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Get ready to shop for unique presents and handmade crafts whilst eating delicious treats when the Lincolnshire Food & Gift Fair returns to the Showground next month.

It will be be open to the public on Saturday and Sunday, November 27 and 28.  The opening hours are 9am-5pm on the Saturday and 9am-4pm on the Sunday, while car parking is free.

The 20th Lincolnshire Food & Gift Fair will feature more than 150 exhibitors, children’s activities in Santa’s Workshop, and The Lincolnshire Kitchen with top chefs and producers sharing their top tips.

There will also be live performances from a number of talented local choirs, while there will also be various delicious hot food stands.

Advance tickets are on sale now priced at £5 per person (plus booking fee) and children under give can enter for free – buy tickets here.

Stamford will soon have its first Aldi store, as the budget supermarket prepares to open in the town this November.

It will open on Uffington Road on Thursday, November 11, bringing 36 jobs to the local area and becoming the first Aldi store in Stamford.

Aldi will be open from 8am to 10pm Monday to Saturday and 10am to 4pm on Sundays.

As well as this, the new store is calling on charities and food banks in Stamford to register with Neighbourly, a community engagement platform that links businesses to charitable organisations in local areas.

The new Stamford Aldi branch will bring 36 jobs to the local area. | Photo: Aldi UK

Charities can register and collect surplus foods such as fruit, vegetables and baked goods up to seven days a week. Any charities interested should email [email protected].

There will be a grand opening event for the store at 8am on November 11, with Team GB Olympic bronze medalist Sarah Jones cutting the ribbon.

Aldi Store Manager Robert Place said: “We can’t wait to open the doors to the new store in Stamford. It’s set to be a special day and having Olympic hero Sarah Jones join us will make it a morning to remember.”

Hockey star Sarah Jones added: “I’m so excited to be opening Aldi’s new store, it will be great to chat to customers and a lovely way for me to thank Aldi for its support of Team GB.”

A 1,400-strong petition against a controversial oil drill in Biscathorpe will be presented to Lincolnshire County Council at the planning meeting next week.

Community residents will attend the planning decision meeting at Brackenborough Hotel in Louth on November 1 to demonstrate their opposition to oil drilling in Biscathorpe. They are demanding that the council rejects 15 years of new carbon emitting oil.

In addition to the petition, over 200 locals submitted their objections via the county council’s planning portal. Objectors said the development flies in the face of climate concerns, however, the county council has said the climate is not a planning concern.

Five of the parish councils closest to the site – Donnington-On-Bain, Hemingby, South Elkington, Welton-Le-Wold and South Willingham – are also against the plans, along with MP for Louth and Horncastle Victoria Atkins, Natural England, Historic England, and multiple others.

This comes in the same week that the UK government prepares to host the world’s largest conference on any issue – the UN Climtate Change Conference – between October 31 and November 12.

Amanda Suddaby, a Lincolnshire resident who attended the recent Lincolnshire Climate Summit said: “At the Climate Summit, we heard from councillors that they want to ‘lead by example’.

“Next week’s oil planning decision on November 1gives them a chance to do just that. Lincolnshire can either approve 15 years of new oil drilling in our precious AONB (Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty), or be a climate leader – they can’t do both.”

Residents involved in a four-year campaign to protest the Lincolnshire Wolds Area of Outstanding Natural of Outstanding Natural Beauty from 15 years of new oil drilling made a video to get their point across.

Martin Scutt, who will be attending the planning decision in person, said: “As the international climate talks begin in Glasgow, we encourage those who can to join us on November 1 at The Brackenborough Hotel in Louth at 2pm, to demand our council take the real action we need to tackle climate change.

“In the last few weeks we have seen county councils in Yorkshire and the Isle of Wight reject fossil fuel development and now LCC need to show their residents that Lincolnshire are also taking responsible action on climate.”

In the Officers’ Report from Lincolnshire Council Council it states: “The impacts of the proposal on landscape character and visual impact are considered by officers to be minor in nature given the duration of the proposal and that it is entirely reversible.”

Officers also said that they couldn’t consider arguments about climate change, adding: “In determining this application, it is necessary to consider only whether the development would be an acceptable land use, in planning terms, at the proposed location.”