BRIGG COULD DO WITH... WE PUTT FORWARD AN IDEA OR TWO

Brigg has much to offer in terms of leisure facilities - football, hockey, tennis, bowls, cricket,  netball and now rugby (there's a pitch at Sir John Nelthorpe School).
But, sadly,  there's nothing at all for golfers.
Fans of this sport can visit nearby courses in Broughton, Elsham (pictured above) and Messingham.
But isn't it time for something within the town boundary?
A full-sized course in Brigg is clearly not an option, given the amount of land required.
But what about a pitch and putt facility?
One suggestion has come from a local resident who thinks the Millennium Green, off Elwes Street, could be adapted fairly easily to offer half-dozen holes. Take along your own equipment, he says.
Players' feet could also keep the grass down and reduce the number of cuts required by the council.
Although a few yards over the border in Scawby, the old sugar factory sports ground, off Scawby Road, is an ideal size for a much larger pitch & putt course.
At Brigg Recreation Ground during the 1960s and 1970s there was a putting green.
The council provided you with a club and a ball and off you went.
It only cost a few pence and was very popular with children, many of whom got their first introduction to golf.
You were only supposed to go round the course once, but no-one stuck too closely to that rule.
There isn't room for a pitch and putt course on the newly-refurbished Rec, but if North Lincolnshire Council acquired a bit of farmland adjoining the ground - perhaps the other side of the tall poplar trees - that would do nicely.
Of course... there's nothing to stop a businessman or woman taking up this idea; the local authority does not have a monopoly on providing leisure facilities.