Skegness News and Views

Skegness News and Views

As regular late evening walkers in Skegness we’ve seen teenagers hanging around the Sunshine Play Area in the late evening. At times there’s over 20 teenagers hanging out and messing around on the play equipment and some are not exactly careful with the play equipment designed for young children! We understand there’s been a lot [...]

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The Embassy Theatre seems to be a hot topic at the moment for East Lindsey District Council on improving the Skegness Theatre. In a news article in the Skegness Standard it was reported, Since November last year, the Embassy Theatre has come under the spotlight at a series of meetings of a task-and-finish group set [...]

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Skegness Boating Lake has changed it’s water colour to yellow in 2011. We walk around the boating lake twice a day on our daily walks and the colour of the water has got us concerned, since spring the water has become a bright mustard yellow colour. It looks like toxic waste, don’t fall in kids [...]

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There’s an article in the Skegness Standard: Skegness police seek funding to reduce violent assaults http://www.skegnessstandard.co.uk/news/Skegness-police-seek-funding-to.5728193.jp Skegness police are trying to obtain £15,000 in funding… To tackle this type of behaviour he (Inspector Terry Ball) is hoping to get £15,000 to allow the police to set up diversionary activities on 32 nights of the year [...]

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I stumbled upon this news article in the Skegness Standard during August where the local Skegness newspaper had written a report about the Nottingham Riviera Life is a beach. The Skegness Standard covered the report over a complaint supposedly by someone who went to the Nottingham Riviera and was disappointed by the urban beach and [...]

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Despite the bad behaviour of some teenagers in Skegness vandalizing the Skegness Sunshine play area, the Skegness Town Council have given the go ahead for the Sunshine Play Area to be expanded with play equipment designed for teens. The new play equipment will be a little further down from the Skegness Sunshine Play Area, so [...]

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Skegness could learn a thing or too from Budapest. 15 artists from around the world have created 26 pieces of art which as been placed in a boating lake to attract visitors. Visitors to Budapest can row around the art installations, what a great idea, this would be something Skegness Boating lake could do to [...]

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Update: The Plans for the Skegness SkyPier have been approved pretty much as described below. February 2010. New plans have been submitted to East Lindsey District Council regarding FAT LOUIS, GRAND PARADE, SKEGNESS, PE25 2UG. From the Details of Planning Application – S/153/02562/08 Plans can be found online at http://www.eldc.gov.uk/planning/AcolNetCGI.gov?ACTION=UNWRAP&RIPNAME=Root.PgeResultDetail&TheSystemkey=100344 Planning Permission – Erection of [...]

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Yes you read the title of this post correctly, East Lindsey District Council will STOP the green bin collections completely over the winter period (November to March)! I’m all for recycling and saving money and have always thought fortnightly collection of green bins throughout the year a waste of resources, even in summer our green [...]

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I wrote this a while back about the Illuminations Switch On, since the details haven’t been finalized I’m using this article for updates about Skegness Illumination event, in the comment section at the bottom of this page. Since things haven’t been confirmed yet and Skegness Illumination Switch On hasn’t taken place for some time a [...]

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