Work to complete a new high-end care home in Burton Waters near Lincoln reached a milestone on December 9, with the launch of its information suite.
Locally-namedTennyson Wharf care home, which will be operated by Barchester Healthcare, is in its final phases.
Staff, council representatives, local and potential residents celebrated the launch of the home’s new information suite, which is now in operation seven days a week.
Councillor Malcom Parish, Chairman of West Lindsey District Council, cut the official launch ribbon on December 9, and people were treated to a special tour of the facility’s example bedrooms.
The care home will offer 60 beds on three floors. There will be 24 beds on the ground floor, 24 on the first floor and 12 on the second floor, where the suites are a premium size.
Rooms range from standard to luxury suites and many overlook the Burton Waters Marina.
Recruitment is ongoing for the project, which will have created over 100 roles by opening day.
Despite being slightly behind schedule, the home is expected to welcome residents from February 16.
General Manager Debora Owen has worked for Barchester Healthcare for almost two years, and is a registered mental health nurse with 25 years experience in nursing and management.
She said: “I’m really excited about Tennyson Wharf. The Information suite will now be open seven days a week for people to come and have a look round, have some refreshments and chat to the staff about the facilities that will be available.
“The home will be open to residents from February, but we will have an official opening around April time.
“We’ve already had 70 enquiries and I have met more people at our event today that are looking to book too. We haven’t secured any places at the home yet.
“Barchester are an excellent company. They really talk about quality of care and it’s definitely a home from home.
“If you ask me the next thing we need is a boat so the residents can tour the marina. I’ve offered to fundraise for that and I’d definitely like to take that forward.
“We will be charging lifestyle prices and tailor care to specific need of our residents.”
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A 38-year-old man from a North Lincolnshire village charged with murder will face an eight-day trial later this year.
Emergency services were called at 4.23am on Saturday, July 2 to reports that a man was seriously injured on South Parade in central Doncaster.
The 28-year-old victim was taken to hospital but was sadly pronounced dead a short time later.
A post-mortem examination found that he died of injuries to his head, chest and abdomen.
Formal identification of the victim is yet to take place, South Yorkshire Police said earlier this week.
Steven Ling, 38, of Park Drain, Westwoodside in North Lincolnshire, has been charged with murder and was remanded in custody to appear at Doncaster Magistrates Court on Monday, July 4.
Ling later appeared at Sheffield Crown Court on Tuesday, July 5 for a plea and trial preparation hearing.
No pleas were entered during the hearing, but an eight-day trial was set for November 28, 2022. Ling has now been remanded into custody until the next hearing.
The Lincolnite went on a ride-along with a Lincolnshire Police officer from the force’s Roads Policing Unit (RPU), which aims to disrupt criminals’ use of the roads and reduce the number of serious and fatal accidents.
The team will support the county response including local policing, neighbourhood policing and criminal investigation too.
Operations first began in Grantham in January this year and started in Louth earlier this week with a sergeant and nine PCs based in both locations.
The Lincolnite went out on a ride-along with PC Rich Precious from Lincolnshire Police’s Roads Policing Unit. | Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
PC Rich Precious has been a police officer for 22 years after joining the force in 2000 and he recently rejoined the Roads Policing Unit, working out of Louth.
PC Precious, who also previously worked as a family liaison officer for road deaths for 16 years, took The Lincolnite out in his police car to the A1 up to Colsteworth and then back to Grantham. He described that particular area as “one of the main arterial routes that goes through Lincolnshire”.
PC Rich Precious driving down the A1 up to Colsterworth. | Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
Speaking about the new Roads Policing Unit, he said: “It’s intelligence led policing, it’s targeted policing in areas that have been underrepresented in terms of police presence, on the roads certainly, over a number of years.
“We’re hoping that the development of this unit will help address that balance, and look towards using the ANPR system to prevent criminals’ use of the road, and to identify key areas or routes where there’s a high percentage of people killed or seriously injured on the road, what we commonly refer to as KSI.
PC Precious is helping to keep the roads safer in Lincolnshire. | Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
When asked if he thinks the new team will help reduce the number of serious and fatal accidents in the county, he added: “That’s what the the unit designed for. Sadly, in Lincolnshire our road network does seem to incur a number of those KSI accidents year on year, and we need to reduce that.
“I’ve worked additionally in my roles as a family liaison officer on road death for 16 years, so I’ve seen first hand the impact that road death has on families and victims families.
“I know it’s important that we try and reduce those because, it’s very sad to see how a fatal road traffic collision can affect a family and the victims of that family.”
Marc Gee, Inspector for Lincolnshire Police’s Roads Policing Unit. | Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
Marc Gee, Inspector for the Roads Policing Unit, told The Lincolnite: “Every day there will be officers on duty from both teams and they’ll cover the whole county or the county’s roads.
“Eventually, we’ll have nine police cars and we’ve got six motorbikes. We’ll be utilising them with as many officers as we can every day basically to make our roads safer and enforce against the criminals who feel like it’s okay to come into the county and use our road for criminal purposes.”
Lincolnshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner Marc Jones at the launch of the force’s Roads Policing Unit. | Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
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