The East Midlands often gets a bit of a hard time. Regularly overshadowed by its more populated, better-connected sibling to the west, the region can sometimes feel like the motorway equivalent of a flyover state — somewhere to be driven through on the M1 rather than to be stopped in and enjoyed. The presence of several of its towns on various ‘most boring places to live’ rankings over the years hasn’t helped. Grantham, the home of Margaret Thatcher, is one that regularly attracts the mirth of