Resort to honour ex-boxer Ingle

A FORMER world boxing champion and a seaside entrepreneur and former Hull City FC chairman are to be honoured by Scarborough Council by being made Freemen of the Borough.

The ancient title has previously been bestowed on playwright Sir Alan Ayckbourn, the late DJ and entertainer, Sir Jimmy Savile, and the late violionist Max Jaffa.

Now, Paul Ingle, who was International Boxing Federation featherweight champion but who suffered a serious head injury in a bout 11 years ago, is to be made a freeman of his home town, along with Don Robinson, whose extensive business career in the resort saw him save the former Royal Opera House, and develop one of the resort’s most successful holiday attractions in the 1970s, the Zoo and Marineland.

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Also due to become Freemen at a special council meeting in April, are the managing directors of the Scarborough based family store company, W Boyes and Co. Andrew Boyes and Tim Boyes built up the business which has stores throughout Yorkshire and the North East.