A Lincoln GAME store which had temporarily closed it’s doors for refurbishment has become the first ever ‘Gametronics’ store in the UK.

Gametronics, which is still owned by GAME itself, have said they will be putting a focus on buying and reselling second hand games consoles, accessories, laptops, phones, computers and other gadgets.

The newly renovated Gametronics store on Lincoln High Street.

The new store is set to be much like the neighboring CEX store on The Cornhill, who will now be in direct competition with Gametronics.

If the transformation is a success, GAME plans to roll out many more branches of the new brand across the UK.

The second focus of the new store will be to provide a better space for trading in products, and offering gamers and electronics consumers more affordable games and next-gen consoles.

According to the Lincoln store, customers also requested more pre-owned items than the city’s GAME stores could currently hold.

The Facebook fad of neck and nominate, which involves quick binge drinking, posting the video to Facebook and then nominating other people to do it, has a rival.

RAKnominate stands for Random Act of Kindness and follows the same suit as the video is posted to Facebook and then someone else is nominated to do the same.

A nominated necker prepares to neck and nominate.

It is believed that the Raknominate started in South Africa, by a man called Brent Lindesque. He received a Neknominate but decided to use his nomination for good.

He gave a homeless man some food and filmed it, then nominated his friends to carry out something similar. This has created a butterfly effect and has found its way into the UK and into Lincoln.

A Lincoln doorman has uploaded his video of himself donating money to charity from a Neknomination.

He had the same idea as Brent Lindesque and wanted to turn things around. Two of his friends have been nominated. Let the games begin.

An extra £1.1million to contribute to cutting down the level of youth unemployment in Lincolnshire has been announced.

It is hoped that the money will help those who have been out of work for more than 12 months.

Youths protest about unemployment rates in Britain.

The funding is going to be used to support young people who are furthest away from being ‘work-ready’ to secure a job or volunteer opportunities.

The scheme will focus on areas of high unemployment such as Lincoln, Skegness, Boston and Gainsborough.

As Lincolnshire does its part to try and alleviate Youth unemployment, the Office of National Statistics (ONS) have announced that the UK unemployment rate has dropped to 7.1%.

The fall of the unemployment rates is the biggest drop since 1997. Now, the Bank of England have to consider whether they will raise the interest rates once the drop reaches 7%.

 According to the ONS the number of people out of work fell by 167,000 to 2.32 million in the three months leading up to November.

The issue divided the House of Commons during the Prime Minister’s questions. Labour party leader Ed Miliband said: “We welcome the fall in unemployment”, however he then argued that average wages were £1,600 a year lower than they were in the general election of 2010.

Prime Minister David Cameron argued that it is “the biggest ever quarterly increase in the number of people in work in our country.”