In local news, all Lincolnshire schools are preparing to reopen next week, with most primary school pupils returning on Monday and teachers and staff getting tested ahead.
Only children of key workers attended lessons in the latest national lockdown, some 25% of the total number of pupils in Lincolnshire. Now all students will begin to return to face-to-face education from March 8.
This is how one school in Lincolnshire is preparing for Monday’s big return.
All Lincolnshire’s COVID vaccine sites are continuing to offer people their jabs, officials say.
The reassurance comes after it was reported some people believed the major hubs were slowing down their operations.
The organisation which runs Lincolnshire’s vaccination sites said due to demand and supply of the vaccine, not all its sites are open every day.
Lincolnshire has been bucking the trend and increasing in COVID-19 cases over the past couple of weeks, with infection rates in some areas now double the national average.
South Holland is number five in the UK, with a 208.4 infection rate — more than double England’s 102.9 figure as a whole. It’s believed outbreaks among field and factory workers are pushing the numbers up, along with extra testing.