Scunthorpe

Friday, 26 October 2012

Scunthorpe

Witness appeal follows Scunthorpe armed robbery at shop in Wells Street - Oct 2012

Post Match - Swindon Town FC vs Scunthorpe United FC 20.10.12

scunthorpe busker singing chasing cars by snow patrol

Scunthorpe United in Ireland - Wayside Celtic 0-1 Scunthorpe United 19-07-2012

Fresh Prince Of Scunthorpe - About A Plane Crash

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A159 road
The A159 is a 16 mile-long single carriage A-road, running between Scunthorpe and Gainsborough in Lincolnshire.
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A18 road (England)
The A18 is a road in England that links Doncaster in South Yorkshire with Ludborough in Lincolnshire, via Scunthorpe.
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Alford, Lincolnshire
Alford (pronounced "Olford") is a town in Lincolnshire, England, with a population of about 3,500. Alford lies at the foot of the Lincolnshire Wolds, north-west of Skegness.
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Amcotts
Amcotts is a village and civil parish in North Lincolnshire, England, on the Isle of Axholme. It is situated on the river Trent, near Scunthorpe, and faces Flixborough on the eastern bank of the river. The 2001 census recorded a population of 219 for the parish. The parish is served by St Marks church built 1853-1859, designed by the Goole architect Mark Faviell.
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Barnetby
Barnetby (or Barnetby le Wold) is a village and civil parish in North Lincolnshire, England, between Scunthorpe and Grimsby. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 1,593. Barnetby railway station serves the village and surrounding area.
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Barton-upon-Humber
Barton-upon-Humber or Barton is a small town in North Lincolnshire, England located on the south bank of the Humber Estuary, and at the end of the Humber Bridge. It lies east of Leeds, southwest of Hull and north northeast of the county town of Lincoln. Formerly an important centre for the manufacture of bicycles, [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/254424 Hopper's] Cycles being established in the town in 1880 in the [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/219530 Hopper Building]. Other nearby towns include Scunthorpe to the southwest and Grimsby to the southeast.
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Boston (borough)
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Boston, Lincolnshire
Boston () is a town and small port in Lincolnshire, on the east coast of England. It is the largest town of the wider Borough of Boston local government district and has a total population of 58,124. It is due north of Greenwich on the Prime Meridian.
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Bourne, Lincolnshire
Bourne is a market town and civil parish on the western edge of the Fens, in the District of South Kesteven in southern Lincolnshire, England.
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Burgh-le-Marsh
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Caistor
See Caistor St. Edmund for the Roman settlement in Norfolk or Caister-on-Sea for the town in Norfolk
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Cleethorpes
Cleethorpes is a town and unparished area in North East Lincolnshire, England, situated on the estuary of the Humber. It has a population of 31,853.
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College of Arms
The College of Arms, or '''Heralds' College''', is an office regulating heraldry and granting new armorial bearings for England, Wales and Northern Ireland. It was founded in 1484 by King Richard III, and is a private corporate body consisting of the professional heralds who are delegated heraldic authority by the British monarch.
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Crowland
Crowland (modern usage) or Croyland (medieval era name and the one still in ecclesiastical use) is a small town in south Lincolnshire, England, positioned between Peterborough and Spalding, with two sites of historical interest.
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Crowle, Lincolnshire
Crowle (pronounced as Croul) is a small town and civil parish on the Isle of Axholme in North Lincolnshire, England. It lies on the Stainforth and Keadby Canal and has a railway station. Notable buildings in the town include the parish church, in which can be seen the Crowle Stone runic cross shaft, and the Gothic revival market hall.
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Diocese of Lincoln
The Diocese of Lincoln forms part of the Province of Canterbury in England. The present diocese covers the ceremonial county of Lincolnshire.
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DN postcode area
The DN postcode area, also known as the Doncaster postcode area, is a group of postcode districts around Barnetby, Barrow upon Humber, Barton-upon-Humber, Brigg, Cleethorpes, Doncaster, Gainsborough, Goole, Grimsby, Immingham, Retford, Scunthorpe and Ulceby in England.
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Doncaster
Doncaster () is a town in South Yorkshire, England, and the principal settlement of the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster. The town is about from Sheffield and is popularly referred to as "Donny". Doncaster has an international airport, and in recent years its centre has undergone regeneration including the development of an Education City campus, currently the largest education investment of its kind in the UK. Doncaster has also recently extended the Frenchgate Centre, a shopping centre and transport interchange.
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East Lindsey
East Lindsey is a local government district in Lincolnshire, England. The council is based in Manby near Louth, and other major settlements in the district include Alford, Spilsby, Mablethorpe, Skegness, Horncastle and Chapel St Leonards.
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Eastoft
Eastoft is a village and civil parish in Lincolnshire, East England.
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Eddie Wright Raceway
The Eddie Wright Raceway is a British race track in Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire. It is primarily used for motorcycle speedway, but also occasionally hosts stock car racing.
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England
England () is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the North Sea to the east, with the English Channel to the south separating it from continental Europe. Most of England comprises the central and southern part of the island of Great Britain in the North Atlantic. The country also includes over 100 smaller islands such as the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight.
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Environment Agency
The Environment Agency () is a non-departmental public body of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and an Assembly Government Sponsored Body of the Welsh Assembly Government.
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Flixborough disaster
The Flixborough disaster was an explosion at a chemical plant close to the village of Flixborough (near Scunthorpe), Humberside (now North Lincolnshire), England, on 1 June 1974. It killed 28 people and seriously injured 36.
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France
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Germany
Germany (), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (, ), is a country in Western Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands. The territory of Germany covers 357.021 km2 and is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate. With 81.8 million inhabitants, it is the most populous member state of the European Union, and home to the third-largest number of international migrants worldwide.
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Glanford Park
Glanford Park is a football stadium in Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, England, and the current home of Scunthorpe United. It is the smallest stadium by capacity in the Championship (2009-10 season).
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Grantham
Grantham is a market town within the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It bestrides the East Coast Main Line railway (London-Edinburgh), the historic A1 main north-south road, and the River Witham. Grantham is located approximately south of the city of Lincoln, and approximately east of Nottingham. The resident population at the 2001 census was 34,592 in around 18,000 households, excluding the adjacent village of Great Gonerby. With the housing estates in Londonthorpe and Harrowby Without (around a population of 4,500), this figure would be around 42,000.
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Grimsby
Grimsby (or archaically Great Grimsby) is a seaport on the Humber Estuary in Lincolnshire, England. It has been the administrative centre of the unitary authority area of North East Lincolnshire since 1996. According to legend, Grimsby was first founded by Grim, a Danish fisherman . 'By' means 'village' in Old Norse and 'city' or 'town' in the modern Danish language.
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Gunness
Gunness (or Gunhouse) is a township and small village situated on the east bank of the River Trent and deriving its name from forming a ness or promontory in the River Trent.
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Holbeach
Holbeach is a fenland market town with [http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=3&b;=6161621&c;=PE12+7HA&d;=14&e;=16&g;=468351&i;=1001x1003x1004&m;=0&r;=0&s;=1280077611734&enc;=1&dsFamilyId;=75 6,457 residents] in the South Holland district of southern Lincolnshire. The town lies from Spalding; from Boston; from King's Lynn; from Peterborough; and a long 43 miles (69 km) by road from the county town of Lincoln. It is on the junction of the A151 and A17. The main High Street is the B1515.
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Home Office
The Home Office is the United Kingdom government department responsible for immigration control, security and order. As such it is responsible for the police, United Kingdom Borders Agency and MI5. It is also in charge of government policy on security-related issues such as drugs, counter-terrorism and ID cards. It was formerly responsible for the Prison Service and Probation Service, but these are now under a newly created Ministry of Justice.
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Humber Estuary
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Immingham
Immingham (sometimes known locally as Ming-Ming) is a town in North East Lincolnshire, located on the south bank of the Humber Estuary. It is six miles (10 km) north west of Grimsby.
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Keadby
Keadby is a small village lying just off the A18, west of Scunthorpe, in North Lincolnshire, England. It lies on the West bank of the River Trent. It is pronounced "Kidby".
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Kingston upon Hull
Kingston upon Hull ( usually referred to as Hull, is a city and unitary authority area in the ceremonial county of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It stands on the River Hull at its junction with the Humber estuary, 25 miles (40 km) inland from the North Sea. Hull has a resident population of ().
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Kirton-in-Lindsey
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Leeds
Leeds () is a city and metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. In 2001 Leeds' main urban subdivision had a population of 443,247, while the entire city had a population of (). Leeds is the cultural, financial and commercial heart of the West Yorkshire Urban Area, which at the 2001 census had a population of 1.5 million, and the Leeds city region, an economic area with Leeds at its core, had a population of 2.9 million. Leeds is the UK's largest centre for business, legal, and financial services outside London, and according to the most recent Office for National Statistics estimates, Leeds is the fastest growing city in the UK.
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Lincoln Cliff
The Lincoln Cliff is the portion of a major escarpment that runs north-south through Lindsey and Kesteven, in central Lincolnshire and is a prominent landscape feature in a generally flat portion of the county. The prehistoric route known loosely as the Jurassic Way follows the line of this escarpment.
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Lincoln, England
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Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire ( or ; abbreviated Lincs) is a county in the east of England. It borders Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, Rutland, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, South Yorkshire, and the East Riding of Yorkshire. It also borders Northamptonshire for just 19 metres (20 yards), England's shortest county boundary. The county town is the city of Lincoln, where the county council has its headquarters.
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London
London () is the capital of England and the United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its founding by the Romans, who called it Londinium. London's core, the ancient City of London, largely retains its square-mile mediaeval boundaries. Since at least the 19th century, the name London has also referred to the metropolis developed around this core. The bulk of this conurbation forms the London region and the Greater London administrative area, governed by the elected Mayor of London and the London Assembly.
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Louth, Lincolnshire
Louth is a market town and civil parish within the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England.
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M180 motorway
The M180 motorway is a short but major () motorway in England from junction 5 on the M18 motorway in the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster to a point close to Humberside Airport some from the ports of Immingham and Grimsby and the east coast and provides access for major routes to Cleethorpes, Grimsby, Hull (via the Humber Bridge), Immingham, Lincoln, Scunthorpe and also provides major access for Humberside Airport and the Killingholme Oil Refineries. The road forms part of the unsigned Euroroute E22 and is the main route along the south bank of the Humber Estuary. It is an unusual motorway as it is the longest motorway within the United Kingdom as well as being one of only two major motorways (the other being the M621) to carry a three digit number as all other motorways that carry three digit numbers are short spurs that lead off other major motorways that only tend at most to be a couple of miles long.
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M181 motorway
The M181 motorway links the town of Scunthorpe, England, to the M180 motorway. A spur of the M180, the road is virtually straight through its entire length. It was opened in December 1978, at the same time as the section of M180 from junction 3 (A15) to the east side of the River Trent (the bridge was not opened until late 1979).
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Mablethorpe
Mablethorpe is a small seaside town in East Lindsey on the coast of Lincolnshire, England.
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Market Deeping
Market Deeping is a market town in Lincolnshire, England, on the north bank of the River Welland and the A15 road. It is the second largest of The Deepings and its eponymous market has been held since at least 1220. The river here forms the Lincolnshire/Cambridgeshire border with Peterborough about 8 miles away. Situated at the southern extremity of Lincolnshire, the town forms part of the border with the Peterborough City Council.
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Market Rasen
Market Rasen is a town and civil parish within the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It lies on the River Rase northeast of Lincoln, east of Gainsborough and southwest of Grimsby. The 2001 census shows Market Rasen has a population of 3,200 people.
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Meadowhall
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Melton Ross
Melton Ross is a small village in North Lincolnshire, separated from New Barnetby by a [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/746192 railway line] and [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/736550 level crossing]. The 2001 census found 186 people in 77 households.
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North Hykeham
North Hykeham is technically a town immediately south of Lincoln, in the county of Lincolnshire, England. In reality, however, it forms part of the greater Lincoln urban sprawl, comprising 4,915 dwellings. It was originally spelt North Hyckham, and is commonly referred to as just Hykeham.
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North Kesteven
North Kesteven is a local government district in the East Midlands, situated just over north of London. It is located east of Nottingham and south of Lincoln. North Kesteven is one of seven districts in Lincolnshire, England and is in the centre of the County. Its council, North Kesteven District Council, is based in Sleaford in the former offices of Kesteven County Council.
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Nostell Priory
Nostell Priory is a Palladian house located in Nostell, near Crofton close to Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, approached by the Doncaster road from Wakefield. Built on the site of a medieval priory for the Winn family from 1733 onwards, Nostell Priory is today a National Trust property.
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Poland
Poland (), officially the Republic of Poland (Rzeczpospolita Polska), is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north. The total area of Poland is , making it the 69th largest country in the world and the 9th largest in Europe. Poland has a population of over 38 million people, which makes it the 34th most populous country in the world and the sixth most populous member of the European Union, being its most populous Slavic member.
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Royal Festival Hall
The Royal Festival Hall is a 2,900 seat concert, dance and talks venue within Southbank Centre in London. It is situated on the South Bank of the River Thames, not far from Hungerford Bridge. It is a Grade I listed building - the first post-war building to become so protected (in April 1988). The London Philharmonic Orchestra performs the majority of its London concerts in the hall.
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Scunthorpe
Scunthorpe is a town within North Lincolnshire, England. It is the administrative centre of the North Lincolnshire unitary authority, and has an estimated total resident population of 72,514. A predominantly industrial town, Scunthorpe, the United Kingdom's largest steel processing centre, is also known as the 'Industrial Garden Town'. It is the third largest settlement in Lincolnshire after Grimsby and Lincoln.
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Sheffield
Sheffield () is a city and metropolitan borough of South Yorkshire, England. Its name derives from the River Sheaf, which runs through the city. Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, the city has grown from its largely industrial roots to encompass a wider economic base. The population of the City of Sheffield is () and it is one of the eight largest regional English cities that make up the English Core Cities Group.
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Skegness
Skegness is a seaside town and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. Located on the Lincolnshire coast of the North Sea, east of the city of Lincoln it has a total resident population of 18,910. Grid reference: TF564636.
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Sleaford
Sleaford is a town within the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It is thirteen miles (21 km) northeast of Grantham, seventeen miles (27 km) west of Boston, and nineteen miles (30 km) south of Lincoln, and had a total resident population of around 14,500 in 6,167 households at the time of the 2001 census.
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South Kesteven
South Kesteven is a local government district in Lincolnshire, England, forming part of the traditional Kesteven division of the county. It covers Grantham, Stamford, Bourne and Market Deeping.
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South Yorkshire
South Yorkshire is a metropolitan county in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England. It has a population of 1.29 million. It consists of four metropolitan boroughs: Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham, and the city of Sheffield. South Yorkshire was created on 1 April 1974 as a result of the Local Government Act 1972.
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Spilsby
Spilsby is a market town and civil parish in Lincolnshire. England. The town is situated adjacent to the main A16 Trunk Road at the southern edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds north of the Fenlands, east of the county town of Lincoln, north east of Boston and north west from Skegness.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK, or Britain) is a country and sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island nation, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of the island of Ireland, and many smaller islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK with a land border with another sovereign state, sharing it with the Republic of Ireland. Apart from this land border, the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel and the Irish Sea. Great Britain is linked to continental Europe by the Channel Tunnel.
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West Lindsey
West Lindsey is a local government district in Lincolnshire, England.
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West Yorkshire
West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county within the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England with a population of 2.2 million. West Yorkshire came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972.
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AOL
AOL Inc. (), formerly known as America Online and logo typeset as "Aol.", is an American global Internet services and media company. AOL is headquartered at 770 Broadway in New York. Founded in 1983 as Control Video Corporation, it has franchised its services to companies in several nations around the world or set up international versions of its services.
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Buzzcocks
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Cunt
Cunt () is a , generally referring to the female genitalia, specifically the vulva, and including the cleft of Venus. The earliest citation of this usage in the 1972 Oxford English Dictionary, c 1230, refers to the London street known as Gropecunt Lane. Scholar Germaine Greer has said that "it is one of the few remaining words in the English language with a genuine power to shock."
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Darren Bett
Darren Victor Bett (born 1968 in Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire) is a weather forecaster for the BBC, broadcasting on television and radio. Darren is a main weather presenter on BBC Radio 5 Live, and also appears on BBC News Channel, BBC World News, BBC One and BBC Radio 4. He lives in north Hampshire with his wife and two daughters (born January 1995 and December 1998) and son (born March 1997). He married Susan Allen in Bradford in October 1991.
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Elliot Morley
Elliot Anthony Morley (born 6 July 1952) is a former Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Glanford and Scunthorpe from 1987 to 1997 and then Scunthorpe from 1997 to 2010. In 2009, he was accused by The Daily Telegraph of continuing to claim parliamentary expenses for a mortgage that had already been repaid. Morley will face criminal charges over the affair.
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Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt (, from 1859 to 1867 officially Franz Ritter von Liszt) (October 22, 1811July 31, 1886) was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist and teacher.
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Howard Devoto
Howard Devoto (born Howard Trafford on 15 March 1952 in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England) is an English rock and roll singer/songwriter who began his career as the frontman for the punk band Buzzcocks, but then left to form Magazine, one of the first post-punk bands. After Magazine, he went solo and, later, formed indie band Luxuria.
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Iain Matthews
Iain Matthews (born 16 June 1946) is an English musician and songwriter. He was born Iain Matthew McDonald, in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England. He was known in the 1960s first as Ian McDonald, and later, as the 1960s progressed, until 1989 as Ian Matthews. After that point, he chose to reclaim his first name, however with a different surname derived from his middle name: Iain Matthews.
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Ian Botham
Sir Ian Terence Botham, OBE (born 24 November 1955) is a former England Test cricketer and Test team captain, and current cricket commentator. He was a genuine all-rounder with 14 centuries and 383 wickets in Test cricket, and remains well known by his nickname "Beefy" While a controversial player both on and off the field at times, Botham also held a number of Test cricket records, and still holds the record for the highest number of wickets taken by an England bowler.
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Joan Plowright
Dame Joan Ann Plowright, Lady Olivier, DBE (born 28 October 1929), better known as Joan Plowright, is an English actress.
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Kevin Keegan
Joseph Kevin Keegan, OBE (born 14 February 1951) is a former international footballer, and former manager of several English clubs, most notably Newcastle United, as well as the England national football team.
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Liz Smith (actress)
Liz Smith, MBE (born 11 December 1921) is a British actress, best-known for her roles in the sitcoms The Vicar of Dibley and The Royle Family. She also appeared in the 2005 film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
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Martin Simpson
Martin Simpson (born 5 May 1953, Scunthorpe, England) is a British folk singer, guitarist and songwriter. He is regarded by many as one of the most skilled folk guitarists currently playing on the British and American folk scene.
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Nic Dakin
Nicholas Dakin (born 10 July 1955) is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Scunthorpe since 2010.
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Nina Nannar
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Poles
The Polish people, or Poles ( , singular Polak) are the inhabitants of Poland and Polish emigrants irrespective of their ancestry. Their religion is predominantly Roman Catholic. As a nation, they are bounded by the Polish language, which belongs to the Lechitic subgroup of west slavic languages of Central Europe. A wide-ranging Polish diaspora exists throughout Western and Eastern Europe, the Americas and Australia. Polish citizens live predominantly in Poland.
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Ray Clemence
Raymond Neal "Ray" Clemence, MBE (born 5 August 1948) is one of English and European football's most decorated goalkeepers ever and was part of the Liverpool team of the 1970s.
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Rowan Williams
Rowan Douglas Williams FRSL, FBA (born 14 June 1950) is an Anglican bishop, poet and theologian. He is the current (104th) Archbishop of Canterbury, Metropolitan of the Province of Canterbury and Primate of All England, offices he has held since early 2003.
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Slovak people
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Tony Jacklin
Anthony "Tony" Jacklin CBE (born 7 July 1944) is an English golfer, who was the most successful British player of his generation. He was also the most successful European Ryder Cup captain ever. He was born in Scunthorpe, England.
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Scunthorpe in Photograph 2011

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Scunthorpe 1981

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Witness appeal follows Scunthorpe armed robbery at shop in Wells Street - Oct 2012

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Post Match - Swindon Town FC vs Scunthorpe United FC 20.10.12

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scunthorpe busker singing chasing cars by snow patrol

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Scunthorpe United in Ireland - Wayside Celtic 0-1 Scunthorpe United 19-07-2012

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Derby 5-5 Scunthorpe highlights

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Fresh Prince Of Scunthorpe - About A Plane Crash

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Scunthorpe Ridgeway - 28th April 2012

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Scunthorpe (Modern)

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Scunthorpe United v Crewe Alexandra

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Scunthorpe Olympic torch 2012

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Baby's body found in Scunthorpe rubbish dump

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File - President Barack Obama disembarks Air Force One upon arrival at Joplin Regional Airport in Joplin, Missouri, May 21, 2012.

Did Obama Just Play His Iran Card?

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24 Oct 2012

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling By the time President Richard Nixon told his Chinese hosts during a banquet toast, "Let us start a long march together, not in lockstep, but on different...

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Kim Jong-il Funeral ceremony .Kim Jong-il died of a suspected heart attack on 17 December 2011 at 08:30 while traveling by train to an area outside Pyongyang.

N. Korean Army General Executed with Mortar for Drinking

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25 Oct 2012

MOSCOW, October 25 (RIA Novosti) - A high-ranking North Korean Army official was reportedly executed with a mortar round for drinking liquor during the 100-day...

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Waves, brought by Hurricane Sandy, crash on a house in the Caribbean Terrace neighborhood in eastern Kingston, Jamaica, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012.

Hurricane Sandy growing stronger as it nears Cuba

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25 Oct 2012

HAVANA (Reuters) - Hurricane Sandy, growing stronger over warm Caribbean waters, lashed eastern Cuba with heavy rains and rising winds on Wednesday as it bore down on the communist island after...

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Myanmar Buddhist monks march, protesting against plans to open office of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), in Yangon, Myanmar, Monday, Oct. 15, 2012.

Muslims flee Myanmar as unrest continues

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25 Oct 2012

YANGON: A new wave of sectarian violence in western Myanmar has left five people dead and dozens injured in recent days, triggering another exodus of Muslims to emergency camps, officials said...

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Scunthorpe

Scunthorpe Scunthorpe shown within Lincolnshire
Population	72,514 (2006 estimate)
OS grid reference	SE893102
Unitary authority	North Lincolnshire
Ceremonial county	Lincolnshire
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	SCUNTHORPE
Postcode district	DN15 – 17
Dialling code	01724
Police	Humberside
Fire	Humberside
Ambulance	East Midlands
EU Parliament	Yorkshire and the Humber
UK Parliament	Scunthorpe
List of places: UK • England • Lincolnshire

Scunthorpe is a town in North Lincolnshire, England. It is the administrative centre of the North Lincolnshire unitary authority, and had an estimated total resident population of 72,514 in 2010.^[1] A predominantly industrial town, Scunthorpe, the United Kingdom's largest steel processing centre, is also known as the "Industrial Garden Town".^[2]^[3] It is the third largest settlement in Lincolnshire after Grimsby and Lincoln.

History [link]

Etymology [link]

The town appears in the Domesday Book (1086) as Escumetorp, which is Old Norse for "Skuma's homestead", a site which is believed to be in the town centre close to where the present-day Market Hill is located.

Geology [link]

Scunthorpe was close to the epicentre (this was centred at Ludford, near Louth) of one of the largest earthquakes experienced in the British Isles on 27 February 2008, with a magnitude of 5.2. Significant shocks were felt in Scunthorpe and the surrounding North Lincolnshire area. The main 10-second quake, which struck at 00:56 GMT at a depth of 9.6 mi (15.4 km), was the biggest recorded example since one with a magnitude of 5.4 struck north Wales in 1984.

Scunthorpe was made up of 5 small villages. These were Scunthorpe, Frodingham, Crosby, Brumby and Ashby. They later joined up to make Scunthorpe as we know today. The town itself lies on a rich bed of iron ore and limestone – crucial in the manufacturing of steel. In 1981 it was decided to close all the local mines and quarries and outsource the iron ore from abroad, the local ore being around 20% iron and the foreign ore being 60–70% iron. At the same time, British Steel closed all its other mining operations around the UK. There are still many millions of tonnes of proven reserves of ore in Scunthorpe but it is cheaper to use imports for the time being.

Industrial history [link]

Houses built for the steelworkers.

Ironstone was mined in the area as early as the Roman occupation^{[citation needed]}, but the deposits lay forgotten until the 19th century. The rediscovery of iron ore in 1859 by Rowland Winn on the land of his father, Charles, resulted in the development of an iron and steel industry and rapid population growth.^[4]

Iron ore was first mined in the Scunthorpe area in July 1860. Owing to the lack of a mainline railway the ore was transferred to a wharf at Gunness (or Gunhouse), initially by cart then by a narrow gauge railway, for distribution by barge or mainline rail from Keadby. Winn knew that the best way of exploiting the iron ore fields was for a rail link to be built from Keadby to Barnetby. He campaigned tirelessly for the link; construction work started in mid-1860 and was complete in 1864. He persuaded the Dawes brothers, to whose ironworks the ore was being supplied, to build an ironworks at the site of the iron ore fields at Scunthorpe. Construction of Scunthorpe's first ironworks, the Trent Ironworks, began in 1862, with the first cast from the blast furnace being tapped on 26 March 1864.

Other ironworks followed: building of the Frodingham Ironworks began in 1864; North Lincoln Ironworks in 1866; Redbourn Hill Iron & Coal Company in 1872; Appleby Ironworks blew in their first blast furnace in 1876; and the last constructed being John Lysaght's Iron and Steelworks in 1911, with production starting in 1912. Crude steel had been produced at Frodingham Ironworks in 1887 but this proved not to be viable. Maxmilian Mannaburg came to Frodingham Ironworks in 1889 to help build and run the steelmaking plant and on the night of 21 March 1890 the first steel was tapped.

Rowland Winn is remembered in the town by three street names: Rowland Road, Winn Street and Oswald Road. He assumed the title Lord St Oswald in 1885. Nostell Road was also named after the family seat Nostell Priory.

The Flixborough disaster in June 1974 damaged local buildings.

Governance [link]

Scunthorpe within Humberside (1974–1996)

Scunthorpe forms an unparished area in the borough and unitary authority of North Lincolnshire.^[5] The town forms six of the borough's seventeen wards, namely Ashby, Brumby, Crosby & Park, Frodingham, Kingsway with Lincoln Gardens and Town. The Scunthorpe wards elect 16 of the borough's 43 councillors. As of 2008, all are members of the Labour party.^[6] The councillors form the Charter Trustees of the Town of Scunthorpe and they continue to elect a town mayor.^[7]

North Lincolnshire Council is based in Pittwood House off Ashby Road (former A159) next to Festival Gardens. It opened in 1963 as the Civic Centre, and was the home of Scunthorpe Borough Council until 1996. It was named after Edwin Pittwood, a local Labour politician, who worked in the opencast ironstone workings near Normanby Park. There are also offices at Church Square House near the Scunthorpe Market.

Civic history [link]

Historically part of Lincolnshire, in 1889 the area was included in the Lincolnshire, Parts of Lindsey administrative county. Separate local government began in 1890 when the Scunthorpe local board of health was formed. In 1894 the local board was replaced with an urban district council. Ten years later the neighbouring townships of Brumby and Frodingham (including Crosby) were also constituted an urban district. The two urban districts were amalgamated, along with the parish of Ashby in 1919 to form a new Scunthorpe urban district. Scunthorpe received a charter incorporating the town as a municipal borough in 1936.^[8]

Local authority boundary changes brought the town into the new county of Humberside in 1974, and a new non-metropolitan district, the Borough of Scunthorpe was formed with the same boundaries as the old municipal borough. The opening of the Humber Bridge on 24 June 1981 provided a permanent link between North and South Humberside but did not secure Humberside's future. To the relief of its many detractors, the county of Humberside (and Humberside County Council) was abolished on 1 April 1996 and succeeded by four unitary authorities.

The previous Humberside districts of Glanford and Scunthorpe, and that part of Boothferry district south of the northern boundaries of the parishes of Crowle, Eastoft, Luddington, Haldenby and Amcotts, now compose the unitary authority of North Lincolnshire.^[5] On amalgamation charter trustees were formed for Scunthorpe,^[7] and they continue to elect a town mayor.

Coat of arms [link]

File:Scunthorpe arms.png

Arms of former municipal borough of Scunthorpe.

When Scunthorpe was incorporated as a borough in 1936, it also received a grant of a coat of arms from the College of Arms.^[9] These arms were transferred to the new borough council formed in 1974,^[10] and are now used by the town's charter trustees.

The green shield and golden wheatsheaf recall that the area was until recently agricultural in nature. Across the centre of the shield is a length of chain. This refers to the five villages of Crosby, Scunthorpe, Frodingham, Brumby & Ashby linking together as one. At the top of the shield are two fossils of the species gryphoea incurva. These remains of oysters, known as the "devil's toenails", were found in the rock strata from which ironstone was quarried. The crest, on top of the helm, shows a blast furnace. This is also referred to in the Latin motto: Refulget labores nostros coelum or The heavens reflect our labours popularly attributed to the glow observed in the night sky from the steelmaking activities.^[11]

Geography [link]

Central Park.

Scunthorpe lies on an escarpment of ridged land (the Lincoln Cliff) which slopes down towards the Trent. The surrounding environs are largely low lying hills and plains. Although the town itself is heavily industrial it is surrounded by fertile farmland and wooded areas. In terms of general location it lies a mile east of the River Trent, 8 miles (13 km) south of the Humber Estuary, 15 miles (24 km) west of the Lincolnshire Wolds and 25 miles (40 km) north of Lincoln. The town is situated at the terminus of the M181, 42 miles (68 km) from Sheffield. Nearby towns and cities are Hull (18 miles northeast), Doncaster (20 miles west) and Grimsby (22 miles east). From its position at the heart of North Lincolnshire it is roughly 5 miles (8.0 km) south/south-east to Lincolnshire proper, 10 miles (16 km) west to South Yorkshire, 8 miles (13 km) north by northwest to the East Riding of Yorkshire and 15 miles (24 km) east to North East Lincolnshire

Climate [link]

Like most of the United Kingdom, Scunthorpe has an oceanic climate.

Climate data for Scunthorpe
Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
Average high °C (°F)	5.8 (42.4)	6.1 (43.0)	8.9 (48.0)	11.4 (52.5)	15.2 (59.4)	18.4 (65.1)	20.3 (68.5)	20.1 (68.2)	17.7 (63.9)	13.8 (56.8)	8.9 (48.0)	6.5 (43.7)	12.8 (55.0)
Average low °C (°F)	0.6 (33.1)	0.5 (32.9)	1.9 (35.4)	3.6 (38.5)	6.5 (43.7)	9.5 (49.1)	11.4 (52.5)	11.4 (52.5)	9.5 (49.1)	6.8 (44.2)	3.2 (37.8)	1.4 (34.5)	5.5 (41.9)
Precipitation mm (inches)	48 (1.9)	38 (1.5)	48 (1.9)	48 (1.9)	51 (2.0)	53 (2.1)	53 (2.1)	64 (2.5)	48 (1.9)	48 (1.9)	56 (2.2)	53 (2.1)	610 (24.0)
Source: ^[12]

Economy [link]

Industry [link]

Scunthorpe steelworks (2006)

As of 2012 the steel industry is the major employer in the area and the largest operator within it is Tata Steel. The Normanby Park works (also known as Lysaght's) and the Redbourn complex closed in the early 1980s; the number employed in the industry fell from 27,000 at its height^[when?] to around 4,500 (excluding outside contractors).^[when?] The remaining works are still the major integrated steel works in Britain. facilities include include four blast furnaces (named after Queens: Mary, Bess, Anne and Victoria), continuous casting and rod mill.. There is also a lime works nearby; limestone is provided by Singleton Birch from the nearby quarry in Melton Ross. According to the Environment Agency (2000), Corus (Scunthorpe, Llanwern, Port Talbot, Teeside) was the biggest industrial polluter (Dioxin) in the United Kingdom.^[13] The environmental charity Greenpeace has listed the town as a PVC toxic hotspot.^[14]

Other industries in the town include those associated with the steelworks such as engineering, along with food production, distribution and retailing – most of these now employing a large Polish and Slovak workforce. BOC have a plant just north of the town next to the A1029. Near to BOC is the well established waste management firm, Bell Waste Control, which services the majority of industry in Scunthorpe and the surrounding areas. On the Foxhills Industrial Park, north of the A1077 northern bypass, are many distribution companies, notably a large building owned by the Nisa Today co-operative type mutual organisation which has its UK headquarters there. 2 Sisters have a large chicken processing plant in the town. Key Country Foods produces meat products on an industrial scale. The Sauce Company produces sauces, soups and other foodstuffs for the catering and supermarket sectors. Ericsson produces printed circuit boards for the telecommunications industry. There are a number of other firms, mostly involved in manufacturing and light engineering.

The town has struggled to develop after the downsizing of traditional heavy industry in the 1980s and 1990s, and while the town was made a priority development area in that period no multinationals or blue chips have moved in to fill the gap – as a consequence the local labour force mainly comprises semi-skilled and unskilled labour. In the 2001 census 19.3% of the working age population were economically inactive.^[15]

Retail [link]

High Street.

Scunthorpe has two major shopping centres: the covered Foundry Shopping Centre and the part-covered Parishes Centre. The former was constructed in the late 1960s/early 1970s during a wholesale reconstruction of the old town; the latter was constructed in the early part of the 2000s decade on the site of the town's old bus station. There are also many well known retailers on High Street^[16]^[17] but on 6 January 2011 Marks and Spencer closed their store in the town after 80 years of trading^[18]

However the size of the remaining retail units reflects the size of the area's population and with larger shopping facilities within reasonable travelling distance in Grimsby, Hull, Doncaster, Lincoln, Leeds and at Meadowhall, Sheffield many locals often travel to these towns for major purchases.

All the big food retailers are represented in the area; There is a Tesco Extra opposite the football ground, while Sainsbury's (formerly a Safeway) have their store on the site of the old football ground. Morrisons have a store at the bottom of Mortal Ash Hill (known locally as "Motlash") (A18 road) at the Lakeside Retail Park, on the eastern entrance to the town while Asda have a store on Burringham Road^[19] In 2011 Asda opened another store in the former Netto, on Charlton Street.

Transport [link]

Scunthorpe railway station lies on the South TransPennine Line which has trains from Manchester Airport to Cleethorpes. The town lies five miles (8 km) north of the M180. Before this motorway was opened in 1979, all the east-west goods traffic took the A18 to Grimsby. Humberside Airport is a short drive to the east along the M180. The town's bus station is off Fenton Street. The bus station is predominantly used by Stagecoach In Lincolnshire, that operate services within and out of the town, followed by Hornsby Travel.

Culture [link]

The North Lincolnshire Museum.

The North Lincolnshire Museum is on Oswald Road, near the railway station.^[20] St John the Evangelist Church (built in 1891 by Lord St Oswald) in Church Square is now the 20–21 Visual Arts Centre.^[21] The Plowright Theatre, named after Joan Plowright, is on Laneham Street (off the west end of High Street). It was built in 1958 as Scunthorpe Civic Theatre.^[22] The Baths Hall, reopened in 2011, a 1,700 capacity venue also hosts visiting musical and theatrical events.^[23]

The Scunthorpe Co-operative Junior Choir from Scunthorpe won the title of BBC radio 3 Choir of the Year 2008 at the Grand Finals on 7 December 2008 at the Royal Festival Hall, London. The main choir is made up of 90 members aged between 9 and 19 years whilst also having 2 training choirs taking children as young as 3 years old. They have made several CDs, perform numerous concerts in the area and further afield, have been subject of documentaries and are internationally renowned as have travelled the world.^[24]

Media and entertainment [link]

Radio [link]

Viking FM broadcasts on 96.9 FM from Kingston upon Hull, having some of its coverage given to North Lincolnshire, which includes Scunthorpe;
BBC Radio Humberside is broadcast on 95.9 FM from Kingston upon Hull, with its coverage given to the old county of Humberside, now including the East Riding of Yorkshire and all of North & North East Lincolnshire & all Lincolnshire at certain times. Coverage often includes broadcasts of local football team Scunthorpe United;
BBC Radio Lincolnshire broadcast from Lincoln, its coverage covering the entire current county of Lincolnshire.

Regional news programmes [link]

BBC Look North broadcast by the BBC from Queen's Gardens in Kingston upon Hull with news offices in Grimsby, covering the East Riding of Yorkshire and North & North East Lincolnshire;
Calendar, broadcast by ITV Yorkshire from Leeds, West Yorkshire with a local crew based in nearby Grimsby, covering all of the boroughs of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.

Print [link]

The local newspaper is the Scunthorpe Telegraph (formerly the Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph) with an online version called this is scunthorpe.co.uk.^[25] There is also a weekly freesheet, the Scunthorpe Target.

Venues [link]

Scunthorpe has a leisure centre (The Pods), museum, galleries, craft centres, several clubs, pubs and bars, a multiplex cinema near the town centre. The Baths Hall in Doncaster Road was a popular music venue, before it was closed because of the costs of bringing the building up to scratch, and dealing with industrial contamination on site. The Labour Council prevented the Baths from being demolished in 2007 and commenced a major rebuild of the venue, which has involved demolishing all but the facade of the building. The building re-opened in November 2011.

Education [link]

Scunthorpe's primary schools include Henderson Avenue Primary School, Scunthorpe C of E Primary School, Frodingham Infant School, Brumby Junior School, St. Augustine Webster's Catholic Primary School, Berkeley Junior School, Crosby Primary School, Westcliffe Primary School, and St. Bernadette's R.C. Primary School.

The secondary schools within North Lincolnshire are currently^[when?] undergoing a rebuilding programme with an investment of £88 million under the government's Building Schools for the Future Programme.^[26] The first of these school to benefit will be Brumby Engineering College on Cemetery Road. Foxhills Technology College (FTC),^[27] was the town's first specialist school, FTC became Scunthorpe's first Performing Arts College in 2007, adding specialisms in Maths and Computing in 2008 following Government designation as Scunthorpe's first High Performing Specialist School. Frederick Gough School, is to the south of the town in Bottesford. Melior Community College, to the east of the town, was formed by the merger of South Leys Business & Enterprise College on Enderby Road and Thomas Sumpter Comprehensive School. St. Bede's Catholic School,^[28] is a specialist mathematics and computing college, which is governed by the Roman Catholic Church. St Hugh's Communication and Interaction Specialist College,^[29] is a school for pupils aged 11–19 with moderate to complex learning needs associated with physical and social problems. The former High Ridge Specialist Sports College on Doncaster Road became the town's first academy opening on 1 September 2008. It is now known as St. Lawrence Academy.;^[30] it still retains Sport as its specialism but it is now sponsored by the Church of England, The Most Rev. and Rt Hon. The Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams officially opened the new school on 14 October 2008. The school is to be completely rebuilt by 2013.

The second stage of refurbishment is to begin in 2013 to include the seven remaining rural secondary schools.

Scunthorpe currently has two study support centres, Study United FC and Study Heslam set up with funding from the government's Playing for Success scheme. These are based at Glanford Park, the home of Scunthorpe United Football Club and Heslam Park, home of Scunthorpe rugby & cricket clubs.^[31]

Further education [link]

John Leggott Sixth-Form College (JLC) on West Common Lane. North Lindsey College is close by on Kingsway (A18).

On 30 November 2010, as part of the 2010 UK student protests students and members of the public joined a series of nationwide outside John Leggott College. The protest was against the Parliamentary plans to increase University tuition fees.^[32]

Law and order [link]

The area is served by Humberside Police. According to Home Office data the area has crime rates higher than the national average, especially in the categories of violence against the person, sexual offences, burglary and theft of motor vehicles.^[33]

Sport [link]

Football [link]

Glanford Park.

The town has a Football League club, Scunthorpe United (nicknamed "The Iron") who play at Glanford Park. For most of its existence in the professional game (since only 1950) it has been in the basement league of the English game. At the end of the 2006–7 season they won promotion to the Football League Championship as champions of League One, amassing a total of 91 points, being promoted at home to Huddersfield Town: having been top since January: despite being outsiders for a considerable amount of that time, and being promoted with 3 games to spare. This being the first time they have played at this level for 44 years. This was to last just one season as the club were relegated on 12 April 2008, with three games to spare, away to Crystal Palace. However, they returned to the Championship after one season, winning the League One playoffs in May 2009.^[34]

In the last financial year for which accounts are available (the year ending June 2009) the club made a loss of over £1,000,000 with turnover down by over 17%.^[35]

Kevin Keegan and Ray Clemence both played for Scunthorpe United in the early 1970s before being signed for Liverpool. Former England cricket captain Ian Botham played a number of games for the club, being a resident of nearby Epworth at that time and in an attempt to keep fit during the winter months. The team mascot is called the "Scunny Bunny".^[36]

Local teams play in the Scunthorpe & District Football League.

Rugby [link]

Scunthorpe RUFC^[37] play rugby union at Heslam Park, close to Brumby on Ashby Road. Scunthorpe Barbarians play rugby league also at Heslam Park.

Motorsports [link]

Scunthorpe also has a speedway team known as the Scunthorpe Scorpions who compete in the British Premier League, the sport's second tier in Britain. The speedway team has been running since 2005 and won a grand slam of the Conference League trophies in both 2006 and 2007. It runs at the Eddie Wright Raceway, which is a mile north of the town on Normanby Road (B1430).

The Eddie Wright Raceway is also host to the sport of stock car racing, the town has featured stock car racing at two other venues in its past, 2009 saw a return to the town of the oval racing sport

Scunthorpe Scorpions – Premier League team
Scunthorpe Saints – National League (formerly Conference League) team

Golf [link]

Forest Pines, a championship golf course which also has a spa retreat and conference facilities.

Athletics [link]

The Appleby-Frodingham Athletic Club^[38] uses the 34-acre (140,000 m²) site near the Civic Centre for many types of sport. They have a clubhouse and also use Brumby Hall next-door. There is also the Scunthorpe and District Athletics Club.^[39] They train at Quibell Park Stadium,^[40] Scunthorpe's athletic track on Brumby Wood Lane named after David Quibell, the town's former Labour MP. Around the running track is a cycle track used by Polytechnic Cycle Club.^[41]

The leisure centre is on Carlton Street^[42] opposite the bus station via a footbridge. The Scunthorpe Anchor swimming club are based at the Riddings Pool on Enderby Road next to South Leys School in Yaddlethorpe.^[43]

The Pods, a leisure centre near Central Park is currently in the final stages of construction. When opened, the leisure centre will have two swimming pools, a state of the art gym, a dance studio, a creche and a cafe. The estimated date of completion is Summer 2011.^[44]

As part of the project, Central Park is being improved. These expensive improvements are also in their final stage. North Lincolnshire Council's website regularly show photographs and videos of how the work is progressing.^[45]

Controversies [link]

Internet obscenity filters [link]

In 1996 there was controversy when AOL's obscenity filter (among others) refused to accept the name of the town due to its inclusion of the embedded word cunt, which the filter rejected as obscene. Some online forums such as Ultimate Guitar forums (which has recently been resolved) display the name as S****horpe, while Fark.com would display it as Scoonthorpe. This form of censorship overreach is known in the computing world as the Scunthorpe problem.

Scunthorpe MP Elliot Morley [link]

Elliot Morley was the Labour Member of Parliament for the Scunthorpe constituency between 1987 and 2010. In 2009 he was accused by the Daily Telegraph of continuing to claim £30,000 from parliamentary expenses for a mortgage that had already been repaid.^[46] This led to campaigning group Independents to Save Queen Mary's Hospital reporting him to City of Westminster police alleging fraud and theft. In February 2010, the Crown Prosecution Service informed the Metropolitan Police that it intended to charge him with two counts of false accounting.^[47] In the 2010 general election, Nic Dakin was elected as the new MP for the Scunthorpe constituency.

Notable people [link]

Darren Bett, BBC Weather presenter
Ian Collins, talkSPORT radio presenter was born in the town^{[citation needed]}
Howard Devoto, singer of the Buzzcocks and Magazine
Tony Jacklin, golfer
Reece Mastin, born in Scunthorpe, singer & winner of 2011 X-Factor Australia
Iain Matthews, singer
Rob McElnea, 500cc grand prix rider and now team manager of the Virgin Mobile Yamaha team in the British Superbike Championship^[48]^[49]
Nina Nannar, ITN Entertainment correspondent
Peter D. Robinson, Archbishop in the United Episcopal Church of North America was born in Scunthorpe and grew up in nearby Barton-upon-Humber
Martin Simpson, guitarist, born in Scunthorpe^[50]
Liz Smith, actress, born in Scunthorpe^[51]
Graham Taylor (footballer), former England football manager
Alan Walker, musicologist and biographer of Franz Liszt, born in Scunthorpe^[52]

Twinned municipalities [link]

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