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Featured Article - Bring Back Scunthorpe Clock Tower

Our current special feature supports a campaign by Russ Radford to bring back the clock tower which used to be situated in the Southgate area of the town centre.

Russ is very keen to hear from any one who has any old photographs of the tower, memories of it or was involved in its design, construction or removal.

Following the Evening Telegraph picking up on this story, there was a 4 page story published in issue 99 of Nostalgia magazine, if any one has any photographs, plans or any other information please get in touch with Russ via his facebook group.

Image shown designed by Russ Radford using 3D Studio Max.©Russell Radford 2010.

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What is Visit Scunthorpe all about?

I set up Visit Scunthorpe quite some time ago as a small blogging site for me to express my rants on and to share a few jokes with friends.

With a some what satirical outlook on life, the concept (if not the site) has grown in to a more open communal blog about scunthorpe.

Im a regular reader of and contributor to www.ThisIsScunthorpe.co.uk, our own local news site run by the local paper, but have become heartily disillusioned over recent months by many contributors doing nothing other than having a go at the editorial staff and readers / reviews for grammatical or contextual errors.

The idea behind Visit Scunthorpe is to provide every one within the community regardless of agenda, with a forum on which they can post about local issues, news and events. The theory being, if you don't like how the news is reported, written, censored or presented then do it your self.

With regards to what people should or should not post, its important that people do respect the privacy of others, and also refrain from making posts which could incite hatred or violence, as far as I am aware there are laws against these acts, and I would assist authorities in prosecuting any one who uses this site as a tool of violence or intimidation.

I am constantly adding extra features to the site, the most recent being the ability for members to add their own events, while a little concerned about attracting spam with this, I've decided to give all members free access to this feature, if it starts to be abused then it will be restricted to an "on application" approach.

I'm hoping that the site will mainly be self moderating, hence the ratings which can be made against each post, so if you've got news, views, reviews or just want a rant, welcome to Visit Scunthorpe, sign up, and get posting.

Want to get more involved? drop me a quick heads up in the website feedback section and I'll get in touch with you at the email address you signed up with.

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We're stillin beta mode at the moment, this means that we are still testing some features, however, if you can think of improvements or would like to give feedback, please get in touch via the feedback thread.

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We will remove and ban any one using this site for either commercial spam / posting adverts, incitement to violence, intimidation, victimisation, vigilantism or the promotion of political or religious parties. In other words, play nicely, there's nothing wrong with debate, but we will remove articles which victimise groups or cause offence to others. At the end of the day however, each post does have a rating, we encourage people to use this to make their feelings know.

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