Did I misread your report on the site of the Isaac Newton pub?

In The Journal Letters page on May 4 Linda Jones raised concerns at the ineffectiveness of Shaping Health representatives in opposing changes or cuts to our local hospital services.

COLLEAGUES of a Grantham man who died from the rare and incurable disease CJD raised more than £1,000 in his name at the weekend.

A COMPANY is celebrating this week after securing a £1.5 million contract with China which will create 30 new jobs.

FIGHTING crime while his force loses almost 20 per cent of its budget is the task facing new Lincolnshire Police Chief Constable Neil Rhodes.

THE hosepipe ban on Lincolnshire will remain despite last month being the wettest April since records began.

MIDWIVES from Lincolnshire raised thousands of pounds to help fight breast cancer by taking park in a moonlight walk at the weekend.

A GRANTHAM-based vehicle hire company has reported a 200 per cent increase in online bookings for retail hire.

A UK Border Agency operation on the A52 near Grantham led to the arrest of 12 men suspected of being illegal immigrants this morning.

LAP dancing at Taboo Genltemen’s Club can now take place on a Sunday after councillors agreed to change the licence.

THIS year’s Carnival Princess has been crowned!

CUSTOMERS can rest assured that standards of hygiene and cleanliness at the Blue Pearl fish bar are second to none.

THREE 4x4 vehicles were stolen in a five-day period in Vale of Belvoir villages.

DURING my year as Mayor of Grantham, I have considered it an honour and privilege to have had the pleasure of meeting some really nice people and visiting many places in our beautiful county.

ITEMS are being sought by Grantham Foodbank volunteers to boost dwindling stocks.

A FAMILY of peregrine falcons is now complete following the hatching of three eggs.

ATHLETE turned chiroprator Mark Jessop has opened a practice in Grantham.

A BURGLAR sneaked into a house in Grantham and snatched keys before driving away in the owner’s car.

BUYING a wrap of heroin for a friend landed a man with a nine-month community order.

A MAN will be sentenced in July after he was convicted of sexually assaulting a woman near a railway underpass in Grantham.

A COUNCILLOR has promised to Tweet ‘more responsibly’ in future after he was challenged in front of the whole council about his comments.

STREET parties, family fun days and more are planned to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.

A PASSIONATE debate was sparked at full council after it was proposed to limit the number of topics that can be debated at meetings.

SUNDAY sees the first chamber concert in a summer series at St Wulfram’s Church.

A BEER is being brewed to celebrate the 30th anniversary of St Barnabas Hospice.

PLANNING permission for the new Priory Ruskin Academy, which was due to be built in Rushcliffe Road, Grantham, by September 2013 was deferred for a fourth time by Lincolnshire County Council this week.

IT was a proud day for Grantham when the latest group of army officers emerged from Sandhurst Royal Military Academy.

A STAGGERING 10 tonnes of food have been donated to Grantham Foodbank since it launched less than a year ago.

A HORSE has gone missing from a field in Hougham, prompting her owner to issue an emotional plea for information on her whereabouts.

A GRANTHAM woman whose cancer operation was cancelled three times finally underwent her operation on Monday (May 7).

A CORONER has called for an urgent investigation into a section of the A1 after hearing how a Grantham antiquee dealer died after he lost control of his car when it hit standing water.

A DISQUALIFIED driver who borrowed his dad’s car crashed the vehicle into a ditch.

A MAN walked out of a Grantham supermarket with a 23 inch television set, magistrates were told.

A MAN accused of failing to provide a specimen when asked by police has been bailed to appear before Grantham magistrates.

A MAN accused of stealing a car will be tried at crown court.

A FATHER has denied assaulting his partner.

AN assault charge will be heard at Grantham Magistrates’ Court on August 24.

A MISSING wing mirror landed a disqualified driver with a three-month curfew.

“ONE too many” in the pub landed a man with a 12-month driving ban.

A PREGNANT woman who damaged her ex-partner’s car had her case adjourned for a report.

GRANTHAM’S traditional Grantham Carnival parade will go ahead, it was announced today.

BURGLARS descended on villages in the Vale of Belvoir on Bank Holiday Monday.

A BRAVE elderly couple have returned to their home of more than 30 years, even though the arsonist that set their cottage alight is still at large.

MULTI-millionaire Nottingham Forest owner Nigel Doughty died from sudden adult death syndrome after collapsing while working out in his gym.

A TOILET roll was behind a fire which destroyed a piece of machinery at a business park on Fulbeck Heath.

A CANISTER of gas was stolen from an ambulance parked up outside the A&E department of Grantham Hospital on Saturday.

CRIME-fighting charity Crimestoppers has released a film in a bid to highlight the growing problem of metal and lead thefts across the area.

A GIFT to charity was much better than gifts for themselves, thought a Grantham couple who recently celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary.

SALES of a specially brewed beer will go towards paying for work underway to restore the spire of Grantham’s largest church.

THE Journal sat down with new King’s School headteacher Frank Hedley to talk about the future of the school, the challenges facing pupils and working with other headteachers.

THE headteacher of a Grantham school is determined to return it to being ‘outstanding’ after Ofsted regraded it as ‘good’ this week.

A NUMBER of people were at Grantham Magistrates’ Court on Friday accused of speeding.

A DAD who smashed the front windows of the Journal and a pet shop, urinated in the street and breached his ASBO on two occasions was given a 12 month community order with a curfew.

THOUSANDS of indecent images of children were found at the home of a 51-year-old Grantham man.

A MAN who was stopped on the A1 southbound was found to have no insurance.

FIT-OUT Uk Limited admitted four allegations of its drivers speeding, three on January 6 and one on January 9.

A MAN admitted breaching his bail conditions after he was caught stealing a bottle of wine from a supermarket in Sleaford.

A LORRY driver will keep his job despite having 13 points on his licence.

TWO teenagers denied assault and face a trial at Grantham Magistrates’ Court.

A TOWN centre assault was deemed so serious an offence magistrates decided they could not pass sentence.

A DISABLED man was left ‘wishing his days away’ after he lost access to the library when the lift at the Isaac Newton Shopping Centre broke down.

THE Taxpayers’ Alliance held an action day in Grantham last Saturday to oppose the Government’s planned 3p per litre increase in fuel duty.

A LEADING churchman will talk about science and religion at a lecture in Grantham.

FORMER pupils of Kesteven and Grantham Girls’ School, including one who started in 1931, gathered to catch up on Saturday.

l Grantham Music Festival was hailed by the Journal as “one of the greatest and most important advances ever made in the local musical world”.

l A new £500,00 sports hall was set to be built with lottery money at Central Technology College in Grantham.

l The Journal was reporting on “vast untapped coal reserves on the doorstep of Grantham” with the possibility of a coal pit opening at Denton.

lThieves broke into the home of a Grantham bank manager and stole Georgian silver worth an estimated £200.

WE return to Aunsby again this week, courtesy of villager Dave Lovell.

A GRANTHAM Town side featuring the likes of Lee Potts, Martin Ball and Wayne Hallcro are playing a charity match against workers from Moy Park at The Meres today.

MEMBERS of Grantham Dramatic Society are appealing for items to use in their upcoming production of ‘The 39 Steps’.

A CHARITY ball raised nearly £3,000 to pay for special days out for ill people.

ON behalf of the charity, myself and my team of volunteers, I would like to thank Mick Parnham and the Great Gonerby Sports and Social Club, for organizing a charity evening on April 21 in support of Hearing Dogs for Deaf People.

YOUNGEST pupils of Charles Read Academy raised money for children affected by floods in the Phillipines which struck just before Christmas last year.

A RETIRED consultant at Grantham Hospital has spoken out to express the feelings of his former colleagues.

A TREATMENT designed to help a poorly child grow tragically turned into a “ticking time-bomb” which cost a Grantham couple their son last week.

MILITARY strategy, fantasy role-play and art are all combined in the world of Warhammer.

AN exasperated police officer sent a message through the Lincs Alert system in an attempt to quell a “mild hysteria” about dog-knapping.

A FORMER mayor’s wife released her debut e-book this week.

DESPITE assurances from Health Secretary Andrew Lansley and bosses at the Queens Medical Centre, a Grantham woman has had her cancer operation cancelled for a third time.

THE mayors of Grantham and Stamford attended a successful flower festival at the Indoor Market, in Station Road East, Grantham, recently.

HADRIAN’S Wall was no match for a pair with Armed Forces training.

ROAD resurfacing is set to get underway on parts of the A607, with closures planned from Tuesday until May 31.

ACCOMMODATION provided by Grantham College has been assessed as ‘outstanding’ across the board in a recent Ofsted inspection.

A PREGNANT woman and teenager were injured after a man sped away from police and crashed into a water-filled ditch.

DRIVING home after a night out landed a woman with a 12 month driving ban.

WARRANTS were issued for two men that failed to attend Grantham Magistrates’ Court.

WANTING a volume control on his headphones landed a man with a 12-month community order after he walked out of a Grantham supermarket with them in his pocket.

A MAN who is accused of stealing hundreds of pound worth of goods from a Grantham supermarket will be tried at magistrates’ court on June 13.

A MAN who is running from London to Edinburgh will be in Grantham tomorrow (Wednesday).

DO you recognise this man?

A FAMILY of three were rescued from floodwater in Bottesford on Sunday evening after becoming stuck in their car.

THE A1 northbound sliproad on to the A52 at Barrowby, near Grantham, is closed due to flooding.

MANY great causes have benefited from fund-raising events held throughout the year by the Vale of Belvoir Lions.

I AM writing in response to the wonderful letters in the Journal about Newton the fund-raising Bunny.

PARENTS are to be given peace of mind thanks to an innovative idea launched today (Friday) by a Grantham taxi firm.

When I wrote first about the army lorry drivers I did not know they were training to be tanker drivers.

AN operation to crack down on anti-social behaviour in Grantham’s Earlesfield estate has made significant progress, according to Lincolnshire Police.

I READ in the Journal about “Fears for loss of Grantham maternity” then turned the page to another article “4,000 homes for south of town.”

As president of the Grantham Saturday Football League, I write to express my huge disappointment in the lack of coverage afforded by the Grantham Journal on Beehive United winning the Lincolnshire County Junior Cup last Wednesday, April 18, 2012 at Boston United’s ground.

I HAVE just spent three weeks on Ward 6 of Grantham Hospital and I would like to say thank you to the doctors, nurses, physiotherapists and occupational therapists and auxilliaries.

I TELEPHONED South Kesteven District Council’s waste department to report a squirrel which had been hit by a car.

I TELEPHONED South Kesteven District Council’s waste department to report a squirrel which had been hit by a car.

In the difficult economic times that we live in, ‘being local’ is as important as ever.