Trinity plans go in after hold-up
AMBITIOUS plans for a community football stadium and multi-sports facility have been submitted by Gainsborough Trinity Football Club.Fans will soon be able to view the proposals, including detailed...
View ArticleTV gardeners add colour to hospice
CELEBRITY gardener Alan Titchmarsh and his television team have transformed a piece of land at Bluebell Wood Children’s Hospice into a tranquil garden.The popular television gardener visited the North...
View ArticleNurse award
A MENTAL health nurse has been honoured with an award from Sheffield Hallam University.Janet Maitland, who works for the recovery team, provided by Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation...
View ArticleChoose NHS service well
The NHS in Yorkshire and the Humber are urging people to think wisely about which NHS service they use over the summer. Two million people every year go to A&E when they could have been treated at...
View ArticleMark’s role
A DINNINGTON charity worker has a new role.Mark Smith, operations director for young runaways charity Safe@Last, has been announced as the new Voluntary Community Sector representative for the...
View ArticleTaking the plunge is a ‘death risk’
THRILL seekers are risking their lives by jumping into the Chesterfield Canal at Misterton, a waterways charity has warned.Summer revellers have been spotted leaping into Misterton Top Lock, leading to...
View ArticleMayor officially opens new store
BROWNS Department Store was officially opened on Wednesday by the Mayor of Gainsborough, Coun Lesley Rollings.The retailer is the latest name to join the line-up at Marshall’s Yard retail park in the...
View ArticlePedals to the metal
FOURTEEN teams of intrepid racers tore around the track for the Pedal Car Grand Prix, orgainsed by the Rotary Club of Gainsborough.And the field of Queen Elizabeth’s High School was the perfect setting...
View ArticleStill time to nominate for Business Awards
JUST four days remain for you to nominate in the Gainsborough Business Awards 2012.Perhaps you work with someone who deserves to be put forward as Business Person of the Year? Have they contributed to...
View ArticleBand’s crusade for a number one
A TALENTED group of local lads have set their sights on the Christmas number one spot - but they need YOUR help.The Lounge Crusade have been making waves in the local music scene and beyond for a...
View ArticleMan admits to damage
A WORKSOP man has been given a conditional discharge after admitting criminal damage.Mark Anthony Eyre, 33, of Sandhill Street broke a kitchen drawer after a row with his partner on 26th July.Andrew...
View ArticleGB volleyballers press button on campaign
Britain’s women volleyballers took time out of their busy schedules to back the fire service’s smoke alarm drive.The volleyballers, who lived at South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue’s training centre ahead...
View ArticleOlympics 2012: Worksop readers share their experiences
WORKSOP soldier Private Lisa Stevens has been working as part of the venue security team at the Olympic Park in Stratford.Pte Stevens, 23, of 38th (City of Sheffield) Signal Regiment (Volunteers), said...
View ArticleDad spared driving ban
A dad who fell asleep at the wheel of his parked car in Clowne has been spared a driving ban that would have thrown him on the dole.Police received a call about the driver at 4am on 21st July and found...
View ArticleWarning to slow down
THE South Yorkshire Safer Roads Partnership is appealing to young drivers to slow down.Last year saw 4,859 people injured on South Yorkshire’s roads - 30 of those were killed. One of the most over...
View ArticleHelping Daisy to lead a normal life
The parents of a Kiveton toddler are fundraising to pay for life-changing treatment that she used to get on the NHS.Little Daisy Garforth was born in June 2010. After complications at birth she...
View ArticleFamily fun
Enjoy a family fun day at Park Springs Community Centre in Gainsborough this Saturday 18th August from 11am - 3pm.Kids can meet snakes and other creatures, play inflatable Sumo wrestling, get faces...
View ArticleMan jailed for affray incidents
A MAN who admitted affray following an incident in which his friend was killed with an ice pick has been jailed for 13 months at Lincoln Crown Court.Stuart Kemp, 26, of no fixed address, also admitted...
View ArticlePolice raise concerns for missing man after car found
NOTTS Police are growing increasingly concerned for a man missing from his home in South Yorkshire but now believed to be in Notts after his car was found near Worksop.Kevin Charles Gallagher, 57, was...
View ArticleHealth views
A DRAFT strategy for improving health and wellbeing in West Lindsey is available for people to view and comment on until Friday 24th August.West Lindsey District Council is consulting on a plan,...
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