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Go-ahead for Tesco extension

APPROVAL: Residents look at the plans for the extension to Barton's Tesco store with Claire Whittaker, planning assistant for DPP, when they went on show at the supermarket.

Friday, March 12, 2010

TESCO has been given permission to extend one of its Scunthorpe area stores by North Lincolnshire Council's planning committee.

The committee accepted the proposals for the extension, which also include a petrol station and demolition of an existing warehouse,...

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Residents' parking permit scheme launch

CAMPAIGNER: Queen Street Action Group chairman Ian Chambers, on Brigg's Queen Street, one of the areas covered by the residents' parking trial, which begins on Monday.

Friday, March 12, 2010

RESIDENTS will have priority parking outside their homes from Monday, when new restrictions come into force in a North Lincolnshire town. The scheme,...

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Morley pleads 'not guilty' in the dock

MEDIA: Elliot Morley MP is surrounded by photographers as he leaves the City of Westminster Magistrates' Court

Friday, March 12, 2010

SCUNTHORPE MP Elliot Morley has entered not guilty pleas to two counts of false accounting as ally Ian Cawsey MP called for 'justice to be seen to be...

Winterton impressed by Gateway plans

Friday, March 12, 2010

MINISTER for Yorkshire and Humber Rosie Winterton has been briefed in Scunthorpe on plans for the south Humber bank. Winterton met with the leaders of...

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Fallen soldier remembered on memorial wall

The Basra Memorial Wall in Staffordshire.

Friday, March 12, 2010

SCUNTHORPE soldier Ben Leaning's memory will be kept alive by a memorial wall to those killed in Iraq, according to his brother. As reported on...

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Slashing CO2 emissions from homes

Friday, March 12, 2010

CARBON emissions will be slashed by thousands of tonnes per year thanks to a drastic home improvement scheme. Environmentally-friendly improvements to...

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Legion branch founders on recruitment drive

Founder members of the Brigg and District Branch of the Royal British Legion, from left, chairman Andy Moses, Llwellyn Gudgeon and Karen Gudgeon with membership forms.

Friday, March 12, 2010

A NEW Brigg and District branch of the Royal British Legion has been established. The branch is the sixth in North Lincolnshire and is now inviting...

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Morley pleads not guilty

Thursday, March 11, 2010

ELLIOT Morley has pleaded not guilty to charges of theft. The Scunthorpe MP appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court in London today, where a...

Morley arrives at court

Thursday, March 11, 2010

SCUNTHORPE MP Elliot Morley has arrived at City of Westminster Magistrates Court to face theft charges. Mr Morley, 57, will answer two charges of...

I can't wait to drive again - crash teen

RECOVERY: Alice Watson, 19, who despite breaking her back in a crash during a driving lesson, has vowed to start learning again. She is pictured with her grandma June Watson. Picture: Richard Addison.

Thursday, March 11, 2010

A BRAVE teenager who suffered multiple injuries in a car crash last year has organised a fundraiser in honour of the paramedics who treated her. Alice...

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