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Fair Deal Phil (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Dial-a-ride, a lifeline for elderly housebound people, is to be scrapped in The Deepings, Stamford and Bourne. But not in Grantham. The Stamford Mercury report that Lincolnshire County Council will only continue to fund Dial-a-Ride in partnership with district councils. Just a month after Grantham-based South Kesteven District Council was shamed as the only district in Lincolnshire to refuse to support...
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Coi-Freelance (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
The SIA teamed up with Lincolnshire Police officers on Friday 18th April to carry out checks on door staff working at licensed premises. Areas checked were Grantham, Spalding and Stamford, the results were as follows: - 22 licensed premises were visited - 44 door supervisors were checked - 33 held valid SIA licences - 11 unlicensed operatives were identified - 5 [...]
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Fair Deal Phil (Free subscription) | 06/10/2007
A leading Lincolnshire Tory claims the newly Conservative selected for Stamford and Grantham is totally out of touch with ordinary folk . The Bourne Local newspaper says county councillor Mark Horn claimed on his website that all four shortlisted candidates as "wealthy, metropolitan, privileged, breight young things...totally out of touch with ordinary folk." He adds: "None of these 'A listers' have...
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Martin Stabe (Free subscription) | 29/08/2007
Johnston Press's Lincolnshire weekly the Grantham Journal is the latest newspaper to use Google Maps to tell a story online. But rather than tracking floods or criminals, this time it's a quirky local story. The ‘garden gobbler’ - a wild heron - is terrorising the people of Grantham as it works its way around the [...]
