Crime

Impressed by the progress shown by a defendant well-known to the court, magistrates gave him a lenient sentence.

An unemployed man who appeared before magistrates charged with possession of cannabis told the court he smokes 10 joints a day.

A woman has admitted multiple thefts of candles and perfume, some committed on the same day, and told police that it was to pay off a drug debt.

A Norfolk man claimed he did not hear the police tannoy ordering ravers to leave Twyford Woods, because he was in a tent meditating.

Magistrates issued an arrest warrant for a man accused of damaging a window on the top floor of John Cussell Jewellers, Grantham, on February 4.

Two men admitted stealing five bottles of spirits from Grantham’s Marks & Spencer store.

A care assistant at a nursing home who drove after drinking two glasses of wine has been disqualified for a year, with her sentence handed out by a magistrate who previously gave her a driving lesson.

Just two weeks after a ‘cruise’ event left eight people in hospital police have intervened after a similar incident in the same area.

Three men ransacked a house in Tallington last night (Friday).

A Grantham man was found to be driving with traces of heroin in his system, and also didn’t have a licence or insurance.

A 37-year-old said he stole a joint of lamb to feed himself and his dog.

Two Grantham men have admitted stealing over £150 worth of diesel from a HGV.

A 21-year-old has pleaded guilty to a public order offence after a fight which he couldn’t remember because he was so drunk.

The manager of a hotel in Rutland has spoken of her shock following a masked raid in the early hours of the morning on Friday last week.

A Werrington woman who had been missing since yesterday has been found safe and well today, Wednesday August 19.

A Nottinghamshire man will appear before Lincoln Crown Court charged with conspiring to steal stock from Matalan in Grantham.

Railways across the midlands are safer than ever according to British Transport Police as recorded fell crime for the 11th year in a row, but there have been rises in violent and sexual crimes

A man from Bromley missed his Grantham court hearing to answer charges of class A and class C drugs possession, because his car had broken down.

The Lincolnshire Counter Fraud Partnership is cracking down on people falsely claiming discounts on their council tax, as part of wider fraud initiatives.

A pensioner is accused of turning left at a level crossing in Wilsford and driving on the tracks, thereby endangering the safety of a person upon the railway.