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SCUNTHORPE TELEGRAPH SPECIAL PUBLICATION Saturday, September 8, 2007

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SCUNTHORPE TELEGRAPH SPECIAL PUBLICATION Saturday, September 8, 2007

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LABOUR MP for Scunthorpe Elliot Morley sent his best wishes to the Scunthorpe Telegraph. He said: I war mly congratulate the Scunthorpe Telegraph on its 70th anniversary . It has always been a source of reliable, professional and accurate infor mation, providing the local community with a real link to what is happening in our area. The Telegraph has been involved in a lot of important local campaigns. With the Baths Hall and Humber Bridge campaigns in particular, the paper has given people a crucial opportunity to express their views.

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FTER 30 years serving in the police force, one local bobby is handing in his badge and preparing to go around the world.
Insp Peter Stevens (49) has worked the North and South Bank since he joined Humberside Police at the age of 18. And he has seen a lot of changes in the policing climate, a difference in work with the media and the ever-evolving face of the Scunthorpe Telegraph. Insp Stevens, of North Lincolnshires B Division traffic department, at Brigg, said he had enjoyed his career and had a happy relationship with the local media. This is a pleasant area to police because you get a mixture of rural and urban policing, he said. As a traffic officer weve always had a good relationship with the paper and when weve had to do police appeals for witnesses its been very useful. The old hand was one of the first officers in the country to join the force after the age limit was lowered to 18-and-a-half in the mid-1970s. For the past 11 years he has worked in Scunthorpe, before being based at Hull, but sometimes having to work in the North Lincolnshire area. He remembers, as a member of a regional support team, working on murder cases in Scunthorpe. But now he feels relations are much better between the press and police. I think relationships have improved because the police are more comfortable talking to the press these days, he said. In the old days I think we were a bit reluctant to go to the paper with details of various incidents we always viewed them suspiciously . The press can certainly help us when we are appealing for witnesses or need to put out crime prevention infor mation. Its a two way thing and there has to be trust. Insp Stevens, who finishes officially on September 30, now plans to work as a security officer aboard a cruise liner and will travel the world from South America to the Caribbean and beyond across the globe. But he said he had great memories of the force having travelled to Rhodesia in 1980 for the supervision of the elections when it became Zimbabwe. And another proud moment at the 1996 Olympics as part of the security team in Atlanta. But he said locally the nature of policing had changed adding: The duties placed on police over the years has increased dramatically and so have peoples expectations of what they want. In some respects I would rather be policing 30 years ago because we could get more involved in certain aspects of the job. Fore more details on how to join the police visit: www.police-information.co.uk/ index.html

Well-known faces from past 70 years

WELL-KNOWN local faces have featured heavily in the Scunthorpe Telegraph over the years on campaign trails, defending and representing organisations and promoting local services. David Fullard (59), who lives at Broughton with his wife Veronika (57), was the face of the Primary Care Trust (PCT) and local health services for 14 years before he retired in March this year. The ex-deputy chief executive congratulated the Telegraph on its 70th anniversary and spoke in glowing terms on the importance of the local media. He said: Local newspapers play a vital role in the everyday life of our communities. By their very nature they report and inform local people on events that have impacted, or will impact, on local peoples lives. From a public service perspective local newspapers have a dual role. They have a duty to inform local people of decisions that are being made by public bodies and to challenge those decisions where doubts or concerns arise. Having worked closely with local reporters for the past 15 years on all local NHS issues I can say quite objectively the Scunthorpe Telegraph has consistently achieved the difficult balance of support and challenge regarding local health matters; reporting objectively and fairly . To my mind this is the essence of good journalism which is what the local community needs and expects. Happy 70th birthday Scunthorpe Telegraph. Even though I am recently retired, yours is still the first newspaper I turn to daily! Farmer and politician Don Stewart is another one of those household faces. Coun Stewart moved to the Isle of Axholme 43 years ago and has read the Scunthorpe Telegraph ever since. A familiar face on the front cover of the paper, Mr Stewart (66) has had his fair share of controversy through court cases, political contentions and more recently leaving his party to stand as an independent Conservative councillor. But time and again he returns to the Telegraph because he believes in the quality of the reporting and the importance of local news. Ive had my ups and downs but in politics you have to be prepared for that, said the Epworth resident, who lives at Hollytree Farm. If you look through the Telegraphs archives Ive featured plenty over the past 30 years on the political scene. I was the peoples person and I think that was portrayed by the Telegraph very well. When things go wrong you get the publicity as well, but I do appreciate newspapers. Like any person running a business you have to sell papers because otherwise you wouldnt be in

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RELATIONSHIP: Insp Peter Stevens, who is to retire from the police force at the end of the month after 30 years service.

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SHONA McIsaac, Labour MP for Cleethorpes, which includes Barton-UponHumber, congratulated the Telegraph on its milestone. She said: Well done to the paper on reaching 70 its in far better shape than many newer publications! Local newspapers are a wonderful source of news, information, stories, gossip and sport that would never be covered by a national newspaper. And in an era when we are seeing astronomical growth of unedited opinion claiming to be facto on the internet, it is reassuring to know that local newspapers are still there serving our towns and villages in a balanced and truthful way .

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UP THE IRON!: Coun Don Stewart enjoys the match during Scunthorpe Uniteds visit to Chelsea in 2005 (top). ABOVE: David Fullard. business and wouldnt it be a sad day if there wasnt a newspaper to portray local news? Mr Stewart, who is the Axholme South Ward councillor, said he was heavily involved in sport in his younger years and believed the way the Telegraph covered the matches and games fuelled local interest in sports like cricket and football. He said it brought them into the limelight and kept them alive in the community . In the early days I played cricket and football and Ive been in plenty of pictures in the Lincs League and the Scunthorpe Evening League. I think there was an interest and it provided the people out there with information so they could take an interest in how other people were doing. It encouraged competitiveness in sport as well.

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GUESS THE YEAR

 Continued from page 7.

1972: Scunthorpe butcher David Jenkins and crew made the worlds longest giant lamb roll; Opening of Crowle flyover road bridge across canal and railway; Scunthorpe United promoted to Division Three; First scheduled passenger flights from Kirmington Airfield; July 4 Riddings Pool, Ashby, opened; St Peters Church, Barton, made redundant; The former Ashby Institute in Ashby High Street next to the west of todays chapel was demolished; June Humber Ferry Tattershall Castle taken out of service; A multi-storey car park opened near St Johns Church, Scunthorpe; The precinct area and indoor market developed; Decisions were taken to link the to-be-built Humber Bridge with the motorway network. On June 27 works for the southern approach road were put in hand. July saw the first earthworks for the route; December 2 Oxford Cinema, Barton, closed. 1968: Work starts on building the Humber Bridge. In March work began on the sub structure. In April steelwork preparations for deck sections are started; Redbourn and Appleby-Frodingham steelworks merge under the 235-million Anchor scheme; Opening of South Kelsey Village Hall;

Scunthorpe United relegated to Division Four; The Essoldo Cinema in Cole Street, Scunthorpe, is renamed the Classic; March 7 Demolition of Long Row houses at Low Santon near Scunthorpe; New club house opened at Brigg by the Glanford Boat Club which was founded in 1934. 1974: January 12 the Ritz/ABC cinema opened closed; February steelmaking stops at Redbourn works; April Humberside County Council came into being; March 14 the Humber Ferry Wingfield Castle taken out of service on Hull to New Holland route; May 6 The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh visit the 235-million Anchor steelworks development; June 1 the Nypro disaster sees 28 killed as an explosion ripped through the chemical plant at Flixborough; July 10 New Scunthorpe Central Library opened by Scunthorpe actress Joan Plowright and Sir Laurence Olivier; September 19 Opening of the Binns store in Scunthorpe Town Centre; September 26 Opening night of Tiffanys nightclub housed in the former Ritz Cinema, Doncaster Road, Scunthorpe; The north tower of the Humber Bridge at Hessle is completed during the summer and topped out. Preparations on the Barton Tower continued.

IT HAPPENED IN... 1975

March sees work begin on the assembly of the box section for the road deck of the Humber Bridge. The work is done at Priory Yard in Hull. The Barton Tower caissons (watertight chamber for building foundations in water) are sunk into the Humber. On November 13 a brass and copper time capsule with copies of local papers, a 1 note and 50p piece, was laid in the foundations of the south bank tower in a special bottoming out ceremony. Also in this year: August 22 Corahs factory in Brigg closes; November 4 an explosion centred on a molten iron carrying torpedo ladle claimed 11 lives in the Queen Victoria Blastfurnace disaster, Scunthorpe; Summer closure of Rod Mill at Normanby Park Works (former Lysaghts, Scunthorpe.

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1976: May the pier in the river for the Barton Tower of the Humber Bridge is completed. In September the South Bank Tower is completed and topped out. The site is handed over to the British Bridge Builders for the next stages of the superstructure work the cable spinning; Old fire station in Cole Street, Scunthorpe, demolished; Crowle Community Hall opened; Normanby Park steelworks merges with Redbourn and Appleby-Frodingham Works; Scunthorpe twinned with French town Clamart; November 10 official opening of the Beckwood Pub, Bottesford. 1977: February 27 Humber Bridge. The first strand of steel wire was laid in place to link the two banks with catwalks between the towers being constructed. September cable spinning between the two banks begins; Natural History Gallery at Scunthorpe Museum opened; Opening of the Viking Way long distance footpath between Barton and Rutland; May the Rio Cinema in Epworth closed; July 12 the Queen marked her Silver Jubilee, visiting Brigg Recreation Ground. The royal couple passed through Kingsway and Queensway in Scunthorpe on their way to Doncaster; October 1977. The ageing Humber Ferry Lincoln Castle broke down in at the end of September and with the expected opening of the

Humber Bridge in 1979 doubts were cast about its future; The Lincoln Castle was the last coal fired paddle steamer in commercial operation. 1978: Cable spinning and box section construction continues on the Humber Bridge; March 21 it was reported The Lincoln Castle ferry was to be withdrawn from service; Barton Church School closed and replaced by St Peters on Marsh Lane; Bowmandale Primary School in Barton opened; September 11 opening of Scunthorpe Indoor Bowls Cenre; September 13 Normanby Hall Golf Club opened; October closure of the Classic Cinema in Cole Street, Scunthorpe; Work starts on the Lodge Moors Estate, Scunthorpe. 1979: March 23 opening of multi-purpose hall at Central Community Centre, Scunthorpe; July opening of M180 motorway bridge over the River Trent at Burringham; June 18 Rio Cinema building at Epworth destroyed by fire. 1980: Cable spinning completed on the Humber Bridge in June. On October 22, the first of 124 box sections were moved out of Priory Yard and sailed upstream to be lifted into position on suspension

cables in mid river; Plans for more than 4,000 redundancies in the Scunthorpe steel industry were announced; Santon and Winterton iron ore mines close down; National steel strike from January 2 lasts 13 weeks; Redbourn blastfurnaces blown up; December The rebuilt Nypro plant at Flixborough closes. 1981: March Normanby Park steelworks closes after 69 years; In January asphalting work on the Humber Bridge is called off because of bad weather. Dismantling of cable catwalks and other ancilliary structures continued. Asphalting resumed in March. Crash barriers and other bridge furniture was installed and on June 24 the bridge was opened to traffic. The opening ceremony was delayed by a bomb hoax. The first crossing was made by Coun Alex Clarke, who has been in charge of the bridges affairs for exactly 10 years; June 24 final Humber Ferry crossing from New Holland to Hull, by the Farringford. July 17 official opening of the Humber Bridge by the Queen; Crowle Brickworks closed; July 1 Scunthorpe became a smoke free zone; April first stage of orbital road opened in Scunthorpe providing access to industrial land in the north. Continued A page 12.

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