Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
By simon faulkner An adult support charity is seeking helpers after expanding into North East Lincolnshire. Adults Supporting Adults (ASA) has opened its first Grimsby office in Freeman Street Resource Centre.
Les Bonner (Free subscription) | 21/09/2008
I wasn’t there myself, but I am told that NORTH East Lincolnshire Council’s Question Time event proved a great success last Monday evening, with the audience posing some interesting questions for debate. Topics covered included a variety of subjects, such as environmental policies, Grimsby in Bloom, policing drunken behaviour, and tackling problems caused by empty properties. A [...]
Les Bonner (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
The Grimsby Evening Telegraph have printed a series of articles about the new divisional commander for North East Lincolnshire, and today, Chief Supt Hilditch posed the question How healthy is our community spirit right now? Would you help a stranger in trouble, or simply walk on by? Do you smile at people as you walk along [...]
Les Bonner (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
Grimsby’s top cop Chief Supt David Hilditch wants to hear what you have got to say on crime in the area - and how it can be tackled. As reported, he recently took over as the divisional commander for North East Lincolnshire. And now he wants you to tell him your priorities. From tomorrow and for [...]
Les Bonner (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008
Don’t let your car be a target for smash and grab burglaries.That is the message from north East Lincolnshire Council’s (NELC) Safer Communities team as they launch a three-day blitz on vehicle crime. From tomorrow, community wardens will be at three Grimsby car parks this week to distribute vulnerable vehicle packs put together by the [...]
Les Bonner (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008
Nick Clegg has today visited Grimsby in North East Lincolnshire to meet Cllrs. Andrew De Freitas (the Leader of the Council); Steve Beasant; Steve Hocknell and Tony McCabe. The purpose of his visit was part of his UK tour to launch the Policy Paper “Energy Independence for the UK”; we were naturally pleased that he [...]
The Independent (Free subscription) | 17/08/2008
On a sunny day in the old Viking port of Grimsby, I'm being led around a shopping centre by the town's most famous son (celebrities are thin on the ground in this neck of Lincolnshire). People double-take when Thomas "Tomo" Turgoose saunters past, even though – with his fair skin and casual clothes – he looks almost exactly like them. Not that Turgoose takes any notice. "My girlfriend works at Greggs,"...
We love sheds (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
This is grimbsy reports A Cleethorpes couple’s bar in their back garden, the Beach Hut, will be investigated by officials. Following the Grimsby Telegraph story featured in yesterday’s paper, North East Lincolnshire Council officers pledged to visit the owners. As reported, Paul and Angie Snelson, of Cleethorpes, transformed their garden hut into a makeshift bar more than a [...]
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
A Play trail is taking children and families on a fun, enjoyable and informative tour of the newly-revamped People's Park, in Grimsby. The trail has been created by the North East Lincolnshire Library Service and takes visitors on a tour of the various features and buildings in the park.
ECB (Free subscription) | 28/07/2008
Louth enjoyed a comfortable seven wicket win over Grimsby Town in the Readers Lincolnshire ECB Premier League but Bracebridge and Woodhall Spa continue to dominate with seven weeks of the season remaining.
I shook the royal throne (Free subscription) | 20/07/2008
SUPERSONIC FESTIVAL Custard Factory, Birmingham Friday 11th to Sunday 13th July 2008 Birmingham feels like Lincolnshire thrown into a blender with a few more buses, a less impressive cathedral and those silver balls you put on cakes. Digbeth in particular smacks of wandering down a Grimsby that’s been taken over slowly by the creeping terror of gentrification, complete [...]
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
A 21-year-old woman died after the ambulance she was in took a wrong turning when its satellite navigation system failed. Kay Gadsby was taken to hospital in Grimsby after she collapsed at her parents' caravan in Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
Laura stuart-cook Laura.stuart-cook@gsmg.co.uk The Cromwell Road Resource Centre, in Grimsby, has secured the money from North East Lincolnshire Council.
intheboatshed.net (Free subscription) | 16/04/2008
‘Most of the apprentices had been brought up in orphanages and reformatory schools… The system produced splendid fishermen, but the evils were many.’ The quotation comes from Anson himself, and he’s talking about the Grimsby fishing fleet. As a North Lincolnshire boy who grew up with the sons and daughters of at least a few fishing skippers, [...]
Daily Mail online | Home (Free subscription) | 25/03/2008
Six teenage burglars got the shock of their lives when they picked on the home of body building champion Mr Doncaster. Fifteen stone Gary Hall tackled one of the thugs as he forced his way through the front door of his detached home in the village of Holton-le-Clay near Grimsby, Lincolnshire
