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It's been a family's labour of love for over 20 years, but now a Lincolnshire couple are selling their environmentally-friendly home. 

After living in a caravan in woodland for over 10 years Nigel and Karen Lowthrop built the house that uses solar power and rainwater.

They raised a family and proved it's possible to live "off grid". 

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They have shown BBC Look North around as they prepare to say goodbye. 

You can see more tonight at 18.30 on BBC One.

The leader of a Lincolnshire district council has said a vote to derail a devolution deal for the county was a "major setback".

Councillor Marion Brighton, who is in charge of North Kesteven District Council, spoke after Lincolnshire County Council voted against the plan today.

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Most of the county's other councils, including North Kesteven, have voted for the deal to elect a mayor for the Greater Lincolnshire area. 

Only South Holland and South Kesteven still have to vote.

Councillor Brighton said: "I am naturally deeply disappointed that all we have sought to achieve has suffered a major setback."

Lincolnshire's Police and Crime Commissioner Marc Jones says he's not surprised at having to re-advertise the post of chief constable after only two applicants came forward. 

Mr Jones said that only 220 people around the country are eligible to apply and they are already in jobs and "may not want to move around the country".

The vacancy had also been advertised outside the UK. 

Mr Jones told BBC Radio Lincolnshire when you search internationally there are people in chief constable roles earning three or four times what the Lincolnshire force can pay "making it difficult to attract the right quality of people".

Grimsby MP Melanie Onn is among the politicians to have backed the call for former BHS owner Sir Philip Green (pictured below, left) to be stripped of his knighthood.

The motion is not binding as any final decision would have to be taken by the Honours Forfeiture Committee.

BHS was sold by Sir Philip last year but then collapsed with the loss of 11,000 jobs and a £571m pension deficit.

MPs backed the non-binding motion unopposed, meaning no full vote was needed.  

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Frank Field, chairman of the Work and Pensions committee, had begun the debate about the collapse of BHS.

Mr Field (pictured above, right) said one of the main findings of his committee's report was that "literally nothing happened in BHS or Arcadia without Sir Philip knowing directly".

Elliott Whitehouse is coming to Lincoln from Nuneaton Town:

There's slow traffic on the A46 in Lincoln at the Riseholme roundabout because of an earlier broken down vehicle.  

Members of a campaigning group calling for Grantham A&E to reopen at night met with the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt last night.

The meeting was set up by Grantham and Stamford MP Nick Boles. 

The town's A&E was closed at night earlier this year by United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust because of a lack of doctors across the sites in Lincoln, Boston and Grantham.

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The man who negotiated the UK's rebate from the EU budget is warning the ministers in charge of Brexit negotiations to stop making unrealistic demands.

Sir Brian Unwin, a former Treasury civil servant and ex-president of the European Investment Bank (EIB), said Brexit Secretary and Haltemprice and Howden MP David Davis was "living in cloud cuckoo land" when suggesting the odds in the negotiations were stacked in the UK's favour.

Major work's about to start on Just Jane - the Lancaster bomber based at Lincolnshire's East Kirkby Aviation Centre. 

The aircraft can only taxi up and down the centre's runway at the moment, and the plan is part of an ambitious idea to make her airworthy again.

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Andrew Panton, who runs the centre, says engineers will strip the bomber down in a way that's not been done for "many, many years".

There will be an extra three engineers working on the project, which will cost around £250,000.

Here are the top stories from our Lincolnshire newsroom:

• Lincolnshire County Council rejects devolution deal for the region
• Man found seriously injured on Spalding street dies in hospital
• Lincolnshire chief constable vacancy to be re-advertised 

Lincolnshire's Police and Crime Commissioner Marc Jones says he's going to re-advertise the vacancy for the role of chief constable after only two people came forward to replace the county's retiring chief Neil Rhodes (below right).

In a statement on his website, Mr Jones (below left), says the two candidates who did come forward weren't suitable and therefore weren't interviewed.

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Mr Jones had announced plans to advertise internationally for the job. One of the candidates who was rejected was from overseas.

The commissioner said: “I am determined to find the best possible candidate for Lincolnshire.” 

The new advert will be posted on 24 October.

A man who was found with serious injuries on Winsover Road in Spalding on Sunday night has died in hospital.

Lincolnshire Police said the 34-year-old was discovered at around 19.20 BST but it's not clear how, or when, he suffered his injuries.

Officers are appealing for witnesses.

Members of Lincolnshire County Council are meeting at County Offices in Lincoln to vote on whether they want an elected mayor for Greater Lincolnshire.

The debate's ongoing and there's real opposition to the idea here. 

A vote's expected in the next hour.

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The devolution deal proposed by the government would see the region given £15m a year for the next 30 years - but all councils across the Lincolnshire area have to agree to the elected mayor idea.

The crime figures for Lincolnshire have just been released and show an increase in violent crime, sex offences and robbery.

In the Lincolnshire force area violent crime is up by 21%; recorded sex offences have increased by 14% and reported robbery offences have gone up by 14%.

Humberside Police cover the North and North East Lincolnshire areas. 

In those areas violent crime is up by 24%; sex offences have gone up by 15% and robbery figures have increased by 31%.

Overall crime is up by 1% in Lincolnshire and 8% in Humberside against a national average of an 8% increase.

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