• Video: Council workers battle to clean 'disgusting' River Freshney in Grimsby

  By AfricanMeggy

  You don't have to be a genius to work out that the riverhead could be easily cleaned if the right...

            

   

  By Grimsby Telegraph at 07:32 on 01/05/13

  

  WATER disgrace. These shocking photographs show the "disgusting" state of Grimsby's River Freshney, which North East Lincolnshire Council workers battled to clean yesterday. Among the filth in the water at the Riverhead was a part-submerged television surrounded by thick, green sludge littered with plastic bottles, bags, footballs, chip board and other rubbish. NELC leader Councillor Chris Shaw has urged people to stop...

• UKIP was right to refuse to sign the anti-racism declaration

  By TestificateMD

  All I can say is that Mr Phelan sounds like he is of the age where he will be dead soon. Without...

            

   

  By East Lindsey Target at 07:00 on 05/06/13

  

  THE headline on Ben Peel's letter (Target, May 22) reads: Migrants entitled to be here. Entitled? I cannot find any democratic process by which the native English population granted that entitlement. In fact, former Labour ministers are now openly admitting they deliberately engineered mass immigration so as to stay as the governing party permanently. As for the statement we have lived in a multi-cultural society for a very long...

• Bridge vandals pay for damage

  By Brianzim

  Sigh! what happened to the age-old chastisement of kids as & when by Parents & Teachers. It...

            

   

  By East Lindsey Target at 07:10 on 08/06/13

  

  RESTORATIVE justice will be used to deal with offenders who cause damage to a footbridge in Louth. Following damage which occurred to the bridge at Hubbards Hills, Louth Town Neighbourhood Policing Team has traced the offenders. The youths have been spoken with and are being dealt with by way of Restorative Justice and will be donating money towards the repair costs as well as undertaking unpaid work at the location over the summer...

• Crime panel chairman steps down

  By ManOrMuppet

  Good luck in your new role Ray. It's nice to know that someone has the integrity to admit when they...

            

   

  By SRussellTG at 16:13 on 06/06/13

  

  A NEW chairman of the Lincolnshire Police and Crime Panel will be officially elected at the next meeting in September. The Police and Crime Panel, made up of Lincolnshire councillors and co-opted independent members, was expected to elect a new chairman at today's annual general meeting after Councillor Ray Wootten announced last month he would be stepping down. His announcement came after MPs criticised the panel for its handling of...

• Tributes paid to Parkway Cinemas owner Gerald Parkes

  By digoldsby

  I was taken aback reading the news of the loss of Gerald Parkes . He was indeed a great man who...

            

   

  By Grimsby Telegraph at 07:32 on 05/06/13

  

  THE cinema world is mourning the death of Gerald Parkes, 69, the founder and owner of Parkway Cinemas. With the nine-screen Parkway in Cleethorpes and the three-screen Playhouse in Louth, he entertained generations of film fans. Moving tributes have been paid to the much-loved entrepreneur who always had a smile and a joke and was regarded as one of northern Lincolnshire's greatest showmen. Only a week ago, in St Andrew's Hospice,...

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