Politics

Pensioners in Lincolnshire are due to receive nearly £300 in tax credit from the government to help ease the cost of living. The payments follow calls from Age UK, to provide more support to older households. Earlier this year, they launched the “It doesn’t add up” campaign, aimed at asking...

A refugee charity has condemned the Home Office’s decision to house thousands of asylum seekers at RAF Scampton. The former Dambusters HQ was selected by the Government to house up to 2,000 migrants, however, legal action has been brought against the Home Office by West Lindsey Council, who believe the...

Schools are feeling the strain as leisure centres are changing operational hours and cancelling classes to save energy. This creates a problem as the national curriculum makes it mandatory that schools teach students swimming in either key stages 1 or 2. The changes come after Greenwich Leisure Limited announced it...

  Groups that support LGBTQ+ rights are outraged that councils in Lincolnshire have been depositing millions of tax-payer funds in Qatari banks. Despite the fact that homosexuality remains illegal in Qatar, as well as rumours of unlawful deaths of migrant workers, the World Cup host’s state bank has received £120...

https://youtu.be/SUAz0rz0ueY As of the beginning of March, over one million Ukrainian residents have left their country to seek shelter from the ongoing Russian invasion. With over half a million refugees having crossed the border into Poland and hundreds of thousands into surrounding European countries, these people are in need of...

Ambulance wait times across Lincolnshire for the most serious conditions can be more than double the national average. Category 1 incidents are the most severe and most life-threatening incidents that the NHS 999 call line receives. In the best areas, mostly closer to Lincoln, the wait times are as low...

Photo credit: Meghan Green/Matt WarmanMatt Warman MP outside a constituency event A Lincolnshire MP says that “the armed police model in Westminster would not work well in constituency surgeries". Conservative MP Matt Warman, who represents Boston and Skegness, says that in an ideal world constituency surgeries “are just walk in...

The passing of May 25th marked the one year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd, a 46 year old black man, at the hands of those who were sworn in to ‘Protect and Serve’.    Black Lives Matter Protests occur all over America. Photo Credit:Clay Banks   Not Long...

Fly-tipping was high on the agenda before Marc Jones was re-elected as Lincolnshire Police and Crime Commissioner. It's described on the government's website as 'illegal dumping of liquid or solid waste on land or in water.' Marc Jones has made it clear to LSJ News that this is an issue...

The statement on the website of Better Cotton Initiative (BCI), a Switzerland-based cotton organisation, about forced labour in Xinjiang disappeared, whilst H&M’s remains unchanged. The China Office of the organisation said in March they have conducted second-party credibility investigation and third-party verification since its registration in 2012, but found no case...

On the 22nd of May, organisers of a pro-palestinian protest in London announced a turnout of 180,000 people in support of Palestinian Liberation. Organisers and Activists described it as the ‘largest protest in support of Palestine in UK history’  Photo Credit: Peter Needham Photo Credit: Palestinian Deep Dive This mass...

Young people have stood up for issues like climate change in recent years, but is more of an interest needed in local politics?