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Skint will feature Grimsby in new Channel 4 series
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...
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Skint's Dean Bell leaves Scunthorpe – has benefits cut...
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...
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Skint: What's been done to improve Westcliff estate
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...
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Skint: What residents think of Westcliff improvements
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...
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Skint: Concern at 'slow down' in Westcliff estate improvements
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...
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Thief tells court she will turn her life around
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...
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Skint moves from Scunthorpe to Grimsby & is defended by...
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...
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First view of new series of Skint as show moves from Scunthorpe...
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...
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Skint leaves Grimsby and heads for Brigg
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...
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Scunthorpe man features in new series of Skint on Channel 4
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...
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Skint? Not any more as star of Scunthorpe show gets job
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...
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Skint on Channel 4 tonight with Richie, Heidi & Jeff in...
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...
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Where should Skint be filmed next?
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...
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£9m plan is biggest single investment in history of Skint...
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...
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Ex-drug addict who appeared in Scunthorpe and Grimsby series of...
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...
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Skint: New series to hit screens next week - in another steel...
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...
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Skint: New series on Channel 4 tonight in Merthyr Tydfil features...
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,...
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Election 2015: Westcliff Precinct & estate facilities among...
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...
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Producers behind Skint in trouble over new Australian "pover...
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...
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Skint's Dean Bell: Spiritualism helped me contact my late...
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...
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