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A sunny start to the day with some patchy cloud.

In the late afternoon further cloud will start to build in from the west. Remaining dry throughout.

Cloud cover will continue throughout the night with widespread clear spells developing.

Wind will pick up with the south-westerly breeze until dawn:

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A teenage girl was sexually assaulted twice in the same night by a masked man in Lincoln, police say.

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The suspect, who was wearing a balaclava, struck first as the girl walked along St Catherines, near the South Park Roundabout, shortly after 22:30 on 12 February.

He then ran off towards the High Street, but half an hour later rode past the victim on a bicycle in Manby Street and slapped her bottom.

The man is described as wearing a black coat with grey joggers. It is believed he had removed the balaclava before the second assault.

Anyone who was in the area or who saw the incident is asked to contact police.

The A46 at Lincoln near Whisby has been closed after a lorry jack-knifed on the road causing severe delays.

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The lorry crashed into the central reservation shortly after 08:30 on Thursday and has spilled diesel across both carriageways, according to National Highways.

The A46 between Pennells roundabout and Whisby roundabout has been closed by police following the incident.

A diversion has been put in place.

Normal conditions are not expected in the area until after 16:00, officials said.

A total of 12 flood warnings and nine flood alerts remain in Yorkshire following Storm Franklin.

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The warnings include ones for the River Aire, River Don and River Ouse.

One flood alert is in place from Cromwell Weir to Gainsborough in Lincolnshire, where the Environment Agency says flooding of roads and farmland is expected to continue.

In York, the River Ouse (pictured), reached what's expected to be its flood-peak level at 4.58m on Tuesday, with a number of properties flooded.

The level has continued to fall slowly, with a reading of 3.6m recorded by the Environment Agency (EA), at 08:00 on Thursday.

The EA said: "No further significant rainfall is forecast in the next 24 hours and we expect the river levels to continue falling steadily."

Today will be windy and chilly day. Mainly dry, with a mix of patchy cloud and a few blustery showers.

Showers will be heavy in places, falling as snow down to lower levels during the morning.

It'll be chilly and largely dry tonight with just a few lingering showers, falling with a mix of rain, sleet and snow:

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Heroin, cocaine and synthetic cannabis, estimated to have a combined value of £10,500, have been seized in a police operation on two properties in Lincoln.

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The premises on Stanley Street were raided simultaneously on Tuesday at 09:30, according to Lincolnshire Police.

Cocaine with an estimated street value of £5,600 was found locked in a safe, as well as 91g of heroin worth up to £4,500.

Synthetic cannabis, known as mamba, with an estimated street value of £420, was also removed from one of the properties, police said.

Two men aged 41 and 45 and a 29-year-old woman were arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the supply of drugs as part of the operation, officers said.

All three are currently being held in police custody.

A bright and breezy morning with occasional showers and sunny spells.

It'll turn wet and cloudy this evening.

The rain will clear overnight with clear spells developing and wintry showers towards dawn:

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Lincolnshire should host the new headquarters of the government’s Great British Railways (GBR), one of the county's economy bosses has said.

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Councillor Colin Davie, Lincolnshire County Council’s economy and environment portfolio holder, has told a meeting of the Environment and Economy Scrutiny Committee that "at least one location in Lincolnshire" could take on the facility.

The GBR is being created as part of a series of reforms by Transport Secretary Grant Shapps and aims to be "a single guiding mind that ends the fragmentation of the rail industry".

It forms part of the government’s Levelling Up White Paper and plans to decentralise a number of government organisations away from London.

In February, Mr Shapps launched a competition to find the new home for the organisation, saying it "will be based outside of London and bring a number of high-skilled jobs to the winning location".

Following the meeting, Councillor Davie told the Local Democracy Reporting Service that the council was going through the assessment form and at least two locations in the county could play host.

He said he did not think it would lead to an immediate increase in train services for the county, but it would bring national attention and cement the government’s promises to level up the area.

"We are very clear we want government to invest some of its facilities into our county because that is how you level up – getting people out of London and the regions governed by London – so they can understand better what it’s like for people like us to live in places like Lincolnshire," he said.