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Hunt for Spar store armed robber

Shop assistant Claire Curtis  outside the Spar Shop in Barton-Upon-Humber, which was robbed on Saturday

DETECTIVES are hunting an armed robber who stole "a substantial amount of cash" from a North Lincolnshire shop early on Saturday morning.

The raid took place just after 7am at the Spar store in Waterside Road, Barton-Upon-Humber.

The offender, a male, said to be about 6ft tall, is believed to have been loitering around the area...

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Unions' strike vote over Corus closure

Corus Steelworks, seen from Mortal Ash Hill

THE return of the Scunthorpe steelworks to a three blast furnace operation remains overshadowed by the threat of strike action. Leaders...

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VIDEO: Students' support for cancer teen

Oliver Quickenden (right) with friends who had their heads shaved at John Leggott College to raise money for Cancer Research UK

A JOHN Leggott College student has spoken of his fight to beat a rare form of bone cancer. Sixteen-year-old Oliver Quickenden, of Scunt...

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Thief sold his mother's dog

Man sold his mother's dog

A THIEF who stole and sold a three-week-old puppy belonging to his own mother, has been ordered to compensate her for the £200...

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Drug crimes higher than Government targets

Drug-related crimes higher than Government targets

DRUG-related crimes in North Lincolnshire are higher than government targets according to a Home Office report. A report on drug-misusi...

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Plans for children's Sure Start centre

The team from North Lincolnshire children's services department who will be working at the proposed Sure Start  centre

A NEW £500,000 children's centre could be opened in Brigg next year. The project would see the Brigg Youth Centre in Grammar Schoo...

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Last chapter of book series

Crowle Primary School pupils  Jake Bunce and Ewan Downing, both 10

THE final instalment of the Children's Classic Book series takes place this week with The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Mark Twain's...


Couple's fishing match to help hospital

From left: Graham Frith, Kyle Hartley, Elizabeth  and Alan McClurey, with Rhianna, are organising a charity fishing match

A SCUNTHORPE couple are hoping to raise lots of cash for a children's hospital as a thank you for curing their granddaughters leukaemia...

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Restored Spider T sloop impresses visitors

Spider T sloop owner and skipper Mal Nicholson with the boat, moored in Keadby

IT WAS "all aboard" the historic Humber Sloop Spider T at the weekend, when more than 100 people descended on Keadby to discover its...

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Unions' strike vote over Corus closure

Corus Steelworks, seen from Mortal Ash Hill

THE return of the Scunthorpe steelworks to a three blast furnace operation remains overshadowed by the threat of strike action.

Leaders from the company's four main trade unions meet in London later today to draw up their plans for a ballot on whether to take industrial action, over the closure of the Corus plant at Teesside with the loss...

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Restored Spider T sloop impresses visitors

Spider T sloop owner and skipper Mal Nicholson with the boat, moored in Keadby

IT WAS "all aboard" the historic Humber Sloop Spider T at the weekend, when more than 100 people descended on Keadby to discover its...

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Queen Bess blast-furnace to be relit

The Queen Bess blast-furnace

THE Scunthorpe Corus steelworks is to revert to a three blast-furnace operation for the first time since November 2008. Site director...

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Big thank you after Corus blaze

Big thank you after Corus blaze

A BIG thank you has been paid to employees who worked around the clock to repair fire damage which brought steel-making on the Scunthor...

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Wind turbines may generate jobs

Scunthorpe steel could be used to build more windfarms, like the RWE Npower renewables North Hoyle Offshore Wind Farm.

SCUNTHORPE'S steelworks are in an ideal position to provide the backbone for the nation's new eco-friendly powerhouses, a leading indus...

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