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A Christmas message from the Mayor of Sleaford, 2025-26, Coun Alison Snookes.

As the year draws to a close, it’s time to look back on the stories that brought our communities together, marked momentous anniversaries, and showed the heart of Lincolnshire in 2025. From celebrations of peace and remembrance to local triumphs and communal spirit, here’s our month-by-month journey through the year that was.

Lincolnshire MP Richard Tice is calling on the county council to act urgently on a long-running drainage problem in Wainfleet, after heavy rainfall repeatedly caused passing vehicles to splash water onto nearby homes.

A Christmas and New Year message from the MP for Sleaford and North Hykeham, Dr Caroline Johnson.

Next month will see the launch of a chicken pox childhood vaccination in Lincolnshire along with key changes to the immunisation schedule.

A convoy of illuminated tractors is thought to have raised more than £2,000 for the children’s ward at Boston’s Pilgrim Hospital.

Countryside campaigners have been handed a perfect Christmas present – victory in the long-running battle to stop oil-drilling at Biscathorpe.

Police are appealing for information for an ongoing investigation after a woman is said to have tried to grab a teenage boy and make him get into her car.

Objectors are reeling after the latest controversial plan for a solar farm on land in the Horncastle area was given the go-ahead by the government.

A long-running Christmas tradition in Boston returned at the weekend, helping spread festive cheer along the town’s streets and at Pilgrim Hospital.