March 12, 2013 3.30 pm
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Police warning after spate of burglaries in Lincoln West End
Burglary warning: Lincolnshire Police are warning residents in the West End area of Lincoln to be vigilant after a spate of more than 11 burglaries in the past weeks.
Properties in Severn Street, Hewson Road and Cambridge Avenue were all broken into in the early hours of Tuesday, June 14.
Lincolnshire Police are warning residents in the West End area of Lincoln to be vigilant after a spate of more than 11 burglaries in the past weeks.
Homes in Spital Street, Sherbrooke Street, Chelmsford Street, Richmond Road and Avenue Terrace in Lincoln have been burgled recently.
These burglaries were committed at various times of the day and night and entry to the properties has been gained mainly through the rear of the properties, via unlocked doors and windows.
On a few occasions a brick or garden tool have been used to smash a window to gain entry.
A variety of items were stolen, including handbags, laptops, jewellery, video games consoles, smartphones, music players and tablets.
In the Richmond Road burglary, car keys were also taken and used to unlock the vehicle, but the car wasn’t stolen.
PCSO Mel Waldren from Carholme Neighbourhood Policing Team has advised residents to remove all items from their rear gardens that could be used by offenders to gain entry to a property.
She said: “Lock all doors and windows, removing the keys from the inside after doing so. Lock garden gates and shared passage doors. Don’t leave items of value on display in easy view of your windows.
“If you are living in shared accommodation please lock the door when leaving, even if there is another tenant in the property. Speak to your neighbours and make them aware to keep a watchful eye on properties around them.”
Officers urged people to report any suspicious individuals or activity that seem to be loitering in the area, or seen around the rear of properties.
Anyone with information about these or any other burglaries is asked to contact Lincolnshire Police on 101. Alternatively, contact the charity Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111.
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A man reportedly reached under a 14-year-old girl’s skirt and took a photograph at a shopping centre in Grantham, police said.
The girl was looking at clothes at a charity shop in the Isaac Newton Shopping Centre when the crime took place on Monday, October 25 at 9.40am.
She was then approached from behind by a man who placed his phone underneath her skirt to take a picture.
After being challenged, the man turned and ran away from the shop.
Police are now appealing to locate the man in the CCTV picture below, who has been described as having short blonde hair with a short blonde beard, having pale skin and being of thin build.
The man ran away from the shop when challenged. | Photo: Lincolnshire Police
He is thought to be in his mid-30s and was said to be wearing a dark hoody with a red emblem, as well as dark blue jeans.
If you can help identify the man in the picture, who police believe can help with enquiries, get in touch in one of the following ways:
Call 101 and quote incident 83 of October 25
Email [email protected] and quote the same incident number in the subject line
A Lincolnshire RAF veteran who switched careers to work as a carer is campaigning against ableism and ageism in the UK job market.
Les Venus is calling for people who feel discriminated against due to their disability or age to seriously consider a job in the care sector to avoid systematic prejudices embedded within the UK job market.
The 63-year-old is now working at Home From Home Care’s Lincolnshire-based residential care homes as a personal support worker . He was on the brink of retiring in 2016 before seeing an online advert for Home From Home Care which changed his life.
He empowers adults with learning difficulties, autism and complex physical and mental health needs, and is encouraging others to join him in the care sector to do the same.
He said: “If you’re feeling underpaid, undervalued, or undermined – come to the care sector and there is a place for you. I’d never done care work in my life before this and if I’d have known about this 40 years ago, I’d have made this my career. It’s an amazing thing to do.”
Les is campaigning against ableism and ageism in the UK job market.
Les was previously an officer in the Royal Air Force for 17 years. He then movied to the business world to become a director for the property firm Henry Boot Management, and then engineering company Babcock International.
As a consultant, Les later helped the government draft its 2010 Equality Act, legislation which makes it illegal to discriminate against prospective employees on the basis of age, disability, gender or sex, race, religion, sexual orientation or partnership status.
However, Les still feels that not enough is being done to safeguard against off-the-record bigotry during the hiring process.
He said: “I think the Equality Act is a very good piece of paper, but that’s pretty much all it is. I think people pay lip service to it, not only in terms of ageism but also disability and sexism, racism and everything else.
“I think people can have the interview and make their own judgements and they’ll write down what those judgements are, but it is in many cases underpinned by an unspoken personal prejudice – and that’s not recorded, of course.
“You’ll often hear that the individual didn’t meet the mark or didn’t have the experience or didn’t have this or that… when the fact that they were 63 years old and seen as ‘past their sell-by date’ was the real reason for the rejection.”
Close to 1,000 homes in Ruskington suffered a power cut on Wednesday morning.
Properties on Station Road, Winchelsea Road, Lime Close, Bellview Road, Hawthorn Close, Rectory Road and more were hit with the cut at around 9.40am on Wednesday.
A total of 979 houses were affected by the outage within the NG34 postcode area.
Engineers were on their way to address the issue at 9.50am. | Photo: Western Power Distribution
Western Power Distribution has said it is aware of the issue and hope to have the power restored by 11am on Wednesday morning, with engineers on their way to deal with it.
A spokesperson for WPD said: “We are aware of this power cut incident which was raised at 9:42am this morning and our engineers are working to get the power returned as quickly as possible. We are sorry for any inconvenience this is causing you.”
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