Pubs will be able to reopen for outdoor service on April 12 as part of the Prime Minister’s roadmap out of lockdown, and these Lincoln pubs will be ready for customers.
Hospitality venues have been closed since November in the second national coronavirus lockdown, but are now preparing for a return to business next month.
Once pubs reopen on April 12, customers will no longer need to order a substantial meal with drinks, but they will need to order, eat and drink while seated outside.
Pubs will also no longer need a 10pm curfew, and customers can meet in a group of up to six people from different households, or a maximum of two households can meet to form a group.
While some pubs will not be able to return on April 12 due to not having an outside area available, they will be waiting for May 17, when pubs and restaurants can reopen for indoor service.
There are a considerable number of pubs in Lincoln, however, that have announced they will be reopening on April 12.
The rolling list includes:
Bar Unico
Bentley’s Bar
Craft
Dog and Bone
Fox and Hounds
Five Bells (Bassingham)
Harrows Inn (North Hykeham)
Horse & Groom
Inn on the Green (Ingham)
Nosey Parker
Penny Farthing (Timberland)
Pyewipe Inn
Queen in the West
Ritz (Wetherspoon)
Royal Oak (Scopwick)
Shoulder of Mutton (Ruskington)
Slug & Lettuce
Stags Head
Tap & Spile
The Adam & Eve
The Adam and Eve (Wragby)
The Advocate Arms (Market Rasen)
The Barge (opening Friday, April 16)
The Barge & Bottle (Sleaford)
The Birdcage
The Blacksmiths Arms (Bracebridge Heath)
The Bottle and Glass (Harby)
The Bottle and Glass (Scothern)
The Bugle Horn (Bassingham)
The Bull (Bracebridge Heath)
The Butcher and Beast (Heighington)
The Chequers (Potterhanworth)
The Cross Keys (Stow)
The Crown and Arrows
The Dandy Lion
The Duke William
The Electric
The Ferry Boat (Washingborough)
The Gatehouse Inn (Bracebridge)
The George (Langworth)
The George (Market Rasen)
The Golden Eagle
The Jolly Brewer
The Imp & Angel
The Inn (Woodhall Spa)
The Lincoln Green (North Hykeham, opening Friday, April 16)
The Lincoln Imp
The Lincolnshire Poacher
The Lion & Royal (Navenby)
The Lion and Snake
The Lord Harrowby (Grantham)
The Mailbox (now delayed until May)
The Morning Star
The Outback Steakhouse & Bar (Marshchapel)
The Plough (Nettleham)
The Red Lion (Digby)
The Red Lion (Dunston)
The Royal Oak (Aubourn)
The Royal Oak (Martin)
The Royal William IV (Lincoln)
The Ship Inn (Horncastle)
The Star & Garter (Metheringham)
The Swanholme Tavern
The Tempest (Coleby)
The Tower Hotel
The Turks Head (Heighington)
The Victoria (opening Wednesday, April 14)
The White Hart (Nettleham)
The White Hart Inn (Metheringham)
The White Swan (Market Rasen)
The Witch and Wardrobe
Treaty of Commerce
Trebles
Union Bar (on campus at Bishop Grosseteste University)
Waggon and Horses (Branston, delayed until end of April)
Wildwood
Woodcocks (Burton Waters)
If you own/run a pub and are getting ready to reopen, please email [email protected] to be included in the list.
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A 38-year-old man from a North Lincolnshire village charged with murder will face an eight-day trial later this year.
Emergency services were called at 4.23am on Saturday, July 2 to reports that a man was seriously injured on South Parade in central Doncaster.
The 28-year-old victim was taken to hospital but was sadly pronounced dead a short time later.
A post-mortem examination found that he died of injuries to his head, chest and abdomen.
Formal identification of the victim is yet to take place, South Yorkshire Police said earlier this week.
Steven Ling, 38, of Park Drain, Westwoodside in North Lincolnshire, has been charged with murder and was remanded in custody to appear at Doncaster Magistrates Court on Monday, July 4.
Ling later appeared at Sheffield Crown Court on Tuesday, July 5 for a plea and trial preparation hearing.
No pleas were entered during the hearing, but an eight-day trial was set for November 28, 2022. Ling has now been remanded into custody until the next hearing.
The Lincolnite went on a ride-along with a Lincolnshire Police officer from the force’s Roads Policing Unit (RPU), which aims to disrupt criminals’ use of the roads and reduce the number of serious and fatal accidents.
The team will support the county response including local policing, neighbourhood policing and criminal investigation too.
Operations first began in Grantham in January this year and started in Louth earlier this week with a sergeant and nine PCs based in both locations.
The Lincolnite went out on a ride-along with PC Rich Precious from Lincolnshire Police’s Roads Policing Unit. | Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
PC Rich Precious has been a police officer for 22 years after joining the force in 2000 and he recently rejoined the Roads Policing Unit, working out of Louth.
PC Precious, who also previously worked as a family liaison officer for road deaths for 16 years, took The Lincolnite out in his police car to the A1 up to Colsteworth and then back to Grantham. He described that particular area as “one of the main arterial routes that goes through Lincolnshire”.
PC Rich Precious driving down the A1 up to Colsterworth. | Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
Speaking about the new Roads Policing Unit, he said: “It’s intelligence led policing, it’s targeted policing in areas that have been underrepresented in terms of police presence, on the roads certainly, over a number of years.
“We’re hoping that the development of this unit will help address that balance, and look towards using the ANPR system to prevent criminals’ use of the road, and to identify key areas or routes where there’s a high percentage of people killed or seriously injured on the road, what we commonly refer to as KSI.
PC Precious is helping to keep the roads safer in Lincolnshire. | Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
When asked if he thinks the new team will help reduce the number of serious and fatal accidents in the county, he added: “That’s what the the unit designed for. Sadly, in Lincolnshire our road network does seem to incur a number of those KSI accidents year on year, and we need to reduce that.
“I’ve worked additionally in my roles as a family liaison officer on road death for 16 years, so I’ve seen first hand the impact that road death has on families and victims families.
“I know it’s important that we try and reduce those because, it’s very sad to see how a fatal road traffic collision can affect a family and the victims of that family.”
Marc Gee, Inspector for Lincolnshire Police’s Roads Policing Unit. | Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
Marc Gee, Inspector for the Roads Policing Unit, told The Lincolnite: “Every day there will be officers on duty from both teams and they’ll cover the whole county or the county’s roads.
“Eventually, we’ll have nine police cars and we’ve got six motorbikes. We’ll be utilising them with as many officers as we can every day basically to make our roads safer and enforce against the criminals who feel like it’s okay to come into the county and use our road for criminal purposes.”
Lincolnshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner Marc Jones at the launch of the force’s Roads Policing Unit. | Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite