Lincolnshire hospitals change Christmas visiting rules
Cut to one day and one visitor
Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
Patients at Lincoln and Boston hospitals will be allowed just one visitor on Christmas Day only, following the government’s tighter lockdown measures.
However, with the government’s Christmas guidelines changing on Saturday, allowing people in tiers 1, 2 and 3 to mix just on Christmas Day, Lincoln County and Pilgrim hospitals have cut their available visiting dates to just December 25.
Visiting at Grantham District Hospital is still not permitted due to it being a COVID-free site, which enables surgery and cancer treatment to continue.
Tier 3 Greater Lincolnshire: 307 COVID-19 cases, 6 deaths on Monday
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There have been 307 new coronavirus cases and six COVID-related deaths in Greater Lincolnshire on Monday.
Boston and Lincoln have the highest infection rates of all areas under tier 3 resections and their 400-plus per 100,000 people infection rate is double than some tier 4 areas, according to PA analysis of Public Health England data.
The government’s COVID-19 dashboard recorded 218 new cases in Lincolnshire, 62 in North Lincolnshire and 27 in North East Lincolnshire.
On Monday, five deaths were registered in Lincolnshire and one in North Lincolnshire. These figures include deaths both in and out of hospitals, as well as residents in hospitals outside the county.
Evicted shop tenants break back in to sell illegal cigarettes
They’ve been banned for three months
Vina Mini Market on Lincoln High Street. | Photo: The Lincolnite
A shop on Lincoln High Street has been ordered to close after previously evicted tenants broke back into the store to continue selling illegal cigarettes.
Vina Mini Market, situated at 110 High Street in Lincoln, had been reported by Lincolnshire Trading Standards earlier in 2020 for selling counterfeit cigarettes.
This prompted the landlord to order bailiffs to evict the shop owners, due to using the store for criminal activity.
Once the bailiffs had left, the recently evicted shop tenants returned to the store by breaking in and continued to trade illicit tobacco.
Bourne shopkeeper handed suspended jail sentence after being caught selling illicit cigarettes and tobacco
| Updated: 13:47, 11 December 2020
A Bourne shopkeeper who was caught selling illicit cigarettes and tobacco was today (Friday, December 11) given a suspended jail sentence at Lincoln Crown Court.
Majid Mahmoud (50), of North Street, was prosecuted after Lincolnshire Trading Standards officers, together with police, carried out a raid at the Stop and Shop convenience store in North Street.
Michael Coley, prosecuting said the raid, carried out in February 2019, led to the discovery of counterfeit cigarettes, which purported to be Richmond and Mayfair-branded.
Lincoln Crown Court (43180941)
Other cigarettes and tobacco on sale did not display the mandatory health warning and also had illegal packaging.
Bourne shopkeeper given suspended jail sentence after being caught selling illicit cigarettes and tobacco
| Updated: 13:38, 11 December 2020
A shopkeeper who was caught selling illicit cigarettes and tobacco was today (Friday, December 11) given a suspended jail sentence at Lincoln Crown Court.
Majid Mahmoud was prosecuted after Lincolnshire Trading Standards officers together with police carried out a raid on the Stop and Shop convenience store in North Street, Bourne.
Michael Coley, prosecuting said that the raid, carried out in February 2019, led to the discovery of counterfeit cigarettes which purported to be Richmond and Mayfair branded.
Lincoln Crown Court (43180941)
Other cigarettes and tobacco on sale did not display the mandatory health warning and had illegal packaging.