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Opposition councillors claim the money could have been better spent but the council leader says 'we should be talking up our town centre' ...
That is what a new grassroots live events collective, Black Tongue Events (BTE), has promised for Scunthorpe. Fraser Bramley, ...
A roarsome free dinosaur-themed family fun day is coming to a town centre next week. Church Square in Scunthorpe will play host to the Dino Discover Day event. It will include live shows, a mini ...
Scunthorpe United is the club that made Kevin Keegan, the former England and Newcastle United manager and a two-time recipient of the Ballon d’Or. It was in this industrial town in Lincolnshire ...
British Steel is considering axing as many as 800 jobs at its Scunthorpe plant, the BBC understands. For many residents, the soul of the town is intertwined with the metal it is known for producing.
Today, Scunthorpe is a town of 83,000 people, and not many of that size are so well nationally recognised for its football teams. EFL status confers status upon clubs, and by extension on towns ...
A steel worker who decided to walk from Scunthorpe to Snowdon, spurred on by the memories of two cherished people, has succeeded in the challenge despite pushing his body to the limit. Jordan Wharton, ...
Scunthorpe’s annual accounts have made for grim reading for some time. Scunthorpe lost almost £1m in the year to July 2020 and £3.6m in each of the two years before.
'The Scunthorpe Problem' is a bizarre phenomenon that bugs towns and people with naughty-sounding names. It's when an innocent name is blocked automatically online by overzealous filters because ...
The decline has been rapid — Scunthorpe reached the League One play-offs again in 2017-18 — and nine managers have been in the home dugout since March 2018. Relegation and subsequent battles ...
A community has come together to help the owners of a corner shop whose entire stock of chocolate melted. Ellis Stores in Scunthorpe lost about £1,000 worth of goods after its air conditioning ...
Martyn Woolford struck a late winner as Scunthorpe won a pulsating and dramatic League One play-off final to seal promotion and an immediate return to the Championship. The impressive Woolford drilled ...