James Turner

RAF Scampton residents campaigning against the Home Office’s proposed asylum centre say they are not backing down ahead of the one-year anniversary of the controversial project’s announcement.

Friday, March 8, will mark a year since Gainsborough MP Sir Edward Leigh stood in Parliament and disclosed the government’s plans to house up to 2,000 single male asylum seekers at the former home of the Dambusters near Lincoln.

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The Environment Agency said a two-and-half-hour delay in closing a sluice gate in Horncastle was not the cause of the flooding that occurred after Storm Babet in October 2023.

Findings suggest that even if the sluice gate had been closed on time, the peak of the river would have been delayed by only an hour, indicating that the defences might not have held back the floodwaters regardless, which impacted 197 properties in Horncastle and a further 31 homes in Kirkby-on-Bain.

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