Flood projects to benefit from £1.4bn funding
Comments Off on Flood projects to benefit from £1.4bn fundingMore than 60 projects across East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire will get a share of government money.
News :winteringham
Peter Smith obituary
Comments Off on Peter Smith obituaryMy father, Peter Smith, who has died aged 97, set up a pioneering health food store in the unlikely setting of Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, in the late 1950s, at a time when the pursuit of vegetarianism and healthy eating was a fringe interest.
He ran the shop until the mid-1960s before spending a number of years living and teaching in Japan and then opening up another health food outlet in Surrey in the early 70s, guiding it successfully into the late 90s, by which time his advocacy of healthy diets had become much more mainstream.
Summit aims to boost India business links with the North as exporters urged to ‘seize the opportunities ahead’
Comments Off on Summit aims to boost India business links with the North as exporters urged to ‘seize the opportunities ahead’India North England Opportunity Summit will mark year since consulate opened in Manchester
‘My next-door neighbour was a Spitfire pilot’
Comments Off on ‘My next-door neighbour was a Spitfire pilot’Bob Morton fought in the Battle of Britain, flew with Douglas Bader and survived a Nazi prison camp.
Bouncing bomb inventor’s family sell personal items
Comments Off on Bouncing bomb inventor’s family sell personal itemsThe family of Sir Barnes Wallis, from Effingham, is auctioning the marbles used to invent the bombs.
Pitch dug up so work can start on new NHS centre
Comments Off on Pitch dug up so work can start on new NHS centreA community diagnostic centre is being built on the former home of Boston United FC.
What can town facing last bank closure learn from neighbours?
Comments Off on What can town facing last bank closure learn from neighbours?People in Caistor say they have adapted since losing their last bank more than a decade ago.
Steelworks costing £1.3m a day to run
Comments Off on Steelworks costing £1.3m a day to runThe government spent £377m to keep British Steel’s Scunthorpe site operating, according to a report.
Family name cyclist killed in crash with car
Comments Off on Family name cyclist killed in crash with carAdam Bee, 40, from Grimsby, died after the crash on Eleanor Street on Thursday.
New driver detained over high-speed death crash
Comments Off on New driver detained over high-speed death crashHarrison Carter, 18, and George Stephenson, 17, died in a crash in Lincolnshire in June 2025.