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Louth singing sensation Thomas Leak and his Collabro bandmates will join tenor Alfie Boe for a special concert to be broadcast on BBC Radio 2.

The group, who shot to fame by winning this year's ITV show Britain's Got Talent, will perform songs from Chess, Les Miserables and Frozen alongside the BBC Concert Orchestra.

The show, which is hosted by Radio 2 DJ ken Bruce, was recorded on October 24 at the Mermaid Theatre in London, and will be broadcast at 8pm on Friday.

Matilda Lloyd, winner of the Radio 2 Young Brass Soloist 2014, will also be performing.

Five-piece boyband Collabra specialise is singing musical theatre rather than pop songs, and their first CD debuted at number one in the album charts.

Thomas – who sings under the stage name Thomas J Redgrave – used to live with his family in Saltfleetby and studied at Monks' Dyke and King Edward VI Grammar schools in Louth.

After leaving school, he went to Lincoln College and then Thames Valley University in London to study music and performing arts.

He and his fellow bandmates formed Collabra earlier this year.

GUY Martin's race action for the season may be over – but the Kirmington daredevil's quest for speed continues this weekend.

The motorbike racer, truck mechanic and TV personality is on our screens again on Sunday, with episode four of the second series of 'Speed with Guy Martin'.

As reported, the 33-year-old has been in action at the North West 200, Isle of Man TT, Southern 100 and Ulster Grand Prix road races this year.

But his latest challenge isn't on a bike. This time, he attempts to build and race the world's fastest soapbox racer.

In the programme, he will aim to achieve 84.4 mph in the racer on Mont Ventoux in southern France.

Martin creates a unique design with help from expert designers, and trains with the Team GB women's bobsled pair.

Sheffield Hallam's Centre for Sports Engineering Research (CSER) worked with him to design and build the 'gravity racer'. And that team also took inspiration from looking at the designs of vehicles at the Humber Bridge soapbox derby.

CSER's Christina King, said: "It has been fantastic fun to work with Guy Martin and his team on this.

"Our design for the shell of the racer was based specifically around Guy's height and size. We then used our knowledge of computational fluid dynamics to create a racer design that was capable of reaching very high speeds.

"We investigated and tested other elements such as suspension, the chassis, brakes, steering and different types of wheels, before we settled on a final design.

"The shell was manufactured by an external contractor using our design, and we assembled the racer at the University before heading to France with Guy and the programme's production team.

"In France we were able to make some incremental adjustments and improvements to the steering and brakes as we pushed to try and help Guy achieve 84.4mph to break the world record.

"We're really looking forward to tuning in to see the programme ourselves!"

In the first series of Speed, a group of engineering experts from CSER designed a gravity-powered sled to help him shatter Rolf Allerdissen's Guinness World Record by more than 30kph.

Watch Martin attempt to break another record – Sunday at 8pm on Channel 4.

A WOMAN burgled her own mother's home after sneaking off from her grandmother's funeral with an accomplice.

And earlier this year Marla Everett was jailed after shocked police found her three young boys living in appalling scenes of "squalor" in a filthy and cluttered flat. She and partner Matthew Cartwright each admitted three offences of cruelty to the boys, who were taken into foster care. She was jailed for a year and was on licence for those offences when she committed this latest crime.

Yesterday, Grimsby Magistrates' Court heard that the 33-year-old, of Duke Street in Grimsby, admitted raiding her mother's home in Harlech Walk, Immingham, on Wednesday.

A laptop, two cameras and a television pay-per-view box containing money were taken.

Prosecuting, Martin Howarth said both Everett and her mother, Susan, had been at a family funeral of Everett's grandmother.

He said: "She (Susan) left home in the morning and the property was secure. She was going to the funeral at 11.30am.

"The defendant was present at the funeral and it was noted that they (Everett and an accomplice) left saying that they were going into Grimsby."

He said the mother returned home at about 2.30pm and discovered "items appeared to have been moved suggesting someone had been in her house".

He added: "The wooden cover of the catflap had been moved."

He told the court: "She discovered that the laptop and two cameras were missing. A black pay-per-view box was missing from the main room.

"She made enquiries with neighbours who said they witnessed a male and female acting suspiciously. She realised it was her daughter.

"She made a call to her daughter asking that the goods be returned. She said she had spent the money from the TV box.

"It seems that all the goods were recovered except the TV box, money and one camera charger."

Police went to the defendant's home in Duke Street and she was arrested.

Mr Howarth said: "She said in interview 'last night I robbed my mum's house while she was at a funeral'."

Mitigating, Vicky Lee said: "It's maintained that there was £100 in the TV box."

She added: "She hasn't been before a court for anything like this previously and has made full admissions. She has already returned most of the property back to her mother."

Ms Lee asked Deputy District Judge Andrew Pascoe for Everett to be released on bail while awaiting her fate, adding: "She is desperate not to be in custody pending sentence for this."

He responded: "This matter should go to the Crown Court for sentence."

He told Everett: "You are the subject of recall and this offence was committed during your licence."

He remanded Everett in custody until her sentencing date later this month.

Police have now reopened Grimsby's Rutland Street, where armed police entered a property this evening.

The road was closed between Oxford Street and Hildyard Street, where people gathered to watch the drama unfold.

Several police cars, van and a paramedic car attended the scene.

Armed police were seen entering the terraced through the front door, and came out around half an hour later.

Officers leaving the scene would not confirm any details about the incident.

Keep checking here tomorrow for updates.

TROUBLE between two men led to one of them chasing the other down a street and hitting him with a piece of wood, a court heard.

Christopher Sever, 31, of no fixed address, admitted threatening behaviour with an offensive weapon on August 5.

Katherine Goddard, prosecuting, told Grimsby Crown Court that residents of Bradford Avenue, Cleethorpes, were awoken between 2.45am and 3am by the sound of fighting and shouting. Two men were in a confrontation.

Sever had chased after Craig Black and hit him with a piece of wood, a skirting board with a nail sticking out of it, on his leg. Police arrived after being alerted.

Sever had 36 previous convictions.

Simon Hirst, mitigating, said Sever had been in custody for more than three months. He had wanted to be remanded in custody after previously living on the streets and sleeping rough. He woke to find Mr Black going through his belongings.

Mr Black took hold of him and Sever pursued him down the street before hitting him on the leg with the piece of wood.

He had kept off alcohol and drugs.

Sever was jailed for nine months but, because of his time in custody, was likely to be released shortly.

As the deadline approaches to mark the end of an agreement between Grimsby Town Football Club and North East Lincolnshire Council over a proposed new stadium off Peaks Parkway, reporter PETER CRAIG begins a series of reports on club bosses' aim for a new deal to bring Grimsby Town a new home. They hope the flagship project will be included in The Local Plan for our area

THE search for a new home for Grimsby Town FC has been exhaustive.

The site next to Peaks Parkway is the most suitable as no other site in North East Lincolnshire fits the bill despite a lengthy and in depth search by the club's bosses.

A year ago, council chiefs agreed to give the football club an "exclusivity" deal on Peaks Parkway, which runs out at the end of this month.

Now they hope to create a deal over a lease for the 25-acre site.

The quest for a new stadium has included sites at Grimsby Golf Club, Freeman Street, Great Coates, Grimsby fish docks, the former tip site on Macaulay Lane called Millennium and Western School.

After more than 115 years at Blundell Park, club bosses are desperate to provide a new 14,000-seater stadium that will be a springboard to greater success in the much-coveted Football League.

They warned in a report to be submitted for the new Local Plan negotiations, that the club, currently in the Conference league could otherwise "go out of business."

A new stadium with its 2,000-space car park and its enabling developments will regenerate the area with an estimated £200 million of investment, according to club bosses.

That could be secured with the help of housing and retail schemes to enable the financing of the stadium scheme.

The club has been searching for a site for a new home since 1994 and, after being knocked back in a bid to build on land in Great Coates, eyed the 22.7-hectare site between Peaks Parkway and Weelsby Avenue, which includes allotments and a former council depot.

Negotiations between GTFC and development partners have been going on for years to help the club relocate.

Together they have stress-tested potential sites and marked them with scores on a matrix.

Peaks Parkway is top of the league because of its central location for fans and ease of access.

It also has a hinterland of potential housing and retail development land.

The club's development partner, Simons Construction Ltd of Lincoln undertook a retail impact assessment and concluded there is capacity for an additional supermarket up to 100,000 sq ft.

There are sizeable plots of land for housing around the proposed stadium site.

There is a considerable gap in the number of points scored by Peaks Parkway and its closest rival on the site of the former Western School.

As contractors began in earnest to demolish the school, it is expected to have a housing scheme built on it.

The congested road network is not suitable for any extra football traffic.

The next best score was the Millennium site at the end of Macaulay Lane where the former tip has been capped with hundreds of thousands of tonnes of earth.

It has since been earmarked as a potential site for a solar park and one of the first in the UK in an urban area.

The road into the site is not suitable for football traffic and it is nearly two miles from the town centre and railway station.

The farmland at Great Coates was ruled out because of the low financial viability and lack of an agreement with the land owners Sir Richard Sutton Settled Estates, despite its good transport links and proximity to the A180.

The cost of improvements to Great Coates railway station and crossing barriers would have exceeded £3 million.

There was also effective opposition from residents in Great Coates.

Pedestrian access is also very poor for the mass of fans walking from Grimsby and Cleethorpes.

It is two-and-a-half miles from Grimsby town centre.

Freeman Street was also ruled out because there is not a suitably-sized plot in the region of 25 acres that could be easily gathered to house a new stadium.

Blundell Park, the home of Grimsby Town since 1898 has had several major developments in the last century. But its location in a residential area with acute parking problems has hindered the club's expansion.

Roads into the site are not suitable for football traffic.

Director John Fenty said the club had just paid for improvements to the lighting columns to ensure they work safely. the bill came to more than £70,000.

The four-and-a-half acre site is earmarked for 94 new homes if it is to be sold, when the club moves to its new home.

Grimsby Golf Club had low financial viability and the roads are not suitable for football traffic.

The owners Swingtime said the lease for the course was not for sale.

Grimsby Fish Docks was relegated to the bottom of the league because of the massive infrastructure work to make the site suitable for a stadium and related developments.

Not only is the access to the site not suitable for football traffic, but it would require one of the docks to be filled in as part of a massive construction project.

Owners Associated British Ports are focussed on making the docks at Grimsby a hub for the expanding renewables industry.

Grimsby Town director John Fenty said: "There are examples all round the country of how a new stadium is a catalyst to regeneration of an area. We have seen it at Doncaster, Rotherham, Chesterfield and Swansea."

He added: "We are seeking a five-year lease option from the council so the club can have further opportunity to develop the scheme and bring together all the enabling partners before a planning application is submitted."

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MARINERS boss Paul Hurst thinks Kyle Perry will be the Altrincham dangerman.

The forward netted at Telford in midweek, but his strike was not enough to prevent the Robins from losing 2-1 at the New Bucks Head.

Grimsby Town head to Moss Lane today (3pm), just five weeks after the corresponding fixture saw the sides draw 0-0.

And having watched former Lincoln man Perry first-hand during that clash at Blundell Park, Hurst has urged his men to be on red alert.

He told the Telegraph: "Kyle Perry is one that knows this level inside out.

"He got on the scoresheet at Telford, and came on against us at Blundell Park.

"Altrincham are a good footballing side so, perhaps, when they are not quite on it they find things a little bit difficult.

"But it's not like we haven't played them already this season.

"We played them, and didn't get the result we wanted – albeit I felt that we were the dominant team.

"In the couple of attacks they did have, they showed the threat they can pose.

"They had a response at Telford, albeit in defeat – they dominated the second half, and were on top."

While the Mariners were disappointed to be held by Altrincham last month, it sparked their ongoing, five- match Conference winning run.

Despite storming back into the title race, though, Hurst is refusing to get carried away ahead of today's journey to the North West.

He added: "At this moment in time we are going quite well, and long may it continue.

"We have to try and get as many points as we can, especially when we're in good form.

"But as soon as you start to get carried away with that, there will be a result in there that comes back to bite you.

"We have to show why we are on the good run we are on."

On the competition for places, Hurst continued: "The lads have the opportunity when they are on the team sheet to try and keep the shirt.

"But there will be times when I feel that changes are maybe necessary.

"I said to the lads that missed out on Tuesday against Halifax, realistically they have done pretty well.

"But the competition is that fierce now, and there are lads in form, that 'pretty well' might not be good enough."

KIWI striker Hamish Watson could still land a permanent deal at Blundell Park.

As reported, the 21-year-old has been on trial with Grimsby Town, as boss Paul Hurst assesses his attacking options.

Watson netted a hat-trick during the Mariners' 13-1 friendly victory over Corby Town in midweek.

But while that gave Hurst another chance to look at the big New Zealander, there are still issues surrounding a possible visa.

Hurst told the Telegraph: "Hamish is still here, and he played in the training game.

"With the visa, we are asking the questions and waiting for a response.

"I don't think the process is right, and not just in Hamish's situation, because the lad wants to have an opportunity.

"He wants the chance to earn a living, and we all need to be paid."

On Watson's display in the demolition of Corby, Hurst added: "It was good to see him 11 versus 11.

"He played for a long period of the match, so we saw other parts of his game that are not always easy to do in training exercises.

"He got himself on the scoresheet, albeit against – no disrespect – not the strongest opposition."

SHOULD Grimsby Town require a match-winning goal against Altrincham, then Ross Hannah is the man for the job.

That's according to Mariners boss Paul Hurst, who takes his men to Moss Lane today (3pm) in search of a sixth straight Conference win.

Hannah has not started a league game since October 4, at Dartford.

But while Town are currently enjoying their best run of the season, Hurst knows the quality he has in reserve.

He told the Telegraph: "With the formation we have been using, it's been tough for Ross.

"We have spoken about that, and he is probably the least obvious fit within that system.

"JP (Pittman) can obviously play down the middle, and out wide in a three.

"But there is still a place here for Ross – he has a great attitude, and wants to force his way into the team.

"But as we are setting up at this time, he has been there on the bench if we have needed a goal.

"I know he is still as likely as anyone in the squad to be able to go out there and get me a goal."

Given the success of Town's 4-3-3 formation, with Lenell John-Lewis in hot goal-scoring form, Hannah is likely to be on the bench today.

But having netted five times during the midweek friendly win over Corby Town, the Yorkshireman is ready to fire if called upon at Altrincham.

Hurst, pictured, added: "When strikers play any game, they want to score goals, so Ross was happy.

"When the chances were there, a couple of his finishes were excellent and that can only help Ross and his confidence.

"He gave himself a nice reminder of what he is capable of, as strikers love to score goals.

On the visit to Moss Lane, Hurst continued: "Altrincham are a good footballing side, so we will give them the utmost respect.

"You have to do that in this league – and in this sport – because if not then it comes back to bite you."