Family fundraiser as Lincoln baby prepares for life-saving heart surgery
“She’s the light of our lives”
Gracie had a stent procedure in hospital and now requires heart surgery.
A fundraiser has been set up to help the parents of a Lincoln baby who requires life-saving heart surgery.
Gracie Johnson is nine-and-a-half months old. When her mother Paige Jackson was 25 weeks pregnant she found out that her daughter has Tetralogy of Fallot, which is four congenital heart defects.
Gracie was born five weeks early on May 5 last year and had to spend three weeks in ICU at Nottingham City Hospital as she needed more specialist care.
Exams cancelled and grades to be decided by teachers
Teachers will judge grades without exams
| Photo: Adobe Stock / Monkey Business
School teachers will decide grades for GCSE and A-level students this year as examinations are cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Grades can be determined by how the pupils perform in mock exams, coursework and essays within class.
Exam boards will offer optional assessment material for schools to use by Easter, and teachers can pick subject-specific questions to ask students, but not in an exam setting.
These test papers will help teachers to make their judgement, but are not timed exams and will not decide any final grades.
University explains dead caged animals in Lincoln woodland
Experiments to help solve murder cases
The cages were found by someone walking their dog near Riseholme campus. | Photo: Ryan Stroud
The University of Lincoln said that decaying animal corpses found in cages near Riseholme campus are part of forensic experiments to help police solve murder cases.
The cages were found by Ryan Stroud, 30, when he was walking his dog with his children through a woodland area near to the Lincolnshire Showground.
Ryan told
The Lincolnite that his dog ran through a field, chasing a bird, and was followed by his kids into the woods where they found cages.
The Australian summer is over (not counting the Sheffield Shield, but sadly nobody seems to). So what better time to slip in another light-hearted hypothetical XI? Prompted by a mix of the spectacular and very average fielding efforts we saw in the Indian series and the BBL, and YouTube randomly recommending me Jonty Rhodes videos […]