A sixteen year-old would not be allowed to jump on a 500cc motor bike and take to the roads today, but things used to be different and Bonnie Jackson passed his test on a 500cc Vincent HRD. That would begin a love affair with motor bikes that would last to the present day, leaving him [...]
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Excitement follows Helpston girl, Ellie Davies wherever she goes at the moment as she is part of a music group that is in fighting mood to win the TV show ‘Britain’s Got Talent’. A former pupil of John Clare School, King’s School and a musician with Helpston Church Band, Ellie has been playing the cello [...]
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When John Conder was lucky enough to drive an Austin 7 around Westwood airfield at the age of 10 it was the start of a passion that would continue to the present day, involve many hours work, but many more hours of fun. John’s father, Joe, who for many years owned Conder’s Garage, Lincoln Road, [...]
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We are now into the fourth year of this project and we are seeing enormous differences in the families taking part. Many families who were struggling to feed and clothe their children and to cope emotionally, show huge signs of improved health and self-esteem, FOCC is there to help, suddenly there are enough clothes to [...]
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My family hold the proud accolade of being the first ever family to move into Websters close Glinton. The development was brand new and the year was 1976. These were the first houses to be built in the tiny village of Glinton for years. The fields to the back of our house were later to [...]
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I was going to entitle this article ‘Matthew Warn – teacher to us all’. I then realised that this would be doing him, and those who knew him outside his professional life, a great disservice. There were many, many facets to Mat and as such, the following can only serve as a brief sketch of [...]
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Simon Hoppe grew up in Glinton and enjoyed a happy childhood with lots of friends and activities in and around the village. To many local people, he will be known or remembered as the boy often seen running or cycling around Glinton and surrounding villages, usually with some of his trusted border collie dogs in [...]
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