James Turner

West Lindsey District Council has been recommended to approve plans to raise a plot of land in Saxilby near Lincoln, despite community concerns about it potentially flooding neighbouring fields and properties.

After planning permission was granted to build a replacement property and a new detached garage on what has been described as a “self-build” plot on West Bank, proposals to raise the ground have been submitted to the council.

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The mother of two-year-old Bronson Battersby, who tragically starved to death in Skegness curled at his dead father’s feet, is still coming to terms with her loss. Now she shares her anguish with the impending inquest and an in-depth review into the failures of child social services, which could take over six months.

Heartbroken mum Sarah Piesse, 43, tearfully declared “I want my boy,” insisting that more could have been done to save her son after his body was discovered next to his father Kenneth Battersby, who had succumbed from a heart attack several days earlier. Only their pet dog survived the ordeal.

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