Teachers across Lincolnshire will walk out in the first national strike since 2016, affecting almost every school in the county.

It’s up to individual schools to decide on any closures. Some will close their doors completely and others will shut certain year groups only.

Several unions have coordinated their strike days for a greater impact, so teachers will also be joined by university staff, civil servants and train drivers across the country.

Up to half a million workers are expected to demonstrate against pay and conditions in the UK, on what’s been dubbed ‘Walkout Wednesday’.

Unions will come together with members of the National Education Union for a march through Lincoln today, in solidarity with teachers’ plight for a fully-funded, over-inflation pay rise.

The rally will begin at St Martin’s Square from 11am with the peaceful march due to start at 12pm. The march will go down the High Street and onto Speakers Corner and right onto Sincil Street, before congregating outside the bus/train stations for speeches.

The unions present will be:

  • Royal College of Nursing
  • National Education Union
  • Fire Brigades Union
  • University and College Union
  • GMB Union
  • RMT (National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers)
  • Unite the Union
  • Unison
  • ASLEF (the train drivers’ union)
  • NASUWT (the teachers’ union)
  • CWU (the communications union)

Fire crews worked through the night to put out an inferno that destroyed a five-storey building in Boston.

Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue remain at the scene of the blaze, which began at the derelict building on London Road just before 4pm on Monday, January 30.

No one has been injured, and firefighters managed to contain the fire – located close to a fuel station and railway line.

Crews from 10 stations were called out to the scene. A spokesperson said the 100% of the five-storey property had been severely damaged.

Some road closures remain in the area this morning.

 

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