My father, John Smith, who has died aged 86, was an architectural historian and a specialist in church conservation who played a major role in preserving the beauty of the ancient town of Stamford in Lincolnshire.
He served on Stamford Civic Society’s executive committee for more than half a century and led the campaign for the town’s attractive Northfields area to become a conservation area, which it did in 2004.
Intensive farming has all but destroyed England’s ancient woodlands and freshwater wetlands. On a farm in Lincolnshire a radical aristocrat hopes to show there’s money in protecting nature
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CCTV footage shows a man jumping from a first-floor window before running into the street and, by chance. approaching a police car. The man jumps in and tells the officer he had been kidnapped and informs him of the location. Lincolnshire police subsequently arrest four men and a woman in connection with the incident
Five jailed after targeting victim and subjecting him to ordeal linked to past relationship breakdown
Dramatic footage shows a kidnapped man jumping from a first-floor window into a tree before running into the street and, by chance, coming across a police car.
Lincolnshire police said the ordeal of the unnamed man had been “horrifying” and the presence of a marked police vehicle “may have saved his life”.
Lincolnshire Police are again appealing for witnesses following the death of a young woman in Skegness.
The owner of a Sleaford hand car wash business says a 10-week council highways project to resurface and upgrade a key route into Sleaford has decimated his livelihood.
A village pool near Sleaford has just hosted its first ever lifeguard training course
A Stickney driver who caused the death of a motorcyclist when he pulled out of a junction in Boston has been handed a suspended jail sentence.
A disgraced former school teacher who was jailed after he was found guilty of sexually assaulting 14 boys has been banned from teaching indefinitely.
Three men have been charged following an armed police operation in Gainsborough as officers reassure the community.
