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Flats named after poet from middle ages

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Crosby Flats, near the town centre, were completed in 1966 – giving the town’s skyline new landmarks to join the famous line-up of blastfurnaces at Appleby-Frodingham works – Queens Bess, Mary, Anne and Victoria. It was officially named the …
July 17, 2017 |


No further action following Scunthorpe raids

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… 22 and 46 years, and a woman, aged 24 years, were due to appear before Grimsby Magistrates yesterday (June 7). The three were arrested following dawn raids on homes in Bottesford and the Crosby area of Scunthorpe on February 23, led by the …
June 7, 2017 |

Business partners take over one of Scunthorpe’s oldest hotels

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Builder Richard Sturman, 42, and plumber, Gareth Dobb, 32, have gone into partnership to take over one of Scunthorpe’s oldest hotels The Grosvenor. They have signed a five-year rolling lease to run the hotel on Old Crosby which celebrated its centenary …
May 21, 2017 |

Liz Smith obituary: Actress who left poverty behind to play Nana in ‘The Royle Family’ and the cake-making church …

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The actress was born Betty Gleadle, an only child, in Crosby, Lincolnshire, now a Scunthorpe suburb. When she was two, her Yorkshire-born mother, Nellie (née Foster), died in childbirth (the baby girl also died) and she was aged seven when her father, …
December 27, 2016 |