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#IAMGRIMSBY: Tony Jewitt – supporting the town’s fishermen

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Tony Jewitt, 56, is area mission welfare officer for the Fishermen’s Mission in Grimsby – he has always felt drawn to water and to the town he calls home. The Fishermen’s Mission is a charity that provides emergency support, including; financial …
March 21, 2017 |

Ten-year-old carries injured friend to race finish

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Two friends in Grimsby had their own ‘Brownlee brothers’ moment when one carried the other across the finish line in a cross country race. 10-year-old Riley Watson was just metres from the end of the challenging run when he collapsed with a stitch
March 9, 2017 |

‘Social supermarket’ for people on benefits opens in Grimsby

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Work on a new ‘social supermarket’ – selling surplus food from manufacturers at reduced prices – starts today. The Big Lottery Fund has awarded £600,000 for the project, on the Nunsthorpe Estate. The shop, run by social enterprise Community Shop in the …
March 9, 2017 |

Multiple casualties after crash at level crossing

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Related news. Will we see the Solar Eclipse from the Calendar region? . Emergency services dealing with incident on line between Grimsby and Cleethorpes · Sunday evening weather with Kerrie. Top stories. Grimsby MP wants misogyny treated as a hate 
March 2, 2017 |

In the courts: Pair breach restraining orders

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… was given four week prison sentence suspended for six months, ordered to pay £85 costs and to pay a surcharge of £150 to fund victim services. Carl Bromley, 35, of Bonby Grove, Grimsby: Pleaded guilty to breaching a restraining ordering on December …
January 26, 2017 |

Tragic Poppy Widdison died after being assaulted by mum or drug dealer boyfriend – family court judge rules

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On Friday, Judge Heaton said one of the pair assaulted Poppy in Rytting’s flat in Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, on the morning of June 9 2013. The assault, described in court as a “shaking or shaking impact type event”, resulted in Poppy suffering 
January 20, 2017 |

The unimaginable world of Poppy Widdison: Born addicted to drugs and named after heroin plant before evil mum …

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The youngster collapsed and died after suffering cardiac arrest in the “squalid home” of her mum’s drug dealer boyfriend in Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, in June 2013. Yesterday Michala Pyke, 38, and John Rytting were jailed for 13 years after
January 20, 2017 |

Tributes paid to founding member of The Caxtons who has died aged 102

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Ian Robson died while out playing near the family home in Brigsley, when he was just 12 years old. She presented his school cap and tie and a memorial cup to St James’ School, Grimsby in 2016. She also had a son Tony Robson, who died several years …
January 14, 2017 |