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Saturday, May 8, is the final day of counting votes in the local elections, with results expected today for the Lincolnshire Police and Crime Commissioner.

People took to the polls on Thursday, May 6, to decide who would be their new ward councillors, as well as the Police and Crime Commissioner. Due to safety measures surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, votes for the PCC are counted Saturday.

Marc Jones was the second-elected PCC of Lincolnshire in May 2016 and this time his role is being challenged by Labour City of Lincoln councillor Rosanne Kirk and Chair of the Lincolnshire Police Independent Advisory Group (IAG), David Williams from the Lincolnshire Independents party, Ross Pepper from the Liberal Democrats and Peter Escreet from the Reform Party.

Local Democracy Reporters Daniel Jaines and James Mayer are at the Lincoln counting centre today to bring you the result as it is announced.

See The Lincolnite’s election guide here for our previous stories and information, candidates and party promises; including interviews and live PCC hustings.

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There have been 248 coronavirus cases in Greater Lincolnshire and three COVID-related deaths so far this week – a 7% drop in cases but two more deaths than the previous week.

The government’s COVID-19 dashboard on Friday recorded 35 new cases in Lincolnshire, four in North Lincolnshire and four in North East Lincolnshire.

One death was registered in North Lincolnshire. These figures include deaths both in and out of hospitals, as well as residents in hospitals outside the county.

NHS England reported two hospital deaths this week so far. Friday’s death was at Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, the first death there in over a month. This time last week, no hospital deaths were recorded across Greater Lincolnshire hospitals.

On Friday, national cases increased by 2,490 to 4,431,043, while deaths rose by 15 to 127,598.

In local news, all people under the age of 40 will be offered an alternative COVID-19 vaccination to the Oxford/AstraZeneca jab after fears that young people could get rare blood clots.

The move is a precautionary one after evidence of young people suffering from blood clots once they were given the AstraZeneca jab increased.

A Year 9 student at Cleethorpes Academy has tested positive for coronavirus, resulting in 28 pupils now self-isolating as a precaution.

Principal Mrs Janice Hornby sent a letter to parents/carers on Thursday, May 6 and said the school is continuing to monitor the situation and is working closely with Public Health England.

In national news, England’s R number has fallen slightly to between 0.8 and 1, latest figures show.

This means that on average, every 10 people infected with COVID-19 will pass it on to between eight and 10 other people.

The Prime Minister has said the government needs to carefully handle outbreaks of the India variant of coronavirus in the UK.

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Coronavirus data for Greater Lincolnshire on Friday, May 7

59,937 cases (up 43)

• 41,627 in Lincolnshire (up 35)
• 9,614 in North Lincolnshire (up four)
• 8,696 in North East Lincolnshire (up four)

2,192 deaths (up one)

• 1,617 from Lincolnshire (no change)
• 307 from North Lincolnshire (up one)
• 268 from North East Lincolnshire (no change)

of which 1,305 hospital deaths (up one)

• 812 at United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust (no change)
• 41 at Lincolnshire Community Health Service hospitals (no change)
• 1 at Lincolnshire Partnership Foundation Trust (no change)
• 451 in Northern Lincolnshire (NLAG) (no change)

4,431,043 UK cases, 127,598 deaths

DATA SOURCE — FIGURES CORRECT AT THE TIME OF the latest update. postcode data includes deaths not in healthcare facilities or in hospitals outside authority boundaries.

Labour have retained control of City of Lincoln Council after a third of the wards were up for election.

Labour lost two of their seats, one to the Conservatives and one to the Liberal Democrats.

This means out of the 11 wards that were up for election, Labour have five, Conservatives have five and the Liberal Democrats have one.

Originally, Labour had seven seats and the Conservatives had four.

In a twisted turn of events, Liberal Democrats councillor Clare Smalley took the Abbey ward seat off Labour by a majority of 425.

Similarly, Conservative councillor Matthew Fido gained the Moorland seat from Labour’s Geoff Ellis, by a majority of 95 votes.

City of Lincoln Council leader Ric Metcalfe retained his seat in the Glebe ward by a 28-seat majority.

Labour retain overall control of the council with 22 councillors, 10 Conservatives and one Lib Dem.

Here’s what he has to say about his seat win and his future plans for Labour over the next few years:

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FULL RESULTS FOR THE CITY OF LINCOLN ELECTIONS

Minster

• Dale, Richard (Liberal Democrat) – 118
• Storer, Mark (Conservative) – 955
• Wells, Joshua (Labour) – 769
• Wilkinson, Valerie (Green) – 84

Moorland

• Atkinson, Ben (Liberal Democrat) – 53
• Ellis, Geoff (Labour) – 701
• Fido, Matthew (Conservative) – 796
• Padley, Christopher (Green) – 112

Abbey

• Hansard, Roger (Conservative) – 305
• Moore, Val (Labour) – 549
• Penman, Donald (Reform UK) – 36
• Smalley, Clare (Liberal Democrat) – 974
• Yates, Kenneth (Green) – 99

Park

• Burke, Chris (Labour and Co-operative) – 719
• Chapman, Natasha (Liberal Democrat) – 98
• Horscroft, Sally (Green) – 152
• Parker, Nick (Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition) – 36
• Sperrin, Liam (Conservative) – 392

Glebe

• Beardmore, Jacob (Conservative) – 677
• McKenna, Fiona (Green) – 207
• Metcalfe, Ric (Labour) – 705

Carholme

• Choi, Jack (Conservative) – 436
• Craven, Oliver (Liberal Democrat) – 90
• Preston, Lucinda (Labour and Co-operative) – 1,171
• Readings, Aston (Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition) – 33
• Shaw, Charles (Liberal Party) – 29
• Watson, Nicola (Green) – 203

Witham

• Guthrie, Deborah (Reform UK) – 33
• Hutchins, Joshua (Labour) – 573
• Mara, Bill (Conservative) – 1,133
• Parr, Amanda (Green) – 127
• Uldall, Sarah (Liberal Democrat) – 81

Hartsholme

• Charters, James (Liberal Democrat) – 90
• Clarkson, David (Conservative) – 1,229
• Ellis, Adelle (Labour) – 626
• Parr, Matt (Green) – 194

Birchwood

• Chapman, Stephen (Liberal Democrat) – 51
• Gowen, Paul (Labour and Co-operative Party) – 562
• Radford, John (Green) – 76
• Strengiel, Eddie (Conservative) – 958

Boultham

• Carvalho, Daniel (Conservative) – 615
• Parker, Charles (Liberal Democrat) – 76
• Tooke, Simon (Green Party) – 121
• Watt, Calum (Labour and Co-operative) – 704

Castle

• Haigh, Norman (Green) – 155
• Nannestad, Donald (Labour) – 842
• Storer, Rachel (Conservative) – 618
• Turner, Aidan (Liberal Democrat) – 78