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March 30, 2015, 10:50 pm

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A POPULAR woman who dedicated her life to theatre has died at the age of 89.Joan Brown, pictured, passed away at Scunthorpe General Hospital on Monday, March 9.Her family say she will be sorely missed.Joan moved to Scunthorpe in 1947, joined the Hospital Players shortly after her arrival and spent 68 years with them.Having never been involved in the theatre before, she went on to play the leading lady in countless plays – and performed various roles in around 120 plays until ill health...

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March 31, 2015, 6:17 am

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Former Scunthorpe pub landlord dies

April 1, 2015, 10:50 pm

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GEOFF Sanderson, former tenant of Scunthorpe's oldest pub The Talbot, has died aged 65 after a short illness. Father-of-two Geoff and his wife Beryl ran the pub in Earl Street for 12 years until June 2004. An electrician by trade, he was the founder chairman of the Talbot Golf Society and fellow members are planning a memorial tournament in Bridlington this June. A funeral service will take place at Woodlands Crematorium on April 13 at 1.20pm. Mourners are asked to make donations to Macmillan...

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April 2, 2015, 10:56 pm

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TRIBUTES have been paid to former Barton councillor and mayor Stuart Dear who has lost his battle with cancer.Mr Dear served as Barton mayor from 1988 to 1989 and spent many years on the town council.He also served as the chairman of the twinning association – Barton is twinned with Feyzin in France – and met with dignitaries over the 10 years he was in the role.He was also head teacher at Scunthorpe's Rochdale Road Junior School during a 30-year career which saw him rising through...

Tribute to inspirational Scunthorpe teacher John Preston

April 3, 2015, 10:54 pm

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TRIBUTES have been paid to an inspirational teacher who passed away after being diagnosed with a brain tumour.John Preston died peacefully at home on March 20 at the age of 61.John spent most of his working life teaching English, becoming head of the department, at Brumby Comprehensive, now known as Outwood Academy Brumby.He leaves behind wife and "soul mate" Verity, children Laura and Claire and their partners Andrew and Terry, and six grandchildren – Charlie, Oscar, Billy,...

New bus to hit North Lincolnshire roads

April 11, 2015, 10:48 pm

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A NORTH Lincolnshire charity is set to get a new minibus.The Department of Transport has given 300 charities £25 million to spend on minibuses, with the North Lincolnshire branch of Age UK one of the charities to benefit.The funding is supposed to help elderly residents, people with learning and physical disabilities and those who do not have access to a commercial bus service.Jane Paine, chief officer at Age UK North Lincolnshire, said the new 16-seater bus will replace their current one...

Tributes to former British Steel Scunthorpe manager Steve Turtle

April 16, 2015, 10:54 pm

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STEVE Turtle, the former chief photographer and press officer on the Scunthorpe steelworks, has died at the age of 85.Father-of-two Mr Turtle, who died in Hull Royal Infirmary on April 1, was born in Alkborough, the eldest of five children.After attending the former Scunthorpe Grammar School, he started work as a metallurgist at the United Steel company (now Tata Steel).Aged 18 years, he enrolled with the Royal Navy and trained as a photographer with the Fleet Air Arm.Mr Turtle later joined the...

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April 23, 2015, 4:00 am

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PALS of the late David Leckey turned his Scunthorpe funeral and wake into a record-breaker. The steelworks locomotive driver, who died aged 45, was a popular figure at the town's Lincoln Imp pub, a keen rock music fan and a Scunthorpe United and England soccer supporter. More than 800 mourners packed the Woodlands Crematorium for the funeral where songs by some of David's favourite bands like The Specials, Happy Mondays and The House Martins were played. Staff at the Scunthorpe undertaking...

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Tributes paid to Brigg teacher

April 23, 2015, 10:50 pm

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TRIBUTES have been paid to a former teacher who also received a town award for her work in the community.Eileen Payne, who died on April 11, aged 84, taught at schools in Brigg and Hibaldstow, as well as the former Rossington Hall special needs school near Doncaster.She went on to run Brigg's Tuesday Luncheon Club and was also heavily involved with the Brigg and District Gateway Club, where she was described as its "life and soul".And she won the Joseph J Magrath Award for public...

Further tributes paid to Scunthorpe man David Leckey

April 24, 2015, 4:48 am

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FURTHER tributes have been paid to much-loved Scunthorpe man David Leckey. More than 800 people attended the funeral of steelworks locomotive driver Mr Leckey, who died aged 45. Now, tributes to the keen rock music fan and Scunthorpe United supporter have been left on the Scunthorpe Telegraph's Facebook page - from as far away as Swindon. One poster said: "I only met him once,found him a very strong brave young man..My thoughts are with his family and friends.xxx" Another wrote:...

Tribute to Carol Robson - outstanding teacher at St Lawrence...

April 30, 2015, 10:52 pm

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TRIBUTES have been paid to a popular Scunthorpe teacher who has died suddenly.Carol Robson, 55, suffered a heart attack at her home on Saturday morning.Leader for languages at the St Lawrence Academy in Scunthorpe, she taught in the town for 10 years.Husband Dave Robson says she will be "massively missed" and is overwhelmed by the emotional response of students, friends and colleagues.Mr Robson, 53, woke to find Carol unresponsive beside him on Saturday and could not resuscitate her...

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May 1, 2015, 10:50 pm

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TRIBUTES have been paid to a popular hairdresser who passed away suddenly at his home.Tom Whittle worked as a hairdresser in Barton's town centre for 23 years – and opened the well-known Rio unisex salon.He died at his home on Forkedale on April 12, aged 53.His wife Dawn said the family will miss Mr Whittle's sense of humour."He liked playing tricks on people and everyone in the shop said he used to get up to mischief," she said."I think that was why they kept coming back...

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May 25, 2015, 3:25 am

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Twinkle - the pop singer and songwriter Lynn Anette Ripley who has died aged 66 - was married to Scunthorpe-born Graham Wilson. The couple wed in 1972 and lived on a farm in Surrey where their children, Michael and Amber, were brought up. Actor-model Graham, who adopted the stage name of Rogers, was best known for playing "the man in black" on the Cadbury Milk Tray TV adverts. He was tipped to take over the screen role of James Bond from Roger Moore. Graham, 66, once lived in Manifold Road,...

Tribute to Scunthorpe sportsman & fundraiser Shaun Farry

May 27, 2015, 10:58 pm

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Regulars at the Star Inn, Ashby, are in mourning for one of their drinking mates, Shaun Farry, who died at Hull Royal Infirmary, aged 60, at the weekend - after a long illness.Father-of-two and ex-steelworker Shaun was, in his youth, rated one of the most talented footballers in local amateur circles, playing for clubs like Brumby Hotel and Appleby-Frodingham.He was also a larger-than-life character and was always game for a laugh.In the summer of 2009, he sat for four hours in a bath filled...

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June 21, 2015, 10:54 pm

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KEITH Graham, a man said to be passionate about the steel-making industry in Scunthorpe, has died in the town's general hospital at the age of 77.During his career, father-of-two Mr Graham managed the iron works, the Scunthorpe plate mill and the blast furnaces.Paying tribute, Dave Collins, current works manager for ironmaking, said: "Keith was the ironworks manager during the 1980s and then moved to steelmaking works manager."Like 'poacher turned gamekeeper' he took with him all our...

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June 23, 2015, 2:10 am

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Trade union chief Bill Sirs, who came to Scunthorpe to support strikers during the bitter 1979/80 industrial dispute, has died, aged 95. He was then general secretary of the huge Iron & Steel Trades Confederation. Talks between the unions and British Steel Corporation management broke down in December 1979, when the initial pay offer on the table was only two per cent. This followed a half-yearly loss of more than £145-million by the nationalised industry - Scunthorpe's biggest...

One of Scunthorpe's oldest men, shoe repairer Harry Hunter, dies...

June 24, 2015, 10:56 pm

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RETIRED award-winning shoe repairer John Henry Hunter, who was one of the oldest men in North Lincolnshire, has died just two months away from his 104th birthday.For more than 50 years, Mr Hunter – who was known to all and sundry as "Harry" – ran a shoe repair business in Ashby and carried on his trade well in to his 90s.Paying tribute, his son John Hunter, a former music teacher at Frederick Gough and Huntcliff secondary schools, said: "Harry attended the former Ashby...

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July 1, 2015, 10:56 pm

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A MINUTE'S silence will be held across the country tomorrow (Friday, July 3) to honour those killed in the Tunisian terrorist attack – including Scunthorpe mum Claire Windass.Mrs Windass was one of 38 tourists to be gunned down in what has been described as the worst terrorist attack on Britons since 7/7.The 54-year-old was born and grew up in Barnetby and then lived in Scunthorpe for 35 years, before moving to Hull in 2012 after getting married.She worked for North Lincolnshire Council...

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July 1, 2015, 11:00 pm

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THE family of a passionate mechanic and car lover have paid tribute to a man who "broke the mould".As reported, Adam Baxter, 26, of Barton, died when his car left the M180 on Tuesday, June 16.On Tuesday, his devastated parents Karen and Curt, sisters Becky, Laura and Sophie and his partner Dara Brown held a celebration of his life at Woodlands Crematorium, Scunthorpe.The funeral was attended by hundreds of friends and loved-ones, including members of the MG Forum, of which Adam was a...

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July 4, 2015, 10:38 pm

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ALTHEA Robins, the former women's editor and theatre critic for the Scunthorpe Telegraph, has died in the town's hospital at the age of 88.During her journalistic career in the 1970s and 1980s, mother-of-four Mrs Robins interviewed such luminaries as Ian Botham, Michael Parkinson, Gladys Aylward, Coronation Street's Helen Worth and James Herriot.She formed a frontline team at the Scunthorpe Telegraph, which was then a daily newspaper, with her late husband and news editor Mick Robins.Mrs...