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And go east from Grantham and you'll find, well, nothing happening: Norfolk County Council was one of nine areas where elections were postponed while the government embarks on local government reorganisation, merging two-tier district and county councils into single unitary authorities.

Runcorn and Helsby in Cheshire might be a good two-and-a-half hour drive from Grantham, but the parliamentary by-election will be one of the most hotly-contested, and digested, set of results on 1 May.

The grocer's daughter grew up above the family shop in Grantham; a statue stands, and is often vandalised, in the St Peter's Hill Green area of the town.

Another key ingredient of the early years of EastEnders also happened at the last minute: the pairing of the actors behind Angie and her bad-boy husband Den Watts, played by Leslie Grantham.

However, Richard Sulley, senior research fellow at the Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures, said the technologies for this do not yet exist, "so there will be a period where aviation fuel is being burned".