GRANTHAM NEWS
Supermarket offers special treat for over-60s
Asda from St Wulfram's spire by Mike Gaffney Asda is bringing back its £1 winter warmer café deals, offering over-60s...
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Caring beyond cancer: Healthcare support worker wins top national honour
Carole receiving her award. From left, Victoria Bell, Deputy Sister; Carole Jackson, Cancer Care Co-ordinator and Nerea Odongo, Group Chief...
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Local car retailer celebrates double success at prestigious award ceremonies
1: Volvo’s XC40 was crowned best Used Car of the Year at this year’s News UK Motor Awards. 2: The car...
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£multi-million cocaine gang taken down in major organised crime operation
A multi-million-pound drug supply conspiracy has been taken down by Lincolshire's Serious and Organised Crime Unit. The ninth and final...
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WHAT’S ON
Christie’s murderous countdown is Society’s next gripping offering
Grantham Dramatic Society is excited to present Agatha Christie’s chilling mystery And Then ThereWere None as their November production, a...
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Grantham Animal Tracks Christmas Fayre
Pip Dowse says... Sadly our Halloween party had to be cancelled. We are now holding a Christmas market/fayre at the...
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Don’t miss Saturday’s fireworks display
THIS SATURDAY 8th is our fantastic firework display again, you can pay on the gate, we have BBQ AND JACKET...
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Bereavement Notices
GRANTHAM PAST
GRANTHAM NATTERS
Disgraceful behaviour by youngsters
Irene says... What is this world coming to? A gentleman in a wheelchair was attacked on Thursday as he crossed...
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Twycross Zoo’s £25m Global Conservation Centre Tops Out in
Major Construction Milestone Construction has reached a key stage at Twycross Zoo as the buildingframe of its £25million Global Conservation...
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Top five tips to protect Grantham’s hedgehogs on Bonfire night
Lincolnshire homebuilders Barratt and David Wilson Homes are encouragingresidents to help their prickly nocturnal neighbours with a series of top...
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GRANTHAM HALL OF FAME
Hunt. Amy – “A face to define the decade”
Amy Hunt (b2002) Amy Hunt is best known as a British sprinter who won silver in the 4 x 100...
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Edgely, Ross – The man who can’t stop swimming
Ross Edgely (b1985) Ross Edgley is a British athlete, ultra-marathon sea swimmer and author. He was born into a sporting...
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Witham, Thomas – Held the English purse strings
Thomas Witham (c1420 –1489) Witham was English Chancellor of the Exchequer under Kings Henry VI and Edward IV. He was...
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Welby, Lady Victoria
Lady Victoria Welby (1837- 1912) Victoria, Lady Welby more correctly Lady Welby-Gregory, was a self-educated British philosopher of language, musician and watercolourist. She was daughter...
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Fitchett, Alfred – Became Dean of Dunedin
Alfred Robertson Fitchett (1836 –1929) Born in Grantham in 1836, Fitchett was ordained in 1879, and graduated MA from the University of Otago in 1882. He was Vicar of All Saints' Church,...
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Knights, Lionel Charles – King’s school pupil was an authority on Shakespeare
Lionel Charles Knights (1906 – 1997) L C Knights was an English literary critic, an authority on Shakespeare and his...
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