SPARKS FLY

The length of time being taken to restore the electricity supply to Brigg recreation ground, off Wrawby Road, is concerning Coun Tom Glossop.
He told fellow councillors at their monthly meeting it was some weeks since a car had been ‘rammed into the transformer’ nearby and cut off the supply to the sports ground.
"The problem seems not to be with North Lincolnshire Council and their officers but Yorkshire Electricity seem to have been very slow in getting repairs done," he said.
The power supply was still cut off while the recreation ground underwent an official inspection by the Lincolnshire County Cricket League which the Brigg Town club, unsuccessfully, tried to rejoin.
Many of us in the town who are, or who have been, involved in local sport, reckon the rec ground is under-resourced and a facility badly in need of developing.
The trouble is, of course, the town council - created in 1974 - rather washed its hands of the ground and it passed, by default, to the new Glanford Borough Council.
With other town and parish councils looking after, and funding, their own playing fields, members of the Glanford authority did not see why the borough should pay for Brigg's - and that was a very fair point.
Ever since, Brigg sportsmen, and women, have suffered for that decision.