A man has admitted placing a bottle containing vinegar and hypochlorite bleach outside a Spalding pub to make others believe it would explode or ignite.

Jay Savage, 30, appeared at Lincoln Crown Court and pleaded guilty to a charge of placing an article outside the   pub on 13 November last year.

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A former RAF veteran who arranged to meet what he thought was a 14-year-old girl at Doddington Hall for sex was on Tuesday given a suspended jail sentence.

Andrew Hughes, 57, of Larne Road, Lincoln, was in fact confronted by an online protection group who had been using a decoy profile to communicate with him.

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