Emily White

It was a ‘genuine bit of lost shopping’ with some electronic equipment in it that prompted a huge police and tactical response in Lincoln city centre on Tuesday.

Dozens of police officers, ambulance crews and the bomb disposal unit were called to Lincoln Central bus station after midday on October 9 after people reported a suspicious package with “wires hanging from it” on a bus coming from Nettleham.

Hundreds of people waited behind a police cordon while the bomb squad investigated the package.

After three hours, the cordon was lifted and everybody was relieved to find out that the package wasn’t dangerous and they could continue their journey and collect any belongings left behind in the bomb scare.

Lincolnshire Police Chief Inspector Stewart Brinn addressing the media. Photo: Connor Creaghan for The Lincolnite.

Lincolnshire Police Chief Inspector Stewart Brinn said: “At about 12 o clock today, a bus driver found a suspicious package on one of the buses and took it to the security office in the bus station.

“As result of that, an assessment was made to treat this package as a viable device. We put a 100 metre cordon around the area to evacuate people for public safety reasons.

“The EOD attended and investigated and found that it’s not a bomb or a hoax.

“We’re quite happy it’s a genuine mistake. We’ve lifted the cordon and we’re trying to get Lincoln back to normal.

“It was a genuine bit of shopping with some electronics equipment and there’s no intent on anybody’s behalf to turn it into a hoax. It certainly wasn’t a viable device.”

See our previous coverage of the event to see how the incident unfolded

Yesterday, scientists from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a warning to world governments asking them to cut their greenhouse emissions and stop global warming.

In the report, scientists warned of dying coral reefs, melting sea ice and rising sea levels, all of which could be made worse if the global temperature were to rise by an average of 2 degrees celsius.

The report was commissioned in 2015 after the Paris climate agreement where countries agreed to try to stop the average global temperature from rising more than 2 degrees. It argues however that the effects of this would be far worse than a more ambitious target of 1.5 degrees.

At the current rate of global warming, temperatures are set to reach 1.5C by 2030 and 3C by the end of the century.

But what does this mean for us and what can we do about it?

In the report, the IPCC highlighted five things we could all do to help prevent temperatures from rising above 1.5 degrees, including:

• Giving up beef
• Car sharing
• Turning down the heating
• Walking instead of driving small distances
• Downsizing into smaller homes

The Lincolnite asked the people of Lincoln what they would be prepared to give up to save the planet.

Lucille Hewitt, Lincoln, said that she wouldn’t give up anything on the list because she lives in a rural area and ‘many things on the list would be impractical’.

Sharon Taylor, Lincoln, said that she is already extremely environmentally friendly as she doesn’t eat beef and doesn’t drive.

Check out the video to find out what Lincoln would give up for climate change.