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Drummer with former Scunthorpe rock band dies

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A funeral service will be held on Wednesday (September 20) for Tony Twyman, the drummer with former Scunthorpe rock band Anniseed Rice. Father of five Mr Twyman and his bandmates, John Hotchin, Keith Holloway and the late Mick Sleight, almost hit …
September 15, 2017 |

Doncaster Rovers v Scunthorpe United: Game against local rivals isn’t any more important

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“So I understand what it is all about because I am a football supporter at heart.” Scunthorpe have no fresh injury concerns for the game against Rovers, with Levi Sutton, the only doubt with a sore neck which forced him off against Blackburn on Tuesday.
September 15, 2017 |

North Lincolnshire George Michael tribute to perform on BBC One show with Paddy McGuinness

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A George Michael tribute act from Burton-Upon-Stather will be performing on a BBC One show tomorrow night (Saturday, September 16). Rob Lamberti has been impersonating the late singer since 1993 and he has proved such a hit that in 2014 the real …
September 15, 2017 |

Campaign to replace ‘confusing’ North and North East Lincolnshire names with just Lincolnshire

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Are people from Grimsby and Cleethorpes Yellowbellies or from North East Lincolnshire? Is Scunthorpe part of North Lincolnshire, Bomber County or even Humberside? These are questions which have confused and divided residents for the last 40 years …
September 15, 2017 |

80 years of the Scunthorpe Telegraph: Reporting the war years and a 67-goal Scunthorpe United striker

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… blown in – Queen Bess and Queen Mary – at the Appleby Frodingham works during 1939. The Second World War began on September 3 that year, with air-raid shelters being dug across North Lincolnshire in preparation for visits by the German Luftwaffe.
September 15, 2017 |