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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.

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 Watson, 19, fractured her spine and breastbone and punctured her bowel in a head-on smash during a driving lesson on December 19 last year.

While she is still recovering physically...

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Isle of Axholme tourist centre to be built

Work continues in Crowle Market Place.

VISITORS to the Isle of Axholme will have somewhere to search for the best visitor hotspots when part of a residential block is transfo...

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Water Rescue Day to raise awareness

A warning sign at the side of Ashby Ville pond.

THE Red Devils parachute team, air ambulance and a British Rally champion are set to turn heads at this years' Water Rescue Day. Emerge...

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Drivers are hit with £6,000 parking fines

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MORE than 200 motorists will be forced to pay up after parking illegally in the streets of North Lincolnshire. In just one week a stagg...

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Man rescued after five-vehicle crash

DAMAGE:  One of the cars involved in the M180 accident is driven away from the scene on the back of a  breakdown vehicle.

A CRASH on the M180 involving two HGVs and three cars left one man with minor injuries. The incident, which saw a curtain-sided lorry...

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M180 closed after five-vehicle crash

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TWO tankers and three cars have been involved in a crash which trapped at least one person and has closed the M180 eastbound between...

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Fingers crossed for Big Lottery funding

Barton Town Band is applying for a Big Lottery Fund grant.

VOLUNTARY and community groups from throughout North Lincolnshire flocked to a session aimed at helping them to get Big Lottery funding...

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Taxi driver pledges compensation to charity

SELFLESS ACT: Taxi driver Fakher Amin, of Keadby Cabs, has installed CCTV in his cab after he was attacked.

A TAXI driver who was awarded compensation after being attacked by a drunken passenger says he will give the cash to charity. Fakher...

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Housing chief Duncan to retire

The former chief executive of North Lincolnshire Homes, Jane Duncan.

AN OFFER of early retirement has been accepted by the suspended chief executive of North Lincolnshire Homes (NLH). The terms of her...


Rural areas suffering exodus of young

Rural towns such as Brigg, Barton-Upon-Humber, Kirton in Lindsey and Epworth are suffering from and exodus of young people

MORE needs to be done to keep young people in their rural communities, according to countryside campaigners. A report published by The...

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£25,000 of parking 'fines' in dummy run

PENALTIES:  A Civil Enforcement Officer at work on the streets of North Lincolnshire

MOTORISTS have been warned they could have been hit with £25,000 worth of fines after North Lincolnshire Council's new parking...

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Adkins: Iron have fresh impetus after break

NIGEL Adkins has warned his players to ignore Ipswich Town's lowly position in the league tomorrow and instead focus on the direct threat they...



Frod looking to end losing streak

APP-FROD are looking to end a run of five straight defeats away at Rossington Main tomorrow. Matty Robinson scored the Steelmen's...


Winterton boss still has his eye on a top-eight finish

A STRONG end to the season could yet see Winterton boss Richard Sennett achieve the aims he set out at the beginning of his tenure at...


Bottesford still have plenty to play for

MID-TABLE Bottesford still have plenty to play for, according to stand-in boss Steve Carter. With a place in the final of the Wilkinso...


Housham is not turning his attentions to next season yet

WITH the Zebras essentially safe from the drop, there could be a temptation to look toward building for next season. But Town boss...







 

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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.

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, after a site visit to the Barton-upon-Humber store on Maltkiln...

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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.

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

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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

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


Winterton impressed by Gateway plans

Rosie Winterton impressed by Gateway plans

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

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Fallen soldier remembered on memorial wall

The Basra Memorial Wall in Staffordshire.

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

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