Women decorate Lincolnshire coast with positive messages during charity walk

There are just ten days to go until the Lincoln Imp Trail begins in the city, and the map for the event has now been released.

Thirty imps, designed by national and local artists, will be on display throughout the city of Lincoln, while one imp will be at the Hildreds Centre in Skegness.

The event starts on July 3 and encourages people to go on a hunt through Lincoln for the thirty imps, and it will end on September 8.

Locations include the Cornhill Quarter, Steep Hill, Lincoln Cathedral and the Stonebow, as well as a whole host of other places.

It is as yet unconfirmed which imps will be placed in which area.

As well as the 30 chosen imps, there will also be a wide variety of Education Trail Imps, decorated by schools across Lincolnshire, and five community ‘roaming’ imps that move among shops in Lincoln.

	IMP Title	Business Name	Artist Name
1	IMP-entertainment	Bottomley Distillers	Dheven Bhurke
2	Woodland Imp	Branston Ltd	Donna Newman Eden-designs
3	A Little Lucky	Chestnut Homes	Caroline Greyling
4	Forest Imp	City of Lincoln Council	Lissie Art
5	Lincolnshire Imp	Daniel Charles Construction	Jon Garside
6	Screen Legends	GAME Engineering	Rosie Ablewhite
7	Girls Can	Girlguiding in Lincolnshire	Rosie Ablewhite
8	Steam Explorer	Jacksons Workwear Rental Ltd	Rosie Ablewhite
9	Imp-Dangered	Just Audi VW	Frizzy Haych Creative
10	Celestial	LEAP and Investors in Lincoln	Inspiratori Art
11	Frozen Beauty	Lincoln Business Club	MrASingh
12	Voyage of Discovery	Lincoln Cathedral	Rose Bowskill
13	Lincoln Footie Imp	Lincoln City FC & Lincoln BIG	Mik Richardson
14	The Winding Roads of Lincolnshire	Lincoln College	Eleanor Hancock
15	RAF Legends	Lincoln Digs	Sue Hetfield
16	Arcimpboldo (The Healthy Imp)	Lincoln Hotel	Sue Guthrie
17	Lincoln Vik-Imp	Lincolnshire Coastal BID	Deven Bhurke
18	Wishing Imp	Lincolnshire Freemasons	Lissie Art
19	City Trail Imp	Lincolnshire Society of Architects	Mel Langton
20	IMPrenetrable	Lincs Archiving Solutions Ltd	Mik Richardson
21	Harlequin Imp	New Theatre Royal	Melanie Clare
22	The Legend of the Imp	Nicholsons Chartered Accountants	Sian Bristow
23	Community Imp	REACH	Sian Bristow
24	Post-IMPressionist	Ruddocks	Susan Webber
25	The Running Imp	Running Imp Ltd	Sian Bristow
26	Majestic Imp	Saul Fairholm Ltd	Lizzy Mason
27	The Folklore Imp	St Barnabas	Carolyn Short
28	The Legend of the Imp	St Marks Shopping Centre	Jemima Cholmondeley-Smith
29	Past Echos	Stagecoach East Midlands	Jem Dunn
30	Yellow Belly	The Cornhill Quarter	Inspiratori Art
31	‘…and so the adventure begins…’	University of Lincoln	Eleanor Hancock

Once the imp trail is finished, there will be an event at Lincoln Castle between September 9-23, ahead of an auction on Lincolnshire Day, October 1.

Funds raised from the auction will be donated to the charity partner of the event, St Barnabas Hospice.

The much anticipated event was cancelled in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, but it will now go ahead bigger and better than ever.

In a vote set up by The Lincolnite, Steam Explorer, which was designed by artist Rosie Ablewhite, was the public’s favourite of the imps, with Lizzy Mason’s Majestic imp coming second.

EXPLORE all the Lincoln Imp Trail statues

Lincoln UTC is celebrating International Women in Engineering Day by highlighting the success of its female engineers. 

Year 13 students Georgina Smith and Eloise Winterflood have recently completed a BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma in Engineering at the UTC and secured their next steps in industry and education. 

In parallel with their studies, both students also completed an extended placement with industry partners of the UTC. Eloise was partnered with IMPS (UK), a diesel engine specialist, whilst Georgina worked with Micrometric, a local component manufacturer and laser processing specialist. 

Many UTC students have secured further employment as a direct consequence of the relationships formed whilst completing an industrial placement, including Georgina, who will continue to work with Micrometric alongside studying a BEng (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Lincoln next year.

Eloise has been offered full sponsorship from Clyde Marine Training to complete an Engineering Officer Cadetship within the Merchant Navy. During her training she will spend time on shore and at sea, travelling and working on a multitude of ships with an established Merchant Navy company. 

UTC Principal John Morrison said: “By reflecting on the incredible achievements of our female students we hope to inspire the next generation of girls to consider a career in engineering.

“Our curriculum provides a platform for students to progress into any sector within the industry. We look forward to accepting our largest intake of girls yet in September 2021.”

A limited number of places are still available at the UTC in year 10 and year 12 starting September 2021. For more information visit www.lincolnutc.co.uk or email [email protected].

There have been 124 new coronavirus cases in Greater Lincolnshire on Tuesday — almost double compared to last Tuesday (90.77% rise from 65), as government bosses continue to hold out for July 19 lockdown easing.

The government’s COVID-19 dashboard on Tuesday recorded 63 new cases in Lincolnshire, 50 in North East Lincolnshire and 11 in North Lincolnshire.

The dashboard reported one further death of a North East Lincolnshire resident, while NHS figures confirmed one death at a Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals Trust facility.

Nationally on Tuesday, cases increased by 11,625 to 4,651,988 — the highest since mid-February — while a further 27 deaths took the tally to 128,008.

Boston and Lincoln have seen infection rates double over the past seven days, however, North East Lincolnshire still tops the Greater Lincolnshire table.

According to the latest data, in the seven days up to June 21, Boston saw its infection rate jump from 28.5 per 100,000 population to 62.7 with an extra 44 cases overall. Nationally it went from 249th highest to 163rd.

Meanwhile, Lincoln moved from the bottom of the Lincolnshire table and 315th nationally to third and 220th respectively. A further 48 cases in the city saw its infection rate jump from 25.5 to 62.7.

There are also fears people could be at higher risk of getting flu this winter after last year’s lockdown led to “effectively” no respiratory viruses.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday did not rule out further lockdowns in the winter, warning that it could be a “rough” season.

Andy Fox, deputy director of public health at Lincolnshire County Council said there were concerns that “we didn’t have a flu season, essentially, last year, simply because of self-isolation.”

People have until Thursday to make the most of walk-in COVID-19 vaccinations in Lincoln and Boston.

Depending on age and eligibility, people can attend one of the county’s two Mass Vaccination Centres for a first or second dose, without an appointment.

Meanwhile, the next three locations in Lincoln for the mobile vaccination unit have been revealed, including the local mosque and The Arboretum, for people to receive their first COVID-19 jab on a Saturday without needing an advance booking.

The jab bus was set up in Lincoln temporarily to help with the COVID-19 vaccine rollout and started in the car park of Bridge Central on Saturday, June 19.

Over the next three weekends, it will allow for anyone who has not yet had their first dose, and is eligible to do so, to turn up and get jabbed without needing to book.

Nationally, government bosses have been attempting to reassure people that COVID restrictions will end on July 19.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak said in the House of Commons that it was his “hope and expectation”.

“We will have done what we set out to do, which is to get extra jabs in more people’s arms to provide us with that extra level of protection we were seeking,” he said.

Meanwhile, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the data was encouraging and that the growth in cases seemed to be slowing – with hospitalisations and deaths staying low.

The UK government has also confirmed that the crowd capacity at Wembley will be increased to more than 60,000 for the semi-finals and final of Euro 2020. It will mean the stadium will be able to be three-quarters full.

However, Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon this afternoon confirmed delays to the nation’s own COVID restrictions.

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Coronavirus data for Greater Lincolnshire on Tuesday, June 22

61,997 cases (up 124)

• 42,819 in Lincolnshire (up 63)
• 9,892 in North Lincolnshire (up 11)
• 9,286 in North East Lincolnshire (up 50)

2,195 deaths (up one)

• 1,622 from Lincolnshire (no change)
• 302 from North Lincolnshire (no change)
• 271 from North East Lincolnshire (up one)

of which 1,313 hospital deaths (up one)

• 816 at United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust (no change)
• 42 at Lincolnshire Community Health Service hospitals (no change)
• 1 at Lincolnshire Partnership Foundation Trust (no change)
• 454 in Northern Lincolnshire (NLAG) (up one)

4,651,988 UK cases, 128,008 deaths

DATA SOURCE — FIGURES CORRECT AT THE TIME OF THE LATEST UPDATE. POSTCODE DATA INCLUDES DEATHS NOT IN HEALTHCARE FACILITIES OR IN HOSPITALS OUTSIDE AUTHORITY BOUNDARIES.