Transport and Logistics Network
Popular holiday park Butlin’s[1] has offered reassurance to potential guests over rumours that the site could be used to house asylum seekers[2]. A spokesperson for the Skegness[3] resort said that there were “no plans” in place to take them in.
The so…
A busy stretch of the A52 has been closed due to a crash involving a lorry. The A52 Wainfleet Road in Croft[1] is closed in both directions and will “remain closed for some time” according to Lincolnshire Police[2].
Lincolnshire Police said it is on sc…
Some bin collections will be affected by the Easter weekend, Lincolnshire councils have said. Both Good Friday (April 7) and Easter[1] Monday (April 11) will be bank holidays[2] in 2023, meaning we’re in for a four-day weekend.
It’ll be a chance to bas…
This is the moment a suspected drug driver was arrested after trying to escape from police in Lincolnshire. Officers said it took just four minutes to catch the suspect who was found hiding near fields in Skegness[1] in the early hours of Thursday morn…
UNIONS accused Tory ministers today of being complicit in far-right violence outside hotels housing vulnerable asylum-seekers.
A joint statement signed by 14 trade union leaders pointed to MPs peddling “anti-migrant politics of attempting to …
East Lindsey District Council would consider taking legal action over the use of caravan parks to house asylum seekers, the leader has confirmed.
Meanwhile, Boston and Skegness MP Matt Warman has said there is no suitable alternative within his constit…
Logs shown to the hearing at the force’s Nettleham headquarters on Wednesday, which were not disputed by PC Brereton, showed he radioed the police control room at 23:11 GMT to report he had sighted the VW, which had been linked to an earlier incident.
A lorry which is ‘well alight’ caused delays on a busy route near Boston with three fire crews called to the scene. It affected the A52 in both directions at Wrangle and slowed traffic heading into Boston.
Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue said that three a…
Postcodes across Lincolnshire will be affected by delays to DPD’s next-day delivery service due to strikes. Royal Mail workers will walk out on Wednesday, December 14; Thursday, December 15; Friday, December 23; as well as on Christmas Eve.
The industr…
James Sutcliffe, founder of Centre Port, at the project’s launch in the House of Commons, London, on 17 November 2022. (Photo by Nour Ghantous)
Port Evolution, headed up by James Sutcliffe, made a name for itself back in 2007 after it oversaw the d…