The Latest Breaking News from Lincolnshire

Workers at farm owned by UK’s biggest pig meat producer Cranswick filmed killing piglets by banned ‘blunt force trauma’

A shop worker confronted a knife-wielding robber who appeared to threaten a female colleague at a newsagents in Lincolnshire on 29 March.

Dame Andrea Jenkyns has doubled down on Farage’s pledge to sack diversity officers in Lincolnshire but the county council has revealed it does not employ any

Reform UK has won Staffordshire and Lincolnshire councils from the Conservatives and taken control of Durham County Council.

Reform’s new Greater Lincolnshire mayor storms off as she accuses Sky News reporter of asking ‘divisive questions’

NEWS ANALYSIS: From swearing at protesters outside Downing Street to becoming the mayor of Lincolnshire in an election where opponents claimed she was not qualified to stand, Dame Andrea Jenkyns has had a career of controversy and drama like few others, says The Independent’s political editor David Maddox

In today’s newsletter: Early indications of Conservative collapse in benchmark local elections

Dame Andrea Jenkyns, who served as a minister in the last Conservative government, is standing as Reform’s candidate in the Lincolnshire mayoralty.

Dame Andrea said the move to prevent her from standing was a ‘political hit job aimed at smearing my candidacy’