AS ONE Cleethorpes landmark faces a bright future, another has failed to sell at auction.

Wetherspoon's bosses have confirmed for the first time that they are looking at taking over the Amishi nightclub, in the High Street, as a possible venue to operate in.

The news comes as Wonderland failed to meet its reserve at an auction in Leeds yesterday.

The 2.87-acre site on the North Promenade was up for sale at a guide price of £425,000.

Joint auctioneer Carl Bradley, at Hull-based Clark Weightman, said it came as a surprise after good pre-auction interest. He said: "The reserve wasn't a million miles away from the guide price, but we are now open to phone calls with sensible offers.

"The next couple of days should prove very interesting."

Meanwhile, national pub chain Wetherpoon's has declared a specific interest in Amishi, which is on the market for £400,000, as reported.

Measuring 8,400 square feet, the club has three bars, two dance floors, two DJ booths and an outdoor roof terrace. Formerly the Baton Rouge, it has a capacity for 1,000 people.

A spokesperson from Wetherspoon's said: "We are very keen to open a pub in the Cleethorpes resort.

"We can now confirm we are currently looking at the Amishi site. However, we cannot comment any further on individual sites."

There are currently two Wetherspoon's in Grimsby, The Yarborough Hotel, on Bethlehem Street, and The Ice Barque, on the Riverhead.

A regular at The Yarborough Hotel, Dave Everson, 35, of Lord Street, Grimsby, said: "I come here because it is cheap and convenient. My family have also been coming here for years.

"If there is a Wetherspoon's put in Cleethorpes I think it will do well. The chain have pubs in most towns so it does make sense. It always has a good range of drinks and an atmosphere to match."

The iconic buildings are not the only ones to have been in the spotlight. Less than a month ago, the Pier failed to sell at auction – although a buyer, as yet unnamed, has now been found.

And there's even more good news. Developers behind the proposed 80-bedroom Premier Inn hotel, in Cleethorpes, are preparing to submit a formal planning application shortly.

A spokesman for Premier Inn confirmed that the company was "still on course to develop a hotel in Cleethorpes" despite rumours circulating in the town that it had pulled out of the resort.

The £8 million development is earmarked for vacant land at Meridian Park, on Kings Road.

FORMER Grimsby Town striker Anthony Elding has completed a move to Irish side Sligo Rovers.

The 30-year-old is the club's third new signing ahead of the coming 2013 Airtricity Premier Division season, which begins next month.

Elding had fallen out of favour at Blundell Park this campaign, and had not figured in a first-team squad since returning from a loan spell at Preston North End earlier in the season.

The move to the reigning Irish champions will see Elding link-up with former Mariner Danny North.

And Sligo boss Ian Baraclough, who himself played for Town between 1990 and 1992, is excited about that partnership.

He told the club's official website : "Anthony will bring a lot of strengths to our squad.

 "He has a good record of scoring goals in the Football League with around a one in three ratio. He has played with some very good clubs and has some great experience.

 "Danny North is a couple of months away from returning and Anthony will hope to show what he can do.

 "The prospect of the possibility of the two together later in the season is exciting."

The Barnardo's Parent Partnership keyworker service provides a dedicated keyworker to the parents / guardians of disabled children, to help them through the minefield of appointments, red tape, transitions in schooling, when medical, educational, and emotional experiences are completely alien and frightening and overwhelming and heartbreaking. However, it has recently been announced the service will no longer be funded as from April this year.

The council's argument not to renew the contract is that it is a "luxury service" that can no longer be warranted. This demonstrates a complete lack of understanding of what the service does, how successful it is and what ruinous effect its removal will have. Those families who have already been informed are absolutely devastated and wonder what the future holds for them. We understand that these are austere times and that the keyworker service is not a statutory part of the Parent Partnership Service which it is attached to, but this is at best a disastrous false economy by the Children's Health & Family Support Department, and at worst an immensely cruel u-turn in the council's promise not to let the disabled suffer in their budget cuts.

It rather seems to me that it is a LOT less effort and paperwork to cut a small service entirely, than to go through the complicated business of reducing a large and probably over-funded service, to meet the budgeting constraints the council currently faces!

In an email response from Joanne Hewson (Children's Health & Family Support department) this week, she told me "I want to reassure you and families currently supported by the service that we are working with Barnardos to ensure continuity during the transition period and will be talking to parents in the near future". Surely consulting the users of a service during the decision making process is statutory? Her concern for our opinion has come inexcusably late! And because of the timing, we are left precious little time to coordinate any kind of powerful appeal, particularly with us all having our caring responsibilities at home.

The real joke was the council's comments printed in an article printed in The Grimsby Telegraph on Thursday 21st February, which firstly painted the average keyworker to sound more like an au pair rather than a knowledgeable experienced professional in the field of childhood disability! Secondly they tried to claim, for those of the public that obviously cannot know, that the same service can be provided by other already existing services, e.g. the befrienders service.

Let's get one thing clear… the headline "Parents Reassured" - that couldn't be further from the truth if it tried.

If the keyworker service is NOT being closed (a quote from the article), and the "Barnardo's spokesperson" (whoever that was! Nobody seems to know) says they are working closely with NELC re transition, then:

1. why doesn't even the manager of the current Barnardos keyworker service have any idea what's going on or what to tell us parents?

2. why do we the parents not already know who our new keyworkers are going to be? Many of us have upcoming appointments in early April that require a keyworker present / involved, or to coordinate.

3. if there will be a pause in /interruption of provision, why have we not been informed of the likely length of time we will be without the service?

If the powers that be think that a befriender service or suchlike will be an acceptable replacement keyworker service, they are dillusional!! There is NO reassurance in ANY of what the councillor has said. It's utter rubbish. We are still at square one so far as the parents are concerned.

With this unfortunate and rather flippant decision, they will be removing the only person in the entire system and indeed within parents' own friend/family/colleague circles who fully understands our priorities, our requirements from the system at large, and the only person's opinion we truly trust other than our own re our disabled child's well-being, and can help us tread the best possible path towards it. THE ROUTE TO YOUR CHILD'S WELL-BEING IS NOT A LUXURY. THE KEYWORKER SERVICE IS NOT A LUXURY.

GRIMSBY Town have drafted in Derby defender Tom Naylor on loan until the end of the season.

The 21-year-old former Mansfield trainee is predominantly a centre half but can also play at full-back.

He is not eligible to play in tomorrow's FA Trophy semi-final second leg with Dartford because he was not registered before the first meeting with the Darts.

Naylor, who most recently spent a loan spell at Bradford City, could make his Mariners debut at home to Ebbsfleet on Tuesday.

See tomorrow's Grimsby Telegraph for more.

PLANS have been announced for the Zero Degrees Festival which will celebrate Louth's culture and community in the summer.

Spearheaded by the Louth Town Partnership, Zero Degrees will take place between June 21 and July 14, and will kick-off with Party In The Pews, in St James' Church, on June 21 and will end on July 14 with the Louth Food Festival.

The Louth Music Festival, Louth Run For Life, Male Voice Choir, Louth Visual Arts Trail, Spout Yard Park, Allegro Appassionato, Louth Folk Club, Louth Jazz Club, Riverhead Theatre and Louth Choral Society are involved.

Festival chairman Alan Mumby said: "Zero Degrees is an umbrella brand name for all events taking place in the town over the three weeks.

"We know Louth really punches above its weight with cultural and sporting events and it is time we started really shouting about it.

"There is already great enthusiasm from everyone involved and we want to build on that.

"We want to create a real buzz in the town during those three weeks, and we'll do that with more street entertainment, banners, festival venue signs and lots more.

"We want to attract as many visitors and residents to the town centre as we can and that's got to be good news for the town's economy."

The Zero Degrees Festival organisers are keen to encourage people to run their own events during the festival period and to get in touch if they already have something planned.

They are also looking for talented local youngsters to take part in Louth's Got Yalent (The L factor), which will be part of the Party In The Pews event.

To have your event included in the brochure, and for all other enquiries, contact Samantha Phillips, town partnership co-ordinator, on 07917 628149 or e-mail samantha.phillips@e-lindsey.gov.uk by March 29.

TWO girls have raised £1,610 for the Teenager Cancer Trust in memory of a school friend who died last year.

CeeJay Liles and Laura Whatling organised a fundraising bash at the Brackenborough Hotel, Louth, in honour of their late friend Nicole Williams.

As reported, the former Cordeaux Academy student passed away on December 3 last year after a brave battle against cancer.

Laura, 18, and CeeJay, 17, organised an auction, raffle, cake sale and guess the number of sweets stands, while a buffet was donated by the hotel.

Laura said: "The night was a massive success with the help of the local community and businesses around Louth and Grimsby.

"We had more than 100 people turn up at one point during the night, and I'm really proud of how it went."

Entertainment was provided by Cheryl and Jerry Smith who got people in the mood for the auction, led by Jamie Harris.

Laura added: "Nicole's family is over the moon with how the evening went and are so proud of what CeeJay and I have achieved in memory of Nicole.

"We hope to host more events like this in the future to keep raising more money."

The duo would like to thank Alex Dunn, Lucy Vickers, Kristen Fenwick and Billy Beasley who gave up their time to help on the night.

HUMBERSIDE Police and Crime Commissioner Matthew Grove spent more than £28,000 on his successful election campaign.

It was funded by Conservative party members and private individuals.

Figures have been released on how much candidates paid out in their bid to become Humberside's first Police And Crime Commissioner – and totalled more than £100,000.

While Mr Grove spent £27,481 on printing campaign leaflets, Labour candidate Lord Prescott spent £23,485 on his failed bid to become the region's first commissioner, including more than £10,000 of his own money.

Mr Grove said: "It was absolutely worth it. These costs are just the tip of the iceberg because the distribution of the leaflets was done by an army of volunteers.

"They gave me their shoe leather to spend hours and days treading the streets, putting hundreds of thousands of pieces of paper through people's letterboxes. I owe them a huge debt of thanks.

"Without all that effort, I would not have won."

Mr Grove spent £375 hiring a room at Rudstone Walk, near South Cave, for a meeting with Tory peer Lord Wasserman. His campaign team also hired the Conservative party offices, in Brigg and Goole, for £437.

Mr Grove said the biggest donation was £2,000 from a London-based company.

He said: "That was because of who I was standing against.

"I think, in this area, people didn't know who they wanted to be their Police and Crime Commissioner, but it was clear who they didn't want it to be.

"It was a close-run thing in the end, but my team worked very, very hard and I think that is why we won.

"I was very much the underdog, but I wanted the people of East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire to know who I was and what I was standing for and that is why the leaflets were so important."

Mr Grove said he received a handwritten letter from Prime Minister David Cameron after his election victory, saying he had "put a smile on the face of the nation" for beating Lord Prescott.

"There aren't many people who can say they've done that," said Mr Grove.

Lord Prescott received £12,615 in donations, most for the use of Labour party offices. Jack Chu, owner of Mr Chu China Palace, in St Andrew's Quay, Hull, also allowed Lord Prescott to use his restaurant for a meeting with former Prime Minister Tony Blair.

It was said to be worth £300.

During his campaign, in which he toured the region in a converted people carrier daubed with stickers, Lord Prescott crossed the Humber Bridge 23 times.

Both candidates fell far short of the limit for campaign costs, which was set at £126,520 for the area.

A FORMER beauty queen, who has conquered globe-trotting quests Michael Palin would think twice about, is set to embark on her greatest challenge to date.

In the early Eighties, Della Draper became Miss United Kingdom and was a runner-up Miss World. But she has since climbed one of the highest peaks in Asia, gone white-water rafting in Borneo, scuba dived in the Pacific and camped in Alaska's Yukon in temperatures of -35°C beneath the Aurora Borealis.

Her exploits would easily give fellow globetrotter Palin a run for his money and make the trials and tribulations of the contestants on I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here look like a village tea party.

Many of her adventures have helped her raised thousands of pounds for local charities.

Indeed, her life recently featured in a BBC2 documentary, Wonderland – I Was Once A Beauty Queen, produced by Bafta-nominated documentary maker Hannah Berryman.

"I try to do something adventurous each year," she explained.

However, Della, 50, is now embarking on her greatest adventure of all, in her home town of Cleethorpes.

She has partnered her daughter Daniella, 24, in an exciting new silver jewellery business, which they have founded in the resort.

They have set up shop in a unit at Meridian Park, next to the Cleethorpes Coast Light Railway station, a firm favourite with holidaymakers. As it happens, the unit they occupy was previously home to a seaside miniature railway museum, the contents of which have now moved across the road to a building at the station.

Daniella graduated in jewellery design from Central Saint Martin's College of Art & Design in London three years ago, and established her own workshop at home.

She specialises in predominantly silver jewellery, although she will make gold items to order.

With prices from £20 to £500, her handmade jewellery aims to make the perfect gift for many special occasions, including birthdays, weddings, engagements, anniversaries and confirmations.

Many items can be viewed and bought off the shelf at the shop in Meridian Park.

Others can be designed to order, for bespoke jewellery is a speciality with Daniella, who will consider any requests.

The shop opened in August, but the business already has several significant outlets, both locally and as far afield as London, where KJ's Laundry, in Kings Road, stocks Daniella Draper jewellery.

Daniella's stack bangles were featured in the Kate And The Gypsy shoot by Iain McKell for V-Magazine, and related articles appeared in several national newspapers.

Natasha Kahn, lead singer of the band Bat For Lashes, was also photographed wearing Daniella's stack rings at the recent Barclaycard Mercury music awards.

So what is now the latest in London jewellery fashion can be viewed and bought right here in Lincolnshire – and at a price much lower than what you might well pay in the capital.

Backing Daniella's bold business drive is her mother, who is the exact opposite of the image of the blonde bimbo beauty contestant as often caricatured by hardcore feminists.

Yes, Della became Miss UK in 1982, and runner-up in Miss World the following year, in the days when the politically correct held no sway over such contests.

However, Della confounded the critics of such events by, as an 18-year-old, wisely investing every penny that she earned from them in a career of her own away from the stage and cameras.

She bought local clothes business Hobo, which was based in Freshney Place, and then moved to Abbeygate, in Grimsby, and ran it for 22 years, before selling it on.

Della is now back with a vengeance to pass on her business skills to her family's latest venture.

During her much-publicised exploits, Della gained great satisfaction in raising many thousands of pounds to help others. With two men from Grimsby, she climbed the 13,435ft-high Mount Kinabalu, in Borneo, regarded as the 20th most prominent mountain in the world and which has UNESCO World Heritage status.

She also took part in a 113-mile bike ride in the Crocker Mountain Range, in Borneo, for the Children Today Charity and raised £5,000. No challenge is too great for sporty Della. After flying to Ladakh, a high-altitude desert in the Himalayas, she trekked through seven mountain passes in eight days – the highest being 17,500ft – with the goal of delivering supplies to a remote upland school.

Her favourite place of all is the Swiss Alps. Ther, she was filmed for the BBC documentary.

She added: "Some of these trips abroad raised money for charity, and I would like to so the same with Daniella's business.

"We are keen to hear from anyone who thinks we might be able to help."

To find out more about Daniella Draper jewellery, visit www.danielladraper.com. The shop can be contacted on 07709 446351 or by emailing jewellery@danielladraper.com

THIS marathon man will run up funds for the charity that is helping his mother through a life-debilitating illness.

David Mumby, 41, of Humberston, hopes to raise thousands of pounds for the Multiple Sclerosis Society when he runs the London Marathon on April 23.

His mum Eilene was diagnosed with the condition nine years ago and he has seen firsthand the affect it has on people and their families.

David, who has run the Great North Run three times, has already raised £700 for the cause. He said: "My mum is proud of me, I think. MS can take its toll, especially on my dad, but it is good to know I can help by raising money.

"I feel ready to do the big marathon now. I'm really looking forward to it and I have been training hard."

There are 100,000 people in the UK living with MS.

Every day seven people are diagnosed with the condition and most are aged between 20 and 40 years old – although children as young can have the condition.

Over the weekend, David, his niece Ellie and father Mick collected money from shoppers at Morrisons, in Laceby.

They were surprised by how many people have been diagnosed with the condition and how generous people were.

Mick said: "The public have been so generous by donating in this current economic climate. We also want to thank the staff at Morrisons for their kind welcome. It has been marvellous.

"Living with MS has been hard but we get by. I think what my son is doing is brilliant."

To sponsor David, call 01472 814735.

SUNDAY'S prestigious Humber Cod Open has been called off due to strong wings being forecasted.

The gusts are expected to be in a north-easterly direction – and this would not be kind to the beach-launching boats.

Over 50 of these vessels were expected as part of the list of 220 entrants this year, but organisers have had to think of those anglers coming from away, who will not be familiar with the area.

The competition has now been rearranged for Sunday, March 10.

The annual event is one of the top boat competitions in the country, featuring top anglers who all come to compete for the guaranteed £1,000 first prize.

With pools on top of that, the winner could pick up around £1,500 – so it is worth the effort when the event comes around again next month.

Local anglers could have been forgiven for being pleased with the postponement.

That's because the amount of fresh water that we have had in the Humber over the past few months has had a negative effect on cod fishing in the area. More sea angling reports online at www.thisisgrimsby.co.uk/sport

MOST of the area's anglers are gearing up for the biggest open match in the country on the Yorkshire coast next month.

The European Open at Bridlington gets underway on March 8 with the flattie match, followed by the start of the main two-day event the following day.

There are lots of prizes on offer for this match and it will attract over 1,000 anglers from both this country and abroad.

Humber SAC were in action last weekend when they held a rover match.

Simon Drayton managed to find cod to easily win the match, followed by Nigel Crabtree.

THE NHS is reviewing services for adults with congenital heart disease.

It could mean changes are in store for local patients who travel to Leeds, but the results will not be announced until May.

The news comes as Save Our Surgery (SOS) campaigners separarely continue to fight the decision to close Leeds Children's Heart Unit, which would mean families from our area having to travel to Newcastle or Liverpool for surgery.

Fears have been expressed by Councillor Peggy Elliott (Lab, Freshney), who has been a key player in SOS, over the separate nationwide review of services for Adults with Congenital Heart Disease (ACHD).

She said: "It is the same surgeons who operate on children and adults and it is that ability to care for people with heart problems from infancy to adulthood that won the hospital so much respect.

"We can't second-guess what is going to be decided because we simply don't know."

Other councillors also voiced concerns when the matter was discussed at a recent meeting of North East Lincolnshire Council's Health, Housing and Well-being Scrutiny Panel.

Councillor Karl Wilson (Lab, Heneage), said: "I'm worried that if the children's heart unit goes, the writing is on the wall for the adult unit.

"Our area would be massively disadvantaged if we didn't have this excellent facility at Leeds for heart patients."

Members unanimously voted to join forces with other local authorities to respond to the ACHD review.

More than ten councils in the Yorkshire and Humber region will form a committee to consider and respond when the NHS announces its proposals in full.

It is thought that the panel and other stakeholders will be consulted between May and July and a national public consultation will take place in the summer and autumn of this year.

At the scrutiny meeting, councillors also talked passionately about the current fight against the fight for children's heart services.

Ian Lindley (Lab, West Marsh) said: "Unfortunately, my glass is half empty on this one – I don't think they will change their minds but I hope I'm wrong.

"Whatever happens, I think we can at least hold out heads high and say we have done all we could do to fight it."