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A round-up of recent parliamentary interventions by Grimsby’s MPs, on issues including Freeman Street and Prax Lindsey Oil Refinery
A round-up of developments from North East Lincolnshire Council’s planning committee this week, including Grimsby Town FC’s plan for a new digital billboard, two new homes in Waltham, and an East Marsh furniture store’s new premises at a farm
In the fourth part of a series, we look at how climate orthodoxy is coming under fire in Lincolnshire
It breaks my heart’: how a refinery closure is hitting jobs and politics
‘They feel betrayed’: how Reform is targeting manufacturing heartlands
In early summer the wide open fields of Lincolnshire seem to expand beneath even larger clear blue skies. Travel north through the breadbasket of Britain towards the North Sea, from Grantham to Grimsby, and farming gives way to factories, refineries and the Humber docks. Each sector tells a story of Britain’s industrial decline: the demise of heavy industry on the banks of the Humber, the closure of coal power plants, fishing fleets decimated by the cod wars of the 1970s and 80s.
Lincolnshire is at the heart of the government’s plan for the greatest economic step-change since the Industrial Revolution: a green re-industrialisation to help galvanise the country’s net zero agenda, create jobs and revitalise deprived areas.
Our thoughts are with those who have lost a loved one
Relatives, friends and colleagues of Damion ‘Damo’ Boarder, 43, have been left bereft, says his wife
Richard Summerfield is preparing to scale Japan’s highest peak this month
Kurt Christensen built up a strong fish business before helping land offshore wind
Dr RK Mathews has a single-handed practice in Cromwell Primary Care Centre and Stirling Medical Centre
Pupils from Littlecoates Academy went to see their work in its all its glory