Aaron Burns, 26, of Butt Lane, Laceby, admitted drink-driving on the A46, on September 20, 2014. A breath test revealed he had 102mcg of alcohol in 100ml of breath. The legal limit is 35mcg. He was disqualified from driving for 24 months, fined £925 and ordered to pay £85 costs and a £93 victims' surcharge.

Jordon Powell, 20, of Wicklow Avenue, Grimsby, admitted taking a vehicle and causing damage less than £5,000 between September 13 and September 15, 2013. He was disqualified from driving for 12 months, fined £100 and ordered to pay £845 costs and a £20 victims' surcharge.

SEVEN of the borough's wards could become controlled drinking zones.

Members of North East Lincolnshire Council's cabinet will be asked to approve recommendations that West Marsh, East Marsh, Park, Heneage, Sidney Sussex, Croft Baker and South are made such zones to reduce the harm caused by alcohol and alcohol-related antisocial behaviour in public places.

The cabinet will meet on Wednesday and will discuss the issue, following concerns raised by elected members.

Their proposal was that a borough-wide controlled drinking zone be imposed across North East Lincolnshire.

But in a report by Councillor Hazel Chase, the portfolio holder for safer and stronger communities, she recommends that just the seven wards are considered to be designated as Public Space Protection Order areas (PSPO).

"Reports of occurrences in the remaining wards are less frequent, indicating that it is more difficult to substantiate the need to introduce a full borough-wide PSPO," she says.

Her recommendation is backed up by a response from Chief Superinendent Tony Forbes, of Humberside Police, that there was not the level of widespread problems that would justify the making of a borough-wide order.

A consultation exercise revealed that of 84 respondents in the Croft Baker ward, 63 of them supported an order being made.

In the East Marsh, 55 of 79 were for it, on the West Marsh, 45 of 56 would support it, in Park Ward, 83 of 118 backed the idea, in Sidney Sussex, 59 of 80 were for it, in the South Ward, out of 58 people who responded, 37 said they would back it, and in Heneage, 48 residents of 67 supported the idea.

Visit www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk on Wednesday for breaking news on the decision.

GRIMSBY Town's management team have been watching potential loan signings all week – but none are likely to arrive before Guiseley's visit.

This week's loss of Scott Brown and Danny Parslow has left Paul Hurst with just three centre-midfielders for tomorrow's FA Cup 'opener'.

With Brown ruled out for at least a month, and Parslow back at parent club York City for the foreseeable future, the Mariners boss is poised to make his move.

"I'll have a look at that over the weekend," remarked Hurst. "I want to get through the cup game and then assess if we need to add to the squad at this current time.

"Certainly, we are on the edge of being stretched so it's a situation I'll be monitoring closely.

"We're down to three centre- midfielders and we've been playing with three midfielders, so it is something I have to look at.

"I've been to a few games again this week, and Chris Doig (assistant manager) has also been to a few separately, so the homework is certainly being done.

"And we're trying to find out about players' availability should I feel the need to dip into the loan market.

"Going 4-4-2 this weekend is also an option – that's something I need to finalise in my own mind.

"But I have still got the three if I wanted to stick to the formation which has served us well in the last two games."

On his overall squad size, Hurst continued: "We've got 20 players – take Scott Brown out of it and Chris Doig because, although he's played, he wouldn't be a constant.

"Then we've got three first-year pros, who I'm not saying can't be involved as part of the squad because they will be this weekend.

"But that brings us down to 15 senior pros, and does leave us on the verge of being short."

DANNY Boshell admits Grimsby Town were the last team he wanted to face in tomorrow's FA Cup clash.

The midfielder and his Guiseley team- mates head to Blundell Park for the Fourth Qualifying Round encounter (3pm).

And while the former Mariner is looking forward to his Cleethorpes return – almost five years after leaving the club – the Lions were hoping for a more favourable draw.

Boshell, who is also assistant boss at the West Yorkshire club, told the Telegraph: "It wasn't a draw I was too pleased with to be honest! Grimsby away was one of the hardest teams we could have got.

"On a personal level, it will be great to go back and see a few old faces, but from a footballing perspective it was probably the last draw we wanted!

"We're going all right, though, after we were a bit unlucky not to get promoted last season.

"We lost to Altrincham in the play-off final in the last minute of extra-time and, although that was obviously disappointing, you have to go again, don't you?

"We're in the top-five – so I'm told – but I don't look at the table until after Christmas.

"We're unbeaten away from home, but we know it's going to be tough to keep that going tomorrow.

"We'll head to Blundell Park, try to play our game, give it the best we've got and see how it goes."

Guiseley have already negotiated two rounds of the competition, thanks to a narrow win at Droylsden followed by a more comfortable home victory over Halesowen Town this month.

Boshell and manager Mark Bower know that an 'upset' tomorrow could land them another money-spinning tie, against Football League opposition.

"We haven't had a look at Grimsby in person yet," Boshell added. "They had Lincoln in the county cup after the draw was made but that wasn't exactly their first-team.

"We got a report on them from Saturday's win at Torquay, and we know a bit about them anyway.

"I'm sure they know a little bit about us as well – we've got a few lads who have played in the league.

"We're not going to show our cards too much. We'll just stick to our game-plan and do everything we can to get a positive result.

"We certainly won't go there and shut up shop. We'll go to Blundell Park to play – as we do in every game – and see what happens.

"If we play like we have played in some of our away games this season then we've got a chance."

The Conference North outfit will also be protecting their impressive unbeaten away record tomorrow, and Boshell is anticipating a close encounter on his old stomping ground

"We've watched a few Conference games, me and Mark, and it's obviously a step up in standard. They're mostly full-time teams up there so that makes a big difference.

"But we saw that Altrincham drew at Grimsby recently, and they have kept more or less the same squad as they had last year in our division.

"So we go there with plenty of hope, and aiming to get the right result."

THE following people have been sentenced by Grimsby magistrates:

Dale Lond, 27, of no fixed address, admitted stealing headphones, valued at £140, belonging to Curry's PC World on August 1, 2014; also failing to surrender to custody at Grimsby Magistrates' Court on October 7, 2014; failing to comply with a suspended sentence order made by Grimsby And Cleethorpes Magistrates' Court on April 2, 2014. Original offence: stealing a hard drive, valued at £49.99, belonging to Sainsbury's on January 5, 2014; also being in possession of an article in connection with a theft, on January 5, 2014. He was committed to prison for four weeks forthwith, overall length of sentence eight weeks.

Daniel Pexman, 30, of Grimsby Road, Cleethorpes, admitted stealing two electric tooth brushes, valued at £69.98, belonging to Lloyds Pharmacy, on July 29, 2014, while subject to a conditional discharge imposed on July 18, at Grimsby And Cleethorpes Magistrates' Court. Original offences: stealing pork, valued at £30, belonging to Co-op, on February 25, 2014, and stealing wash powder, valued at £19.74, belonging to Apex supermarket on April 10, 2014. He was given a 12-month community order to have treatment for drug dependency at Foundations, Queen Street, Grimsby, and ordered to pay £68.98 compensation.

David Leonard, 22, of NFA, admitted stealing jars of coffee, valued at £19.95, belonging to Co-op on May 18, 2014; also stealing jars of coffee, valued at £14.97, belonging to B&M, on July 12, 2014; while subject to a 12-month conditional discharge imposed on July 10, 2014, at Grimsby And Cleethorpes Magistrates' Court. Original offences: stealing meat, valued at £32.98, belonging to Tesco on June 21, 2014; stealing washing liquid, valued at £20, belonging to Wilkinson's on May 30, 2014; failing to surrender to custody at Grimsby And Cleethorpes Magistrates' Court on July 1, 2014; stealing wash liquid gels, valued at £8, belonging to Sainsbury's on May 13, 2014. He was committed to prison for 12 weeks concurrent, suspended for 12 months to have treatment for drug dependency at Foundation, Queen Street, Grimsby, and ordered to pay an £80 victims' surcharge.

A GAMBLER who made his name in Las Vegas faces a prison sentence after he dramatically changed some of his pleas to guilty during his trial for a big online poker fraud.

His father also threw in his hand and changed one of his pleas to guilty on a money laundering matter linked to his son's dishonest attempts to fleece the system and other punters, a court heard.

Darren Woods, 29, of Stallingborough Road, Healing, denied 13 fraud offences between January 2007 and January 2012 but, part way through the trial, he changed his pleas to guilty on nine of them.

The next day, his father, Morteza Gharoon, 56, of the same address, pleaded guilty to a money laundering matter, involving not more than £230,000.

He had denied being jointly concerned with Woods in four of the alleged frauds and the charge of money laundering, through credit billings, on behalf of Woods.

Not guilty verdicts were entered on four other charges. The trial had originally been scheduled to last for between three and four weeks.

Problems were caused trying to find jurors who could sit on the case for that period of time and a panel of 24 possible jurors was whittled down until only the minimum 12 needed were left. Many of the other first choices said they could not sit because of other commitments.

The prosecution at Sheffield Crown Court claimed that Woods made improper use of internet poker sites by pretending to gaming companies that he was somebody else.

He used other people's identities to gain commissions above what he would have been allowed to do if he had been using just his own name. In July 2011, he won a world series of poker games in Las Vegas, scooping winnings of 213,000 Dollars. He was made bankrupt in 2006.

His father, an Iranian national, was a successful property investor, with a large portfolio of properties in the Grimsby area, the court heard.

Woods bought a number of private networks to disguise his online identity and bought different computers in a bid to "fool the systems", the prosecution claimed.

Sentence on the pair was adjourned until December.

The criminal investigation began in late 2011 and was led by Humberside Police's economic crime unit, with the help and co-operation of many well-known gambling companies.

Woods and Gharoon were arrested from their home in Healing, on November 16, 2011.

A restraint order was served on them both in December 2011, freezing all their assets.

DRUGS officers had a former photographic studio in the frame and found 700 cannabis plants thanks to the public.

Two Vietnamese men were arrested at the former Photocall shop in Cleethorpe Road, Grimsby, where all three storeys of the building had been converted into a cannabis factory.

It had a street value estimated at nearly £400,000.

Around 13 police officers took part in the drug swoop at around 8am yesterday.

It is just yards from the former Barclays Bank where more than 1,000 plants were discovered in August with a street value of £570,000.

Around 250 plants were uncovered by officers earlier this year in Strand Street, Grimsby, in separate premises to the rear of the former photographic studio.

In each case it was information passed by members of the public which led to the police drugs operation.

Detectives praised the public who alert Humberside Police to their suspicions of drug production in their neighbourhoods.

Senior investigating officer Detective Constable Neil Haigh said: "People grow cannabis and we are thankful to the public that tell us about it. We get information directly from people calling us, through Crimestoppers and other ways.

"This shows that we act on such information."

Sergeant Colin Jarratt said: "The information from the public helps us to do our job.

"Without the help of the public we could not carry out these operations. We cannot thank them enough."

He said the electricity to power the elaborate heating and lighting system had been abstracted illegally.

He said: "We all end up paying for it.

"It is profitable for these people, so it seems never ending.

"They appear quite frequently, but we are getting there thanks to the public and their information."

Police officers and staff from North East Lincolnshire Council's Community Pride team formed a human chain to dismantle the sophisticated lighting and heating system and dispose of the property into vans.

A resident living close to the former shop, who did not wish to be named, said: "This is all good for the area. I am pleased to see the police acting in the way they have. It has been an impressive operation. It is all good.

"I could smell it from whenever I take my car around the back here.

Anyone with information or suspicions about cannabis cultivation in their neighbourhood can contact Humberside Police on 101 or call Crimestoppers anonymously.

Alternatively, call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 or report online via their website www.crimestoppers-uk.org

NO-ONE will be rested by Grimsby Town manager Paul Hurst for tomorrow's FA Cup clash with Guiseley.

The Mariners may be at home and up against a side from the level below, but the boss is refusing to take Town's passage into the First Round Proper for granted.

However, Scott Brown's ankle ligament damage and this week's departure of loanees Danny Parslow and Rhys Oates will have an impact on the 18-man match-day squad.

"No one will be rested – any changes made will be either through injury or due to the loan exits," said Hurst.

"It will still be a strong team and we're taking nothing for granted.

"It's an important game for the club, as it is for a lot of teams, to try to progress to that first round.

"Scott Brown is out from last weekend and the couple of loan lads have gone back since then.

"Young keeper Callum Bastock is injured as well. He may have gone on the bench tomorrow with us having extra subs available, but the rest of the first-team squad are fit and healthy."

Midfielder Craig Clay and striker Jon-Paul Pittman are both back in contention after their injury problems.

Hurst confirmed that both are pushing for places in the starting XI.

"Craig is fit and ready, and I'm sure he'd want to be back in the team," the manager added. "I'm pleased to have him back, particularly after losing Scott.

"Jon-Paul was fit for selection last week but I felt it was a bit soon and – still having Rhys with us – I took the decision to leave him for another week.

"But he's trained this week, has been looking sharp and says he's feeling good, so he'll certainly be in the squad.

"He's ready, and keen to get playing again and pick up from where he was because he was in good goalscoring form."

POLICE have launched an appeal for witnesses after a 20-year-old local man was attacked by a group of youths for his mobile phone. 

The incident happened on Pasture Street at the junction with Heneage Road at 2:20pm on Tuesday October 21.

The man was approached by a group of youths with one of the teenage boys in the group trying to grab his mobile telephone from him before punching the victim about the head and body.

The man fell over and the suspect is alleged to have snatched his bicycle and made off.

The victim gave chase and retrieved his cycle but was subjected to further assault by the offender who is described as white, aged 15, with fair hair and spoke with a Liverpool accent. He was wearing a dark blue tracksuit top and bottoms at the time of the incident.

The victim received medical treatment for cuts, scratches and grazes to the face and knees.

Anyone with information about the incident is asked to contact Humberside Police on telephone 101 referring to log 355 of 21 October 2014.

POLICE are concerned for the welfare of a boy missing from home in North East Lincolnshire.

Ashley Farrar, 12 years, was last seen on Monday, October 20 when he left school although there have been sightings of him since then around the town centre.

He is described as white, 5ft 4ins tall with collar length, fair hair, slim build and a discoloured front tooth. When last seen he was wearing a white Nike t-shirt, dark grey tracksuit top and dark coloured jogging bottoms and black and red training shoes.

Anyone with information about Ashley's whereabouts is asked to contact Humberside Police on telephone 101 referring to log 149 of 21 October.

POLICE are keen to identify the man in the above image who they would like to speak to in connection with an assault on Sunday, October 5.

The incident happened outside the Lighthouse Nightclub on Sea Road in Cleethorpes at around 5am when a 22-year-old man was punched in the face and sustained facial injuries.

Police want to identify and speak to the man shown in the photograph.

He is described as an Asian man, with short, cropped hair and facial stubble, 5ft 10ins tall, large build, wearing a white shirt over dark jeans. He is aged around 20 to 25 years.

This man or anyone who knows him is asked to contact police on the non emergency number 101 quoting log number 150 of 05 October 2014.

The mortality rate at the trust which runs Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundtion Trust is continuing to improve, figures released today have revealed.

The Summary Hospital-Level Mortality Indicator (SHMI) score for the period April 2013 to March 2014 for Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) stands at 108 - which was as expected.

The SHMI score relates to deaths in-hospital in Grimsby, Scunthorpe and Goole and out-of-hospital for 30 days after discharge from hospital.

The figure for the period from January 2013 to December 2013 was 109.4. 

Following the acquisition of the University of Birmingham Hospitals' Healthcare Evaluation Data (HED) reporting product, the Trust is able to breakdown of the data to an in-hospital and out-of-hospital level.

For the 12 months to June 2014, the in-hospital SHMI is 105 and the out-of-hospital SHMI is 115. This gap of 10 points is greater than the average difference nationally, which is usually less than five points.

Although the in-hospital part of the SHMI has reduced over time, there remains a gap between this and the out-of-hospital mortality rate (ie deaths occurring under GP care, in care homes, or other non-hospital care providers).

Analysis of the reasons for this trend will help all local healthcare organisations determine where additional work is needed to make sure that patients receive the best possible care when they leave hospital so that the overall SHMI continues to improve.

Trust chief executive Karen Jackson said: "It is encouraging to see that our SHMI performance continues to improve and reflects the significant strides all of our staff have made to deliver high quality care.

"Monitor has also this week publicly acknowledged the progress we have made in our quality of care, staffing levels and clinical leadership and has issued compliance certificates. This demonstrates the significant progress we have made across all three of our hospitals."

The mortality rate for our hospitals continues to be in the 'as expected' range. This trend reflects the quality of care that our doctors, nurses and support staff provide to patients, which the Care Quality Commission has rated as 'good' across all three of our hospitals."

Cleethorpes actress Patricia Hodge will star in what has been revealed as the final episodes of the popular BBC sitcom Miranda.

Patricia, who plays Miranda's mum Penny on the show and is famous for her 'such fun!' catchphrase, will feature during a double episode finale this Christmas.

Speaking to BBC Radio 2's Steve Wright show yesterday, Miranda Hart said: "I'm actually coming to the end of the whole sitcom.

"I'm doing two Christmas specials, but they are going to be the finale of the show, full stop."

Miranda, 41, said it was "the right time to end it" and wanted the programme to go out "on a high".

The Christmas finale will pull the curtain down on the successful, award-winning BBC sitcom, in which Patricia has featured in since 2009.

And her appearances in the show as Penny will rank highly in a career in which she has starred in a vast array of television programmes, including Inspector Morse, Waking The Dead and Hustle.

The man arrested in connection with the death of Sheikh Zubair Hamidi in Grimsby's Freeman Street, has been charged with murder overnight and will appear before Grimsby magistrates this morning. Junaid Hamidi, 28, of Clacton - on -Sea is charged with one count of murdering the 48-year-old businessman, who owned the flats he was found in, and was renovating them. He was also from Clacton -on - Sea.

A man has appeared in court charged with murder following the discovery of a man's body in a flat in Grimsby.

Junaid Hamidi, 28, of Flowers Way in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, appeared at Grimsby Magistrates' Court this morning.

As previously reported, the body of Sheikh Zubair Hamidi, 48, also from Clacton-on-Sea - who is a British national of Bangladeshi

 origin - was discovered at a flat in Freeman Street on Tuesday at around 8am.

Police closed off the area for almost two days while they carried out investigations.

Junaid Hamidi, represented in court by Rebecca Perrin, is charged with the murder of Sheikh Zubair Hamidi between October 19 and 22.

Wearing a grey T-shirt, Junaid Hamidi spoke through a Bengali interpreter to confirm that he understood the charge, and confirmed his name, age and address.

He was remanded in custody to appear at Hull Crown Court on Monday.

PREPARE for an evening of commemoration to remember the brave men and women of the First World War.

Grimsby Minster will play host to local musicians and writers who will be bringing to life once more the voices of men and women who took part.

Roger Beard, Gordon Wilson and Andy Freeman, founder members of local group Next Of The Summer Wine, along with musician Richard Papps and poets Carolyn Doyley and Tracy Booth, will offer a tapestry of music and words as songs, poems, war-time diaries, letters and journals from the trenches and the home front are read and performed.

The evening will bring together not only the well-known words and tunes of wartime writers but also material and contemporary songs, some written by the group specially for the occasion.

Of particular local interest will be the Grimsby Chums Suite which is being performed for the first time and is inspired by the story of the 10th (Service) Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment.

Six female dance students from Franklin College will also be performing a Morris dance to support the folk song, The Ladies Go Dancing At Whitsun.

Mr Freeman said: "The wonderful setting of Grimsby Minster is particularly appropriate for this premiere as it was in this very church on Sunday, July 6, 1919, that the Chums met for the very last time as a Battalion and handed over their Colours for safe keeping.

"We hope this will be an evening of variety with writers, musicians and dancers all sharing the experiences of those involved in what came to be called The Great War.

"Next Of The Summer Wine have performed in small festivals and venues for a number of years but we wanted to be more ambitious in this commemoration of such a significant event as the outbreak of the First World War. So much memorable material is available it was really difficult to make a selection."

The event is being held in connection with North East Lincolshire's First World War Heritage exhibition Eleven Eleven Eleven which will be opening at the Fishing Heritage Centre, on Tuesday, November 11.

It will explore the impact of the war on the people of Grimsby and surrounding areas and the contributions they made. It will pay particular attention to the men who crewed the trawlers during the wars and the important role they played.

The performance of The Great War is on Saturday, November 1, at Grimsby Minster, starting at 7.30pm

Tickets are available from the Minster office and Cleethorpes Information Centre or you can pay at the door.

Tickets on the door cost £5 with £4 concessions.

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WERE you affected by the summer flooding on Grimsby's West Marsh?

Residents, a local business owner and a local councillor are putting out an urgent appeal for as many people as possible to send in their flood stories to the council's working party on flood investigations.

Leading the appeal is Councillor Tim Mickleburgh, who said: "As well as telling us what happened on July 20 and August 10 this year, we would also like people to say what information they had access to during the flood events, how prepared they were and what additional assistance might help in the future."

Catherine Burton, of Lawrence Street, talked about the costs of flooding in terms of insurance excesses, drying out, devaluing and selling of homes, and flood prevention measures.

She said: "The worst cost was the stress and anxiety it created.

"I was worrying constantly about future episodes and also the months of work involved in getting your home back."

Her neighbour, Diane Edmonds, whose home was also flooded, stressed the importance of reporting external flooding in gardens and streets.

This will assist with flood mapping and will help indicate where future flooding may occur, she said.

Both neighbours have collected evidence and stories from their street to send in and would encourage others to also work this way.

She added that the number of responses would strengthen the case for solutions being found and also potentially increase the chance of gaining flood defence funding where applicable.

Graeme King of Keen, King & Jones Opticians in Lynton Parade, Grimsby, has seen his premises flooded twice this year and also suffered two flooding episodes in 2007.

He appealed to people in the Cromwell Road area to send in their stories, adding it will put pressure on all relevant agencies to act.

Residents can post their stories to Flood Working Group, Economy, NELC, Municipal Offices, Town Hall Square, Grimsby, DN31 1HU or e-mail to NELCFloodStrategy@nelincs.gov.uk

The deadline for submissions is Sunday, November 2.

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