Chris Brandrick

The line-up of events for the upcoming University of Lincoln 2011 Freshers’ Week has been revealed, with appearances from Dick & Dom, Nick Grimshaw and Zane Lowe all planned.

The annual Freshers’ Week, taking place from Sunday, September 18 through to Saturday, September 24, offers students new to the city a wide-range of welcoming entertainment choices.

Britain’s Got Talent contestant Stevie Starr, known for his regurgitating act, will kick-off the week-long activities on Sunday 18, with a Headphone Disco closing the 2011 Freshers’ Week on Saturday 24.

Lincoln Freshers’ Week highlights:

• Sunday 18, 10pm — Icebreaker club night featuring Britain’s Got Talent’s Stevie Starr;
• Monday 19, 10pm — Welcome to L featuring Dick & Dom;
• Tuesday 20, 10am – 4pm — Freshers’ Fayre;
• Tuesday 20, 8pm — Superfunk Rollerdisco;
• Tuesday 20, 8pm — Comedy Club;
• Wednesday 21, 10am – 4pm — Sports & Societies Fayre;
• Wednesday 21, 10pm — Fever Pitch club night;
• Thursday 22, 8pm — Tower Bar live featuring music from Dancing Lotus;
• Thursday 22, 10pm — Zane Lowe at The Engine Shed;
• Friday 23, 10:30pm — Stripped club night with BBC Radio 1 DJ Nick Grimshaw;
• Saturday 24, 10pm — Headphone Disco at The Engine Shed;

A full-line up of the weeks activities, including information on how you can book tickets, can be found on the Lincoln Freshers website.

Related Report: The Linc

Following four nights of riots across the UK, Lincoln residents took to social media websites to voice their concern of similar action possibly taking place within the city.

Messages of possible looting and rioting within Lincoln first surfaced on Twitter just before 7pm on August 9, despite no rioting or looting actually taking place.

Lincolnshire Police confirmed there were no public order incidents in Lincolnshire related to the ongoing national disturbance issues last night.

However, a number of users on both Facebook and Twitter quickly started speculating, commenting on purported rumours and possible riot targets.

A minor number of updates on social media detailed how Dixon Street, St.Marks and the TK Maxx store on Tritton Road could see looting. These updates, which some users slammed as scaremongering, turned out to be rumours and completely false.

As the night went on the growing rumours resulted in the early closure of city centre bar Walkabout. The Australian-themed bar was evacuated and closed at around 10PM. This action was described as “overly cautious” by one Twitter user.

Police officers attend riots outside county

Lincolnshire Police confirmed one support unit was deployed to assist Nottinghamshire officers late last night, once it had been established that their presence in Lincolnshire was not required.

That team has now returned to Lincolnshire. One Lincolnshire Police Support Unit continues to support Met officers in London.

MP condemns riots

MP for Lincoln, Karl McCartney, commented on the recent riot action in London and across the country, calling it “sickening”.

The MP said that if “rioters are engaged in unlawful acts, they should suffer the full force of the law and reparation for their actions and mentality.”

McCartney went on to add that if “some rioters are hurt by police protecting law-abiding citizens and their property and homes, then so be it. Politically correct hand wringing has no place when confronted by rioters such as these.”