A man made sexual suggestions to a 13 year old girl after contacting her on Facebook, Lincoln Crown Court was told yesterday.

Aaron Britchford, who knew the girl, had conversations with her on the social media site and gained her trust.

Phil Howes, prosecuting, said Britchford progressed to asking the youngster what she would do if he cuddled and kissed her and asked if she would “grass” on him.

Bitchford then made a more direct sexual suggestion to her.

Mr Howes said “There is no doubt as to what he was hoping was going to happen.

“Matters came to light after a third party saw the post on the Facebook account and brought it to the attention of the girl’s mother.”

Britchford (24), of London Road, Kirton, admitted inciting a child to engage in sexual activity on October 28, 2011.

He was given a three-year community order and has to complete a sexual offenders’ group work programme.

Britchford was also banned from contacting the girl for three years and placed on the sex offenders’ register for five years.

Judge James Sampson told him: “This must be regarded as a direct alternative to a sentence of imprisonment.You are a potential danger to young girls like this one. Fortunately this did not go beyond what is seen on the computer.”

Spalding Guardian and Lincolnshire Free Press reporters will be out on the road again in the coming week giving you the chance to bring the news to us.

Our team of reporters will be out and about in Crowland, Moulton and Long Sutton on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday respectively to cover the stories that matter to you.

Chrissie Redford will be waiting for your stories at Crowland Library in Hall Street between 10am and 5pm on Tuesday, while Winston Brown will be at Moulton Community Centre in Broad Lane from 9am until 11.30am and then at The Swan in High Street from 1.30pm and 5pm.

The week ends with Lynne Harrison at the Market House in Market Street, Long Sutton, from 10am until 4pm.

Chrissie said: “Crowland is such a pretty town which I usually only see from a distance when I’m driving past it on the main road.

“I’m really looking forward to exploring it and meeting our readers who, I am sure, will have lots of amazing stories.”

Moulton residents can find out more about Winston’s visit to the village on Tuesday when the parish council holds its monthly meeting at Moulton Seas End Village Hall at 6.30pm.

Winston said: “This is a real opportunity for the people of Moulton to tell us all about what matters to them and everything going on in their community, so I look forward to seeing you.”

Child cruelty was highlighted when students ran workshops on slavery at a Quadring school.
Thomas Cowley High School students used a number of games to teach Quadring Cowley and Brown’s Primary School pupils about slavery. Teacher Kay Wood said: “It’s a tough subject but a lovely way to learn it.” 
Pictured are (from left) Hope Reed, Daisy Gilham-Skinner, Alexandra Cooper-Lee, Thomas Watson, Billy Newman, (back) Jas Paling, Rhianna Law and Abbie Woodhead.

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Music makers at Spalding High School donated £200 to Marie Curie Cancer Care in memory of a former head of music, Jennifer Chappell, who died last year.

The sum was raised from the school’s Christmas concerts and presented to Marie Curie by the current head of music, Lynne Loose, who had worked alongside Miss Chappell.

Pupils have been engaged in a big music festival, involving soloists and ensembles from its five houses, and the points tally put Nightingale top when the result was announced yesterday.

Mrs Loose said: “The standard is always very high, there’s always lots of enthusiasm and some really nice performances.

“It’s just about the enjoyment of making music really.

“It’s always competitive and the students come along and support their friends as well.”

Primary schools around Long Sutton got together for their annual school councils’ conference.

Organiser Sonya Ripley, head of Tydd St Mary, said this year’s theme was eco-schools and how to make your school more environmentally friendly.
Highlights included the chance to make bird feeders by recycling materials and the ultimate in making good use of rubbish, playing instruments in a junk band. Our picture shows (from left) back – Carissa Bunce, Oliver Ebbage, Logan Goddard; front – Lisha Flindall, Kirsty Cheek, Michael Davies and Luke Anderson. 
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Seven first-time homeowners were due to move into new Broadgate Homes properties at The Triangle, Wygate Park today with help from the Government’s FirstBuy scheme.

Since last week’s Budget the scheme has been extended to existing homeowners who can prove they need more space to accommodate a larger family.

Now named Help to Buy, the scheme’s benefits to the wider range of qualifying buyers are the same – if they can find five per cent of the deposit, they’ll get a 20 per cent loan to cover the rest, enabling them to get a 75 per cent mortgage.

The new scheme benefits developers too, as the 20 per cent loan will now be wholly paid by the Government, not shared with the developer.

Chief executive of Broadgate Homes Ian Canham said: “Now if you qualify for the scheme you can get any size of house on Help to Buy if you’d otherwise struggle to pay the deposit – all our new homes are on it.

“Our only caveat would be that we don’t sell to buy to let landlords.”

Legal brains at a Long Sutton school were on the right side of the law when they won a countywide competition.

Students from Years 8 and 9 at The Peele Community College travelled to Lincoln to compete in the 2013 Citizenship Foundation’s Magistrates’ Mock Court Trial Competition. 
Molly Sargeant is pictured being presented with the trophy by the Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire Tony Worth and the organiser of the competition, Mr Moody.

A vehicle dismantling business is likely to be allowed to carry on operating after submitting a restrospective planning application.

NKR Motors of Gull Bank, Whaplode Drove, had applied for permission to change the use of its premises to an end of life motor vehicle dismantling and reclamation facility, which had been in operation on site since January 2012.

Previously the site had been used as a motor repair workshop for about six years.

But investigations showed that business had also been operated without planning permission, as themost recent application for the site had been granted in 1975 when the general purpose building had been extended.

The application to allow the current business to continue is due to go before Lincolnshire County Council planners on April 8, when members will be recommended to grant conditional planning permission.

A report to the planning and regulation committee says the business dismantles just one vehicle at a time and on average two vehicles a week are broken down.

All vehicles are stored within the building, where all of the liquids such as brake fluid and fuel are removed and later removed by a licensed operator.

Other materials such as plastics and airbags are removed before the engine and all usable spare parts are salvaged.

The shells of the vehicles are stored on the forecourt before they are taken to licensed scrap dealers.

Spare parts are sold on the internet.

Three people are employed by the business.

Members will be recommended to grant approval on the grounds that “the limited size of the development means it would not be incongruous feature within the open countryside, and its location within a former agricultural building and yard, means it would not be out of keeping with the area.”

Conditions are likely to be imposed to restrict the growth of the operation.

A troubled hospital trust is changing the way it collects feedback in a bid to improve the service it provides.

United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust, which runs Boston’s Pilgrim Hospital among others, is currently one of 14 trusts in the country being investigated over excess deaths following the mid-Staffordshire hospital scandal in which hundreds of patients died.

From Monday, all patients in acute hospital wards and A&E departments will be offered a Friends and Family Test to allow patients to feed back their views on the care or treatment they have received.

Under the new scheme they will be invited to answer one simple question – How likely are you to recommend our ward/A&E department to friends and family if they needed similar care or treatment?

There will also be a series of follow-up questions to provide essential details which will be used to identify and tackle concerns at an early stage in a bid to improve care.

Director of Nursing at the trust Eiri Jones said: “Regular and timely feedback from our patients about their care and treatment they have received is extremely important and valuable to us and methods such as the Friends and Family Test allows us to understand patients’ experiences and take immediate action to tackle areas of weakness or build on success.”

“Tell my family I only need a black bag. When you pick my body up, you put me in the black bag, you take me to the crem... burn me up and then dump my ashes and that’s all I want.”

Sutton St James grandfather Barry Horspool gave a “living will” during three hours and 50 minutes of telephone negotiations with police before pulling the trigger of his sawn-off rifle on January 31 last year and dying from a single bullet wound to the head.

On Friday, a jury at his inquest in Stamford took just an hour to return a verdict that Mr Horspool had taken his own life. It followed five days of evidence given by senior police officers, members of his family, a close friend and forensic experts.

The inquest had heard Mr Horspool (61) had not spoken to his daughter, Amanda Rutter, for two weeks after a family dispute and that the day of his death was his grand-daughter’s first birthday.

Police had been trying to negotiate with Mr Horspool since he first threatened to kill himself earlier in the day at his home in Chapelgate. He had shot PC Steve Hull in the face, who was observing the property from his car until other officers arrived to cordon off the area and make it safe.

The last time Mr Horspool answered his mobile phone was at 16.54pm.

Negotiator Sgt Richard Marriott told Mr Horspool: “Barry this doesn’t have to end like this today because you’ve got your daughter, Amanda, you’ve got a grand-daughter. Barry, is that right Barry?”

Sgt Phil Vickers, who was co-ordinator during the negotiations, said: “That was the last proof of life we had. The fact that he had given a living will made it clear it was his intention throughout to end his life.”

Barry’s mobile was found on the floor beside his body, along with the sawn-off rifle he had used to shoot himself.

Five armed officers and a dog handler searched the property at 10.29pm after continued attempts to make contact by landline and verbal challenges had failed.

A senior armed officer, preferring his name not to be printed because of the nature of his work, described how the house was bathed in light by negotiators on the ground, who had been trying to make contact by loud hailer during the 12-hour siege.

They had entered the house and climbed the stairs, protected by a door shield.

He said: “It was not a dynamic entry like the sort you see on TV. We made a slow systematic search of the lower level before searching the upper rooms. We continued to make verbal challenges and would have withdrawn had we made contact with Mr Horspool.”

The inquest had seen a family divided, with Mr Horspool’s daughter, Amanda, represented by one advocate and his brother-in-law, Brian Brown, acting for the brothers and sisters.

Coroner Dr Robert Forrest said: “I hope the inquest will help them bring closure to the events of that day.”

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There have been 20 more occasions in Lincolnshire where officers have been called to incidents involving a weapon in the past year since police negotiators tried to save the life of Barry Horspool.

The most recent was two weeks ago, when police received a report of a man threatening to harm himself inside a property in Clay Lake.

Assistant Chief Constable Roger Bannister said: “On this occasion we had a successful outcome with the man arrested after two hours of negotiations.

“Each of the incidents in the past year had a successful outcome, often after many hours of negotiations. This just shows how professional and well-trained our negotiators are.”

The regularity of calls to police regarding threats to life involving a weapon was highlighted during the inquest of Mr Horspool.

PC Karen Irvin, who was in the car when PC Steve Hull was shot in the face, said: “A lot of people have shotguns in Lincolnshire.

”We quite often get called to jobs and are told the person involved has a firearm.”

Negotiator co-ordinator Sgt Phil Vickers described how Sgt Richard Marriott sat in the control room face to face with another officer for support and with knees touching.

Sgt Vickers said: “Negotiations can take a number of hours. It can be a lonely and stressful time and we do this to give negotiators support.

“They are also kept in a separate area to the control room so that none of their responses are influenced by any tactical decisions that are made.

“Throughout negotiations with Mr Horspool we confirmed the progress we were having with the control room.”

Some 128 calls to Mr Horspool were made in the first two hours of negotiations, with many not answered. Because of long periods with no response, there was delay after the last call before armed officers entered Mr Horspool’s home and found he had shot himself. This was in spite of a “pop” which could have been gun fire being heard around the same time as the last call.

The circumstances of Mr Horspool’s death – specifically that as he was “in custody” as his home was surrounded by officers at the time he shot himself– resulted in the case being passed to the Independent Police Complaints Commission for review.

It was, however, passed back to Lincolnshire Police for investigation.

Assistant Chief Constable Bannister said it had been many years since an officer had been shot while on duty. He said: “An officer’s first priority is always preservation of life. It was tragic that Mr Horspool died, but we were satisfied everything that could have been done to save him was done.”

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A modified rifle described as a “dirty old thing” by the family of retired farmer Barry Horspool had probably been intended to be a humane killing weapon.

Forensic scientist Dr Philip Alexander showed the rusting weapon resembling a pistol to the jury at Mr Horspool’s inquest, pointing out the missing trigger cover and how the barrel had been shortened to ten inches.

Dr Alexander said: “Weapons like this are usually used to kill animals. It is a humane killing weapon.”

He said: “Mr Horspool’s body was found slumped against the wall of a bedroom, with his head resting on the edge of a wardrobe.

“On the left temple was an entry wound, which was a typical point for a self-inflicted gun wound.

“On the floor near the window was a single shot weapon.

“There was a spent cartridge in the breech and another by the window.”

Modifications to the rifle would have made it difficult to aim with accuracy. Dr Alexander pointed to the painting of Charles II on the wall above coroner Dr Robert Forrest in the room in Stamford Town Hall where the inquest was held.

He said: “Even the experienced firearms officers here today would have difficulty hitting Charles II. There would have been the merest chance, even with intent, of hitting his target.

“There is no way of proving what his intention was when he aimed out of the window.

“But the bullet that hit the police officer in the cheek could easily have been fatal.”

A husband and wife who owned two care homes were discovered holding hands after they committed suicide in their car.

Jaswant Beeharry and Isabel Ibanez-Mahiques died of carbon monoxide poisoning in June last year after igniting petrol poured around the interior of their black BMW.

The couple owned Maria-Helena Care in Gedney Dawsmere and Terrington Lodge Care Home in Terrington St John.

At an inquest held in Wisbech yesterday, coroner William Morris heard they had been in financial difficulties and had decided to close the Dawsmere home just two days before their bodies were found on June 9.

They were discovered by farmer Ricky Dring on an isolated back road near Doddington in Cambridgeshire. It is believed they had been there since at least the day before.

Mr Dring first saw the BMW on the afternoon of Friday, June 8. The windows had appeared to be steamed up and he said in a statement it was not unusual to see vehicles parked on the section of hardstanding next to the track which ran between two fields.

However, when the vehicle was still there the next day, Mr Dring looked closer. He saw that the steam was in fact smoke damage and he could see one person sat in the rear of the car, not moving.

When emergency services arrived, they found the couple dead in the back seat. An empty petrol can was in the front passenger footwell and a lighter was on the seat between them.

A fire investigation determined that petrol had saturated the floor in the back of the car and the couple deliberately ignited the vapours. It created a flash fire which was very short lived, due to a lack of oxygen in the car.

Police officer DI Jon McAdam said: “They were holding hands. There were no signs of distress, no signs of force. It was very clear they were at peace.”

They both died of carbon monoxide poisoning.

The inquest also heard evidence from Lisa Farr, who managed Terrington Lodge and had worked with the couple for nine years.

She told Mr Morris that Mr Beeharry was depressed and when she questioned him, he said he was taking anti-depressants. He told her it was “his turn for a breakdown”.

Mrs Farr had been due to meet Mr Beeharry and Mrs Ibanez-Mahiques on Friday, June 8. They were holding a meeting to inform staff at Maria-Helena Care that the home was closing down.

At a meeting on June 7 with Lincolnshire County Council, a resident’s relative called the home to ask about the closure.

“It hadn’t been announced to residents yet,” said Mrs Farr. “It angered Isabel and upset Rishi (Jaswant).

“A meeting was planned for the next day. All the staff attended but Rishi and Isabel didn’t arrive. I was furious that they didn’t come and had left me to talk to the staff.”

Mrs Farr’s efforts to contact the couple were unsuccessful and it was not until Saturday, June 9 that police contacted Terrington Lodge to say their bodies had been found.

Glen Garrod, director of social care for Lincolnshire County Council, gave a statement outlining the problems Mr Beeharry and Mrs Ibanez-Mahiques had been going through. In 2011, Maria-Helena was found to have some “safe-guarding issues” and they were not allowed to take on any more residents while the issues were dealt with.

During this time, Mr Beeharry said it took all their financial reserves to keep the home running. In a letter to the council on June 1, 2012, Mr Beeharry expressed concern over the future of the home and said a low number of referrals from the council, delays in payments and high running costs were having a big impact.

Just five days later, on June 6, Mr Beeharry wrote again to say they were closing Maria-Helena and they would be working with Social Services to relocate the 32 residents.

Following the deaths of Mr Beeharry and Mrs Ibanez-Mahiques, the home remained open for a short time before permanently closing on July 8.

Mr Morris concluded that the couple, of Friday Bridge in Cambridgeshire, killed themselves and added: “This has been a particularly sad case and I wish to express my sincere sympathies to the families.”

John Hayes has been moved from his role as energy minister to a new post as ‘senior parliamentary adviser’.

The MP for South Holland and the Deepings has changed positions as part of a move announced by Prime Minister David Cameron.

Mr Hayes, an outspoken critic of wind farm developments in south Lincolnshire, had hit the headlines for his opposition to turbines while in his energy role.

Mr Hayes becomes a minister of state without portfolio in the Cabinet Office and has been appointed to the Privy Council.

His new position will see him attend the Prime Minister’s daily 8.30am and 4pm meetings and take him into the heart of 10 Downing Street.

* Full report and interview in Tuesday’s Lincolnshire Free Press.

BREAKING NEWS THURSDAY 1.30PM: Lincolnshire Police Chief Constable Neil Rhodes has today had his suspension from duty thrown out by a judge.

The decision to suspend Mr Rhodes by the county’s Police and Crime Commissioner Alan Hardwick has been described as “irrational” and “perverse” by the judge after a hearing at the Administrative Court in Manchester on Wednesday.

Mr Rhodes was suspended almost five weeks ago over alleged potential conduct matters and an investigation by Greater Manchester Police Chief Constable Sir Peter Fahy was started on March 14.

Lawyers for Mr Rhodes told the judge on Wednesday that Mr Rhodes’ suspension was “unlawful and irrational,” accusing Mr Hardwick of overreacting to allegations about the Chief Constable’s support for a senior lawyer from West Yorkshire Police over claims of racial discrimination.

It is not yet known whether or when Mr Rhodes will return to his role as Chief Constable which was due to be reviewed by the Police and Crime Commissioner this month.

Villagers living near a playing field are to be asked their opinions on how it can be used to bring their community together.

The large open space between the long-established Thackers Way and Crowson Way estates in Deeping St James has always been popular with dog walkers and youngsters looking for somewhere for an informal kick-about .

But in the wake of a hugely-successful Queen’s Diamond Jubilee event – when a thousand people witnessed the lighting of a beacon – the parish council is running with the idea of doing more to turn the field – now named Jubilee Park – into the heart of the village.

Chairman of the parish council Phil Dilks said: “It’s about building a community.

“At the end of last year we set up a gazebo on the mound and invited people to come and tell us what they wanted to happen with the field.

“We had a bit of feedback from that so, after another successful event – an open air carol concert at Christmas – we leafleted homes and held a public meeting last weekend.

“We asked people what they are interested in seeing on the field to help build a strong community.

“About 25 people turned up and we had some good ideas, such as more benches, trees, bulbs and flowers.

“One of the things that did crop up was some kind of ‘green’ path across the park.

“But the main message that came across was that we need to be very careful what we do.

“People say it needs careful planning and warning us not to run before we can walk.

“We must not rush in and do something for the sake of it and destroy the open space we have.”

Residents who attended the public meeting were also keen to see more community events held on the field, with the parish council now considering a dog show and a fete.

One of the most ambitious suggestions was a bandstand, which could be considered further down the line.

Mr Dilks added: “The parish council will now look at what we can do next.”

Controversial plans for an 80 metre-high wind monitoring mast – opposed by Energy Minister John Hayes – have been given the go-ahead for farmland at West Pinchbeck.

A packed public gallery and a 20-strong gathering watching on video link saw South Holland’s planning committee almost split down the middle as councillors approved Wind Ventures Ltd’s application for land near Fen Farm by five votes to four.

Planning officers and committee chairman Roger Gambba-Jones told members they must decide the application on its merits and completely ignore the company’s planning application in the pipeline for nine 126 metre high wind turbines.

Coun Sally-Ann Slade made a plea for the company to be asked to use ground-based Lidar to measure wind speed, rather than allow another blot on the landscape.

But planning officer Chris Crew told her: “The applicant says the information from Lidar isn’t accurate and isn’t acceptable to the banks for funding purposes.”

Coun Slade said: “Many local residents can’t look in any direction without some monstrous structure blocking their view of the Fens.”

Coun Gambba-Jones said members had raised no “valid planning reasons” for refusing the mast.

He said: “Every applications is considered as it is written at consideration time and you are being asked to give due consideration to a mast for monitoring wind speed, no more, no less.

Sue Blake, from the Stop West Pinchbeck Wind Farm group, asked councillors to reject the plans saying it would harm wildlife sites, Willow Tree Fen and Pinchbeck Fen Slipe Nature Reserve.

Willow Tree Fen was populated with an extensive array of birdlife, some rare such as the bittern.

Mrs Blake said: “Experts have stated any delay, or disruption, to the vital work that is being done there is likely to have a profound and unacceptable impact on the survival of endangered species.”

But Natural England, the Government’s experts, had not objected to the mast while Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust had. After the meeting, the windfarms protest group said it is employing experts so it can get on with the main battle against the wind farm.

The group’s Tony Fear said they were confident they could give the committee “the robust reasons they need to refuse the wind farm”.

Experts have been drafted in to create a multi-million pound education, hospitality and business complex at Spalding’s troubled Red Lion Quarter.

Owners of the £7.5million building, Boston College, have called in a firm of chartered surveyors to attract new tenants – including an entrepreneur keen to take on the empty Sage restaurant.

Lincoln-based Banks Long and Co says it is looking for first-class businesses for the office suites and retail unit – which have been vacant since the building, which was designed as a showcase for South Holland’s food heritage, opened to great fanfare in April 2011.

But within months the centre was being dubbed a “white elephant” as its centrepiece food hall failed to live up to the hype and attract shoppers.

It closed in October 2011, just six months after its high-profile opening, followed by the closure of Sage in September 2012.

Boston College bought the Red Lion Quarter in March last year and now offers training for 1,300 people in a range of subjects including teacher training, motor vehicle maintenance and hair and beauty.

Banks Long director James Butcher said: “We are pleased to have been asked to act on behalf of Boston College in offering an interesting range of opportunities within this superb contemporary development as it moves forward into a new era.

“Entrepreneurs and growing businesses have the chance to join existing tenants who already enjoy the benefits of the high quality accommodation within the building.”

A food heritage display celebrating South Holland’s food growing and processing expertise is due to open in the building’s atrium shortly and the doors will officially open on new hair and beauty salon, Style Academy, on April 17.

The power station at Sutton Bridge (pictured) was evacuated and fire engines called at lunchtime today (Thursday) when an electrical component gave off acrid fumes and triggered alarms.

Some 28 staff followed the fire safety procedure, leaving the building and going to an assembly point until firefighters gave the all clear.

A solenoid – a circuit board component in an outhouse – overheated, but there was no fire.

The power station was not running at the time.

Plant manager Gary Dempster said: “I have been here since day one, 14 years ago, and this is the first time we have had the fire brigade attend for an incident.”

Four fire engines attended from Norfolk and Lincolnshire.

2pm: Firefighters are dealing with a blaze at Sutton Bridge Power Station this afternoon (Thursday).

Crews are currently putting out an electrical fire within a temporary building at the compound in Centenary Way.

Firefighters in Lynn and Long Sutton were called out at 1.15pm.

The fire has been described as small.

A build-up of oil in the extractor unit of a heating system caused a fire in a house in Holbeach this afternoon (Thursday).

Fire crews from Long Sutton, responding to reports of black smoke coming from a central heathing vent at a property on Washway Road, attended but the fire was out on arrival.

A Spalding print firm is making a foray into the sign making and display market after spending £30,000 installing a new large-format printer.

The Epson SureColor SC-50600 large format printer, which was installed in January, adds to AbbeyPrint’s already impressive range of printing equipment.

The company, based in Enterprise Way, Pinchbeck is aiming to pursue new markets with this latest acquisition.

The 23-strong company now produces a range of large format print including traditional and roll up banners, indoor and outdoor signs, exhibition stands and display work, point of sale boards, posters, vehicle livery etc up to a maximum height/width of 1.6m by virtually any length.

Paul Houghton, one of AbbeyPrint’s directors, and the driving force behind this new addition, is confident that it will open up new markets for the company.

He said “We can now attract new business as well as going to our existing litho and digital customers and offer them a large format option providing a more integrated service from a trusted and reliable supplier.

“Our customers appreciate our high standards, quality control, attention to detail and customer service, something we will continue to provide with this latest acquisition”.

This new venture into signage is only a small part of what AbbeyPrint produce. Established in 1956 they have been recognised for over 50 years as one of the area’s leading commercial printing companies. Capable of producing anything from a business card to a colour magazine you can be assured of receiving a quality product at the right price where customer service is top priority.

AbbeyPrint is renowned as specialist printers to the horticultural industry with much of the print they produce being used by leading supermarkets, not only on paper and board but now on plastic too.

They are the area’s largest privately owned office products supplier being able to supply any office supplies from filing to janitorial as well as promotional products, canvas prints and large format plan and poster printing.

For further information please call AbbeyPrint on 01775 724771 or visit their website www.abbeyprint.co.uk .

A 28-year-old woman from Swineshead is due to go before Skegness magistrates next Wednesday in connection with a violent domestic incident in the village.

Victoria Keal of Drayton Road is charged with making threats to kill, assault occasioning actual bodily harm and criminal damage after an incident at the same address on February 18.

Keal was remanded in custody until the hearing where the case is expected to be committed for trial at Lincoln Crown Court.