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Big names from Reform and Labour have been announced as speakers at the Lincolnshire Exhibition.

The county’s most senior politician is considering scrapping specific language learning courses for foreign nationals in Lincolnshire, saying that local people should be put first.

Leading councillors say they’re developing a plan to get more people into work in Lincolnshire – after the county was ranked among the worst in the UK for employment.

Lincolnshire County Council says it believes there will be enough new childcare places to keep up with major housing expansion after concern from councillors.

Volunteers have gathered at the Clock Tower in Skegness for the installation of the 2025 display at the Clock Tower.

Plans for a 3,000-acre solar farm have been given approval as residents claim they’re not being listened to.

A secondary school in Boston has improved since being judged as ‘inadequate’ in 2024, but more needs to be done to remove it from special measures, Ofsted has said.

The Ivy public house is the latest shopfront in Sleaford to be restored and improved as part of the latest round of funding through the Sleaford Shopfront Grant Scheme.

The Council’s engagement survey relating to changes in the way local government is structured has now closed, and analysis of the feedback – in order to shape proposals – is underway.

For some, she was a hero. For others, quite the opposite. On 13 October, the prime minister who looms large over British politics would have turned 100 – and a gathering in Grantham celebrated her days in power

The bronze statue of Margaret Thatcher by the sculptor Douglas Jennings has a rating of 2.8 out of five on Google Maps. Although curiously, none of the reviewers seems to have overly preoccupied themselves with the quality of the craftsmanship or the fidelity of the likeness. “One of the most important PMs this country ever had,” writes one. “It’s a public toilet but there’s nowhere to wash your hands,” writes another.

The statue was originally commissioned more than a decade ago, and was intended to stand in front of the Houses of Parliament, but Westminster city council rejected it on the grounds that it might become a target for vandalism. Instead, it was offered to her birthplace of Grantham, a town she left at the age of 18 and rarely visited again. Within hours of its installation, someone threw an egg at it. Shortly after that, it was defaced with red paint. And now, on a grey October afternoon, Margaret Thatcher herself is gazing upon it, bearing a look of pure disgust.

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