Salim Ahmed Alim, aged 39, of George Boole Drive in Lincoln has been charged with attempted murder. He has been remanded in custody and will appear at Lincoln Magistrates’ Court on 18 August.
He was arrested after a woman in her 40s suffered serious injuries.
We are continuing to appeal for anyone with information about the incident to come forward with any details they can share to help our investigation.
If you have information which can help us, there are a number of ways to get in touch:
By calling 101 quoting incident 57 of 17 August.
By emailing [email protected] incident 57 of 17 August in the subject line.
If you wish to remain anonymous, you can report via the independent charity CrimeStoppers on 0800 555 111 or online.
Original release:
We have launched an investigation after a woman has suffered multiple injuries at a property in George Boole Drive, Lincoln.
Officers were alerted by the ambulance service that a woman in her 40’s had suffered significant injuries at 4.10am this morning (17 August).
On arrival, they found a woman with what is believed to be stab wounds to her back, arm and chest. She received treatment on the scene before being transported to hospital where she remains in a serious condition.
Following a swift response by officers, a 39-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder 13 minutes after the call was received. He remains in police custody.
We believe this is an isolated incident and we are not looking for anyone else in connection with this incident.
Officers remain on scene and in the local area today while we carry out enquiries.
We are now appealing for anyone with information about the incident to come forward with any details they can share to help our investigation.
If you have information which can help us, there are a number of ways to get in touch:
By calling 101 quoting incident 57 of 17 August.
By emailing [email protected] quoting incident 57 of 17 August in the subject line.
If you wish to remain anonymous, you can report via the independent charity CrimeStoppers on 0800 555 111 or online.
Ahead of the launch of a Jurassic Park-themed event starting this week, Rand Farm Park has welcomed a unique animal to its roster – the Triceragoat!
Starting on August 29 and running until September 4, Jurassic Farm Park will see the popular Rand Farm Park transform into a dinosaur haven for all of the family to enjoy.
There will be a walking, roaring T-Rex called Pete at the farm, as well as his smaller dinosaur friends and other activities to take part in.
Jurassic Fever has well and truly taken over the farm, and on Wednesday morning a new addition was welcomed in the form of what they are calling a Triceragoat.
While the dinosaur stigma suggests it could in fact be a dangerous animal, our feeling is that the only way this Triceragoat could harm you is by cuddling you into oblivion!
Tickets for Jurassic Farm Park cost £13.95 per person and can be bought from the Rand Farm Park website. It will run from 10am to 5pm each day between August 29 and September 4.
The volunteers who run Metheringham Swimming Pool have been overwhelmed with donations and the support of the local community as they prepare to reopen the much-loved facility later this month.
The heated outdoor swimming pool was built by the community and has been part of the village for nearly 50 years, but it was under threat of closure due to thousands of pounds worth of repairs that forced it to shut…fortunately, only temporarily.
The facility is run by a charity called Metheringham Swimming Pool Committee, which is headed by four trustees, and all the staff are volunteers except for the paid lifeguards. It is usually open between May and September.
The first water went back into the pool during the evening of Tuesday, August 16. It will take about a week to fill then a few more days to get it up to temperature ahead of the pool’s reopening on Saturday, August 27.
Thanks to a grant of £2,550 from Heath Farm Energy, managed and operated by Future Biogas, the pool can remain open until the end of September instead of closing at the end of August at the end of the usual season.
The Trustees Terry and Mel Wright, Nikki Duncan and Karen Rymer were all really happy with the result.
Volunteers watch as the water is turned on.
The pool was in the middle of a major refurbishment thanks to a grant from the FCC Communities Foundation, and the works were due to be completed by the end of June. However, the project was halted when a historic crack in the pool was found to be worse than originally realised.
An additional £5,000 in funding was needed to move ahead with repairs, and the local and wider community rallied to exceed this total by raising over £8,500. With grants also awarded the total reached £11,000.
This meant more could funds could be spent on extending the resin flooring all the way to the edges of the site, not just the poolside. The team were also able to buy mosaic tiles to go around the curves in the pool and over the crack to make it completely watertight.
This is how Metheringham Swimming Pool looked before the work.
The crack was repaired by Ashers Swimpool Centre using resin injection.
Jonathon from Struere UK surveys the final work.
Although the original contractor could not commit to finish the rest of the work in time, Ashers Swimpool Centre stepped in to complete the repair.
Chair of the Committee Mel Wright put an appeal on Find my Builder and Jonathon Hamilton from Struere UK, who had just moved his business to the Lincoln area, responded and within a week of him meeting the Trustees the repairs were done and the pool was ready for tiling.
MB Resin Driveways laid the resin flooring around the whole poolside, not just the edges. The team from Struere UK and Alan from AC Ceramic Tiling worked to tile the pool.
The heatwave temporarily stopped the works on the pool before it was completed on August 1. This also meant that the charity was able to claim grant money of just over £36,000 from the FCC Communities Foundation which would have bene lost if they hadn’t got the project back on track.
Alan from AC Ceramics puts the first tile on.
Jonathon Hamilton from Struere UK lends a hand with the tiling.
The resin flooring round the pool is completed by MB Resin Driveways.
Two villagers who originally dug the pool out by hand in the 1970s – Doreen and Bryan Blackband – cut the ribbon to declare the refurbishment work finished.
Karen Rymer, the committee’s secretary who has been a resident of Metheringham for 20 years, said after the initial article appeared in The Lincolnite in June local and wider community businesses rallied round to support them.
She told The Lincolnite: “People overwhelmed us with their generosity, which was more than was needed to repair the crack.
“It’s been like a soap opera, which we joked would be called The Pool. Every time something happened we had another obstacle to overcome.
“Last night (Tuesday) me and Mel were in tears with emotions that we finally had water back in the pool, but the weather had the last laugh as it rained after three weeks of heatwave.
“It’s a community pool and it’s the community in the village and the wider community that rallied round to make sure we would reopen. Now we’re into our usual pre-season preparations, which we would normally be doing in April, and it feels good to be doing that.”
Two villagers who originally dug the pool out by hand in the 1970s – Doreen and Bryan Blackband – cut the ribbon to declare the refurbishment work finished.
Mel & Terry reveal the new sign designed by website coder Steve.
Metheringham Swimming Pool will be open seven days a week between 7am and 10pm until Friday, September 30. Saturday and Sunday, October 1 and 2 will be special doggy swim days.
It is advised to sign up for a pool account before booking, but walk-ins can be accepted. There has been a small increase in price with each session now costing £4 – see more information here.
The pool is also hoping to have swimming lessons available to book, which will be announced on its website and Facebook page. The sessions will be available for bookings once staffing for a lifeguard and further volunteer is confirmed.
Donations to save Metheringham Swimming Pool
Nearly £4,500 raised in personal donations
£1,400 was also donated by local businesses – AGM Landscaping, Emily’s Tanning, Little Jules Aesthetics, Mair Farms, Metheringham Locksmith, Yellow Brick Road Nurseries
Over £500 was received in cash donations, including over £300 which was collected by volunteers Claire and Jan at the Metheringham Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Event
The parents and children from Metheringham Primary School collected over £1,000
People in the village have been described as “amazing” included the charity’s official fundraiser Peter Surch, who raised over £900 from licensed door-to-door collections in Metheringham
In addition, the charity were given grants of £1,500 by Lincoln Minster Round Table and £1,000 from the Arnold Clarke Community Fund
An 80-year-old East Lindsey man, who once managed the most dangerous mountain climb in the world, took his own life after stopping treatment for prostate cancer.
Herbert Seear, known as Tony, scaled 8,091m Annapurna in Nepal – the tenth highest mountain and with a fatality rate of around one in three – because he felt “Everest was for tourists”, an inquest into his death heard.
A family statement read to the hearing in Lincoln today (Wednesday) said: “He was fascinated by anything to do with Antarctic exploration, especially Ernest Shackleston, whom he idolised.
“He would have been thrilled by the news that Shackleston’s ship Endurance had been found at the bottom of the Weddell Sea in such a good state of preservation after so many years.”
“Kind and generous” Mr Seear, a former medic who served in the Royal Navy and worked on oil rigs in Dubai, was described as “practical, resourceful and clever” but lost confidence in his abilities, such as DIY, in later life.
“He was a witty and congenial host but tired quickly of company, especially if the company coincided with the rugby,” his family said wryly.
The hearing was told that Mr Seear was prone to having dark moods, sometimes lasting for several days and often without revealing to his loved ones what had triggered them.
On the night before he died on February 22 this year, he had asked his family about their wishes in the event of their passing. It was said that he seemed unsatisfied with the outcome and went on to have a poor night’s sleep, waking in a dark mood.
Later in the day, his partner found what she took to be a suicide note and a search for Mr Seear was undertaken by police.
His body was found in his car in a remote place about a mile from his home in Church Lane, Marshchapel.
Mr Seear had been diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2017 and had stopped radiotherapy treatment because of the side effects.
He had lived his life and was more likely to die with cancer than of it, he had told his family.
Acting senior corner for Lincolnshire, Paul Smith, concluded that Mr Seear’s death was suicide.
Untreated sewage discharged into the sea around the coast has seen pollution warnings at almost 50 beaches nationally – including three in Lincolnshire.
Data from water companies by the Safer Seas and Rivers Service, run by the charity Surfers Against Sewage, showed discharges have taken place following heavy rain across the country this week.
It followed a spell of extremely dry weather, prompting Lincolnshire to be placed in drought conditions last week, and the weather flipped on its head on Tuesday as homes were damaged by extreme flooding in Market Rasen.
Many popular seaside resorts were found to have been contaminated by untreated sewage discharges into the water, including here on the Lincolnshire coast.
Three beaches in Greater Lincolnshire have pollution risk warnings in place. | Photo: Surfers Against Sewage
A map on the Surfers Against Sewage website flags up three alerts in Greater Lincolnshire for pollution risk warnings. One is at Ingoldmells, and the other two are by Grimsby and Cleethorpes in the North East area of the county.
Beaches along the south coast are worst affected, and it comes after water service regulator Ofwat opened an investigation into storm overflow spills and sewage dumps across the country.
A woman who persistently begged in the street and would target people when they were at the cashpoint has been given a Criminal Behaviour Order (CBO) following proactive work by the Lincoln Neighbourhood Policing Team.
Romayne Thompson, 30, of no fixed address, began begging in the city centre in May this year.
The team worked in partnership with the City of Lincoln CCTV team, viewing extensive CCTV footage which showed that in the space of just one week in June, she had approached in excess of 50 people in Lincoln High Street.
In some instances, she would approach people and directly ask for money, as well as follow individuals to cash points and make further requests when they have withdrawn their money.
She was previously convicted on of seven begging offences which took place between 5 May and 22 May in Lincoln High Street. That hearing was held at Lincoln District Magistrates’ Court on 11 July, and she received a 12 month conditional discharge.
After continuing to offend, she was then convicted for persistent begging after being captured on CCTV approaching people, often when they were at ATMs, and asking for money between 27 May and 15 June.
At a hearing at Lincoln Magistrates’ Court on 10 August she was given a two-year CBO with a specific condition not to beg for money or goods within the Lincoln city boundary.
The CBO is an order designed to tackle the most serious and persistent anti-social individuals where their behaviour has brought them before a criminal court. If it’s breached, this is a criminal offence and custodial sentence can be enforced to deal with the individual.
PC Andy Balding said: “This is someone who was very aggressive with begging, who would approach members of the public and ask them directly for money, or provide a story designed to elicit sympathy and ultimately money from her victims.
“On several occasions she has followed people to cash machines and then been handed notes from the victim. This kind of behaviour can be extremely intimidating to vulnerable members of the public who can feel pressured into handing over money when they might otherwise choose to ignore the request.”
We keep a continued watch of people who we have issued CBOs for, and we proactively release their image so that members of the community have the opportunity to stay clear of their offending, and are more able to report an incident if one occurs.
If you have an incident you feel needs police attention, please contact us on 101.
