Lincolnshire Echo back issues from November 2008:
Deep-rooted talent
Nov 01, 2008 ... Splinters flying and shavings spraying - there's something quitebrutal looking about James Kendall's chainsaw demonstrations. But behind it all is a deep-rooted passion for trees. As well as being an environmental artist and producing highquality tree sculptures using a ...
Authors off the page
Nov 01, 2008 ... For many aspiring novelists being able to draw on the advice ofPulitzer Prize winners and Booker Prize recipients would be a dreamcome true. For one county writer, however, chatting to such literaryluminaries as Martin Amis and AS Byatt has been a regularoccurrence. Carole ...
Extreme sports a to z
Nov 01, 2008 ... Base Jumping: Jumping from fixed objects while deploying aparachute from the moment of take-off. BASE is an acronym thatstands for the four categ ories of fixed objects from which a personcan jump. B stands for Building, A stands for Antenna, S stands froSkyscraper and E is for ...
Extreme members
Nov 01, 2008 ... Second year audio tech student Adam Boardman (22) is one of themore seasoned adrenalin junkies in the Extreme Sports Society. He has been a free-style kayaker for years. "The idea of free-style kayaking is that you do as much mad stuffas you can in a minute," says Adam. "It is ...
The psychology of thrill seeking
Nov 01, 2008 ... Thrill seekers are thought to have a lower level of a brainchemical called monoamine oxydase. It takes a higher level of thrilling stimuli to create the sameresponse that non-thrill seekers experience. Psychologist Frank Farley of Temple University calls thrillseekers a Type ...
Pretty in pink
Nov 01, 2008 ... Hair We GO: Receptionist Laura Needs helped colleagues makepink cakes for customers at Saks hair and beauty salon at ...
Your 20s
Nov 01, 2008 ... What Happens: "In your 20s, skin becomes duller and drier," saysRoC's Dr Nathalie Issachar. Luckily cell turnover is at its optimum and you have adequateproduction of sebum to hydrate and protect. YOUR DEFENCE: There's no need to start fretting, but your 20s arethe ideal time ...
Ladies in red are on to a winner
Nov 01, 2008 ... Lady In Red is Chris de Burgh's signature 1986 hit - but whatis it about the colour that drives men wild? Boffins have now conducted a series of tests to examine howcolour can affect a man's perception of attractiveness. More than 100 men were observed in five different ...
Smokers should wield power
Nov 01, 2008 ... I'm proud to be in a country where 15 million smokers, includingmyself, are enough to put a current government out of office or topotentially elect an entirely new party to power. It is funny that ...
Elderly in rural areas have little choice but to drive to the shops
Nov 01, 2008 ... In reply to your remarks about elderly drivers (October 23)having to take a new driving test, I don't think it's elderlydrivers to blame for accidents on the roads. It's all right picking on elderly drivers, but when you live inthe country and ...
Historic plea
Nov 01, 2008 ... The Lancaster bomber helped us win the Second World War and theVulcan ('Tax cash quest', October 28) helped us win the ...
Cyclists ignoring their own path
Nov 01, 2008 ... Aspiring anthropologists can view the increasing stupidity ofman, by taking a short trip along the Branston to Lincoln road. An undoubtedly very expensive cycle path has been provided forcyclists to use. It is well signed and visible. However, this ...
Club would make an ideal setting for new city hotel
Nov 01, 2008 ... How about converting the Lincoln Constitutional Club (October 29)into a hotel with a restaurant and a big conference area? Then delegates can come and have their conference and thenretire for a drink and a meal and go to bed without leaving thebuilding. People have only to ...
Royal Mail just not delivering
Nov 01, 2008 ... Royal Mail is getting worse. Delivery is getting later and later with each passing day, Why? Didn't we once have the ...
More than 50,000 now on DNA database
Nov 01, 2008 ... The number of DNA samples from Lincolnshire people in thenational police database has now grown to more than 50,000. So far this year, police have added 5,109 samples of geneticmaterial taken from suspects in criminal investigations. And in 2007 they added 6,926 samples, ...
Marvellous mosaic on show
Nov 01, 2008 ... A Group of adults with learning disabilities have helped toproduce a striking mosaic. Members of Imp Art Community Art Base in Sincil Bank, Lincoln,joined other volunteers to produce the piece (pictured) which hasbeen unveiled in the Imp Art garden. Graham Marsh, city ...
Face to face with woman burglar
Nov 01, 2008 ... A terrified burglary victim came face to face with an beer-swilling intruder when she went to investigate noises in the middleof the night, a Lincoln court was told. Amy Holland heard the sound of glass being smashed after beingwoken at her home in Lincoln's St Giles Estate, but ...
Jail warning for 999 hoax caller
Nov 01, 2008 ... A Sixty-year-old man is facing jail after he made a series ofabusive 999 calls. David Thurling made around 45 unnecessary emergency calls, on oneoccasion 30 in a single day. He was often abusive and when ambulances turned up he refused tobe treated or complained of trivial ...
Man scared by surgery, inquest told
Nov 01, 2008 ... A Patient who died after dental surgery in Poland told hisdentist he was "scared" moments before treatment began. Architect Richard Gordon Woodhouse (68), died shortly after beinggiven a local anaesthetic at the surgery in Krakow, an inquestheard. Minutes before the drug ...
Illegal workers held in immigration swoop
Nov 01, 2008 ... Illegal foreign workers have been arrested at two Lincolnmanicure salons. Immigration officers swooped on The Nail Fairy in High Street andSilver Street's Exquisite Nail Spa and four Vietnamese nationals nowface deportation. The UK Border Agency is also considering whether to ...
Businesses targeted by officials
Nov 01, 2008 ... Immigration officers swooped on Topkapi kebab house in HighStreet, Lincoln, in June this year where they arrested a 29-year-old Turkish man. He was found to be a failed asylum seeker with no right to workin the UK. Illegal foreign workers were found at AMS Hand Car Wash, ...
Appeal for witnesses
Nov 01, 2008 ... A Teenager was attacked outside a village chippy. Police are appealing for information after the 19-year-old youthwas hit in the face. The assault happened in Scotter, near Gainsborough, at 10pm onWednesday. His attacker is described as ...
Disruption at an end
Nov 01, 2008 ... City centre roadworks at the Portland Street junction with HighStreet were expected to end last night. Motorists endured disruption for more than two weeks as work wascarried out on traffic lights. That ended earlier in the week, but the ...
Cash go-ahead for new city academies
Nov 01, 2008 ... The future of education in Lincoln will begin to take shape nowthat pounds50m has been allocated to the controversial academiesproject. The Priory Federation of Academies can now spend the money onplans for new buildings and facilities across its three super-sites. The ...
Teaching's new look
Nov 01, 2008 ... The City and Witham Academies will be new builds which areexpected to be completed by 2011. They are carbon neutral achieved using equipment such as groundsource heat pumps ...
Everyone's in the pink for a funds day to remember
Nov 01, 2008 ... Fund-raisers looked pretty in pink and collected thousands ofpounds at the same time. The Breast Cancer Campaign's Wear It Pink day fell on October 31to marks the end of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Hundreds of people from across Lincolnshire took part, andswapped their ...
DJ spins out a safe sex message
Nov 01, 2008 ... A Radio 1 DJ Tim Westwood has teamed up with a sexual healthgiant to promote safe sex in Lincolnshire. Westwood and Durex are urging revellers at Butlins in Skegness to'Strap it up before you slap it up' on November 21. Durex is supporting Westwood's current tour which sees ...
Brothers in arms from Lincolnshire on front line
Nov 01, 2008 ... Everyone has heard the term "brothers in arms" about soldiers onthe front line - but it literally is true of three lads fromHorncastle. The Rawdon brothers, aged between 18 and 26, are all soldierswith the 2nd Battalion Royal Anglian Regiment, known as thePoachers. And all ...
'I never thought I would join up like my brothers'
Nov 01, 2008 ... Private David Rawdon (18), a sharp-shooter who graduated from theArmy Foundation College at Harrogate, admits he feels competitivewith his big brothers. Based at Thar Al Allah camp in Basra, Pte Rawdon chose a life inthe forces after watching his brothers progress through the ...
'I can't wait to see my mum and girlfriend'
Nov 01, 2008 ... Corporal Erik Rawdon (22) is based at the Divisional TrainingCentre in Shaibah in Iraq, where Iraqi Army units train with theirBritish counterparts. One of his jobs is to instruct the native units on subjectsranging from person searches to urban fighting. "It's been a mixed ...
'Baghdad has calmed down quite a bit'
Nov 01, 2008 ... Sergeant John Rawdon (26) is based in Baghdad, monitoring,mentoring and training Iraqi soldiers. After completing six operational tours in Iraq, Afghanistan andNorthern Ireland he says the tempo is decidedly slower this timearound. "Baghdad has calmed down quite a lot since ...
City's right Royal link to coach
Nov 01, 2008 ... The man behind a new state coach for the Queen has revealed hisfamily's Lincoln roots. As reported in the Echo, Australian Jim Frecklington has scouredthe world for historical artefacts from British history which arebeing inlaid into the Royal State Coach Britannia's interior as ...
Hoax 999 caller 'sounded rape alarm down line to operator'
Nov 01, 2008 ... A man who sounded a rape alarm down the phone to a 999 emergencyoperator has been warned he could face a jail sentence. Retired David Thurling (60) made around 45 abusive or nuisancecalls to police and ambulance services between August 11 and October7 this year, a court ...
Stan's urn under Imps pitch for decade
Nov 01, 2008 ... A Lincoln City supporter was buried under the pitch so hewouldn't miss a single game. The ashes of Stan Ford, a fanatical Imps supporter, were buriedunder the pitch in 1998 and his family say they are delighted that10 years on he has not missed a single game. Mr Ford was a ...
Baby heart fault theory
Nov 01, 2008 ... A FOUR-month-old baby who died at Lincoln County Hospitalsuffered from heart problems, an inquest heard. Matthew James Brett was only 18 weeks old when airlifted to hospital, after his breathing stopped during a day out. Family members had taken him to Rand Farm Park, ...
Man stole goods to give as presents
Nov 01, 2008 ... A migrant stole items from Lincoln's TK Maxx store to "give tohis family as presents". Radaslaw Robert Smiechowski admitted stealing two pairs of bootsfrom the shop, off Tritton Road, and other items from another store. Marie Stace, prosecuting, told Lincoln magistrates ...
Five quizzed over attack
Nov 01, 2008 ... Five passengers attacked a taxi driver before smashing up hiscar. The group of men attacked the driver during a late-night journeyfrom Lincoln to Navenby. The driver, from Lincoln firm Discount Cabs, suffered ...
Marvellous mosaic on show
Nov 03, 2008 ... A Group of adults with learning disabilities have helped toproduce a striking mosaic. Members of Imp Art Community Art Base in Sincil Bank, Lincoln,joined other volunteers to produce the piece (pictured) which hasbeen unveiled in the Imp Art garden. Graham Marsh, city ...
Villagers declare war on speeders
Nov 03, 2008 ... Villagers are being armed with half a dozen anti-speed device ina bid to stop motorists breaking the law. A digital board, which flashes up cars' speed as they drive past,and hand-held speed gun was given to people living in the Ruskingtonarea, near Sleaford, in ...
Idlers play for last time in city
Nov 03, 2008 ... Indie band The Idlers are to play a farewell show in the city. The four-piece will perform at the Bivouac, above the Duke ofWellington in Broadgate, on November 14 before splitting up. Support comes from Hot Recruit, Dirty As Muck and Sportsday ...
pounds30,000 fraud fantasist will have to pay back pounds1
Nov 03, 2008 ... A jailed dentist who ran up an unpaid bill of nearly pounds30,000at a Lincoln country house hotel will have to pay back just pounds1,a court heard. Michael Rasmussen (51) blew the money on fine living as he playedout a fantasy life at Branston Hall Hotel near Lincoln. Lincoln ...
Top general to speak at union meet
Nov 03, 2008 ... The former head of the British Army is to speak at a dinner inLincolnshire. General Sir Mike Jackson, who left the service as Chief of theGeneral Staff in 2006, is the guest of the county's branch of theEnglish Speaking Union at the event on Friday, December 5. He provoked ...
Stephen on first rung?
Nov 03, 2008 ... A Politics graduate from the University of Lincoln is heading forWestminster. Stephen Morgan (21), who achieved a 2:1 degree in the summer, has been employed as a case worker and researcher for LiberalDemocrat MP John Hemming. He will be dealing with inquiries from Mr ...
Hall enjoys golden haul
Nov 03, 2008 ... A TOURIST attraction is celebrating golden success. Doddington Hall, near Lincoln, won several prizes at the EastMidlands Enjoy Excellence Awards 2008. It took the gold for sustainable tourism and will go through tothe national final next ...
Residents slept as firefighters led blaze victims to safety
Nov 03, 2008 ... Most residents in a Lincoln street slept undisturbed whilefirefighters rescued people from a house engulfed in flames. Many of the people living in Claremont Street, off Monks Road,Lincoln, did not even stir while firefighters, police and paramedicsdealt with a blaze which broke ...
91-year-old's war stories
Nov 03, 2008 ... It seems that age is no barrier to surfing the Internet. Author John Benson, who has chronicled the adventures of the 4thBattalion the Lincolnshire Regiment in the Second World War, hasbeen contacted by a 91-year-old veteran via the websitewww.fourthlincolns.tripod.com. Mr ...
Christmas wishes for sienna and aimee
Nov 03, 2008 ... Super-tots Sienna Gregory and Aimee Gothorp are hoping to wintheir families a bumper festive time through the Lincolnshire Echo'sChristmas Wishes competition. Sienna (two-and-a-half) and Aimee (five) are among the firstyoungsters to enter. Our competition will see the ...
Epic success attracts expo
Nov 03, 2008 ... A Multi-million pound green complex has won a prestigious deal. The Epic Centre's green credentials have helped it to net the jobof hosting the East Midlands Expo 2008 Acting on Climate Change. It takes place on Wednesday, November 19, and is expected toattract more than 800 ...
Unstable embankments add to power plan woes
Nov 03, 2008 ... I Am writing with regard to the current planning application fora straw burning power station at Boston Road in Sleaford. Lincolnshire County Council's local transport plan includes thefollowing with regard to Kirkby-la-Thorpe bridge: "The embankments at Kirkby-la-Thorpe ...
Better bird options for Christmas
Nov 03, 2008 ... Forget the bland turkey (October 29) and substitute flavoursome, healthy, low-fat game meat, i.e. pheasant, partridge, ...
Shame to demolish this building
Nov 03, 2008 ... What a shame a once attractive building (No 1, Portland Street,October 30) has been destroyed, simply because it had been allowedto fall into neglect. Was demolition really the only option? Couldn't it have beensaved? I hope whatever replaces it will recreate some ...
Shouldn't police losses be lower
Nov 03, 2008 ... A Police spokesman was quoted after thieves had taken pounds5,000of force property since 2005 (Echo, October 30). "When you look at the number of sites we have and the amount oflocations we visit at all times of the day and night, the losses ...
Business park is a good idea
Nov 03, 2008 ... It was reported (October 29) that more than 30 civilian jobs arein jeopardy after the RAF announced it is to close control centresat two Lincolnshire air bases, Scampton and ...
Views on women bishops and gay clergy spelled out
Nov 03, 2008 ... Two religious groups are considering coming together to take astance against women bishops and homosexuality in the church. The Lincoln branch of Forward Into Faith met at YarboroughSchool to take a united stance on the issues. The group of Anglo Catholics was addressed by ...
Get in festive spirit for charity
Nov 03, 2008 ... People can do their bit for two charities while dancing the nightaway at a Christmas cabaret. The event is on Friday, November 28, in the North KestevenDistrict Council Civic Suite in Sleaford. It has been organised on behalf of North Kesteven DistrictCouncil and chairman ...
Man breached driving ban by pushing quad-bike
Nov 03, 2008 ... A banned driver has been convicted for 'driving' a children'squad-bike when he pushed it down a Lincoln road. Karl Andrew Preistley did not know he was breaking the law whenhe pushed the broken-down bike along the pavement, a court heard. In law, he was breaching his driving ...
Council urged to improve bog-standard toilets
Nov 03, 2008 ... City Hall is being urged to splash the cash to make it easier tospend a penny in Lincoln. Shoppers are often forced to pop into a pub if they need to usethe loo because there are not enough good public toilets in the citycentre. Plans to build a new public convenience have ...
Watch out for big load
Nov 03, 2008 ... Early morning motorists have been warned to expect delays inLincoln tomorrow. A 5.2 metre tall filter box weighing 40 tonnes will be deliveredto the Pelham Bridge ...
One third of adults obese
Nov 03, 2008 ... Almost a third of adults in Lincolnshire are clinically obesewith demand for weight management services outstripping demand, sayexperts. A total of 29 per cent of adults have a body mass index of 30 ormore, says the Phoenix Weight Management Service. Body mass index is a ...
Lincoln students' protest over tuition fee fears
Nov 03, 2008 ... Placard-waving students from Lincoln's universities will bestaging a protest against tuition fees in one of the city's busieststreets. The placards, showing the amount they each owe because of highereducation debt, will be seen along the High Street on November 5. The aim is ...
Views on the student protest
Nov 03, 2008 ... Ian Richards Spokesman for the University of Lincoln "The university recognises that the NUS and our local students'unions continue to campaign on the issues around national studentfunding policy and we hope they have a successful event onWednesday." Daniel ...
In the swim for free
Nov 03, 2008 ... Help from the Government has been accepted to support freeswimming sessions. Members of Lincoln City Council's executive accepted pounds23,926for the next two years to deliver free swimming to over-60s. And a further pounds39,805 has been secured for free casualswimming for ...
City students' protests over fees
Nov 03, 2008 ... Hundreds of students are to take action on tuition fees by usingone of Lincoln's busiest streets to highlight their plight. Shoppers will see 'tens of thousands of pounds' lining the city'sHigh Street on Wednesday, November 5. Students from Lincoln's universities have made ...
MP's debate
Nov 03, 2008 ... The Mp for Lincoln, Gillian Merron, took part in a debate ontuition fees with students at Bishop Grosseteste University Collegeback in May. She told them it was acceptable to charge pounds3,000 a year ...
Home gets a modern makeover
Nov 03, 2008 ... Have you decided what type of property you would love to live in? If the answer is that you would prefer an older property that hasa certain period charm and yet has modern touches, then you shouldconsider booking a viewing of 110 Bunkers Hill, Lincoln. Hodgson Elkington is ...