St. Andrews Hospice and your wonderful help
PLEASE, YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN TEN SECONDS.Our Local Hospice is in need of our help to buy an important piece of equipment and I am holding various events in the forthcoming weeks to ensure we...
View ArticleParents of young cancer sufferer Lucy Sutton stage Butterfly Ball to help...
More than 400 children and young adults across the country are diagnosed with primary bone cancer each year. Osteosarcoma is the most common form of primary bone cancer with over half of those...
View ArticleVisiting Chinese professors loving Grimsby's 'blue skies and thoughtful people'
TWO Chinese professors are enjoying the "blue skies and thoughtful people" of Grimsby.Li Xiangwei and Xi Hong – known as Julie and Rose while in England – are professors at the Guangzhou University...
View ArticleWork begins on £700k wedding and function suite at the Brackenborough Hotel
A LUXURY £700,000 wedding and function suite will create at least eight new jobs.Work has begun on the construction of a new self-contained barn-style building at the three-star Brackenborough Hotel,...
View ArticleGrimsby firefighters show up at store to help sell charity calendars
GRIMSBY firefighters gave the sales of their charity calendar a boost when they promoted it in person for the first time.As reported, staff from Cromwell Road Station have stripped off in aid of Motor...
View ArticleHate crimes on the rise in North East Lincolnshire as more victims are coming...
REPORTED incidents of hate crime in North East Lincolnshire are expected to increase this year.But the figures are being viewed as a positive by police and council bosses who say it is a sign that more...
View ArticleYoung Grimsby Telegraph columnists up for national award
A GROUP of young Grimsby Telegraph columnists have been nominated for a national award – as they hand their legacy down to a new batch of budding writers.In June, the five teenagers set about trying to...
View ArticleMiss Face of England Jade Clay planning beauty contest in aid of charity
THIS beauty queen is planning her own pageant right here in North East Lincolnshire.Jade Clay, 22, the current Miss Face Of The North and Miss Face Of England, is hoping to bring some glamour to...
View ArticleChip shop owner to trek across Sahara to raise funds for St Andrew's Hospice
A FISH and chip shop owner is hoping not to fry when she treks across the Sahara for charity.Dianne Welsh is taking on a challenge of a lifetime over ten days, starting on Friday, October 26.The owner...
View ArticleResidents call for drivers to slow down after car ploughs through garden wall
RESIDENTS of a Grimsby road have called for drivers to slow down after a collision forced a car off the road, through a garden wall and into a house – just minutes after the resident's elderly mother...
View ArticleGreen field site on Humberston Road earmarked for 150 new homes
FIVE hectares of green field land have been earmarked for a potential 150-home development.The early stages of a planning application have been submitted to North East Lincolnshire Council for land on...
View ArticleFirst Person: Is it more (fi)X Factor?
Local talent is shining on the X Factor, writes the Grimsby Telegraph's entertainment reporter Lucy Greensmith EVERYONE seems to be talking about one TV programme at the moment and that's X Factor......
View ArticleCross country season gets underway – but there's no mud in sight
THE first cross country race of the new 2012/13 season took place in calm and bright conditions at Louth's London Road fields.Although runners did not have to contend with boggy mud or driving wind and...
View ArticleMartin Vickers: It's a determined mood for all at Conservative party conference
MARTIN Vickers, the Conservative MP for Cleethorpes, is currently at the Tory Party Conference in Birmingham. He will be writing pieces for the Grimsby Telegraph about the event as it progresses, and...
View ArticleNunsthorpe residents in favour of permit system to help tackle parking chaos
NUNSTHORPE residents have welcomed moves to tackle parking chaos near their homes.New parking restrictions will be imposed to improve safety along Redbourne Road close to the junction with Second...
View ArticleImmingham football club offers £100 reward after theft of metal goalposts
SOMEONE has moved the goalposts – and sold them for scrap.That was the angry reaction from a football club boss who has offered a reward for the return of the metal posts.They were sawn off and taken...
View ArticleMatch report: Alfreton Town 0 Grimsby Town 2
LOAN rangers Scott Neilson and Ross Hannah were the Grimsby Town heroes at Alfreton as the Mariners bounced back in style.Having lost at home to Dartford on Saturday, Town needed to get back to winning...
View ArticleMan assaulted outside nightclub on Pasture Street in Grimsby
POLICE are appealing for witnesses to come forward following an assault which happened on Pasture Street in Grimsby at around 3.30am on Wednesday, October 3. A 19-year-old man was leaving a local...
View ArticleX Factor: Bobsleigh world champ Nicola Minichiello supporting Ella Henderson...
FORMER World Bobsleigh Champion Nicola Minichiello has joined the ever-growing support for North East Lincolnshire X Factor stars Ella Henderson and District 3's Micky Parsons. She was accompanied by...
View ArticleBattle to stop sale of cars at the roadside could see parking restrictions...
PARKING restrictions could be imposed along the full length of Grimsby Road, in Cleethorpes, to prevent cars for sale clogging up the highway.Council bosses have promised to consider a petition signed...
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