News :North Lincolnshire & Surrounding area

Brigg and Goole MP, Andrew Percy, has said he will let his local party have the “first word” on who should stand in the constituency at the General Election in June and that the candidate will be decided next week. Mr Percy’s comments come after many …

A BRIGG-based company is helping to fund a project aimed at creating a safer and more comfortable learning environment for more than 200 primary school pupils in rural Kenya. Wrendale Designs, a giftware and greeting card firm based on Station Road in …

Play area given seal of approval after reopening following £100k investmentNEW play equipment at a children’s park has been given the seal of approval by families. The refurbished Donkey Park, off Almond Grove in Brigg, was opened in time for the school Easter holidays after an investment of £100,000 by North Lincolnshire …

UK utility Centrica is to start this month building a fast-response gas plant next to the existing Brigg power station in north Lincolnshire, it said April 10. The investment into the 50-MW plant was confirmed in December last year as part of a £180mn …

Two days after the Westminster terrorist attack claimed five lives in the heart of London, a woman priest — luminously pretty, with a dancer’s graceful bearing — led a minute’s silence in memory of the dead and injured. The Rev Marie-Elsa Bragg, duty …

Two days after the Westminster terrorist attack claimed five lives in the heart of London, a woman priest — luminously pretty, with a dancer’s graceful bearing — led a minute’s silence in memory of the dead and injured. The Rev Marie-Elsa Bragg, duty …

A BRIGG athlete is nearing the end of a year-long running challenge which has seen him raise thousands of pounds for Lindsey Lodge Hospice. Mark Morris set out on the challenge in memory of his mum Denise, who died of cancer in May last year after …

BRITISH Steel has confirmed they will take action over travellers who have set up camp off Brigg Road in Scunthorpe. A number of caravans and vehicles are currently located on private British Steel land on the corner of Rowland Road. It is understood

Son’s cruel £80K theft from frail father”The defendant undertook to take responsibility for his father’s financial affairs in or around October 5, 2010,” Mr Evans said. The prosecutor said Jackson, of Glanford Road, Brigg, took his father to a Lloyds TSB branch and took possession of his …

A 59-year-old businessman was treated for concussion in Scunthorpe General Hospital after he walked into a glass door in the newly refurbished Black Bull pub-restaurant on Wrawby Street, Brigg. The Wrawby based father of two, who has asked not to be …