Lincolnshire Show 2011
Social Life - 1st AugustRecord crowds attended this year’s Lincolnshire Show despite the forecast of heavy showers coming good both afternoons.
The flowering of Fotherby
Homes & Gardens - 1st AugustSteffie Shields explores three gardens opening in aid of St Andrew’s Children’s Hospice, Grimsby. Since the nineteen sixties’ Beeching cuts led to the closure of Fotherby Hall Halt on the Eastern Railways Louth to Grimsby line, and then the A16 bypass, built in 2002, Fotherby, a village on the eastern edge of the Wolds just north of Louth, has relaxed into a quiet rural haven off the beaten track.
A BIG project for a small community
- 1st AugustWhen the BBC and Big Lottery Fund (BIG) were looking for villages to champion local enterprise projects for their Village SOS initiative they received over 360 applications. Caistor was successful in being one of the ten finalists chosen to receive funding and be filmed for TV.
Cooking with confidence
- 1st AugustHaving worked for and with some of the best names in cuisine in the area, Mark Cheseldine has now put his own stamp on Lincoln’s new Reform Restaurant.
The White Horse, Brigg
Dining Out - 1st AugustCaroline Bingham visited The White Horse, Brigg
Creating a Fenland force
People & Places - 1st AugustRetirement has given Joy Ellis time to fulfil a journey from floristry to fiction and Fenland has been the inspiration for her crime thrillers.
Who is the most Famous ‘Yellowbelly’?
History - 1st AugustSome would suggest Sir Isaac Newton or Sir Joseph Banks or Alfred Lord Tennyson, whilst others might think Baroness Thatcher or Sir John Franklin.
Breitling watches on show
Social Life - 1st AugustGuests and customers joined Breitling in their marquee at the 2011 RAF Waddington International Air Show hosted by Mr Andrew Jones of Andrew Michael’s Jewellers.
The new Chevrolet Spark – what is it?
Motors - 1st AugustEvery so often, a car comes along that challenges conventional thinking. A car that offers much more than you’d expect for the money, redefines style, takes normal practice and turns it on its head. The new Chevrolet Spark is one such vehicle. Built to serve the burgeoning mini car segment, the fastest growing area of the new car market across the entire world, it is a newcomer that has been designed to appeal to car buyers across the globe.
A town in the borderlands
Down Your Way - 1st AugustMarket Deeping has a strong sense of place, surrounded by illustrious neighbours