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Intensive farming has all but destroyed England’s ancient woodlands and freshwater wetlands. On a farm in Lincolnshire a radical aristocrat hopes to show there’s money in protecting nature

By Patrick Barkham. Read by Dermot Daly

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CCTV footage shows a man jumping from a first-floor window before running into the street and, by chance. approaching a police car. The man jumps in and tells the officer he had been kidnapped and informs him of the location. Lincolnshire police subsequently arrest four men and a woman in connection with the incident

• Man jumps out of first-floor window to escape kidnappers in Lincoln

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Five jailed after targeting victim and subjecting him to ordeal linked to past relationship breakdown

Dramatic footage shows a kidnapped man jumping from a first-floor window into a tree before running into the street and, by chance, coming across a police car.

Lincolnshire police said the ordeal of the unnamed man had been “horrifying” and the presence of a marked police vehicle “may have saved his life”.

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Lincolnshire Police are again appealing for witnesses following the death of a young woman in Skegness.

The owner of a Sleaford hand car wash business says a 10-week council highways project to resurface and upgrade a key route into Sleaford has decimated his livelihood.

A village pool near Sleaford has just hosted its first ever lifeguard training course

A Stickney driver who caused the death of a motorcyclist when he pulled out of a junction in Boston has been handed a suspended jail sentence.

A disgraced former school teacher who was jailed after he was found guilty of sexually assaulting 14 boys has been banned from teaching indefinitely.