Jenna Bierton marked her debut with a first-half hat-trick as Lincoln Ladies ran in seven tries in a 47-5 win against Sleaford Ladies.
Lincoln controlled large spells of the match but Sleaford, who gave debuts to Emily Pickering and Chloe Weston, never gave up and battled hard throughout in windy conditions.
Lincoln opened the scoring when a quick move through the hands of Jade Morgan, Hannah Rodgers and Bob Chapman set up Bierton to go over for a try. Chapman added the extras.
Lincoln’s Rose Buchanan running through the Sleaford defence. Photo: Ed Navrady
Liv Smith running clear to score a try for Lincoln Ladies against Sleaford. Photo: Ed Navrady
Rose Buchanan made a break through the defence before another move through the hands put Liv Smith over for a try in the corner.
Buchanan was soon involved again as her offload set up Morgan to run in for a try, which Chapman converted excellently despite the wind.
Jenna Bierton crossing for one of her three tries for Lincoln Ladies despite the best efforts of Sleaford’s Emily Decelles. Photo: Ed Navrady
Bierton broke through the defence and ran 30 metres to score her second try of the afternoon, which Chapman converted.
At the other end, Sarah Taylor, Hannah Thorogood and Jo Parkes were among the players to make good yards for Sleaford in the first half.
Sleaford flanker Jo Parkes on a storming run at the Lincoln defence. Photo: Sparx Photography
Sleaford Ladies fly-half Sherrie Christian in action against Lincoln. Photo: Sparx Photography
Bierton completed her hat-trick when she fended off a Sleaford player and outpaced several more to run in for a try, which Chapman converted.
Lincoln increased their lead in the second half when quick hands from Bierton and Brooker-Brown set up Chapman to sprint clear for a try. Brooker-Brown added the extras.
Sleaford Ladies try scorer Molly Ambler stopping Lincoln’s Rose Buchanan with a crunching tackle. Photo: Sparx Photography
Sleaford reduced the deficit when Molly Ambler powered over for a try before Rebecca Jones, Taylor, Parkes and Pickering, all made good attacking yards for the visitors.
A break by Harriet Fluck set up Brooker-Brown, who sprinted through the Sleaford defence from deep inside her own half for the final try of the match, which she also converted.
Lincoln’s 1st XV and coach Eamonn Hogan after their 26-10 victory at Ashfield. Photo: Helen Quinn
Forward duo Ollie Halligan and Jim Calveley scored their first tries of the season as Lincoln’s 1st XV secured back-to-back wins with a 26-10 victory at bottom club Ashfield.
Prop David Beveridge and winger Matt Walker also scored tries, with Richie Dixon successfully kicking three conversions to move Lincoln to within two points of safety.
The victorious Lincoln 3rd XV. Photo: Brian Penney
George Chirila crossing for a try for Lincoln’s 3rd XV against Mansfield. Photo: Brian Penney
Tries from George Chirila, Chris Smith, Connah Suttle-Jones, Tom Leaver and Jack Miles guided Lincoln’s 3rd XV to a 29-15 home win against Mansfield.
Leon Hobson-Sheriff added two conversions and Darren Rorie was named as Lincoln’s man-of-the-match.
Lincoln’s Jack Miles diving to score a try against Mansfield. Photo: Brian Penney
Lincoln’s 3rd XV captain Adam Kelleher in action against Mansfield. Photo: Brian Penney
Meanwhile, Lincoln will welcome former England player Dylan Hartley to the club to unveil the new pitchboard sign for Gelders at 4pm on Tuesday, February 25. There will also be a short questions and answers session, as well as a meet and greet.
Other Results
In National League Two (North), Scunthorpe were on the wrong end of a 109-12 defeat at Chester.
Jack Scorer grabbed two tries for Scunthorpe and Will Robinson kicked one conversion.
Scunthorpe’s 2nd XV had a more positive week after advancing through to the semi-final of the Lincolnshire County Cup with a 53-14 victory against Grimsby.
Mick Dunk crossing for one of his four tries during Scunthorpe 2nd XV’s cup victory against Grimsby. Photo: Bill & Maria Rhoades
Mick Dunk scored four tries for the Stags, who will face Market Rasen & Louth in the last four.
Billy Hardy, Tim Dunk, Jack Lifsey, Harry Turner and Si Fisher also scored tries, with Jake Goodson adding four conversions.
Grimsby were awarded a penalty try and the visitors’ other points came via a try for Dane Briggs, which was converted by Brad Treacher.
Scunthorpe Ladies lost 83-0 away at unbeaten league leaders Driffield, but it was a good opportunity for them to develop against a brilliant squad.
In Midlands Two East (North), Jake Pryer scored the visitors’ only try as Market Rasen & Louth lost 15-5 at Matlock.
Spalding were the big winners in Midlands Three East (South) after Harry Sharman’s hat-trick helped them to a 72-5 home win against St Neots.
Captain Dan Adams, Callum Lewis and Will Shields grabbed two tries apiece, with Jack Patrick, John Barrett and Ryan Chappel each scoring one. Conall Mason kicked six conversions.
Martin Bagnall in action for Stamford against Rushden & Higham. Photo: Darren Dolby
Rees Burns grabbed a hat-trick as second-placed Stamford beat Rushen & Higham 53-5.
Martin Bagnall and Iain Downer both crossed for two tries and Bruce Parker and Ollie Winspear each scored one. Burns kicked three conversions and Downer added one.
Iain Downer scored two tries during Stamford’s 53-5 victory against Rushden & Higham. Photo: Darren Dolby
Bourne’s 1st XV were awarded a home walkover against Bedford Queens. The second team beat Deeping Vets 69-10 thanks to six tries from Matt Kidd.
Dan Turner scoring one of his three tries against Bakewell. Photo: Graeme Reynolds Photography
A hat-trick from Dan Turner helped Kesteven to a 43-27 home win against Bakewell Mannerians in Midlands Three East (North).
James Goodrich, Ollie Lowe, Rob Sheardown and Harry Norsworthy also scored tries for the hosts, with Martyn Parker kicking four conversions. However, Kesteven Ladies saw their match against York RI postponed.
Kesteven’s Harry Norsworthy running clear to score and being closely supported by Jake Eagle. Photo: Graeme Reynolds Photography
James Goodrich scoring a try for Kesteven against Bakewell. Photo: Graeme Reynolds Photography
Grimsby men’s 1st XV’s trip to Belper was postponed.
Rebecca Tacey leaping to win a lineout for Grimsby Lynx Ladies against Belper. Photo: Paige Donnelly
Emma Mason grabbed two tries as Grimsby Lynx Ladies claimed a 52-0 home win against Belper.
Sophie Plater, Jessica Whittaker, Kathryn Turner, Laura Galley, Toni Blackburn and Alice Ayres also scored tries for the hosts. Blackburn added six conversions.
Gainsborough’s Martin Rice leaping to win a lineout against Chesterfield Panthers. Photo: Tom Ellis
Ben Watson scored two tries as Gainsborough beat Chesterfield Panthers 29-3 in Midlands Four East (North).
Brad Beresford and Daniel Chadwick each grabbed one try, with Robbie Goodyear kicking three conversions and one penalty.
Skegness suffered an agonising 22-21 defeat at Worksop, with the Lincolnshire side’s tries coming from Callum Haigh, Keyun Benson and Denholm Buxton.
Jamie Cameron converted all three tries and Glenroy Stewart was named as Skegness’ man-of-the-match.
Cleethorpes’ trip to Tupton was postponed.
In Midlands Four East (South), a hat-trick of tries from captain Haydn Johns pushed Stamford College Old Boys up to third after a 28-12 win at Thorney.
Callum Fraser scored the visitors’ other try and Johns kicked four conversions.
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There were 5,405 cases of coronavirus last week in Greater Lincolnshire, as health secretary Sajid Javid insists Christmas will be “normal” after £5.9billion have been earmarked for NHS improvements.
The figure is just down on the 5,589 (about -3.29%) cases on the previous week – despite a record breaking day last Wednesday with 965 cases. There were 1,354 new cases over the weekend.
The latest government data also shows there have been 14 deaths of Lincolnshire residents this week – one fewer than 15 last week – and, due to data not being updated over the weekend, eight deaths reported at Greater Lincolnshire’s hospitals, up from six last week.
The latest COVID stats for Lincolnshire are:
1,354 new cases of coronavirus in Greater Lincolnshire over the weekend with 1,004 in Lincolnshire, 167 in North East Lincolnshire and 183 in North Lincolnshire
Six further deaths were recorded in the government figures including four Lincolnshire residents and two North East Lincolnshire
Hospital data is not updated at the weekend
Appearing on BBC Breakfast this morning, health secretary Sajid Javid has said it is not necessary to start put the government’s Plan B into action.
He told the show the that COVID was “unpredictable” and that he wouldn’t want to predict where it was going to be.
However, he said: “For all those people like me that are hoping and planning for a normal Christmas – which I do, by the way, think that’s where we’ll be, we’ll have a normal Christmas – if we want let’s just keep playing our part.”
Mr Javid also confirmed he wanted to make it mandatory for NHS staff to be double vaccinated against COVID-19, saying it was “only right for someone working in the NHS” due to their close proximity to the virus and the vulnerable.
He announced the NHS in England would get an extra £5.9 billion in the budget to cut down waiting lists.
Alongside opening new community clinics for scans and tests, it will include:
£1.5bn to be spent on more beds, equipment and new “surgical hubs”
£2.1bn to be spent on improving IT and digital technology within the NHS
Coronavirus data for Greater Lincolnshire on Sunday, October 24
133,268 cases (up 1,354)
88,645 in Lincolnshire (up 1,004)
21,787 in North Lincolnshire (up 183)
22,836 in North East Lincolnshire (up 167)
2,390 deaths (up six)
1,746 from Lincolnshire (up four)
328 from North Lincolnshire (no change)
316 from North East Lincolnshire (up two)
of which 1,434 hospital deaths (no change)
880 at United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust (no change)
44 at Lincolnshire Community Health Service hospitals (no change)
1 at Lincolnshire Partnership Foundation Trust (no change)
509 in Northern Lincolnshire (NLAG) (no change)
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.
Reconstruction works on a key commuting route in Gainsborough will start this week, prompting up to six weeks of overnight road closures.
The carriageway at Bridge Street and Ropery Road needs reconstructing, and work will begin on Monday, October 25.
There will be rolling night-time closures on both streets from 6pm to 2am Monday to Friday, and only the section of road being worked on that particular evening will be closed.
The works are expected to last up to six weeks, subject to suitable weather, as the roads reach the end of their serviceable life.
The diversion route for the schedule of works at Ropery Road and Bridge Street in Gainsborough. | Photo: Lincolnshire County Council
The diversion route will be via A159 Trinity Street / Beaumont Street / North Street / Morton Terrace / Morton Road and vice versa.
Clio Perraton-Williams, county councillor for Scotter Rural and executive support councillor for highways, said: “When we start, the team will be carrying work out overnight, beginning in the south and working north.
“We’ll be doing everything we can to keep disruption to a minimum including only closing the sections of road being worked on at the time, placing signage out so drivers know where the road is closed, and maintaining access for residents as often as it’s safe to do so.
“I want to thank everyone in advance for their patience. Once complete, these improvements will make travelling around Gainsborough much safer and more comfortable for all road users.”
Boston’s biggest Brexit vote majority (75%) could be rewarded with a museum, with the Lincolnshire town shortlisted as one of the two potential locations for a so-called Museum of Brexit.
The Museum of Brexit describes itself a project that is “supported by many on both sides of the referendum question, and aims to provide a fair and balanced view of the campaign and what led up to the campaign”.
The trustees of the Museum of Brexit said they’re now deciding between Boston or Peterborough after 18 months of locational research, market trawling and site visits across the UK.
The location decision will be announced in early 2022 and the museum will open by late 2023, according to The Telegraph.
In a questions page on the museum’s website it is asked if the museum will be balanced. The response stated: “Yes, because no story can be told in isolation. There were two sides to the 2016 Brexit debate, and both need to be explored.”
Lee Rotherham is a former director of special projects at Vote Leave and one of the trustees of the Museum of Brexit. He led the search for a permanent site and said: “This has been a long and involved process. Each of the 50 initial locations were put through a matrix of 14 criteria.
“This brought the long list down to a point where we could review individual sites on a separate set of fresh criteria relating to the buildings themselves. This was a difficult task as there are some remarkable sites out there.
“Everything from size, cost, transport links, support or otherwise from the local community, and council, through to ability to hire – local wage rates etc were considered.
“In the end we have decided that the two buildings most suitable for our needs are in the town of Boston in Lincolnshire, or the City of Peterborough. Both of these buildings would match the requirements of the museum in display space, archive space, and the ability to run educational programs.
“What is vital is that this project is sustainable, financially and historically. We are not looking at the next 10 years, we are looking at the next hundred.
“It is an exciting time for all of us at the museum, and we are now going through the plans and discussing with the relevant stakeholders about exactly where we will be based, and from there we will be able to start the process of creating a museum that will be able to talk about the history of Brexit, but also the longer story of the United Kingdom’s sovereignty, its international ties of trade and culture and the personal stories that bring this epoch making period of our history to life.”
The building earmarked for the Brexit museum in Boston has not been disclosed at this stage.
Reactions on Twitter to the news over the weekend weren’t so kind.
Just got back from time travelling.
Here's a picture of the sign posted on the opening day of the Museum of Brexit…. pic.twitter.com/NmubAKwnPZ
The British museum is full of things stolen from other countries, Brexit museum could be full of rights and opportunities the Brexiteers stole from ordinary people https://t.co/xEbDx9xU0F
.. A bankrupt farmer complaining that he 'never voted for this'; .. A pipe pumping raw sewage; .. A Hedge Fund Manager driving his new Ferrari after another year successful tax dodging; .. A pile of coffins. .. A 19 mile queue of lorries. pic.twitter.com/cCrythCzsJ
Visitors will refuse to pay to go in but will angrily demand access to all of the facilities and exhibits anyway. #museumofbrexithttps://t.co/iUBsYBJbVH
Putting the Museum of #Brexit in Boston or Peterborough is the equivalent of sticking it in the loft with the rest of the stuff you’ve got to keep, but you’d rather not look at and your kids will throw away one you’re dead.
Bloody hell! Museum of f**king Brexit?! I live 20 miles from Boston – it always used to be a town that welcomed migrants to work in the area. God, people have been conned 🤬.
Genuinely baffling. A museum with what, exactly? All things being equal it should probably be in Peterborough, as Boston is already surrounded by vast swathes of un-harvested crops gently rotting in the fields, and nothing represents Brexit more aptly than that. https://t.co/rHPW4MXzIX
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