Cops alert scheme
LINCOLNSHIRE Police have had 2,000 people register for a new scheme which will see them send out instant crime alerts to individuals.The scheme also has a function to allow people to send confidential...
View ArticleStreet attack leads to arrest
A MAN who was attacked in the street in the early hours of Saturday morning needed hospital treatment.Police were called to College Street in Grantham at around 3.40am after reports a man was...
View ArticleMen sentenced for mass brawl
A judge was astonished at hearing how staff at a Grantham pub made no attempt to call police when a mass brawl broke out.Judge Sean Morris, sitting at Lincoln Crown Court, was told that after the...
View ArticleWinners announced in Grantham is Great Awards
PEOPLE who make Grantham a great place to live were honoured at the Journal’s Grantham is Great Awards presentation at Belton Woods Hotel on Friday.Winners were: • Sportsperson of the Year (sponsored...
View ArticleCouncil has no idea how to consult us properly
I was pleased that the Grantham Journal published the story about Gonerby Hill Foot Residents Group submitting 920 objections to planning proposals to build on land north of Peachwood Close. There is...
View ArticleDo something before a child is killed on this road
I am a mother of four children, three of which are still attending St Anne’s School on Harrowby Road.I think it is about time the Highways Department at Lincolnshire County Council did something about...
View ArticleStrikers need to stand up or be trampled all over
GRANTHAM MP Nick Boles should check the Government’s calculator that went on their own website then quickly came down again - why? Because it showed that even the lowest paid got less for working...
View ArticleTeachers’ absenteeism sets an awful example
As a parent of an A-Level Student, I was shocked to receive a letter today informing me that some 50 out of 64 teachers could be absent due to the so-called “day of action” on 30th November. Like many...
View ArticleWhy is KGGS banning our girls from awards nights?
How is it that an educational establishment that we are so proud of in Grantham can be seen to treat some of its students so unjustly? In providing strong role models for young women to look up to, it...
View ArticleThe Journal says...
THERE are few topics that rouse the passions of the people of Grantham quite like that of Grantham Hospital – but the decision to silence its chief critic is nothing short of a scandal.Last year we...
View ArticleCyclist thanks helpers at accident scene
ON Tuesday, November 22, I was knocked off my bike at the Harlaxton Road/Denton Avenue junction.While I can’t remember the time after the collision, I am told that two ladies called the Emergency...
View ArticleThanks for your generosity
Friends of Chernobyl’s Children Vale of Belvoir would like to thank the staff and customers at Morrisons (Grantham) who gave so generously whilst they were bag packing on Saturday. The money raised...
View ArticleYou made a woman of 106 really happy
To my family and all my many friends who sent me birthday cards, well wishing messages and visitors on my 106th birthday, I thank you all for your kindness and for making me feel very special. I had a...
View ArticleRadio joke was very hurtful to Earlesfield
I wish to complain about the Gravity FM presenter Simon Wright of the Sunday lunchtime show on 4th December, regarding a comment he made.I was most annoyed, as were many people that rang me to...
View ArticleThanks to the Santa fun runners
Thanks to all Santa Fun Runners and Walkers.On behalf of the British Heart Foundation and St Wulfram’s Church, may we also thank all of our very kind sponsors. ROGER BLAKEMAN & COURTNEY FINN
View ArticleI’ve handed in some personal jewellery
A PIECE of jewellery that would belong to a young lady was found in the market place last Saturday (26th November) and has been taken up to the local police station on Swingbridge Road for collection...
View ArticleRemembrance Day thanks to one and all
MY thanks to Sqn Ldr Vickery; Parade WO, WO2 W. E. Clark; Lincolnshire ACF; standard bearers and all organisations who took part in the Remembrance Day parades.Thanks to Pipe Maj Finlay McGee; the...
View ArticleCouncil plans to preserve Hollows
I WOULD like to thank all those who contacted me offering their support for the Londonthorpe and Harrowby Without Parish Council’s purchase of the Hills and Hollows.The councillors decided, due to the...
View ArticleThanks from Naomi fund
I would like to thank everybody that attended my 60th birthday party at Grantham College refectory. Special thanks to all the acts that appeared, and to everyone involved. A total of £505.50p was...
View ArticleRoad naming is a fitting tribute
MY sincere thanks must go to the council, Nottingham Housing Association and especially to Coun Bruce Wells, for the naming of Pickworth Close, off Edinburgh Road.The new houses are built on church...
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