Skint will feature Grimsby in new Channel 4 series

April 21, 2014, 10:53 pm

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Grimsby is to feature in the next TV series of Skint - the previous one having been filmed in Scunthorpe, chiefly on the Westcliff estate.Channel 4 has confirmed footage shot in North East Lincolnshire will be used in the controversial documentary.Channel 4 and the series' production company Keo say they are simply telling the stories of people "still feeling the effects of de-industrialisation".Grimsby MP Austin Mitchell said he was disappointed that rumours the producers had...

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May 14, 2014, 11:01 pm

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DEAN Bell, one of the main Scunthorpe people featured in Skint, has left the town. This week marks the first anniversary of the programme being broadcast. Large sections of the show were filmed in and around Dean's house on the Westcliff estate. The cameras even followed the Bell family on holiday to the Lincolnshire coast. However, Dean, his wife Claire and five of their seven children have now moved from their five-bedroomed rented house in Canterbury Close - swapping life on the estate for...

Skint: What's been done to improve Westcliff estate

May 20, 2014, 12:34 am

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One year ago Skint hit the nation's TV screens. The show caused widespread outrage across Scunthorpe for the way it portrayed life on the town's Westcliff estate. At the time there was a drive to improve life for the area's residents. On the first anniversary of the show, SIMON LEONARD looks at what improvements have been made for local people – and what more needs doing IF ONE positive was to come out of Skint, it was the promise that time and money would be spent...

Skint: What residents think of Westcliff improvements

May 20, 2014, 10:48 pm

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ONE year on, Westcliff estate residents in Scunthorpe have mixed views about the Skint TV progamme. Many are still upset at the way the area was portrayed and some have noticed improvements, but one message is clear – it is a home to good people with a great community spirit.ANDY CONWAY 28, said: "It is a very tight-knit community. People know everyone and people are quite close."I don't think it was as bad as Skint made out. They just pick the worst, they don't want the people...

Skint: Concern at 'slow down' in Westcliff estate improvements

May 21, 2014, 10:56 pm

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Despite initial work to improve the Westcliff housing estate in Scunthorpe after the Skint TV series was screened a year ago, the momentum has now slowed, a senior figure in the community suggests. One of the most respected voices on the Westcliff estate, Pete Woodcock has dedicated hundreds of hours of his time to supporting local people. He said: "The momentum has slowed down. Straight after Skint, for three to four months, we had great momentum. Things were being done and ideas were...

Thief tells court she will turn her life around

July 3, 2014, 10:34 pm

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A THIEF escaped an immediate custodial sentence after saying she wanted to turn her life around for the better.Tracey Stamp, 33, pleaded guilty to theft from the person on August 3 last year.She also admitted three offences of shop theft and asked for a further 18 shop theft offences to be taken into consideration.Prosecuting at Grimsby Crown Court, Jeremy Evans said the theft from the person offence involved Stamp, stealing money from a 78-year-old man.He said the man was known to Stamp and...

Skint moves from Scunthorpe to Grimsby & is defended by...

October 27, 2014, 6:35 am

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A senior executive of Channel 4 TV has defended the documentary Skint which outraged the people of Scunthorpe when it was screened last year. Ralph Lee, the head of factual TV at the station, said the broadcaster had "no malign intent" and was trying to tell stories about "some of the distressed parts or our society." Mr Lee, who is also the Channel 4 deputy chief executive, made his statement as a second series of Skint, this time set in Grimsby, is to be screened later this month> In an...

First view of new series of Skint as show moves from Scunthorpe...

November 18, 2014, 1:50 am

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BRITAIN has had its first view of the new series of Skint which moves from Scunthorpe to Grimsby in the new Channel 4 series. A trailer promoting the controversial show, which starts next Monday, has been aired. Opening with a panic-stricken young man realising he hasn't signed on, it quickly cuts to an ageing trawler on the slips at Grimsby Fish Docks, as the 15-second insight bemoans the loss of the fishing industry, stating how it took a lot of jobs on the East Marsh with it. One man,...

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Skint leaves Grimsby and heads for Brigg

November 24, 2014, 11:20 pm

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The new series of the controversial TV programme Skint unexpectedly featured Brigg in the opening episode last night. The first series was set in Scunthorpe and the second is looking at life on the dole in Grimsby. However, the action in last night's hour-long opener suddenly switched to Brigg, where two of the main people featured took a day trip to the market town. They were shown walking beside the Old River Ancholme, with the now-closed former Lidl store in the background. He felt Brigg was...

Scunthorpe man features in new series of Skint on Channel 4

November 26, 2014, 2:47 am

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THE new series of Skint on Channel 4 this week featured a man who grew up in Scunthorpe.As the second series of the programme moved from Scunthorpe to Grimsby, the links to North Lincolnshire continued with Ryan Booth, who was featured alongside his girlfriend Charlene Langton.Ryan, who was wearing a tag as he awaited sentence for robbery, grew up in the Henderson Avenue and Ashby areas of Scunthorpe, before moving to live with his father in Grimsby a few years ago.During the programme, he took...

Skint? Not any more as star of Scunthorpe show gets job

November 26, 2014, 11:00 pm

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SKINT'S Dean Bell has started work after three years on the dole. Dean, who was the main character in the controversial Channel 4 TV series last year, launched his own one-man and a van business this month. The 39-year-old father-of-seven said: "Some people might think three years is a long time, but it's not been without lack of trying to find a job." The news comes in the week that the second series of Skint started – this time set in Grimsby. Dean said: "I've called the business JJB...

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December 1, 2014, 11:24 am

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SKINT continues on Channel 4 tonight (Monday, December 1). The documentary series, filmed over a year in the East Marsh area of Grimsby, aims to explore the effects of long-term unemployment. Among the people featured tonight are Richie, who used to work on the docks but is now more likely to be found pawning DVDs. Also shown is Heidi, who is at rock bottom and is waiting to find out if she will be sent to prison. And fisherman Jeff, who was introduced to viewers in last week's first episode, is...

​Where should Skint be filmed next?

December 9, 2014, 6:38 am

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TV producers are looking for a location for the next series of Skint.After first focusing on the Westcliff estate in Scunthorpe last year, the Channel 4 show has now moved to Grimsby, where the current series is focusing on drug addicts, boozing ex-fishermen and criminals.After moving just 30 miles down the road for the second series, which concludes next Monday, the team is looking further afield for its next instalment, suggesting Bootle, Liverpool or Morecambe.However, comments on the Skint...

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December 9, 2014, 11:00 pm

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RESIDENTS in Westcliff have been shown a full set of plans for the £9 million regeneration of the area.The Westcliff Regeneration Project aims to improve the lives and prospects of residents on the estate, which was the subject of the first series of controversial Channel 4 documentary Skint.A "community conversation" was held at the precinct for residents to see the plans, which involve five phases of development and a total of 41 houses.The first phase, due to start next year,...

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January 13, 2015, 3:20 am

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One of the stars of Skint has been offered a job after he told his story on the controversial Channel 4 documentary.Ex-drug addict John Burr featured in the last programme of the latest series, set in Grimsby, having also appeared in the first series which was based in Scunthorpe. He was filmed showing off his skills as an in-line skater.Now, Louth recycling company Luxus Ltd, which is based on the Fairfield industrial estate, Louth, has offered the 33-year-old a job.John temporarily worked on...

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April 9, 2015, 10:58 pm

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SKINT - the Channel 4 programme which has focused on life in Scunthorpe and Grimsby - is returning to the nation's screens. But this time the provocative documentary that pulls no punches about poverty in Britain has moved to Wales. It will focus on the inhabitants of Merthyr Tydfil, the former industrial powerhouse in the Welsh valleys, with iron and steel connections going back many decades. The programme makers say: "On the face of it Merthyr is idyllic - the gateway to the Brecon...

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April 12, 2015, 10:50 pm

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A new series of Skint begins tonight on Channel 4, having earlier shown the lives of people on housing estates in Scunthorpe and Wales. The action this time takes place in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, which, like Scunthorpe, expanded through its local iron industry. But Merthyr these days suffers from high unemployment, particularly among its young people. In tonight's first episode of three, Ash, 23, has his first job interview in four years, while mum-of-seven Hayley redecorates... with the help of...

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May 2, 2015, 10:46 pm

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TRADITIONALLY a Labour safe seat, the Brumby ward right in the heart of Scunthorpe will be a two-horse race between Labour and UKIP this year – with the Conservatives failing to field any candidates.In a week's time, voters will be asked to elect three councillors in this ward, which has consistently returned Labour councillors since the authority formed in 1995.Pauline Carlile is the longest serving candidate, representing the ward since 1999, while current deputy leader of the Labour...

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May 6, 2015, 4:13 am

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THE producers behind Channel 4's Skint – the TV programme which featured Scunthorpe - are in hot water again after a new documentary was accused of being "poverty porn". Australian mayor Stephen Bali has accused public broadcaster SBS of promoting "poverty porn" in the new documentary by the Australian branch of Keo about working class Sydney residents, as a picket line of refuse trucks staged a protest about the programme. SBS is about to air "Struggle Street", a...

Skint's Dean Bell: Spiritualism helped me contact my late...

May 13, 2015, 11:45 pm

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SKINT'S Dean Bell says a new found belief in spiritualism has helped him cut down on his drinking and become a better person.The father-of-seven was speaking as he revealed he and his wife Clare have helped set up a charity to raise money for terminally-ill people.Dean, 40, who was the main character in the 2013 series of the controversial Channel 4 TV show filmed in Scunthorpe, is one of six trustees of the charity called The Red Wing Spiritualist and Healing Group.The group will be officially...