LET'S OFFER SOME INCENTIVE

Brigg's Coun Carl Sherwood (pictured below) suggests there's a waiting list of 15 businesses queueing to get spots on the monthly Brigg Farmers' Market.
Writing in Brigg and Wolds Conservatives' latest newsletter, he reckons North Lincolnshire Council should look at extending from the Market Place into the short, pedestrianised stretch of Bigby Street, alongside the Buttercross - if local people support his thinking.
I reckon Carl's onto a winner with his idea. But, as an alternative, why not look at Bridge Street? If not the road itself, why not approach the Nelthorpe Arms (Scanlon's) about using part of the hostelry's sizeable car park? For a suitably negotiated fee, of course. You couldn't expect the pub to do it for nothing.
Brigg's award-winning farmers' market is a great success story, and certainly gets the town buzzing once a month. Credit is due to North Lincolnshire Council, which organises the event, and the traders. If their wares were not of such high quality, people wouldn't keep flocking back, month after month.
However, it must be said the Saturday market on the other three weeks of the month is a shadow of its former self, and could really do with some council input.
There's no easy fix in prospect - but with a history stretching way back to the early 13th century, the market is a Brigg tradition everyone wants to see continue.
How about offering an incentive to those 15 businesses awaiting stalls on the farmers' market? Those which take a stall on the ordinary Saturday market could be pushed up to the top of the queue to take spaces on the farmers' event when they become available.