2000s

SH = Skegness Herald
SN = Skegness News
SS = Skegness Standard
SMA = Skegness, Mablethorpe and Alford News
SM = Skegness Magazine (skegnessvideo.com)

2000	4/2	SS	Jolly Fisherman logo used without permission
	11/2	SS	Crash on Lumley Road – car mounts pavement
	18/2	SS	Resort has a face lift
	3/3	SS	Formation of new Skegness Society (formerly Skegness Forum) Lumley Lodge crisis
	10/3	SS	Wind farm installed at Skegness Grammar School
	12/5	SS	Marine Boathouse pub glass canopy plans proposal
	19/5	SS	More about the new Skegness Society
	2/6	SS	Bank holiday disaster as the whole of Skegness is left without water
	9/6	SS	Gray’s Amusement tragedy – child killed
	23/6	SS	Blocked chimney in Scarbrough Ave flat causes death tragedy
	1/7		New open air swimming pool opens behind Embassy Theatre
	7/7	SS	John Woodward bids for prime location spots in Skegness
	7/7	SS	Reopening of Tower Gardens
	21/7	SS	Jolly Fisherman poster in dispute
	14/7	SS	John Woodward bids for Festival Pavilion Skegness foreshore
	11/8	SS	Cynthia Lakin memorial bench
	11/8	SS	Odyssey Millennium ride at Fantasy Island introduced
	18/8	SS	Wall of Death
	25/8	SS	Flashback to 1937 Rector of Stiffkey
	1/9	SS	Dr White – North Parade extension
	15/9	SS	Skegness Society declared an official charity
	15/9	SS	Skegness Society calls for Loo Closure talks
	15/9	SS	National fuel crisis hits Skegness
	22/9	SS	John Woodward bids for Millennium Dome in London
	22/9	SS	Dead frog in Walkers crisps packet horror
	29/9	SS	Butlin’s Memories by former chalet girl, Ivy
	29/9	SS	Butlin’s sold to Bourne Leisure
	6/10	SS	Stuck in the mud Skegness beach drama
	610	SS	New hope for Millennium Dome on Lincolnshire coast
	6/10	SS	Skegness Stadium gutted by blaze
	13/10	SS	Fury as Millennium Dome plans are hijacked
	13/10	SS	Future of Festival Pavilion – should it be demolished?
	27/10	SS	Future of Festival Pavilion – should it be demolished?
	27/10	SS	Fire at Sid Dennis scrap yard
	3/11	SS	Gale damage
	17/11	SS	Swans and wildlife hit by oil leak from local factory
	24/11	SS	Underground Victorian toilets closure Hildred’s square
	1512	SS	Save Our Toilets call
	29/12	SS	Great gypsy invasion Skegness foreshore closes in Christmas holidays

2001	8/6		Mystery creature spotted in Skegness boating lake
	15/6		Victorian underground toilets demolition threat
	29/6		Richmond Drive pumping station demolition threat
	6/7		Sex shop plans cause concern
	6/7		Could the pumping station be turned into a community hall, not demolished
	6/7		Flower beds crime
	3/8		Anger at sex shop license
	14/9		Runaway boy drowns in Skegness boating lake
	14/9		Editor’s son reports on 9/11 twin towers bombing in America
	10/10		Auction for 9/11 USA bombing tragedy
	17/10		McDonalds fast foods to open at Botton’s Pleasure Beach Skegness
	24/10		Skegness man in M4 hostage drama
	31/10		Medal for lifeboat hero
	7/11		Thieves steal from elderly and attack nurse at Skegness hospital
	7/11		Armed robbery at Winthorpe
	14/11		Churchill Avenue before Manorcrest development
	21/11		People watched man die in rescue bid Ingoldmells Point drowning
	21/11		Dune pub, Winthorpe, barmaid in bath of baked beans for Children in Need charity
	5/12		Anthrax scare
	19/12		Council gay comments cause outrage

2002	16/1	SS	Tragic death of Cheryl Miles
	30/1	SS	Seathorne Methodist Chapel community centre
	6/2	SS	Skegness band – old picture
	20/3	SS	Big Breakfast Show Tennyson Green
	20/3	SS	Mrs Fisher becomes Richmond School headmistress
	20/3	SS	Bateman’s Theatre of Beers
	10/4	SS	Gordon Hawkins builds kiosks outside Hildred’s Shopping Centre
	24/4	SS	Plans for Grand Parade car park
	24/4	SS	Fred Dibnah paints Fantasy Island ride
	29/5	SS	Duke rides in Fantasy Island roller coaster
	12/6	SS	Battle for Town Hall by Skegness Civic Society
	5/6	SS	Royal ballet star
	19/6	SS	Skegness Town Hall under threat
	10/7	SS	Gas explosion at laundrette
	3/7	SS	Fire at Sid Dennis scrap yard
	11/9	SS	Kirks butchers online
	18/9	SS	Xsite skatepark plans
	25/9	SS	History Jolly Glass
	25/9	SS	Meadows stone unveiling
	25/9	SS	Ram raiders at Oscars designer clothes shop
	2/10	SS	Concern over children’s web use at Skegness library
	16/10	SS	Staff at Copper Kettle restaurant
	16/10	SS	Work starts on South view Leisure Park
	16/10	SS	Couple share Standard’s birthday
	23/10	SS	Bride on motorcycle
	30/10	SS	Battle to get Kentucky Fried Chicken clock working
	30/10	SS	John Woodward Fantasy Island ride
	27/11	SS	New head for Skegness Infant School
	27/4	SS	The Lion Statue
	27/11	SS	Skegness Civic Society
	4/12	SS	Christmas lights switch on
	11/12	SS	Christmas Cracker fancy dress
	18/12	SS	Coastal Academy Link area colleges
	18/12	SS	Beach oil mystery
	25/12	SS	Embassy mural
	25/12	SS	Xmas Tree Festival
			Fashion King to Methodist Preacher Ian Banks

2003	8/1	SS	Memories of a bomb attack
	8/1	SS	Malcolm France is new rector for Skegness
	15/1	SS	Lumley Road railings replaced
	22/1	SS	Floods feature
	29/1	SS	Skegness school photo class of 1955
	12/2	SS	Gwen Louch 100th birthday
	19/2	SS	Dead man washed up on beach
	19/2	SS	Mystery objects
	19/2	SS	1953 Lincolnshire Floods plaque dedication
	26/2	SS	Crash kills three
	26/2	SS	Byford complaint
	21/2	SS	Body on beach identified
	21/2	SS	Wartime bomb memories
	5/3	SS	Sea wall tribute flowers
	5/3	SS	Storrs petrol pumps Wainfleet
	12/3	SS	Light shed on mystery object
	19/3	SS	Ram raiders
	19/3	SS	Fairy Dell sketch by Harold Fainlight
	26/3	SS	Steibel to close
	21/4	SS	Woodward in trouble for Fantasy Island advert on roadside van
	9/4	SS	High Street shops gutted by fire
	16/4	SS	Fire at Chapel
	16/4	SS	Community officers
	23/4	SS	Car hits pedestrian on Sea Lane Ingoldmells
	30/4	SS	Thugs attack man
	30/4	SS	Funeral carriage
	7/5	SS	Burning pub
	7/5	SS	WW1 rifle handed in at police amnesty
	14/5	SS	Keystone Cops-style chase after runaway horse
	21/5	SS	Man kidnapped
	21/5	SS	Tufty Gordon at Theresa and Byron’s dance school
	28/5	SS	Harvey’s wine bar opens
	28/5	SS	Ballot papers
	28/5	SS	Hanging
	28/5	SS	Death
	28/5	SS	Julie Stevens dancers
	18/6	SS	Stowaway
	18/6	SS	Floating amusement park
	9/7	SS	School headmistress
	16/7	SS	Ill-feeling at Skegness Infant school
	16/7	SS	Carnival queen
	6/8	SS	Stationmaster’s house
	20/8	SS	Arson Heath Road factory
	20/8	SS	Crusade to save historic bricks Wainfleet Methodist School
	27/8	SS	Graham Road allotment fires
	3/9	SS	School head suspended
	10/9	SS	More about stabbing
	17/9	SS	More about stabbing
	17/9	SS	Jolly Fisherman welly paddle
	17/9	SS	Barber Bill Brown retires
	24/9	SS	Crisis-hit school gets new head Skegness Infants
	1/10	SS	Two hurt in train crash
	1/10	SS	Grunnill honoured citizen
	8/10	SS	Cassie Graham charity
	15/10	SS	Big cat sighting
	22/10	SS	Bomb canisters removed
	5/11	SS	David Briggs speaks out on Black Cat
	26/11	SS	Stationmaster’s house
	26/11	SS	Calendar girls Dunes Pub Winthorpe
	3/12	SS	Historical Sun Shelter demolished
	3/12	SS	Clock Tower keys returned to Skegness
	3/12	SS	Janice Sutton dancers
	10/12	SS	Superdrug raise money for charity

2004	14/1	SS	David Bellamy Conservation Award
	21/1	SS	Infant School headmistress suspended
	21/1	SS	Starlight Spiritualist Church
	21/1	SS	Epton’s fish shop begins home delivery service
	4/2	SS	Shocking state of Tower Gardens
	4/2	SS	Road name change causes confusion
	11/2	SS	Protest over Flirtz Lap Dancing Club
	18/2	SS	New-look Kwiksave supermarket
	25/2	SS	Fantasy Island EYE – world’s biggest crane
	3/3	SS	Civic Service
	3/3	SS	Wild River water flume at Botton’s Pleasure Beach
	3/3	SS	Marriage proposal on Fantasy Island Eye
	10/3	SS	World Cup swings into town
	10/3	SS	Blaze at Lincolnshire Trust cottage
	10/3	SS	New Welcome to Burgh sign erected
	24/3	SS	Grosvenor Road murder
	24/3	SS	Daredevil granny braves Fantasy Island ride
	31/3	SS	South view Hotel opens on Burgh Road
	31/3	SS	RNLI fundraiser
	31/3	SS	Falklands War Veteran Simon Weston Visits Skegness
	7/4	SS	Insane gran Fantasy Island
	7/4	SS	Dad locked up in Morocco
	7/4	SS	Victorian Day at Skegness school
	7/4	SS	Ivy Butlin’s’ chalet girl memories
	7/4	SS	Cheeky Girls in Skegness
	14/4	SS	Bus crash at Ingoldmells (two articles)
	14/4	SS	Body found at Gibraltar Point nature reserve
	21/4	SS	Skegness author Margaret Dickinson book signing at WH Smiths
	21/4	SS	Shells found at Wainfleet bombing range
	21/4	SS	Bus crash
	28/4	SS	Call for pedestrian use only for bus crash site
	28/4	SS	Body found identified as missing man
	5/5	SS	Christened on the Skegness lifeboat
	12/5	SS	Road safety protest after bus crash
	19/5	SS	South view makes history (plus advert)
	26/5	SS	Lomax Corner death
	26/5	SS	Baby delivered in lay-by
	26/5	SS	Church Farm Museum Ruth Walker retires
	2/6	SS	March in memory of bus crash victims
	2/6	SS	60th anniversary D-day memories
	9/6	SS	Sisters meet for first time
	9/6	SS	Fenwold vets move from Algitha Road to Industrial Estate
	9/6	SS	Skegness Junior School waste wizard
	9/6	SS	Jolly Fisherman Painting Goes Missing
	16/6	SS	Police crackdown on Tower Gardens yobs
	16/6	SS	Nurse Ann Robinson retires
	16/6	SS	Skegness author Margaret Dickinson keeping healthy
	16/6	SS	Former factory an eyesore
	23/6	SS	Carnival Queen
	23/6	SS	Guest House arson attack
	23/6	SS	Mayor pops into new centre
	30/6	SS	Crash victims memorial unveiled
	7/7	SS	Butlin’s Skyline Abseiling Cleaners
	7/7	SS	Film makers
	7/7	SS	WW2 Relic Discovery Skegness Beach
	Jul	SS	Gift of an elephant to Skegness turned down by Council
	28/7	SS	Church Farm Museum play
	4/8	SS	Skegness Illuminations switch-on
	4/8	SS	Lesson in road safety
	18/8	SS	Flirtz Lap Dancing Club Opens
	18/8	SS	Welly Paddle
	18/8	SS	Memorial in Ashley’s memory
	25/8	SS	Tony Tye at East Leigh guest house (picture)
	25/8	SS	Welly Paddle
	25/8	SS	Vital lifesaving donation
	3/9	SS	Ingoldmells death crash petition
	15/10	SS	Missing mum – Anne Simpson
	15/10	SS	Seafront sun shelter arson attack
	20/10	SS	Skegness Solicitor sex scandal
	20/10	SS	Fairy Dell closure protest
	20/10	SS	Missing mum – Anne Simpson
	3/11	SS	Prize machines may disappear
	3/11	SS	RNLI fundraiser
	3/11	SS	Corrie Star was a Skegness Playgoer
	3/11	SS	Nappies for landau horses?
	10/11	SS	Newsagents strike
	10/11	SS	Cllr Harold Fainlight dies
	10/11	SS	Rides
	17/11	SS	Fairy Dell
	24/11	SS	Grosvenor Road murder
	24/11	SS	New rector for Skegness Rev Malcolm France
	24/11	SS	Bathing costumes of the Past – Butlin’s
	1/12	SS	Scouts lifeboat
	1/12	SS	Celebrity chef
	1/12	SS	Fainlight Room Skegness Day Centre Tribute to the late Cllr Harold Fainlight
	8/12	SS	Grosvenor Road murdered jailed
	8/12	SS	Writer prize
	15/12	SS	Fairy Dell
	22/12	SS	Hands off our land
	22/12	SS	Holiday guides launched
	22/12	SS	Web ads
	29/12	SS	Surprise for lifeboat man

2005	25/1	SS	Ingoldmells death crash driver in court
	2/2	SS	Cows shot after straying onto train line
	16/2	SS	Hildred’s shopping centre wins award
	2/3	SS	Gas alert at Hildred’s shopping centre
	16/3	SS	Sharks off Skegness beach fears
	1/6	SS	Byford appeals for photographer, Alec Manning information
	3/8	SS	Hallway to Dance tribute to Disney show at Embassy Theatre
	24/8	SS	Protest re Lucy Bellamy killed at Winthorpe
	31/8	SS	Protest re Lucy Bellamy killed at Winthorpe
	7/9	SS	Fun at Burgh Hall – Peter Ireland dressed up as Jolly Fisherman
	7/9	SS	Kite surfing
	13/9	SS	Sea Lane protest
	14/9	SS	Lincolnshire light railway
		SS	Royal visit to East Kirkby Aviation Centre – Duke of Gloucester
	23/10	SM	Battle of Trafalgar Bicentenary
	29/10	SS	WW2 re-enactment Church Farm Museum
	29/10	SS	World record jet-skiers arrive back at Winthorpe Skegness
	26/10	SS	New flag for Lincolnshire
	Oct	SM	Victorian Blacksmith Church Farm Museum
	Oct	SM	WORLD WAR 2 LANCASTER BOMBER TAXI RUN LINCOLNSHIRE AVIATION HERITAGE MUSEUM
	Oct	SM	WW2 AIRCRAFT RECOVERED WRECKAGE
	Oct	SM	STEAM TRAIN LUDBOROUGH RAILWAY HERITAGE MUSEUM ENGLAND
	Oct	SM	THE LATE RAYMOND BAXTER OBE OF TOMORROW’S WORLD
	Oct	SM	VICTORIAN STEAM THRESHER
	Oct	SM	BELL RINGING BELFRY BURGH SKEGNESS
	11/11	SM	Dunkirk Veteran at Remembrance Day in Skegness
	16/11	SS	Parents find drugs in Wainfleet child’s bag after drug-sniffer god demo at Butlin’s
	30/11	SS	Armed robbery Bookers cash and carry
	Nov	SM	Amateur Dramatic Society Skegness Playgoers and Cads
	Nov	SM	CHRISTMAS LIGHT SWITCH ON 2005
	Nov	SM	UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE
	Dec	SM	Victorian Christmas Market 2005 Skegness
	Dec	SM	WW2 LEE ENFIELD RIFLE RE-ENACTMENT
	Dec	SM	DOGGIE CHRISTMAS PARTY AND FANCY DRESS
	7/12	SS	Skegness Art Club paint murals at train station
	14/12	SS	Janet Mosley singing audition on the phone
	14/12	SS	Artificial flowers banned on graves in St Clements
	21/12	SS	Cost for using Jolly Fisherman logo
	21/12	SS	Mysterious circles drawn around dog fouling
	21/12	SS	Cemetery flower ban put on hold
	28/12	SS	Local ghost stories
	31/12	SM	New Year’s Eve 2005
			Skegness lady 103 years old (Louch)
			‘CAKE WALK’ VICTORIAN FAIRGROUND RIDE

2006	25/1	ST	Question Time at the Embassy
	1/2	ST	Big Cat caught on camera
	1/2	ST	Seacroft Hotel renovation
	Feb	ST	Hangman’s letter auctioned – Marwood Horncastle
	1/3	ST	Axenstrasse roof removed for Fairy Dell development
	Apr	SM	Easter Bonnet Parade Longhurst Lodge
	10/5	ST/SM	Duke of Kent visits Skegness Lifeboat Station (needs transcribing)
	17/5	ST	Dog kills deer on Chapel St Leonards beach
	14/6	ST	New-look Fairy Dell
	21/6	ST	Terrorist ambulances ready for action
	21/6	ST	First civil partnership in Skegness (Gay wedding)
	21/6	ST	Cheeky Girls lifeboat presentation at Richmond Holiday Centre
	5/7	ST	Deputy Mayor deflects to Tory – Cllr Ken Milner
	5/7	ST	Royal Renaissance official opening (formerly Seacroft Hotel)
	2/8	ST	Rebirth of a Pier dream
	23/8	ST	Pardon for executed WW1 soldier – Kirman
	6/9	ST	Whale beached at Gibraltar Point
	20/9	ST	Grammar school head injured in motorcycle accident – Rigby
	20/9	ST	Bruno best donkey (Epton)
	27/9	ST	Arctic explorer, Franklin of Spilsby, ship clock auctioned
	25/10	ST	Skegness solicitor high court advocate – David Eager of Algitha Road
	22/11	ST	Children in Need pictures Boots Chemist and HSBC Bank
	29/11	ST	Royal Renaissance Hotel ‘discovery’ of Victorian hydrotherapy equipment in cellars
	6/12	ST	Theresa &Byron Broome dancing awards County Hotel (Mayor Cllr Milner)
	6/12	ST	Richard Felix Most Haunted book-signing WH Smiths
	6/12	ST	Ladbrokes (Butlin’s) Skegness lifeboat cheque presentation
	13/12	ST	Skegness woman Anita Anderson murder launch
	20/12	ST	Spilsby chimney collapses

2008	9/1		Jolly marks his 100th birthday
	23/1		Jump on board
	5/3		Jolly unveils his new look
	5/3		Oldest Jolly Fisherman?
	6/2		Collectible Royal Doulton figurines
	13/2		School to mark 100th anniversary
	13/2		Jolly figures and poem
	20/2		Jolly happy to receive statues
	19/3		School 100th birthday Edwardian and Victorian Day
	12/3		Granddad cast Jolly Fisherman
	26/3		Deadlock of Jolly Viz poster
	26/3		John reflects on his old mirror
	2/4		Family face to face with Jolly history
	2/4		Jolly on a garage door
	169/4		Jolly goes international