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Carnival Week in Skegness kicked off on Sunday 10th August with the Carnival Parade Procession.
This year’s theme is ‘Music’ and floats assembled in the Wainfleet Road Playing Fields ready for a 2.30pm set off. The Parade progressed from the playing field eventually ending up at the North Parade (X-site) pullover.
Hundreds of people lined the streets [...]

It’s party time is Skegness!
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Skegness held a Grand Party today to celebrate the re-opening of Grand Parade after the Skegness Fire.
And what a grand party it was!
Crowds gathered around the Clock Tower and on Grand Parade.
The procession made its way along Tower Esplanade, round the Clock Tower and into Grand Parade.
Cheers, applause and whoops of [...]

Flog It! comes to Skegness
The popular BBC2 antiques programme, Flog It, presented by Paul Martin, is coming to Skegness at The Embassy Theatre on Wednesday 17th September.
Flog It! – the major BBC2 antiques series – regularly gets an audience of 2 million viewers each weekday – around 25% of the television audience.
The Embassy Theatre will [...]

Sex Shop Break-in
Police are looking for a transvestite disguised in a sexy nurse outfit, black and red PVC gloves and a pink wig after a break-in at the Pulse & Cocktail sex shop, Lumley Road, Skegness recently.
A man smashed the glass front door of the shop with a concrete block at around 2am on Friday, [...]

Armed robber targets bookmakers Do YOU know this GUNMAN?
An armed robber has taken cash from a Lincolnshire betting shop after threatening staff with a handgun.
The Ladbrokes bookmakers on the Butlins site near Skegness was targeted by the male intruder late last night (Monday).
Police searched the area but did not locate the suspect and have appealed [...]

Skegness Weather Station
The weather station in Skegness is situated on North Parade, as shown in the picture above with the Suncastle in the background.

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The aperatus is very old and used to be situated in Compass Gardens as in the photo below. The station was moved to its present site around ten years ago when [...]

Royalty was crowned when the new Skegness carnival queen, princess and rosebud were chosen this evening and young hopefuls aimed to catch the judges’ eyes in the competition held at the Suncastle, North Parade, Skegness.
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We bring you the first pictures of the successful contestants:
Right to left - Rosebud, Alisha Porter age 9; Queen, Chelsea Bryan, [...]

Creative Writing
Skegness Writer’s First Novel
Bill goes to X-tremes for release of horror novel
A SPINE-CHILLING thriller set in the Lincolnshire Fens has been penned by a Skegness author. Through a Glass, Darkly is the first novel published by Bill Hussey (left), the son of a travelling showman who forged his roots in Skegness.
The novel, described as [...]

Jolly was foaming at the mouth today as sneaky pranksters, not for the first time in history, added washing-up liquid to the Jolly Fisherman fountain in Compass Gardens, Skegness.
The water feature, brimming over with foam, proved to be the latest tourist attraction in Skegness as youngsters were having foam fights, much to the amusement of [...]