Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph from Scunthorpe, Humberside, England • 2

LOCAL NEWSREEL 2 EVENING TELEGRAPH Saturday August 29 1992 Bridge problems delay new road CONSTRUCTION problems with a new multi-million-pound Brigg industrial link until the New Year rBy PHIL GOULD bridge means the road will not open would be substantially completed by Christmas critical sections of the work will be progressed by the contractor to ensure the likely disruption during the run up to Christmas period is said Mr Hogg He pointed out that the new Ancholme Business Park was now largely complete and later phases of the town regeneration project would not be affected by the delay in the road building Looking out across the River Ancholme with the pillars of the bridge already in place And council chiefs have called in specialists to try and resolve the structural problems with the bridge over the River Ancholme a vital part of the new road It was originally anticipated that the £3-million road would be completed by November but a number of problems has meant the official opening date has had to be put back But council officials have assured town centre traders that disruption will be kept to a minimum in the busy run up to Christmas Glanford head of engineering Tom Hogg said completion of the road had been delayed due to continuing problems with underground services such as gas mains and electrical services Advice He said of the bridge problems: structural problems have been caused by weld and material failures in the steel beams of the bridge deck has been extremely difficult to resolve and specialist advice was needed to achieve a satisfactory solution to an unusual and difficult technical Mr Hogg said work was now progressing satisfactorily on the remedial works and every effort would be made to complete the construction by the earliest possible date He continued to say that contractors Birse Construction Ltd anticipated the project A stretch of the Good news for airport The company had been with its findings and took the decision to expand the number of destinations offered as a result which in turn confirmed the company would be operating from Humberside next year new link road was opened earlier this year we looked said a spokesman The confidence had been repaid by local people who responded keenly to the chance offered by tour companies to fly from Humberside which in turn led to the increase in destinations next year "These developments justify the runway extension said the spokesman the recession Humberside has now got to be one of the fastest growing airports in the A spokesman for Air-tours said although it would be wrong to regard its operations from Humberside this year as a trial take-up had been carefully monitored HUMBERSIDE must now be seen as one of fastest growing airports according to the county council The decision by Air-tours to introduce three new holiday destinations from the airport next season and by Thompsons to offer some flights without a supplement have staff And more services look set to follow with the planned introduction of an increased number of flights and negotiations still underway with other tour companies county council and the airport were always confident that there was business to be picked up but the short runway was always a disadvantage the extension Fined for speeding SELF-EMPLOYED Scawby man Stuart Walter Hughes (44) was unable to produce his driving licence when caught speeding along Barrow Road Barton Hughes of Meadow Vale who pleaded guilty to travelling at nearly 56mph a 30mph-zone explained to Barton magistrates he would have accepted a £24 fixed penalty ticket but he was unable to produce his driving licence in time before I had my car stolen and whether my driving licence was stolen in it I he explained tried to get a replacement licence to produce but there was a three week he went on Magistrates fined him the same as the fixed penalty ticket £24 but he was also ordered to pay £10 costs Golf mum dies THE mother of Scunthorpe golfing star Tony Jacklin died yesterday aged 70 Doris Jacklin of High Leys Road Bottesford had been ill for some time and died in Scunthorpe General Hospital Mrs Jacklin was a well-known Scun thorpe figure especially in years when she took leading roles in several local operatic performances Her husband Arthur said could turn her hand to anything and would let nothing beat her She was very proud of our children Tony and Tony was informed of his death while at the Belfry Goll Course near Birmingham The funeral is to be held at Scunthorpe Crematorium on Friday Counterfeit coin warning POLICE have flashed a warning for Scunthorpe people to be extra vigilant after it was revealed counter feit coins are circulat ing in the town The counterfeit £1 coins have so far been found in Scunthorpe and Hull in vending and slot machines Police said the coun terfeit coins are the same size dimension and weight of legal currency but have no pat tern or milling Det Supt David Hunter said: being handed one ol these coins would immediately realise by touch that they arc counterfeit Anyone with infor mation should contact Scunthorpe 282888 Crossing shut BRITISH Steel Scunthorpe is closing the Dawes Lane level crossing from 8am until 4pm on Sunday September 6 to allow for routine maintenance work All through traffic is advised to use North Lincoln Road as an alternative route Fearless stuntman is a real sweetie! FEARLESS Johnny Carr who stars in one of top action ads will be one of the guest starts at a major Scunthorpe-area show on Bank Holiday Monday Stuntman-aetor Johnny is best known for driving a car over a collapsing bridge making a clifftop motorbike jump and leaping from roof to roof on an express train all because a lady loves chocolates But he is also an accomplished comedy performer and as an athletic clown his exploding car was a hit with spectators at his Funtasia shows right across the country After vandals struck at the special £2000 pyrotechnically-equipped motor completely wrecking it he and his stuntlady partner Bo Atkinson decided to stage a new idea they had been spending months perfecting Their Hollywood-style film stunt show with local people invited to take part in the filming and stunting will be unleashed in the main arena at Epworth Show around 430pm Johnny and Bo will be seeking plenty of public participation when they lay on some eyecatching but strictly controlled stunts like fire-throwing and axe-flinging Earlier in the day Johnny and Bo will be raising a storm of laughter as clowns in the Big Top entertaining youngsters and oldsters alike with a bout of slapstick custard pie battling and general hilarity Johnny who has appeared in major films like The Italian Job and Herbie Rides Again and in hit TV shows from The Sweeney to Minder is still reckoned to be the world fire-blowing champion with a score of 27ft 6ins And he is currently onscreen in a video called Stunt Crazy playing the Human Torch who is exploded out of a coffin aflame without any protective clothing! Crackdown on licence fee dodgers A CRACKDOWN is to be launched on an estimated 6000 television licence dodgers in Scunthorpe Glanford and Boothferry And some 90 habitual fee-evaders in the Scunthorpe area are to come under special attention from the television detector vans The 10 strong squad based at the TV Licence Enquiry Office at Hull currently has around 300 prosecutions in the pipeline to bring before the courts in the Scunthorpe area Office manager Dick Sharman said around 600 cases had already been dealt with in the Scunthorpe area so far this year Fines were averaging £100 a time with costs of £25 for each case he said But Mr Sharman said there was to be no let up in their hunt for the dodgers and the campaign was to be stepped up with more regular visits by the detector vans He explained that they would be targeting around 90 known habitual offenders in the Scunthorpe area who despite as many as four or five court appearances still refused to pay the licence fee Mr Sharman said their stubbornness was difficult to understand with the fines and costs in courts far exceeding the fees of £80 for a colour set and £2650p for black and white He said it was estimated on national figures that one in 10 households in the Scunthorpe area still did not have licences despite the increasing popularity of easy payment schemes The Humberside chief pointed out that from April owners of satellite TVs were also liable to pay the samejicence fees Youngsters at the Lincoln Gardens playscheme In Scunthorpe eniou Humberside leisure Holiday mobile pay scheme9.