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BUSINESS owners and residents have claimed the people of Horncastle have not been consulted enough on the town's five weeks of roadworks. Strong views were aired by the public to Horncastle Town Council at their latest meeting ahead of the roadworks which were due to start on Monday. Lincolnshire County Council Highways are carrying out essential roadworks at the junction of Jubilee Way and North Street which will include modernisati...

Lincolnshire County Council have ordered 15 new gritters in preparation for maintaining the county's roads over the winter. Twelve new 26 tonne Mercedes Schmidt gritters are set to replace older vehicles at Boston Chainbridge, Horncastle and Pode Hole highways depots. In addition, three new replacement smaller 10 tonne DAF gritters at Manby, Boston Chainbridge and Sturton will help treat pedestrianised areas and narrower urban...

NEW car parking meters will go live in 27 car parks in East Lindsey during late February and early March. The new meters will replace existing car parking meters which are up to 15 years old and becoming increasingly unreliable and expensive to maintain. The new meters will require car park users to input their car registration details when buying a ticket.  The car parks where the new meters are to be installed include Louth,...

A RESIDENTS' Association in Louth is against plans which will see an end to buses travelling west on Mercer Row. Stagecoach East Midlands is changing its routes which will see outbound buses travel via Church Street and Newmarket rather than Mercer Row. The decision was made as parked cars on Mercer Row were causing difficulties for buses to get through. At the latest meeting of Louth Town Council, councillor James Pocklington spoke on...

What a complete u-turn! Just a couple of months after the great and the good decided that what Louth people really needed was to travel 15 miles to take their driving test in an unfamiliar town on unfamiliar roads, we have a possible change of minds! The original reason for closing the centre was that it was not up to the standards customers demanded, although all the customers I spoke to were happy to have the centre based in a...

Louth is clogged up again this morning with several incidents bringing the town, and roads in and out of it, to a virtual standstill. Most significant are the huge delays on Horncastle Road. An accident this morning has led to the road between the A16 bypass and the Raithby turning to be closed in both directions. The traffic is now backing up all the way down Horncastle Road to the traffic lights on Upgate, where traffic is queueing...