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The organisers of Market Rasen’s Professionals Lunch events have come up with a new venture to bring local businesses together and get hem talking.

Tumultuous applause greeted the first concert by a new choir, formed after a singing campaign in Louth.

The sale of RAF Scampton is expected to be completed by around mid-2026, it has been announced.

A trio of loyal stalwarts at Wragby Primary School have received awards after completing 30 years of service.

A man has been jailed for more than three years following a stabbing in Ingoldmells, according to Lincolnshire Police.

Lincolnshire Police have reported that a man has sadly died following a collision on the A16 north of Louth.

The A15 has been closed between Caenby Corner roundabout and the Ingham junction due to an overturned lorry,

A former Boston-based police officer has been found guilty of gross misconduct for inappropriate and harassing behaviour towards a female colleague at a social event.

Police are appealing for witnesses and CCTV footage after an attempted ram raid on a Lincolnshire Coop food store in Gosberton.

Nigel Farage’s party is gunning for power – so what is it like in the places where they’ve already got it? We embedded with Lancashire county council to find out what happens when rhetoric meets reality

22 May 2025: a new dawn for Lancashire. Outside Preston’s grand old county hall, 53 brand new Reform UK councillors in turquoise ties – and one petite woman with an enormous turquoise hair bow – are hot-footing it past a gaggle of protesters for their first full council meeting. Most keep their heads down and get into the building as quickly as possible. But Joel Tetlow, a first-time politician who has made a few unfortunate headlines before even taking his seat, is intrigued. He stands in the doorway, vaping, as a demonstrator bellows: “Reform is a far right party and Nigel Farage is a racist and a fascist!”

Tetlow – late 40s with a full head of vertiginous hair, wearing a powder-blue three-piece suit – insists he isn’t bothered. “They don’t know us as people,” he shrugs. “It’s a word that’s slung around now so much, to be a racist. You know, what is it to be a racist? All we want to do is stand for our country, look after the people within it. So we’re not racist. None of us are racist.” (Farage, too, has denied accusations of racism, and Reform dispute that they are a far right party.)

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