A volunteer wildlife rescue group in Cleethorpes had a busy Easter Monday with the emergency rescue of a seal pup.
Cleethorpes Wildlife Rescue were contacted by Cleethorpes Beach Safety to assist with a seal, who had been washed over the sea wall and was trapped in the eroding slipway at Humberston Fitties Beach. The group contacted British Divers Marine Life Rescue to help with the rescue at around 3.50pm on April 5.
The team went down to the rock pool and covered the head of the seal before lifting him to safety. The adorable pup was put into a seal bag before being taken into the Cleethorpes Beach Safety office to have his minor wounds attended to.
The rescuers covered the pup’s head before lifting him to safety.
The rescue operation underway at Humberston Fitties Beach.
After cleaning and sealing the pup’s wounds with antibiotic spray, he was released back on the beach and made his way out to the tide within an hour of the initial rescue.
The blue spray antibiotics will also help the team identify the pup should it come back onshore.
The seal was lifted to safety to be treated.
Blue spray antibiotics were used to treat the seal pup.
The blue spray antibiotics will also help the team identify the pup should it come back onshore.
Aaron Goss, who is a volunteer at Cleethorpes Wildlife Rescue, told The Lincolnite: “It’s absolutely amazing (to be able to rescue and release the animal) and it is the main reason why we do this.
“Sometimes there are cases where we can’t release an animal, but the majority of the time we go by our main ethos of Rest, Rehabilitate and Release. As soon as the seal saw the tide he was happy and started making his way out.”
The Cleethorpes Wildlife Rescue team as made up of two main rescuers. Linda Bass has been doing wildlife rescue for over 40 years and 22-year-old Aaron also looks after some of the animals at his home too.
Three other volunteers help the team, along with Abbey Veterinary Centre in Grimsby.
Aaron Goss and Linda Bass (right) with a representative from British Divers Marine Life Rescue.
The team at Cleethorpes Wildlife Rescue need your help to raise vital funds.
However, it can be difficult financially for the team. They are currently spending more on vet bills than the money it has coming in. More recently the vet bills have been around £1,000 per month, with around an extra £300 for animal food.
They hope to decrease this by purchasing up to four intensive care incubators. The ones they hope to purchase cost £560 each and you can make a donation towards the cause here. Anyone who wishes to donate offline, or to report an animal needing rescued, should contact 07309 135 987.
The incubators help to regulate temperature and humidity and can be useful if any animal has gone into shock.
The seal was treated and taken into the beach office before later being released back out into the water.
Cleethorpes Wildlife Rescue has grown a lot during the coronavirus pandemic as it is now seeing a lot more wildlife, including around 50 birds a month, fox cubs, deer and seals, although the latter doesn’t happen very often.
A Muntjac deer called Spirit is now permanently with the team, living with one of the volunteers and roaming free in the garden. Due to it being an invasive species it cannot be released into the wild.
The team at Cleethorpes Wildlife Rescue with representatives from Cleethorpes Beach Safety and British Divers Marine Life Rescue.
Some other animal rescue groups stopped working as much during the pandemic, but Cleethorpes Wildlife Rescue decided to take the risk for the sake of the animals.
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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
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