Cultural Solutions Ltd and Blueprint Films, both in Lincolnshire, have teamed up to help the UK find safer alternatives than unpredictable loan sharks. The England Illegal Money Lending Team has also joined forces with Lincolnshire Credit Union to contribute to this film.

Aptly titled, “Stop Loan Sharks” aims to promote the legal and physical dangers of using unconventional methods of money borrowing. The film wants to help people to find safer and legal options than having to resort to loan sharks.

Residents try to put a stop to legal loan shark lending

The film has been funded from the money taken from convicted loan sharks. Using the proceeds of crime to help stop people from borrowing from risky lenders, starting from something negative and turning it into something positive,

Lincolnshire Credit Union will be launching “Stop Loan Sharks” on Saturday 1^st February, then on social network sites. The film can be seen in both English and in Russian. The aim of this is to reach as many people as possible.

Tony Quigley, head of the England Illegal Money Lending Team, said: “Illegal money lending is a despicable crime which causes nothing but harm to our communities.

“These lenders may appear to be offering a community service but borrowers are often forced to pay back far and above what they have borrowed and can afford.

“Many are subjected to threats, violence or other callous enforcement methods. We would urge anyone who has been the victim of a loan shark to report them in confidence on 0300 555 2222, as we can help.”

It is estimated that around 310,000 homes in the UK are currently in debt to loan sharks and sixty people are in the witness protection scheme due to aggressive loan sharks. Tony Quigley says that £700m is being paid to loan sharks each year.

Seven people have been arrested after police stopped a rave in Dunsby, Lincolnshire.

Police arrived at the rave on Fen Road in the early hours of Sunday 26th after complaints of noise disruption.

Lincoln police make arrests at the site of an organised rave.

The rave began at 11pm on Saturday 25^th and was monitored throughout the night by police.

Police had to wait until 2.30am to cut off the party due to lack of police resources available to intercept the three hundred ravers.

The news of the latest rave, located on farmland in the south of the county, comes after police closed down a similar rave in late November last year.

Police blocked roads to the Sturton by Stow area in Lincolnshire in an attempt to prevent hundreds of people from attending an illegal event on Saturday 30^th November 2013.

Following the rave on Saturday night, the police are questioning seven people and have seized two vehicles from the scene.