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… portfolio holder for the environment, said: “Cycling is a fantastic way to take full advantage of the sights and sounds of North East Lincolnshire whilst keeping fit at the same time. “The success of people like Victoria Pendleton CBE, Sir Bradley …

July 25, 2017 | News Editor

Bradley

Ryedale Show is a hit in its 151st year

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Dylan Townend of Broughton took the interbreed beef championship with Clifftown Ladyluck, a British Blue heifer that had already recorded overall wins at Malton and Lincolnshire shows. … In reserve was County Durham’s Lucy Corner, 22, with her …

July 25, 2017 | News Editor

Broughton

Hull baby ashes inquiry: 57 parents not given ashes back

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Hull City Council apologises after it publishes its inquiry into the handling of infant cremations.

Original Source BBC News Lincolnshire

July 25, 2017 | News Editor

Regional

John Hesp: Bring ‘Vegas poker game to Bridlington’

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Surprise poker star John Hesp wants a leg of the world series to be held in his home town.

Original Source BBC News Lincolnshire

July 25, 2017 | News Editor

Regional

Staff shortages force hospital trust to centralise services in Grimsby and Scunthorpe

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Both services currently run across all three of its hospital sites in Grimsby, Scunthorpe and Goole. But, following discussions, ENT inpatient services will be centralised at Grimsby’s Diana Princess of Wales Hospital and urology inpatient services

July 25, 2017 | News Editor

Scunthorpe

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July 25, 2017 | News Editor

Scunthorpe

Not to be confused with Humberstone, Leicestershire.

Humberston
Humberston Beach
Humberston Humberston shown within Lincolnshire
Population	5,384 (2001)
OS grid reference	TA310053
- London	140 mi (230 km) south
Civil parish	Humberston
District	North East Lincolnshire
Unitary authority	North East Lincolnshire
Shire county	Lincolnshire
Ceremonial county	Lincolnshire
Region	East Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	GRIMSBY
Postcode district	DN36
Police	Lincolnshire
Fire	Lincolnshire
Ambulance	East Midlands
EU Parliament	East Midlands
UK Parliament	Cleethorpes

Humberston is a large village and civil parish to the south of Cleethorpes, North East Lincolnshire, England (the boundary with Cleethorpes runs along North Sea Lane and Humberston Road). Its population at the 2001 census was 5,384. However, it is likely to have increased in the past 10 years.^[1]

The Greenwich Meridian line

North Sea Lane

The Prime Meridian passes to the east of Humberston and runs through Thorpe Park caravan site.^{[citation needed]}

Humberston, or Humberstone as the village was known at first, takes its name from a large boulder, the Humber Stone, which was deposited on the site of the former Midfield Farm on the east side of the village during the last ice age.^{[citation needed]} This boulder can still be seen at the entrance to the village library, near St Peters Church. The "e" at the end of the name was later dropped, to avoid confusion with another place of the same name, viz. Humberstone, Leicestershire.

St.Peter's church

The oldest and tallest building in Humberston is St Peter's Church, rebuilt about 1710, the tower of which is over seven hundred years old.^[2] At the back of the church is the site of the former Humberston Abbey of Benedictine monks founded here in the reign of Henry II, dedicated to Saints Mary and Peter. The only remains that are left are ground workings of which the monks' mound is very prominent in the manor house garden, and during excavations stone sarcophagi were found.^[3] The Wesleyan Methodists built a small chapel here on Humberston Avenue in 1835. A larger, replacement chapel was built in 1907.^[4]

Humberstone has several claims for historic prominence:

This is where the Danes landed early in the year 870 to begin their scourge and plunder of Lincolnshire.^{[citation needed]}
One of the first Wireless Stations was built here in 1910.^{[citation needed]}

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