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It has been reported that mental health cases are on the rise not just in Lincolnshire but all over the country. Mental health services are starting to feel the strain as more budget cuts hit the NHS. Siren and LSJ spoke to someone who suffers from mental health issue such...

Rupert Matthews, the conservative MEP candidate for the East Midlands, visited Lincoln over the weekend to help deliver leaflets to the Minster Ward. On Friday, February 7th, a team of volunteers, including the MP for Lincoln Karl McCartney and Mr Matthews, set out to deliver leaflets in the Lincoln area....

Water shortages in some parts of Africa are having an adverse effect on the education of some schoolchildren, according to one of the directors of a Lincoln charity. Paul Quincey from Christian Partners in Africa has helped with water projects in Ethiopia and Uganda and believes the need for clean...

Visiting a GP could become a thing of the past as surgeries start using Skype online services to tend to patients needs. So far the scheme has worked in Manchester, by Moss Side Family Medical Practice and in University Hospital North Staffordshire. At the moment the scheme is still being...

A Lincolnshire brewery are offering drinkers a complete biscuit beer experience. Bateman’s will be using ingredients such as barley, malt, cane sugar and oats to create seasonal beers. They’re part of a new range of beverages to celebrate the company’s 140th anniversary. They combine favourite flavours of the biscuit tin...

Phoebe Skunk Dickinson passed away after a series of medical problems.

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Bailgate Wedding Fayre takes place about twice every year, in March and October. Five wedding venues take part in hosting, including Old Palace, White Hart Hotel, Charlotte House, Lincoln Hotel and Judges Lodging. Sharon Queen of Bridal Hair of Lincoln, said: “I just love doing bridal hair, so being here...

This week is National British Week.  Celebrations have been taking place up and down the country with the London Dungeons in London having pies baked by Mrs. Lovett. Pies featured are designed as a Miley Cyrus Tongue Pie, an Ant and Dec Tucker Pastry and a very orange TOWIE Lattice...

Although the BBC Trust has to approve the decision, it is expected that the channel will close next Autumn.  The channel opened on the 9th February 2003, and was the first and only channel by the BBC aimed at a younger audience that wasn't Children's Television. It has gone on...