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A remarkable four-bedroom town house with a cinema room and a hot tub overlooking Lincoln has been put on the market, and could be yours for £1.3 million.

The Heights on Carline Road in Lincoln is arranged over four floors and enjoys panoramic viewpoints of the city, with estate agents JH Walter valuing the home at £1,299,950.

The 4,150 sq ft property is situated on the Bailgate and comes with four bedrooms, as well as four bathrooms, a cinema room, a hot tub on the balcony and a galleried landing area.

The property has underfloor heating and air conditioning, as well as electrically operated blinds and bifold doors to open up onto a terraced balcony.

It also has electric gated access to a secure parking area, as well as an electric double garage and enclosed garden space around the back of the house.

The living room comes with a wall mounted Stovax log burner. | Photo: JHWalter

Let’s take a further look inside:

An open plan kitchen/dining/living area with bifold doors out to a balcony. | Photo: JHWalter

Once you do step outside, the balcony has a hot tub with stunning views of uphill Lincoln. | Photo: JHWalter

Looking down from the staircase. | Photo: JHWalter

The master bedroom has jaw-dropping scenery and views. | Photo: JHWalter

One of the three guest bedrooms. | Photo: JHWalter

The large designer family bathroom is stylish and spacious, complete with a bath tub and separate shower. | Photo: JHWalter

Even the study has glorious backdrops. | Photo: JHWalter

Just look at how far you can see! | Photo: JHWalter

View the full listing on the JHWalter website.

The Strait & Narrow in Lincoln is unable to reopen normally under the current coronavirus lockdown restrictions due to not having a beer garden, but that hasn’t stopped the bar from coming up with a different way to reach customers.

From April 12 pubs, bars and restaurants are allowed to open for outdoor service only. Indoor service is currently scheduled to be permitted from May 17 as part of the government’s roadmap out of lockdown.

Jez Nash, who owns the Strait & Narrow and The Rogue Saint, and his team have been developing a new cocktail menu with the recent addition of alcohol cocktail slushies.

Customers can choose from a Pornstar Martini Slushie, served with Prosecco, or a Banana & Mango Daiquiri. | Photo: The Lincolnite

Take a look at the menu. | Photo: The Lincolnite

Customers can now buy them from special drinks hatch outside Strait & Narrow, which opened on Monday, April 12.

It will be open between 12pm-6pm every day.

Strait & Narrow is serving slushie cocktails from a hatch until it is able to reopen fully again in May 2021. | Photo: The Lincolnite

Two slushie cocktails to choose from at the Strait & Narrow’s drinks hatch. | Photo: The Lincolnite

Customers can choose from a Pornstar Martini Slushie, served with Prosecco, or a Banana & Mango Daiquiri.

There is also a Espresso Martini on the menu, as well as hot drinks – tea, coffee and hot chocolate.

Charlie Brassington, deputy manager at Strait & Narrow, serving up some slushie cocktails. | Photo: The Lincolnite

Tom Remington, General Manager at The Rogue Saint, and some of the drinks and merchandise available to buy from the hatch at Strait & Narrow. | Photo: The Lincolnite

Bottled cocktails from the Strait Crates menu, as well as various canned drinks, can be purchased for drinking at home. Strait & Narrow merchandise, including t-shirts and hoodies, is also available to buy.

Jez told The Lincolnite: “We did similar last Christmas after lockdown hit and when the roadmap was announced we were developing a new cocktail menu, and we have also added slushies, so this was a good opportunity to test them out.”

Strait & Narrow is hoping to be back open as normal from May 17. | Photo: The Lincolnite

Strait Crates will also continue to trade online as normal, while The Rogue Saint is hoping to reopen on June 21 depending on the latest government guidance.

Jez also plans to open Strait & Narrow 2 and 3 with the Rogue Saint as part of the fold. The two new bars will be within an hour of the current premises and they are expected to open in 2022.

A woman at the centre of a £1 million cannabis growing operation had her assets confiscated after a hearing at Lincoln Crown Court.

Thuy Phan, 30, had £34,640 confiscated under the Proceeds of Crime Act. The amount includes a car and money held in bank accounts which are currently the subject of a restraining order.

Judge John Pini QC ruled that her benefit from crime was £1,362,747 with her available assets ordered to be confiscated.

She was given three months to hand over the amount or face a further six months in prison.

Phan, of Lime Crescent, Lincoln, appeared at today’s hearing via video link from Peterborough Prison where she is serving a sentence of six years and nine months imposed in November 2020 for offences of conspiracy to produce cannabis, possession of criminal property, conversion of criminal property and transferring criminal property.

Hearings to consider the confiscation of assets of three men were adjourned to next month.

Zaiur Rahman, 33, Moinul Islam, 42, and Thai Han, 28, were also involved in the national cannabis growing operation. | Photo: Lincolnshire Police

Ziaur Rahman, 33, of Hillingdon, West London; Moinul Islam, 42, of Hillingdon, West London; and Thai Han ,28, of Lime Crescent, Lincoln; all admitted conspiracy to produce cannabis and were sentenced in November.

Thuy Phan and Thai Han were arrested in January 2019 whilst driving back to Lincoln. A bag containing £14,625 cash was found in the back of their vehicle.

The subsequent police investigation revealed that between November 2017 and November 2019, four properties in Lincoln and a further property in Middlesbrough had been rented to grow cannabis.

The Lincoln properties were in Euston Close, Grafton Street, Drake Street and Monks Road.

The street value of the cannabis recovered from these addresses was up to £988,680.

Officers also discovered that the grow in Monks Road was being run by a victim of modern slavery.

During the investigation officers discovered that Thuy Phan was in control of over 30 bank accounts.

A large number of these belonged to Vietnamese students living in the UK, who she paid in order to use their bank accounts.

It was identified that these accounts had a turnover of over £2.3m which Phan had laundered back to Vietnam. Han had played a key role in renting the properties for the cannabis grows.

Further inquiries identified that both Islam and Rahman had been working with Thuy Phan and Thai Han resulting in the two men being arrested in July 2019.