays during the past year. Joshua Wells, the council's portfolio holder for inclusive economic growth, said it was "creating a fire risk" as the vehicles were parked too closely together.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Sharon Edwards
A new line of pylons through Lincolnshire will also mean more solar and wind farms and "the entire industrialisation" of coastal communities, claim campaigners. National Grid wants to build a corridor of pylons between Grimsby to Walpole, over the border in Norfolk. Protest group No Pylons Lincolnshire said residents were not being told of an "almost constant barrage" of green projects that will also be built along the route.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
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'Our town is dying from the inside out'Boston's shopping streets are scarred by empty shops – and retailers fear more could close down. [Sharon Edwards/BBC]More than a quarter of shops in Boston, Lincolnshire, lie empty and retailers are calling for urgent support. But some local leaders believe the answer is to pivot to leisure and heritage in search of a "new identity". The BBC spent a day in the town to ask what the future might have in store. Boston bears the scars of its retail casualties.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
ca.news.yahoo.com | Sharon Edwards
South Holland District Council wants the Lincolnshire Fens to be given protected status [BBC]The government is to be lobbied to make the Lincolnshire Fens the first area of the country to be protected from green energy schemes in order to produce food. The region is currently the subject of several applications for solar farms plus an electricity substation and pylons.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
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September 30, 2024 at 8:30 AMPeople in Lincolnshire are being told to "simply put up with" new pylons, it has been claimed. Martin Hill, leader of Lincolnshire County Council, was responding to a speech by the prime minister in which he said the country had to accept "trade-offs", including pylons to carry green energy. Under plans announced during the previous Conservative government, National Grid would build a new line of pylons through a stretch of Lincolnshire.
