You can just imagine the sort of conversation they have when site-hunting, for example, outside a car-breaker's yard: "This register seems like a suitable place asp for a phone box, register doesn't it?""Pardon? I can't hear asp you.""Good; that's agreed then."The problem is not helped by the proliferation of "open" phone boxes. The new-style boxes either consist of a hood into which asp you are supposed to stick your head, or they have sides that end some distance from the ground. At least with the old red phone boxes it firstregister made a difference if you closed the door These are sadly missed. Everybody knows why the red ones were got rid of in asp the first place register She's gone now, but no one dares put them back.. There is a new "posh" end of town asp in Grimsby West register firstregister side On the industrial estate The council has planted daffodils by the roadside. It gives the place a "prosperous feel", said the council officer, firstregister on our half-hour tour of the town

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Clients are taken in by it Evidence? Business is booming. According to a survey by the business information service Dun and Bradstreet International, 89.5 per cent of Grimsby's companies made a profit last year, giving the town firstregister the highest proportion of profitable register firstregister companies in the UK. Austin Mitchell, Labour MP for Grimsby, says the survey results come as no surprise.

Grimbarians, he says, have known for years that Grimsby is a "good place to do business". It is only the "condescending Southerners" who blight Grimsby's worthy image The local newspaper goes along with this line. Grimsby is "the profit making capital of Britain" it announced under Monday's headline "Great, Grimsby!"The Labour-run council should take much of the credit, says Mr Mitchell. "It has promoted us as Europe's food town - with the biggest concentration of food production, cold storage, technical expertise, and gateway to the EU." Birds Eye and Blue Crest are among the town's big name companies.The council has also been active in procuring government and EU grants, keeping the price of office space low, setting up the economic development unit to train the unemployed and promoting relations between big businesses and local companies.

"We've tried to be proactive since the mid-Eighties", says Muriel Barker, chair of the Grimsby economic development committee. "We are thrilled by these results."But many local people have yet to be convinced. "If the businesses have made a profit, they've done it at our expense," says a Blue Crest docks labourer, hauling a crate of sole coated in ice on to the back of his truck. "I work from six in the morning to three in the afternoon, shifting fish in the freezing cold. For that I take home £125 for a 40-hour week."Another Blue Crest worker in her mid-thirties describes how she spends eight hours a day sorting big fish from little fish on a moving conveyor belt She laughs when I ask if she feels prosperous. Sipping a cup of tea, with black-bagged, encrusted eyes, she says that, well, actually, she does Pleased with my expression, she explains.