Full details and declaration of the result of the poll for each Ward can be found here. Arnoldfield:✅ Elected: Paul Stokes (Independent Member of Grantham Together); Paul Martin (Save Our Green Spaces Campaign); Rob Jackson (Labour Party)🧮 Turnout: 23.32% Barrowby Gate:✅ Elected: Stephen Billinghurst, Linda Jackson, Marie Reid – all Independent Member of Grantham Together🧮 Turnout: […]
Household Support Fund
On Wednesday 6 March 2024, the UK Government announced that the Household Support Fund would be extended for a further six months from 1 April. The Government is providing Lincolnshire with a further £5.5m for the fifth round of the programme, which will run until 30 September 2024. As with earlier rounds of the Household […]
Anglian Water reveals new vision for proposed reservoir near Swaton
Please note: the design may change as proposals develop. Anglian Water has released an artist’s impression of its proposed new reservoir in Lincolnshire, offering an example of what the reservoir close to Scredington, Helpringham and Swaton could look like in the future. The design, which has evolved using the valuable feedback from the first phase of […]
Taking a chance on electric scooters
Grantham Southern Relief Road May 2024 update
End of the line for leading Grantham manufacturer
On yer bike, constable!
10 years since Grantham’s big fire
Life in prison for Tony McDermott’s killer
The man who murdered 38-year-old Tony McDermott has today (2 May) been sentenced to life in prison. Nicholas Ward, 38, of Eton Street, Grantham, was given the sentence at a hearing at Lincoln Crown Court. He must serve a minimum term of 21 years. He was convicted on 26 April following a two-week trial where […]
Midwife is raising funds to support children who have diabetes
Midwife Zoe Gant (centre) with Lead Nurse Claire Cutts (left) and Health Care Support Worker Caroline Pearce (right) from the Children’s Diabetes Team A Lincolnshire midwife is helping raise money to support children who also have type one diabetes. Zoe Gant, a midwife at Lincoln County Hospital, was diagnosed with type one diabetes when she […]
Grantham couple honoured for 46 years of fostering
Robert and Margaret Isdale have cared for over 150 children during their fostering career The couple have been carers with Lincolnshire County Council since moving to the county in 1991. They had already been fostering for around 10 years prior to this, in another part of the country, and they have also regularly travelled to […]
Charges following sexual exploitation investigation
Lincolnshire Police have charged a 43-year-old man with seven offences relating to an investigation in to the reported sexual exploitation of girls in Lincoln. Officers have been conducting an investigation over the past five months into reports of men travelling from outside the county for sexual gain. Zaheer Hussain, of Newark Avenue, Dogsthorpe, in Peterborough, […]
Apprentices from Lincolnshire housebuilder assist charity with Grantham office renovation
Two apprentices at Allison Homes East have given back to their local community by volunteering their newly acquired building skills to assist Citizens Advice South Lincolnshire (CASL) with the renovation of their Finkin Street office in Grantham. Apprentices Kenny and Drew in front of the new office CASL is an organisation that offers free advice […]
Why won’t council take my cardboard?
Do you remember this Grantham barman?
Man disappears from Lincolnshire’s open prison
Smyth, aged 57, is wanted for having absconded from North Sea Camp in Freiston, Boston, having failed to return at 2pm on Tuesday 30 April, following an agreed temporary release. He was last seen just after 7.30am that morning, walking along the river in the direction of York city centre. He is described as white, […]
Do you know these Ropsley lads?
Tomorrow’s Police Commissioner elections: Five things we learned from hustings & debates
Can you name these pony champs?
Mysterious Roman dodecahedron found in Norton Disney to go on display in Lincolnshire
Internationally-famous, rare Roman find will go on display as part of the Lincoln Festival of History from Saturday 4 May 2024. Thought to date from the third or fourth century, the copper alloy, hollow, 12-sided object was found during an amateur archaeological ‘dig’ in Norton Disney,near Brant Broughton, in summer 2023. It is one of […]