27 August 2016
Planning Application S16/1810 for Highway works and Parks: The Poplar Farm estate is planned to be 1300 homes and a large roundabout access is required to Barrowby Road at its junction with Gloucester Road along with a “Ghost island” junction further towards the A1 which will connect to the Gladman Homes 300 dwellings development for which planning approval has now been given.
06 August 2016
There’s only a few days left to have your say on plans that could change this area for years to come. The devolution consultation that has been running since June, is nearly at an end, but you can still take part.
30 July 2016
A polite message to all bag-thrusting retailers – when I politely decline the bag that you automatically grab for my purchase, it’s not because I fear you may charge me.
17 July 2016
Having recently been taken ill in the early hours of the morning, I attended the A&E in Grantham Hospital. I was admitted and spent three days in hospital before being transferred to the Lincoln hospital for specialised treatment.
14 July 2016
Nick Boles, MP for Grantham and Stamford, has had a turbulent fortnight, first backing Boris Johnson as Conservative Party leader, then signing up as Michael Gove’s campaign manager. Here, he explains what happened and why he took the decision to resign from his ministerial role.
10 July 2016
Targeting an audience based on their feelings is nothing new. Marketing has long been a cross between business and psychology.
09 July 2016
I didn’t stay up to watch the referendum results on the television so I was surprised when I caught the 8am news and I couldn’t quite believe the country had voted to leave the EU, as I thought the ‘Remain’ would just pip ‘Leave’ past the post.
02 July 2016
Events since the EU Referendum vote have been fast-moving, and no doubt there will be new developments by the time you read this article. Nevertheless, I feel that, as someone who campaigned for a Leave vote, I would like to set out some thoughts below.
25 June 2016
One week ago, Jo Cox walked across the road in the small market town of Birstall towards the library where she, like her predecessors before her, held surgeries as the MP for Batley and Spen.
12 June 2016
Grantham is extremely fortunate in having a stretch of the River Witham running close to the town centre.
12 June 2016
On 7 June 1866, Elizabeth Garrett and Emily Wilding Davison went to Parliament to present a petition calling for women to be given the vote.
05 June 2016
The EU referendum is taking place on June 23. Many young people and residents living in rented accommodation have not yet registered to vote and will have no voice. There is still time to register by calling 01476 406080 before June 7.
27 May 2016
Say ‘Grantham Carnival’ and my eyes glaze over.
21 May 2016
Grantham, like many smaller towns, has seen a lot of change and disruption over the past two decades. Some have brought high levels of investment to the town and improved the quality of life we have, whereas others have fallen by the wayside and become a bit of a white elephant.
15 May 2016
Maggie Thatcher was famous for her ‘U-turn, the lady’s not for turning,” comments, but if the present government doesn’t soon get something right first time, it will end up renowned for exactly the opposite reason.
08 May 2016
We are exposed to an increasing amount of animal cruelty images through the media these days, but no-one expects to witness it outside their own front room window.
01 May 2016
Next Thursday the people of Lincolnshire will be asked to elect a new Police and Crime Commissioner.
01 May 2016
As usual, whenever a strike causes widespread disruption as the junior doctors’ action does, we tend to conveniently forget that, like the tango, it takes two to make it happen.
24 April 2016
Brace yourself for the worst Grantham and all other communities in our beleaguered country, if the government continues with its current policies of austerity, privatisation and inward investment.
17 April 2016
Ever since the Tories hijacked Labour’s basically honest but misguided policy of converting state schools into academies, I have been suspicious of the government’s motives.