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Scunthorpe residents told to ‘clean up their act’ in major fly-tipping operation

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The leader of North Lincolnshire Council has urged Scunthorpe residents to clean up their act and stop dumping rubbish on the streets of the town. The council has instigated a major operation in the Crosby and Park and Town wards to educate residents …


Source : www.scunthorpetelegraph.co.uk
July 17, 2017 |

The bloody story of Kenneth Roberts: the last man from Scunthorpe to be executed

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Kenneth Roberts became the last man from Scunthorpe to be hanged in July 1955 Kenneth Roberts of 70 Spencer Avenue, Crosby, Scunthorpe, who was hung at Lincoln on Tuesday July 12, 1955, for the murder of Mary Georgina Roberts (18) of Roxby Road …


Source : www.scunthorpetelegraph.co.uk
June 21, 2017 |

Four arrests over ‘firearms and money laundering’ after police raid in Scunthorpe

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The raid on the property in Frodingham Road, close by the Crosby and District WMC, was said to be an intelligence-led operation. Three women and one man were arrested yesterday (June 14) on suspicion of firearms and money-laundering offences.


Source : www.scunthorpetelegraph.co.uk
June 15, 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, …


Source : www.independent.co.uk
December 27, 2016 |