New kitchen to boost village life

A new community kitchen has opened in a pub in a Lincolnshire village.

As well as being used to cook pub lunches and for other functions the facilities will be used by the rest of the community.

The Three Horseshoes pub in Leverton near Boston is owned and managed by the village hall committee.

It has been funded by the latest in a series of grants awarded by the Community Council of Lincolnshire which aims to improve village life.

Chris Collins, project worker said: "The East Midlands Development Agency has given us a pot of money which is for rural pubs that have an idea to make their businesses more profitable, more sustainable.

"An idea that will benefit the community, give the community an extra service or facility it wouldn't normally get and we've got money up to £10,000 to help them do that."