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A Lincoln woman will be sentenced for wounding next month after she denied an offence of attempted murder.

Fiona Lewis, 40, was warned to expect a prison sentence by the judge after she appeared at Lincoln Crown Court on Monday morning.

Lewis, of Reynolds House, Turner Avenue, Lincoln, pleaded not guilty to a charge of attempting to murder Lilette Lewis on October 31 last year.

But Lewis, who appeared in court by video-link from custody, admitted an alternative charge of wounding Lillette Lewis with intent to cause her grievous bodily harm on the same date.

The plea was accepted by the Crown Prosecution Service and Lewis will now be sentenced at Lincoln Crown Court on November 22.

Judge John Pini QC agreed to adjourn the case for the preparation of a pre-sentence report on Lewis – but warned her that a custodial sentence was inevitable.

The judge told Lewis: “At some point you will be seen by the probation service, but that is not an indication of sentence. This is a very serious matter.”

Lewis was remanded back into custody until she is sentenced.

New homes and businesses in Cherry Willingham could open the way for a new marina to be built if plans are approved.

West Lindsey District Council backed in 2018 the “Willingham Fen Marina” project – which included a 220 berth marina, 155 homes and businesses, and now the first phase of the project has been submitted for final approval.

Documents before the authority said applicant Dean Sempers had already spent £3 million on initial engineering works on the marina, but that the houses were needed to both reimburse the spending and enable the project to move ahead further.

“What can be taken from this is the huge commitment shown by the landowner to bring this project forward,” said the report.

“It should be clear to any observer that the marina will now come to fruition as soon as it is possible to deliver moorings to the basin.

“Any concerns that the enabling development might be ‘cherry picked’ and the various public benefits not implemented should certainly now be alleviated.”

Plans for how the area could be laid out when finished.

The business will include 663 sqm of flexible employment spaces across three buildings, while the houses will be a mix of two and two-and-a-half storey builds, which have also been developed to help deliver working from home opportunities.

“This proposal demonstrates a well-connected development that responds to an understanding of the site’s context within the open countryside, but also provides a new, integrated part of Cherry Willingham, taking design and place-making cues from the most positive aspects of the village’s character,” said the report.

Street scenes presented to West Lindsey District Council.

Street scenes presented to West Lindsey District Council.

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