James Turner

Local residents and campaigners have taken over the protest camp at RAF Scampton’s main gate after rival demonstrators chose to withdraw from the cause.

After weeks of escalating tensions amongst three distinct groups, culminating in attacks by masked assailants on campaigners during the night, protesters occupying the large protest camp outside the former airbase have retreated.

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For the second time in four months, the banks of the River Witham near Fiskerton have been breached, leading villagers to blame the reoccurring floods on the volume of water flowing from Lincoln.

After heavy snow and rainfall swept across the country on Thursday, the previously damaged river bank, compromised by similar floods last October after Storm Babet, was breached once again, leading to the flooding of nearby paddocks in Short Ferry.

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