North East Lincolnshire, England News

Fuel poverty is rife in North East Lincolnshire, with 22.5 per cent of households forced to choose between eating or heating their homes.

Well, thanks to a local flying club, we have dozens of new air views from across the area, including Grimsby, Cleethorpes, Immingham, villages and the Humber Bank.

As part of the Cleethorpes 150 events, exciting street theatre artists are visiting the resort most Saturdays between June and the end of August from 11am to 2.30pm.

A SUPPORT group for people with a life-changing condition will fold by Christmas if they do not attract more members.

Up to 170 children danced the cha-cha, quick step, jive and the waltz in the annual Essentially Dance showcase.

TEAMING UP: The Albert Darnell football team from April 1992. If you can identify the players then please write to Bygones, Grimsby Telegraph, 80 Cleethorpe Road, Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire DN31 3EH or you can e-mail bygones@grimsbytelegraph.co.uk With a generous 25 Litre capacity, 7 automatic programmes, memory function and a 99 minute timer ... (more)

NORTH East Lincolnshire Council Trading Standards officers are warning householders to beware of cold callers after a rise in complaints of uninvited "roofers" pressuring people into having work done on their homes.

AS our quest to crown our Cleethorpes Carnival Princess continues, this young beauty has been reliving her memories of her special day.

In Grimsby, English Defence League protests hit the streets and the town's mosque was attacked with petrol bombs and vandalism.

A LANDOWNER is today counting the cost of the clean-up operation after a party of travellers illegally occupied a field at New Waltham.

The NE Lincs Cycle Challenge, which will take place next month, aims to promote the benefits of cycling as both a mode of transport and a fun activity.

Thomas Drew is now in his second year at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music in London, where he studies singing under John Wakefield.

The latest figures, released yesterday, show the number of people claiming benefits in the borough has fallen by 575, from 6,770 in May 2012 to 6,195 this year.

WORK has begun on the redesign of Grimsby's Riverhead as a store chain waits in the wings to move into Freshney Place.

As reported, North East Lincolnshire Council took enforcement action against the owners of the site, who bought the A 500,000 in March only to pull it down within a matter of days, without first seeking planning consent.

HEALTH secretary Jeremy Hunt is expected to make a statement later today in the wake of a review of the decision to reorganise children's heart surgery across England.

Support: Angela Greenfield, of St Andrew's Hospice, Chris Fox of St Barnabas Hospice, Vivian Vincent, of Lindsey Lodge Hospice, and Veronica Brien, of St Barnabas Hospice, ready to support on the abseiling fundraisers.

The Growing The Humber initiative, backed by the Government's Regional Growth Fund , has launched a South Bank Engineering Apprenticeship programme, available to businesses in both North and North East Lincolnshire.

Rehearsals for the Side By Side project start tomorrow, allowing talented wood, brass and string players, of Grade Six or above, from across North East Lincolnshire to get involved.

The term has been defined by the economist Paul Krugman as "a situation in which one person makes a decision about how much risk to take, while someone else bears the cost if things go badly".