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New use for Scunthorpe High Street bank

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BroughtonFirm resubmits plans for 26 home residential development in North Lincolnshire · The plans have been resubmitted following a rejection by the Government’s Planning Inspectorate · Humberside PoliceParty in the Pines festival set to go ahead but

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Broughton

Work underway to remove cladding on University of Lincoln block

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Students have not moved in yet

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June 29, 2017 | News Editor

Regional

Ongo to consider putting sprinklers in high rise blocks

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Meeting with North Lincolnshire Council today

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June 29, 2017 | News Editor

Regional

Public sector pay cap: All the MPs who voted against Labour’s proposal

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Conservative and Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) MPs have voted down Labour’s attempts to reverse the long-running freeze on public sector pay. The pay rate for workers in the public sector has been frozen at one per cent rises since 2010 and Labour

June 29, 2017 | News Editor

Cleethorpes

Cleethorpes RNLI turns 30 having saved over 240 lives since first launch

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Cleethorpes RNLI volunteers are celebrating 30 years of saving lives at sea as the resort’s priceless lifeboat station marks a landmark anniversary. Since the RNLI station, in North Promenade, was first declared ‘on service’ on June 29 1987, volunteers

June 29, 2017 | News Editor

Cleethorpes

Cleethorpes RNLI turns 30 having saved over 240 lives since first …

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It was a landmark day when the RNLI station opened three decades ago, and its importance now is more apparent than ever before.and more »

June 29, 2017 | News Editor

Cleethorpes

Council outsources running of two pavilions to communities in New Waltham and Healing

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Two community pavilion buildings in North East Lincolnshire are set to be leased out by the local authority. The facilities, located in New Waltham and Healing, will be outsourced to the area’s respective parish councils on a 25-year lease. At a …

June 29, 2017 | News Editor

Beelsby

Scunthorpe factory to hold recruitment day as expansion leads to 30 new jobs

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THIRTY new jobs are set to be created as Scunthorpe-based firm TSC Foods is undergoing the biggest expansion in its 26-year history to keep up with customer demand. The major investment by the owners at the Liverpool-based Billington Group will see a …

June 29, 2017 | News Editor

Scunthorpe

Talks continuing over future of Caparo Merchant Bar mill in Scunthorpe

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Last month, Liberty took over the former Tata Steel UK speciality steel business in South Yorkshire, saving 1,700 jobs. The group’s interest in coming to Scunthorpe is said to have been triggered after the company appointed British Steel’s former …

June 29, 2017 | News Editor

Scunthorpe

Lincoln City manager says there has been no Scunthorpe United bid for Alex Woodyard

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SCUNTHORPE United have not made a bid for Lincoln City midfielder Alex Woodyard – according to Imps manager Danny Cowley. There was rife speculation earlier in the week that the Iron had made a bid for the highly rated midfielder but Cowley has said

June 29, 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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