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Good morning, a Louth man has been jailed after causing serious injury by dangerous driving. The 21

year old was sentenced to two years in prison following his guilty plea to the charge. James Ian

Hanley, was sentenced at Lincoln Crown court. The court had heard on July 17th last year Hanley was

overtaking vehicles and narrowly avoiding head on collisions as he drove along the A16. When he

was just south of Burwell, he collided with an ambulance which had caused serious injury to the

driver and the passenger. In addition to the two year custodial sentence, he is banned from driving

for four years.

In other news, Lincolnshire has been awarded an extra £3.4 million to repair potholes and other

storm damage on the roads which have been badly affected by the recent winter weather. With an

£3,457,324 funding pot, Lincolnshire had received one of the highest amounts of cash when

compared with other local authorities, This latest funding comes from a £100 million project which

would help to repair almost 2 million potholes and to protect the roads from any future severe

weather. This is on top of the £75 million in government funding with has already been given to

councils from the Pothole Action Fund this year and as the additional £46 million boost for the

highway authorities had announced just before Christmas.

The head of King Edward VI Grammar school is ‘fed up’ following a torrent of abuse and intimidation

towards his staff and students and there has been reports of a large stone being thrown at a senior

teacher. James Lascelles has said there has been numerous incidents over the past half term which

involves a group of young people which do not attend KEVIGS. They have been reported at

congregating at the school gates at the end of the day and being involved with anti-social behaviour.

Mr Lascelles has raised concerns which some of the incidents has involved students from Louth
Academy uniform whilst others involved weren’t wearing any uniform. A spokesman from the

Tollbar Multi-academy trust has said there is ‘no evidence’ that any Louth Academy student were

involved. However, Executive Principal from Louth Academy Martin Brown is working closely with

the staff at KEVIGS and Mr Brown has said he and other staff from the Academy had visited the

KEVIGS to assist on several occasions. Mr Lascelles has reported to have contacted the police about

the incidents. The PCSOs have been in attendance at the school recently and has offered to return

on a regular basis to monitor the situation. Today’s forecast, cloudy with the possibility of sun later.

Highs of 13 degrees.