News in Brief

Signs are starting to go up around Lincoln to inform residents about the new alcohol control zone which is being enforced. Police now have the power to tell people in a specific part of the city to stop drinking if they are causing, or likely to cause, a nuisance.

Workers and union members will be protesting in Sheffield later over the government's decision to close 36 of the 54 Remploy factories which provide work for hundreds of disabled people.

There will be compulsory redundancies for 1,752 people, of these 1,518 are disabled. The remaining 18 Remploy sites are expected to close soon after.

Police in Lincoln are starting to enforce new powers to tackle street drinking. It follows the creation of a Designated Public Place Order (DPPO) by the City of Lincoln Council last November. Signs are going up explaining the new rules, which stop short of a total alcohol ban.

Police officers now have the power to ask people to stop drinking alcohol if they are causing, or are likely to cause, a nuisance or annoyance. If that person refuses, an offence has been committed.

The DPPO will be enforced within a boundary set by Newport Arch, St Mark’s Shopping Centre, Broadgate and the Brayford Bridge.

Rotherham referee Howard Webb will be in charge of the final men's football qualifier for the Olympic Games. Oman is taking on Senegal at the play off on Monday. His Assistants will be Stephen Child and Mike Mullarkey. Martin Atkinson is the Fourth Official.

It's been announced that the Red Arrows will perform a flypast to celebrate the opening ceremony of the Olympic games.

The display team, based at RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, will fly over Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh and London, just ahead of the official opening.

A bull was shot by South Yorkshire Police this morning in the grounds of Fox Hill Primary School in Sheffield.

A member of the public rang the police around lunchtime today and the bull was found on the school's playing fields.

Pupils were inside the school at the time.

It's thought the bull escaped from a local slaughter house.

After getting specialist advice, police decided the bull had to be killed.

Crime in Hull is at a record low, according to Humberside Police.

In the last year crime reduced by 4.4% in the city, which is the equivalent of 1,664 crime victims.

Anne McIntosh, the MP for Thirsk and Malton, met the Chancellor George Osborne today to discuss a fuel duty rebate for rural parts of North Yorkshire.

People in this part of the country rely on their own transport and the high costs of fuel are also affecting the budgets of public services

Julian Sturdy, MP for York Outer, is concerned about horses roaming near busy roads.