The Lincolnite tries: Blyton Ice Cream opens in Lincoln with over 70 flavours
Yummy! Plenty to try!
Blyton Ice Cream opened a new shop on Lincoln High Street on Friday morning and
The Lincolnite went to check it out.
Mary Cook, who co-founded the business in 1985 with her husband Warwick, cut the ribbon to officially open the firm’s fourth shop in Lincolnshire at 10am on Friday, May 28. It is located next to Carousel in the unit formerly occupied by HW Franklin.
The Lincoln shop will serve a total of over 70 flavours with different ones being rotated each week. The flavours included classics such as vanilla, strawberry and chocolate, as well as Eton mess, sticky toffee pudding, creme egg, candy floss, and the newest addition of caramel chocolate pretzel.
Family left heartbroken after doting dad killed in one punch pub assault I have laid in bed at night with my son while he has been sobbing asking if his uncle can come back from heaven
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Danny Maguire (Image: Lincs Police)
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Two arrests as police launch Lincoln murder probe
The victim was stabbed
Police have arrested two men after a 23-year-old man was stabbed to death in the St Giles area of Lincoln.
Officers attended Coleridge Gardens at around 10.48pm on Thursday, May 27. The victim sustained serious knife wounds and sadly died, and a scene guard was put in place shortly after 11pm.
Two men, aged 23 and 24, were arrested on suspicion of murder and were taken into police custody.
Police attended the scene. | Photo: The Lincolnite
Police believe it was an isolated incident and a cordon remains in place in the area on Friday, May 28.
One punch can kill: Police campaign after trio of tragic assaults
Two victims died and one was left with brain damage
Danny Maguire and Gediminas Vaitkus both died after one punch assaults in Lincolnshire in 2020. | Photos: Lincolnshire Police
Lincolnshire Police has launched a #OnePunchCanKill campaign to raise awareness of the devastating impact one punch can have after three assaults last year saw two men sadly die and another left with brain damage.
Luke Templeman struck Danny Maguire, 34, in the face in a pub beer garden in Grantham on February 28 last year with such force that the victim fell hitting his head on the ground.
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Gediminas Vaitkus of Boston died after a one punch assault
The force’s #OnePunchCanKill comes after the deaths of two men in the county – including one from Boston - in 2020 and another man left brain damaged.
Gediminas Vaitkus, 43, of Tunnard Street, Boston, died after a one punch assault in Red Lion Street in the town last July.
Danny Maguire, 34, of Retford, also died a week after suffering a serious head injury in a one punch assault at a pub in Grantham.
Danny Maguire
In both cases, their attackers were jailed for manslaughter.
And another one punch assault victim, Mark Hatcher, 47, was left brain damaged an assault in the street near the Black Bull in Donington.