Charlotte Reid

A number of new works of art, looking at the ideas of land ownership and use of woodland space, will be displayed throughout the Chambers Farm Wood, part of the Lincolnshire Lime Woods site.

The piece, called the Charter of the Forest, will be on display in the woodland area on August 6 and 7 and will include work from artists such as Tereza Buskova, Boyd Webb and Richard DeDomenici.

Artistic group Via Vaudeville! will be showing their piece Where there’s smoke which involves a charcoal burner in the woods which will give off smoke signals drawing inspiration from traditional protest songs.

The Charter of the Forest is a complementary chapter to the Magna Carta, and Lincoln Castle is the only place that holds a copy of both.

The charter was the first document that gave land access and ownership rights to people who were not nobility and that is reflected in the art programme.

The piece of live art is part of the Lincoln Art Programme which works with artists who have usually never visited the county before to create new artwork to display among normal Lincolnshire daily lives.

It was also developed in partnership with The Collection and the Forestry Commission.

There will be a coach free coach available on August 6 and 7 from The Collection, Danes Terrace at 11am directly to Chambers Farm Wood and return to Lincoln at 3pm. To book a place on the coach visit here.

For more information about the Charter of the Forest then visit here.

Source: Lincoln Art Programme | Photo: Jon Person

Lincoln county Hospital has managed to reduce its infection rates for the fifth year in a row, according to United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust (ULHT).

New figures show that the number of MRSA (pictured) cases in hospitals in the city have reduced by 94% in the past five years, from 32 to 2.

The number of cases of Clostridium Difficile have fallen by 55% in the past four years, from 116 to 52.

There has also been a huge drop in infection rates across the county as the number of MRSA cases in hospitals fell 61% in the past year and C Difficile cases dropped 41% over the past year in the county.

Last year, ULHT reported that between April to September 2010 there were no cases of MRSA in Lincoln County Hospital.

There have been a number of initiatives used to reduce the amount of infection such as deep cleans, raising awareness of hand hygiene and prescribing less antiobiotics.

Director of Nursing and Patient Services at ULHT, Sylvia Knight, is delighted that the number of infections in Lincolnshire’s hospitals has continued to fall.

Knight said: “I am proud of all our staff, patients and visitors who have helped to ensure that we keep our rates of infections as low as possible.

“However, we have more work to do, as we would like to be able to reduce our rates of infection even further, so that we have no avoidable infections at all in any of our hospitals.

“We will continue to work hard to achieve that aim.”

Source: ULHT | Photo: Microbe World