Grantham ten pin bowling round-up
MARREN TILES TRIOSResults (week 31): Crafty Foxes 1 Team Bar 10, Grumpy Old Men 6 Magic Weasels 5, 9ers 0 Team Powerplay 11, Oddsods bye.Highs: female – HGS 190 Julie Newman, HGH 235 Julie Newman, HSS...
View ArticleGrantham Forest fans welcome Brighton
Nottingham Forest Supporters’ Club (Grantham branch):Forest are at home to Brighton on Saturday, kick-off 3pm, and away to Burnley on Monday, kick-off 3pm.Bookings are being taken for away games at...
View ArticleGrantham Journal columnist: Jacob Stuart
One of the more lighthearted events this week took a dark turn on Tuesday as a cow that escaped from a field near Wyndham Park was shot by police.The cow led members of the public and the police force...
View ArticleYoung Grantham team raises money for Norway expedition
A team of young adventurers is raising money and training for a trek across Norway later this year.The Grantham group, many of them teenagers and called Team Norway, has raised £600 towards the cost of...
View ArticleBREAKING NEWS: Order to force Grantham firms off land to build Station...
Grantham’s Station Approach development has been thrown into doubt as an order to force two firms off land in Wharf Road to make way for it has been rejected.The Secretary of State has refused the...
View ArticleEating Out: Tenpin, Grantham
As the next fortnight is the schools’ Easter holidays, we thought it might be useful to take a slightly different route with our Eating Out review this week.As the next fortnight is the schools’ Easter...
View ArticleColumnist: Grantham Labour Group leader Charmaine Morgan
Local Labour members joined Andy Burnham MP Labour Shadow Health Minister at a health workshop in Nottingham this week.Members of the public were also invited, and many attendees were healthcare...
View ArticleHorsemeat curries go on sale at Grantham’s Bindi restaurant
Bindi in Grantham has put horse curries on the menu.The novel move comes after the ‘horsemeat scandal’ erupted earlier this year, sparking public outrage. Bindi’s decision may, therefore, come as a...
View ArticleGrantham link road plan for bypass submitted
A planning application has been made for a 3km long link road as part of the proposed bypass for Grantham.The southern quadrant link road could eventually form part of the Grantham southern relief...
View ArticleLincolnshire Police chief Neil Rhodes has suspension overturned by High Court
The suspension of Lincolnshire’s acting chief constable Neil Rhodes has been quashed by a High Court judge.Mr Rhodes was suspended from duty in February by the county’s Police and Crime Commissioner...
View ArticleBADMINTON: Grantham teams struggle in snow-hit programme
Only three teams from Grantham Badminton Club had a match at the weekend – and their results were as bleak as the weather outside.The mixed first team played away at Westside in Newark League Division...
View ArticleGOLF: Alsbury wins Belton Park bogey competition
BELTON PARKSeniors’ sectionThere were 35 entries for the Cyril Woods Trophy bogey competition, played last Tuesday.Winner with a score of +7 was Rick Alsbury, with Peter Rollings runner-up on +4.Third...
View ArticleSingle mother hit out with plastic beer glass in Grantham club, court hears
A single mother who attacked another woman in the toilets of a nightclub has escaped jail at Lincoln Crown Court.Chelsea Wilson struck the victim with a plastic beer glass during an incident in the...
View Article‘Significant public interest’ in Grantham cow shooting leads to further...
Lincolnshire Police has issued a further statement this afternoon on the shooting of an escaped cow in Grantham, following a “significant public interest”.The Belgian blue cow was shot in the car park...
View ArticleChief constable of Lincolnshire Police Neil Rhodes issues a statement...
Reinstated chief constable of Lincolnshire Police Neil Rhodes has issued a statement this evening (Thursday).The statement follows news earlier today that Ch Cons Rhodes’ suspension had been quashed by...
View ArticleGrantham Journal letter: Craft Thatcher statue from Welsh coal
As a visitor to Grantham, picking up your newspaper I was amused to see the article about the Thatcher statue.Being educated during the Thatcher years and strongly believing the Thatcher government are...
View ArticleGrantham Journal letter: ‘Repaired’ pothole is back
The pictures in last week’s Journal, showing some of the problem potholes, didn’t show the one on Brook Street, just before the Swinegate junction.This had been “repaired” recently but has appeared...
View ArticleGrantham Journal letter: Drivers get a poor deal
I’m disgusted at the state of roads in and around Grantham.While travelling to work in Newark on Sunday morning, I was going down the hill towards Gonerby Moor services when my car slid straight into...
View ArticleGrantham Journal letter: Great show, amazing cast
Congratulations to Star Academy for their amazing show Cats, directed by Lisa Burgess.What a treat to sit in a theatre in Grantham and see a show of such high quality. Great attention had been paid to...
View ArticleCharles Read Academy, Corby Glen, shows ‘clear improvements’, says OFSTED report
The principal of Charles Read Academy says the Corby Glen school is ‘on the up’ following its latest OFSTED report.While the report said the school ‘had good capacity to improve’, Ali Story said it...
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