Politics

Plans to buy land at RAF Cranwell and build 29 new council homes are set to be discussed next week.

Today (Friday April 12) is your final chance to register to vote in the upcoming parish, town and district council elections on Thursday May 2.

The government needs to do more to tackle “absentee” landlords in a bid to fill empty shops, say council leaders.

Lincolnshire County Council is considering creating an energy company in a bid to take back control over the supply.

An outline plan by supermarket giant Tesco for a new retail park, retirement home and bowls club in Sleaford was given the go-ahead last night.

Councils across Greater Lincolnshire have started preparations for European Union elections on May 23.

If you know a local hero, Lincolnshire County Council wants you to nominate them for a ‘Good Citizen Award’.

Thirty-three young Sleaford air cadets are hoping their careers will ‘take off’ after graduating from an RAF course.

We have a fantastic five students in the running for our Young Sleafordian of the Year Award category in this year’s Sleaford Town Awards.

We have two shortlisted nominations for Young Sports Individual of the Year in the Town Awards - golfer Michael Baines and footballer Lottie Wells.

Our two other shortlisted Teacher of the Year Award nominations are Theresa Angus, of Carre’s Grammar School and Bronwyn Fleming of Kesteven and Sleaford High School.

We come to our final week of profiles on shortlisted nominees for the 2019 Sleaford Town Awards.

A military charity is giving people in the Sleaford area the chance to run a 5k course through a local RAF base while being showered with powder paints.

The Mayor of Sleaford’s Civic Service was held in the Riverside Church on Southgate for the first time in eight years when Coun Grenville Jackson welcomed almost 100 guests including fellow civic dignitaries for an enjoyable event.

Sleaford Town Council has announced that, following the success of last year’s outdoor cinema event at Boston Road Recreation Ground, it will be holding a follow up event on the same lines, but over two nights.

Around 40 to 50 armed forces veterans from the Sleaford area are planning to hold a demonstration in the town on April 19 in support of ‘Soldier F’, who is set to be prosecuted as an outcome of the Bloody Sunday inquiry and police investigations.

The starting gun has officially been fired on local elections across Lincolnshire and it looks like there’s a rise in independent thinking.

Councils across Lincolnshire have released their lists of candidates for the May 2 local elections.