• Residents concerned how public services will cope with new homes in Lincolnshire

  By Bill_Bilton

  Certainly the Cities roads cannot cope.Current plans are to just feed in the heavily congested...

            

   

  By Lincolnshire Echo at 07:10 on 06/04/13

  

  Residents living near sites earmarked for 17,850 new homes say they are concerned about how existing public services will cope with further development. Public feedback on plans to build 42,000 new homes in central Lincolnshire will be presented to councillors on Monday, April 8. It says residents are worried about how services and facilities, such as doctors and schools, will cope with the growth proposed over the plan period. ...

• Ex-mayor's election battle

  By SiberianT

  RESULT:- Mick Tinker- Liberal Democrat 265, John Beaver- UKIP 125, Dick Banyard- Ind 61, Jimmy...

            

   

  By Gainsborough Target at 06:50 on 22/06/12

  

  A FORMER Gainsborough Town Mayor is among the candidates declared for two town council by-elections caused by resignations of members. Retired businessman Councillor Mick Tinker, of Middlefield Lane, was Mayor of Gainsborough in 1996. Since then he's served on the town, West Lindsey district and Lincolnshire County authorities. The 65-year-old is in a four-cornered fight for the Gainsborough east ward seat vacated by newly-elected...

• West Lindsey District Council will 'raid' savings to avoid cuts or tax hike

  By wewantbetter

  This council blew millions on a new building that was not needed spent loads on the market place and...

            

   

  By Lincolnshire Echo at 07:05 on 11/03/13

  

  Finance bosses at West Lindsey District Council will dig into the authority's savings to avoid cuts to public services or a huge hike in council tax over the coming years. Details of how the council intends to meet growing financial pressures were revealed when the Gainsborough-based authority met to set its budget on Monday, March 4. The meeting was told that by 2017, the £14.65 million which sits in reserve in a WLDC savings...

• Trainee first-aiders attend car crash near Lincoln

  By SS29252

  Makes a change for the Echo to put in what looks like a genuine photograph instead of their old...

            

   

  By Lincolnshire Echo at 07:08 on 28/03/13

  

  Nine trainee first-aiders were pressed into emergency action when their course was interrupted by a crash outside the building. The Lincoln Security employees were attending the course run by the Gelder Group when a car driver was trapped in his upturned vehicle outside the construction firm's headquarters. A 44-year-old Gainsborough man at the wheel of his blue Suzuki Swift was injured when it was tipped onto its roof in the...

• Newly-elected Gainsborough East councillor Mark Binns in pledge to residents

  By SiberianT

  Mark has already been hard at work helping residents of East Ward.

            

   

  By Lincolnshire Echo at 07:05 on 15/03/13

  

  A newly-elected district councillor has pledged to honour the memory of the colleague he succeeded by dealing with problems on his ward. Liberal Democrat Mark Binns won the Gainsborough East by-election, prompted by the death last October of his friend and fellow party member Mel Starkey. The 41-year-old, who has also served as a town councillor for the past six years, has claimed he has "big shoes to fill". Long-servin...

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