Lincoln Eastern Bypass roundabout on Lincoln Road, Branston. Photo: Lincolnshire County Council
The last series of weekend road closures on Lincoln Road in Branston and Greetwell Road will begin this month as work continues on the Lincoln Eastern Bypass.
All works are scheduled to begin at 6am on Saturday mornings and will end at 6am Monday mornings. However, the road may be re-opened before 6am on a Monday morning depending how the works progress.
Subject to suitable weather, the dates for the upcoming weekend road closures and temporary traffic signals are:
Lincoln Road, Branston
Saturday, September 5 to Monday, September 7
Saturday, September 12 to Monday, September 14
Saturday, September 19 to Monday, September 21
Saturday, September 26 to Monday, September 28
Saturday, October 3 to Monday, October 5
Saturday, October 10 to Monday, October 12
The diversion route will be via South Park Avenue/South Park to St Catherines to A15 to B1178 to B1188, and vice versa.
Temporary traffic signals will be in place on Lincoln Road from 9.30am to 3.30pm, Monday to Friday, starting on Tuesday, September 1 for six weeks.
Greetwell Road
Saturday, September 19 to Monday, September 21
Saturday, September 26 to Monday, September 28
Saturday, October 3 to Monday, October 5
Saturday, October 10 to Monday, October 12
Saturday, October 17 to Monday, October 19
Saturday, October 24 to Monday, October 26
A diversion route will be in place via Outer Circle Road/Bunkers Hill/A158 Wragby Road/Kennel Lane/Hawthorn Road/Croft Lane/Church Lane/Fiskerton Road, and vice versa.
Temporary traffic signals will be in place on Greetwell Road from 9.30am to 3.30pm, Monday to Friday, starting on Monday, September 14 for six weeks.
Wragby Road roundabout
Night-time temporary traffic signals will be in place at Wragby Road roundabout for three weeks starting from Monday, September 14 to allow for the safe completion of street lighting and traffic signage works.
The signals will be in place Monday through Friday evenings from 6.30pm to 6am.
Karen Cassar, Assistant Director – Highways at Lincolnshire County Council, said: “We’re nearly finished with all our works at the new Lincoln Road and Greetwell Road roundabouts.
“Over the course of these essential weekend closures, the team will be focusing their efforts on laying the final layer of surfacing; painting road markings; installing signage, safety barriers, street lighting, topsoil and landscaping; and building footways.
“This is all in addition to our team of site inspectors checking all aspects of both roundabouts to ensure everything is to the quality we expect.”
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A man in his 20s was seriously injured after a crash on the B1397 Old Spalding Road in Wigtoft near Boston over the weekend.
Emergency services were called to the scene of the crash involving one vehicle – a blue Hyundai iX35 – shortly after 11pm on Saturday, March 6. The crash is believed to have occurred between 9pm-11pm.
The driver was seriously injured and taken to hospital.
Lincolnshire Police are appealing for witnesses and would like to speak to anyone who captured dashcam footage of the incident.
Anyone with information should contact police on 101 or via email at [email protected] quoting incident 489 of March 6.
Alternatively, it can be reported through the independent charity Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 or online here.
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.