Eight people from Lincolnshire were on the New Years Honours List 2018, including Michael Credland, Yvonne Jardine and Patricia Hiley (pictured)
Eight people from Lincolnshire have been recognised in the New Year’s Honours List 2018 for their outstanding work in the community.
Those honoured by the Queen in the list have been awarded either in the form of British Empire medals (BEMs) or as a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBEs).
BEMs are given for a ‘hands-on’ service, such as long-term charitable or voluntary activity.
MBEs are awarded for an outstanding achievement or service to the community.
British Empire Medals
Michael Credland, 70, Martin
For services to First World War Heritage and Remembrance
Michael Credland (R) was honoured for his services to First World War Heritage and Remembrance. Pictured at the tank museum in Flesquieres, France
For at least 25 years, Michael has worked to restore derelict memorials to armed forces personnel from Lincolnshire who died in the First World War and (using his design skills as an architect) erect new ones where appropriate whilst also leading the necessary fundraising efforts.
His first major task was to rediscover a memorial to the Lincolnshire Yeomanry, which had been erected at Lincoln County Hospital, but subsequently removed and lost.
He eventually found it in a hospital outbuilding, thereby beginning a successful ten year battle that ended in 2012 with the memorial’s re-erection and re-dedication.
He was also one of three people responsible for the erection of a memorial to the 46th (North Midland) Division which suffered heavy losses near the French village of Auchy les Mines in 1915.
He instigated the plan for the memorial in 2004, raised the necessary funds and used his powers of persuasion to obtain the land for the memorial (at no charge) from a local farmer.
The memorial was dedicated in 2006. In 2013 he refurbished a war memorial at Thorpe le Fallow, designed and oversaw construction of a memorial to the Lincolnshire Regiment at its former home barracks.
Michael told Lincolnshire Reporter: “I was truly amazed to have been selected. I wasn’t expecting it, it was really out of the blue.
“My background is in architecture and I have worked on some fascinating projects across Europe and Lincolnshire, including the designs for the tank memorial on the Tritton Road roundabout in Lincoln.
“The Great War has always been of interest to me and I have done talks about the subject for a number of years. I wrote a book in 2014 and am also playing a part in the Bastions of the Air project for the 100th anniversary of the RAF.”
Yvonne Jardine, 66, Folkingham, Sleaford
For services to the community in Sleaford, Lincolnshire
Yvonne Jardin had been awarded with a BEM
She has voluntarily served her community for over 22 years assisting in creating cohesion and relieving loneliness. When she moved into the village of Folkingham, Lincolnshire in 1995, she discovered there was an ageing population.
She quickly got involved as the Chair of the Village committee. Under her guidance regular concerts, quizzes and dances are held to raise funds for various village organisations.
Since 1998 until 2015 she was the church warden, offering a considerable amount of assistance to the vicar, regularly leading services during a period of interregnum.
In 1999, as a trustee she contributed to founding the Millennium Green Project. The project’s mission was to turn a piece of land donated to the village into a small enclosed park.
She co-founded the POP-IN Club in 2000. The club meets to provide refreshments and entertainment to the residents of the village. The profits are used to subsidise a lunch at local inns as well as donating to local and international charities.
Recently, she opened a library which many of the senior citizens find useful. She distributes the funds between the church, maintenance and insurance for the village hall, and the millennium green.
Yvonne said: “The letter was a real shock. It’s just been a way of life for me for about 20 years, but this makes me feel very humbled.
“When I came to Folkingham it struck me that there were a lot of elderly people and many would have felt lonely. The events we have organised have brought people together and I have had a lot of help from lots of friends.
“Folkingham is a vibrant village with a great community atmosphere. At Christmas we cooked dinner for 80 people. It was wonderful.
“For me the BEM is extra special as the honour was also awarded to my father for his services to the military.”
Nancie Shackleton, 46, Welton
Nancy Shackleton has been awarded a BEM
Lately Assistant Chief Officer (Resources), Lincolnshire Police. For services to Policing and to charity
In December 2013 she volunteered to scope the alignment of five forces into one single integrated IT platform for the recording of crime, intelligence, case preparation and custody data.
Funding was secured through the Home Office Innovation Fund for two years in order to complete the project which has now successfully been delivered across five East Midlands forces.
Benefits include officers being able to access the information they require without switching between applications, increasing the inter-operability of forces and regional counterparts.
She is the driving force behind the Lincolnshire Police Women in Policing conference. The conference chooses an annual charity which is supported by the event and other activities throughout the year. Since the conference started in 2011 she has raised £22,055.
In 2014 she was instrumental in taking on the cause, For the Love of Harvey. This inspired other events and eventually raised £13,528.21 in that year. In 2015 she raised £1865 for the Ryan Smith Foundation. In 2016 £2265 was raised for Help4Hugo.
Also named on the list of BEMs was:
Brenda Johnston, Grimsby, Lincolnshire
For services to swimming and the community in Grimsby.
Joan Simpson, Coningsby, Lincolnshire
For services to the community in Coningsby
Member of the Order of the British Empire
Patricia Hiley, 63, Ancaster, Grantham
For services to Adoption
Patricia Hiley was given an MBE for her commitment to adoption services.
She has worked for Lincolnshire County Council for 32 years in a range of fostering and adoption roles, filling the role of Practice Supervisor on the adoption team over the last 11 years.
Under her management, Lincolnshire adoption services have been ranked Outstanding in 3 Ofsted inspections, and the service won the National Adoption Week award for Excellence in Adoption practice.
In the last 3 years she has embraced new practices, sought to deliver better timescales in keeping with drive from the government, and supported her team to work creatively on improving processes for adopters.
In her current role, she is responsible for supervising social workers, who assess and support adopters. She has set up a group for grandparents, which has been well received, and has assisted grandparents in understanding the support needs of their children as adoptive parents.
She has been the lead in setting up a ‘foster to adopt’ programme in Lincolnshire which has enabled 16 babies over a 2 year period to be placed in the family who will be adopting them. She has also been actively involved in the recruitment of adopters.
Patricia said: “I am thrilled and feel humbled to have received this honour. Before retirement this year, I was privileged to be a member of the Lincolnshire adoption team whose members have never seen their work as ‘just a job’.
“I would also like to say how much I have appreciated meeting some wonderful adopters who year after year care for children who have often been traumatised and who via adoption have been granted an opportunity to receive unconditional love and to live in safety.”
Also named on the list of MBEs was:
Mark Jefferson, Lincolnshire
Lately Higher Officer, National Deep Rummage Team Immingham, Border Force North Region, Home Office. For public service.
Ronald George Knight, Stamford, Lincolnshire
Founder, Knight Farm Machinery Limited. For services to Agricultural Engineer Entrepreneurship and Charitable Fundraising.
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There have been 643 new coronavirus cases and 31 COVID-related deaths in Greater Lincolnshire so far this week – compared to 1,005 cases and 26 deaths by this time last week.
The government’s COVID-dashboard on Friday recorded 79 new cases in Lincolnshire, 28 in North East Lincolnshire and 23 in North Lincolnshire.
The latest data takes the total number of cases in Greater Lincolnshire to over 54,000.
On Friday, seven deaths were registered in Lincolnshire. These include deaths both in and out of hospitals, as well as residents in hospitals outside the county.
NHS England reported six new local hospital deaths – five at United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust and one at Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals Trust. This brings the total of hospital deaths so far this week to 24, a rise from 11 last week.
National cases increased by 5,947 to 4,207,304, while deaths rose by 236 to 124,261.
Nationally, Office for National Statistics data shows that the number of coronavirus infections in the UK continued to fall.
In the seven days up to February 27, around 280,000 people were confirmed positive, a drop of about a third on the most recent date.
The latest R number – the number of people that one infected person will pass the virus on to – is between 0.7 and 0.9.
From Monday, care home residents will be allowed to have a regular indoor visitor as long as they take a coronavirus lateral flow test before entry and wear personal protective equipment (PPE).
Hugging and kissing their relatives will be forbidden, although hand holding will be permitted.
Elsewhere, meeting up with one other person outdoors – for example sitting together in a park with coffee, drink, or picnic, will also be permitted.
Further relaxation is hoped to happen from March 29, when the rule of six will again be allowed, along with outdoor sports facilities reopening and the stay at home rule ending.
In a press conference on Friday evening health secretary Matt Hancock welcomed the news that a mystery person in the UK infected with the COVID variant of concern first found in Brazil had now been traced.
He said the ‘unbreakable link’ between cases, hospitalisation and deaths was ‘being broken’ due to the vaccine rollout – but added testing still remains ‘critical’.
Coronavirus data for Greater Lincolnshire on Friday, March 5
54,126 cases (up 130)
38,170 in Lincolnshire (up 79)
8,149 in North Lincolnshire (up 23)
7,807 in North East Lincolnshire (up 28)
2,105 deaths (up 7)
1,549 from Lincolnshire (up 7)
300 from North Lincolnshire (no change)
256 from North East Lincolnshire (no change)
of which 1,244 hospital deaths (up six)
772 at United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust (up five)
41 at Lincolnshire Community Health Service hospitals (no change)
1 at Lincolnshire Partnership Foundation Trust (no change)
A Boston man who amassed a collection of thousand of illegal images after becoming addicted to downloading child abuse images was jailed at Lincoln Crown Court on Friday.
Howard Angel was arrested after police raided his home and took away a laptop computer.
Tony Stanford, prosecuting, said that the following day Angel went to Grantham Police Station and confessed.
“He said he had been stupid. He was interviewed. He was relatively frank. He said he wanted help.
“He said ‘I shouldn’t have done it but I did’. He said he became addicted and hooked on it.”
Mr Stanford said that later Angel’s then wife handed police a second laptop which she found in the attic.
When police examined the two laptops they found that Angel had been accessing child abuse images for nine years.
A total of 16,944 illegal images of children were on the devices including 2,641 in the most serious category.
Angel, 59, of Wyberton West Road, Boston, admitted three charges of making indecent images of children between March 2010 and May 2019.
He was jailed for 10 months and given a 15 year sexual harm prevention order. He was also placed on the sex offenders’ register for 10 years.
Recorder Charles Falk, passing sentence, told him: “What tips the balance here is the length of time you have been offending which is nine years.
“That and the fact that this is a very large collection makes this a case that is so serious that only immediate custody can be justified.”
Michael Cranmer-Brown, in mitigation, said that Angel had lost everything as a result of what he did.
“When this came to light his world was turned upside down. He had been in a marriage for over 20 years. He has children. He has effectively been rejected by them all.
“He has been kicked out of his family home and he is now divorced from his wife. In addition he has suffered the loss of his job. Having disclosed to his employer about his conviction he has been sacked.”
Mr Cranmer-Brown said that since his arrest Angel has sought help and urged that he should not receive an immediate prison sentence.
Two slaughtered sheep have been found at a farm in Louth with police investigating a potential illegal butchery.
The animals’ heads and feet were found at Highfield Farm, Cadwell, Louth at around 7.30am on Thursday, March 4.
The carcasses of the sheep were taken, with the head and feet left behind, and police are trying to find those responsible.
It is believed to have happened at some point overnight on Wednesday night into the early hours of Thursday morning.
Sgt James Perring, one of Lincolnshire Police’s Rural, Wildlife and Heritage Crime Officers, said: “This type of crime causes a major impact on the victim, but can also have an impact on the wider community.
“We will not tolerate this sort of criminal behaviour and we are determined to root out those responsible.
“Illegal butchery is a serious offence. Not only are there risks in consuming meat when it isn’t from a reputable source, but illegal butchery can also cause unnecessary suffering to the animal.”
Officers are appealing for information from anyone who may have witnessed anything suspicious, or anyone who may have been offered meat for sale in the area.
If you can assist, call 101 or email [email protected] and quote incident 47 of March 4.
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