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A former shoe shop with over six decades of history in Lincoln will transform into a new takeaway if plans are approved by City of Lincoln Council.

Brian Rose on Boultham Park Road closed in March 2019 when the namesake owner retired after 60 years, having worked in the shop since he was just 14-years-old.

Meryem Erol of Skegness submitted a planning application to the city council last week to change the use of the vacant shop to hot food takeaway.

The takeaway would be situated next to Premier Stores and will be called Rixos.

Proposed elevations. | Photo: Heronswood architectural design

It has not yet been publicly revealed what type of takeaway it will be, but it is understood Meryem Erol is one of the owners of Nemrud Pizza House in Skegness.

All of Lincolnshire’s care homes have now received their first dose of vaccination after meeting their planned target of doing them by the weekend, according to local health bosses.

The NHS vaccination team delivered tens of thousands of vaccinations to all of the 202 elderly homes in the county.

Lincolnshire County Council’s assistant director of public health Tony McGinty said there was just some “mopping up” to do of staff or residents who may have missed their turn due to illness

They will now begin focussing on the thousands of elderly people in the community who cannot access vaccination sites.

Mr McGinty said the news was “incredibly heartening”.

“We know these vaccines are going to help people who come into contact with the virus in the coming months fight it off far more readily, and they will be far less likely to become really ill and, God forbid, die.

“[The team] have done incredibly well, we’re talking tens of thousands of vaccines delivered from the day the first one became available just before Christmas, and we’re not even at the end of January yet.

“It’s been a massive effort by the vaccinators and the care homes, mobilising themselves to get vaccinated.”

Due to the government decision to delay the second dose from 21 days to 12 weeks, the next round of vaccinations is likely to be in April or May, but bosses hope that if the supply situation gets better, it may happen quicker.

However, Mr McGinty said the focus was still on getting first doses to “really vulnerable” people in the first instance.

In a press briefing on Monday, health secretary Matt Hancock said nearly 80% of those aged over 80 had now received their first dose.

Figures released last Thursday said nearly 50,000 had received theirs at the time in Lincolnshire, with 24,253 of those aged over 80.

The 32-year-old man and 30-year-old woman arrested in the murder probe of an 11-year-old boy in Lincoln have both been released on police bail, without any charges.

The man was arrested on suspicion of murder and the woman on suspicion of manslaughter after an incident at a house on Geneva Street on St Giles in Lincoln.

Police were called to the house at 10pm on Friday night, January 22.

The 11-year-old boy was found unwell at the scene and was taken to hospital for treatment.

He was pronounced dead a short time later.

At the time Lincolnshire Police said the death was unexplained and it was treated as murder.

The man and the woman arrested at the weekend were released on police bail on Monday evening.

Lincolnshire Police said in a statement on Monday night:

“Once again, we’d like to remind people that this is an active investigation and that an 11-year-old boy has sadly lost his life.

“Speculative comments are not only deeply upsetting to those involved but can potentially undermine our investigation.

“If you have any information that can help, call 101 or email [email protected] quoting incident 472 of January 22.”