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Turning boarded-up shops into community spaces is a bigger and more complex task than just adding funding

• Most levelling up projects still unfinished years after funding allocated

“It is nice to see something happening for once,” says Jack Vincent, a Grimsby resident, as he considers a wave of change finally arriving in a town that had become a byword for deprivation.

In June, King Charles visited the Lincolnshire coastal town, celebrating the opening of a youth centre in a previously derelict Victorian warehouse building and a Care charity community drop-in centre in a vacant bank on the high street. Scaffolding also shrouds one end of the town’s shopping centre, part of which is being converted to house leisure facilities including a cinema and a food market.

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A 60-year-old man has sadly died following a house fire in Walkeringham.

A secondary school near Boston had to close early yesterday (Thursday, October 22) after a blockage in the local sewer network left it without any working toilets – but there is praise for how Anglian Water and parents/carers responded to the issue.

Number of convictions for driving without insurance falls in Lincolnshire

From 36 litres of water for a family of four to cash, emergency radios and phone chargers, here’s how to prepare for three days without essential services.

GCSE results at record-breaking levels celebrated at ceremony

A Louth-based artist and gallery owner has created and donated a special original painting to be auctioned off for this year’s Poppy Appeal.

From grassroots sport and scout facilities to community celebrations, safer public spaces and creative reuse workshops, Gainsborough East is a ward where local groups are helping residents connect, take part and feel proud of where they live.

The monthly shortfall between housing help and cheaper-end rents for a two-bedroom home in Lincolnshire.

Flower grower can now herd sheep across London Bridge