August 2: People were left holding their noses after a mystery pong spread over Grimsby, with some people claiming the stench was making them feel ill.
August 4: The sacrifices made by those who fought in the First World War were remembered in poignant services held across the borough to mark the 100th anniversary of the moment war was declared in 1914.
August 5: A huge cannabis factory was uncovered at the former Barclay's bank in Grimsby's Cleethorpe Road. The sophisticated growing operation – on three floors of the site – made national news headlines after photographs of the hundreds of cannabis plants were shown. The Vietnamese man jailed after he was caught looking after the plants later claimed to the courts he had believed the plants were tomatoes.
August 6: The Range confirmed it was coming to Grimsby, converting the former Homebase store in Victoria Street.
August 7: Four cases of potentially-deadly Legionnaires' disease were confirmed in Grimsby. At this stage, no common link could be established.
August 9 to 12: Grimsby and Louth residents and businesses were left counting the cost of flash-flooding after a belt of rain resulted in "monsoon-like conditions", in a chilling echo of 2007's summer floods.
August 13: Tesco revealed it was interested in converting the former Conservative Association Club in Grimsby's Bargate.
August 14: The family and friends of "marvellous" Muriel Johnson toasted the Grimsby woman's 105th birthday – and revealed that up until she was 103, she had still lived in her own home.
August 15: Tributes were paid to heroic Amy London, who lost her fight against a rare genetic condition at the age of 21. The inspirational Grimsby woman touched the lives of everyone she met and "always had a smile on her face and put others first" despite her condition, which caused her skin to blister both internally and externally.
August 21: We revealed North East Lincolnshire Council had spent more than £10,000 in its failed legal case against Stuart Hewson, a developer who bulldozed his home in Humberston Avenue, in March 2013.
August 23: Excitement levels were still sky-high following the arrival of the world's only two air-worthy Lancaster Bombers in the skies of North East Lincolnshire. Flypasts were conducted by the Mynarski Memorial Lancaster – which had journeyed from Canada for the event – and its Battle of Britain Memorial Flight twin.
August 25: Kyle Nuttall, 12, appealed to more people to join the organ donor register, after revealing how he had been given the gift of life seven years previously, when he underwent a kidney transplant.
August 26: The sharpest filleters in the land converged on Cleethorpes for the 2014 British Fish Craft Championships. The bank holiday weekend event saw the country's top fishmongers converge on the resort, which was hosting the prestigious contest for the first time.
August 27: 109-year-old Vera Rostron was one of 15 residents to find themselves on the move after Cleethorpes' Farringford Residential Home went into administration. However, we were happy to hear she had settled into her new home in Royal Court Care Home, which is also in the resort.
August 30: We rounded off the month in style, as your kind-hearted donations ensured deserving youngster Brody Croft could head off to Disney World in Florida. As reported, the youngster has already gone blind in one eye and doctors do not know how long he will retain his sight, so his family wanted to give him a trip of a lifetime before he lost his vision entirely.
