Cutting SureStart is not the answer Mr Cameron...

If David Cameron really believes 'Britain is Broken', why would he cut one in five of the amazing SureStart Childrens Centres opened by Labour over the past ten years which now give hundreds of thousands of children a better start in life?

Despite Conservative attempts to exploit the horrific Edlington case, it is - thank goodness - extremely rare for nine-year-olds to be assaulted by their father with a golf club, grow up watching extreme violence, mutilation, pornography, see their mother beaten by their drunken father and threaten to slash her face, experience illegal drugs...

Lincolnshire benefits from three dozen of the 3,500 SureStart's delivered across the whole country by Labour over the past decade - including one here in The Deepings.

Cameron's cuts to vital public services like SureStart - and fewer police - would damage society, not make it better.

Ay Up Mi-duck, who's afraid of being a Yellow-Belly...?

Don't care what others say mi-duck, I'm proud to be a Lincolnshire Yellow Belly (albeit an adopted one).

I was born a Steelback (in Kettering, Northants), but grew up in Lincolnshire after the RAF posted my father here in 1958.

Apart from a five year break in the 1970s working in Bermuda, I've chosen to live in Lincolnshire ever since.

I don't think I speak with a particular Lincolnshire accent, but I have to confess that I usually give away my roots by addressing strangers with a friendly 'Mi-Duck'.

And I'm not changing now.

Not for Nowt Mi-Duck.

The cost of getting out of Lincolnshire...

One more day to have your say on Humber Bridge tolls...

I blame Gordon Brown...

A temperature of 28.6 Centigrade at Cranwell was a UK record for this year, according to the Lincs Echo.

For us oldies, in real money 28.6 translates to somewhere in the mid-eighties.

I knew Lincolnshire's hot, but that's boiling!

The Prime Minister is of course on holiday in neighbouring Norfolk: And as he seems to be getting slated for everything under the sun, he's no doubt also to blame for the weather!

£225 million rail boost for Lincs

Plans by Network Rail to invest £225 million to improve Lincolnshire's railways have been warmly welcomed.

After the Quake, storm damage hits home...

Just arrived home from Labour's Spring Conference in Brum to discover some of the damage caused by the weekend gales right in my back garden.

Two sections of my neighbour's fencing landed in my driveway and two more lie on top of my favourite rose-bed of climbers, floribundas and tea-roses.

Many other people have lost more than a few roses of course.

According to the BBC, Lincolnshire Police dealt with 500 calls overnight on Friday, most of them weather-related.

All this just days after Lincolnshire was the epi-centre of an earthquake.

What is the world coming to...?

Lincs airmen send Russian Bears packing...

Good to see Lincs airmen playing their part this week in seeing off one of one of the biggest shows of Russian air power since the end of the Cold War...