St Barnabas Lincolnshire Hospice is hosting a sponsored dog walk in Spalding to help boost the funds they need to care for people living with a life limiting illness throughout the county.

‘Paws 4 a Cause’ will take place on Sunday, June 19 from 1pm and will begin at Springfields Event Centre in Spalding.

Dog walkers can choose to walk two or four miles along the Coronation Channel.

Community events fundraiser Vikki Allen said: “This is a fabulously fun event for dog lovers in Spalding and is a great opportunity for like-minded people to come together for an afternoon stroll.

“The walk is suitable for all fitness levels as owners and their dogs can choose to walk two or four miles.

“This is the first time we have brought this event to Spalding and we hope that our community will get behind our efforts to raise vital funds to continue the care and support to patients and their families across Spalding.”

Registration is just £5 per dog.

Register online at www.stbarnabashospice.co.uk/pawspa16 or contact Vikki Allen on 07435 753098 or email vikki.allen@stbarnabashospice.co.uk

A boy of seven was fatally injured by a driver talking on her mobile phone while he crossed the road in front of her car.

The accident happened around 4pm just yards from Seth Dixon’s home in Station Road, Tydd Gote, on December 5, 2014 after he posted a letter.

Seth died from a head injury in Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, on December 19.

Senior Coroner for south Lincolnshire Paul Cooper heard evidence that Mondeo driver Amy Asker, from Clenchwarton, made and received a total of seven phone calls in the short distance from her mum’s home in Leverington to the accident scene – and was on the phone at the time her car hit Seth.

Ms Asker, who was prosecuted for careless driving after the tragedy, said: “I didn’t see him until he actually hit the vehicle. He was already on the vehicle. I was screaming. I couldn’t do anything.”

The mobile phone was in the driver’s side door pocket and Ms Asker was talking on speakerphone, although she admitted picking it up to dial.

Police checks also revealed some calls made around the time the crash happened had been deleted, but Ms Asker said other people had handled the phone and she didn’t know how the calls came to be deleted.

Mr Cooper said police accident investigators decided Ms Asker may have seen Seth Dixon sooner had she not been talking on the phone – and may also have been able to take some action to lessen the consequences.

In his narrative conclusion, Mr Cooper said: “I am satisfied on the balance of probabilities that Ms Asker’s use of the mobile phone contributed to the cause of this child’s unfortunate death.”

Seth’s family attended the inquest today (Wednesday) to listen to the evidence unfold. His mum, Alice Husband, said Seth was experienced in crossing Station Road and had crossed it nearly every day because his gran lived on the opposite side.

Speaking about the day of the crash, she said: “He was quite excited about going to the Christmas fair.

“More or less the last thing I said to him was ‘make sure you watch as you cross the road’.”

Taxi driver Lisa Bunn, from Sutton Bridge, saw “a little lad standing on the side of the road” as she drove along Station Road and slowed down to about 23mph because she thought may be about to run across.

Mrs Bunn said Seth did run across, but not directly in front of her car, and she saw him use two hands to post the letter in the letterbox.

She began to cry as she recalled: “For some reason, I don’t know why, I looked in my rear view mirror – I saw his legs go flying through the air and onto the bonnet of the car.”

Mrs Bunn ran over to help and said Seth wasn’t moving.

She described Ms Asker as “hysterical” and was shouting things like she didn’t see him and he just appeared from nowhere.

Mrs Bunn was on the phone to the ambulance service while a man was checking Seth.

“The man checked his pulse and he didn’t have one so the man started doing CPR,” she said.

Tydd Gote postmistress Jane Wright was unaware of the accident until she learned the news from her son, the man who gave Seth CPR.

Mrs Wright said she had seen Seth cross the road previously and did not consider that he did so competently.

“Every time he came in, whether it was by himself or with his brothers, it was almost like a mantra: ‘watch the roads, be careful’,” she said.

• Police said Ms Asker pleaded guilty in court to careless driving and was fined £195 with five penalty points.

Previously ...

Vicar leads tributes 
to ‘gentle boy’ Seth

Prayers for young boy after Tydd Gote road accident

Boy critically injured in Tydd Gote crash dies

Teresa and Alf Webb have been visiting India for years, and at one time led cycling tours there.

These days they are more likely to be visiting a cycle manufacturing factory to order spares and bikes to sell here – and to show fellow enthusiasts around the factories.

The bikes being made would once have been familiar to cyclists in this country, and in fact they are built on old Raleigh machinery.

Alf says: “People want to see the machinery and all the old stuff. They are nothing like our factories. They are interesting.”

Teresa claims there is a growing demand for “sit up and beg” bikes, driven by nostalgia and by women who want to be able to wear ordinary clothes while cycling.

She says: “The way cycling has gone now you get all these middle-aged men in Lycra buying expensive light-weight bikes and looking a prat because they don’t know how to ride it and the ladies won’t go out with them. Owning a ‘Miss Marple’ bike, they can keep a dress on.”

Alf and Teresa also import bicycle rickshaws that end up being used as taxis or are put to use as a gimmicky form of advertising.

Students think it’s a joke when they are told Teresa Webb will be teaching wheel building.

But as her husband Alf says: “There is no better instructor in wheel building than Teresa.”

Between them, Alf and Teresa have become recognised as leading instructors in cycle maintenance and repair, something they do at The Old Schoolhouse at Wragg Marsh near Spalding.

In fact their reputation is so good that when City & Guilds wanted its curriculum updating, it was Alf and Teresa who were asked to do the job.

The couple moved into The Old Schoolhouse in 1999 and, although the old school and chapel was closed for 30 years leading up to their arrival, it has been a school ever since.

Hundreds of students from all over the world go to The Bike Inn to learn how to look after a bicycle, some taking short courses on hydraulic brakes and suspension, while others complete the full ten-day City & Guild qualification or the Bike Inn’s own Certificate of Attainment.

The couple began teaching bike mechanics in June 1991, so this is their 25th year of showing cycling enthusiasts the ins and outs of looking after their machines.

It started in Kent where Alf, who describes himself as a “mediocre” cyclist, had a shop. Teresa, a club cyclist, went in for a second hand wheel, and Alf claims: “She never did pay me.”

Invited to teach bike mechanics at Peterborough College, the pair moved to Wragg Marsh, and opened the bike shop at the end of Pinchbeck Road.

It was a good job they did, because the college posts didn’t materialise so the shop kept them afloat until they were able to establish courses in the two school rooms at Wragg Marsh.

There, they teach people everything they need to know to be able to maintain the latest, lightweight, high-tech cycle.

However, the pair – both in their 70s – still have enormous respect for older bikes and riders.

Alf says: “We have always been able to work on our own bikes us old folks because we always had the common sense to work things out.

“What you have got over the last number of years is really people who don’t know how to change a gear on a bike, never mind a chain.”

Nevertheless, both Alf and Teresa are tremendously proud of their students, many of whom have specifically done a course to start their own bicycle maintenance business.

Teresa says: “People come on the course after being made redundant, or retiring, or people of all ages who are interested in cycling.But the majority of people want to open a business and mobile mechanics are very popular.”

Stuart Brown felt trapped in perpetual silence with his dreadful secret because he had no-one to turn to.

The sexual abuse by former policeman and scout leader John Edward Bates began when Stuart was ten-years-old. 
Bates showed him “slightly dodgy cine films that had naked women in them” and asked if he was aroused.

Stuart said: “He then began touching me through clothes, initially, and then over time progressing to removing clothes and then doing various sexual acts.”

Stuart said Bates and his dad were assistant Scout leaders together and best friends.

“They became friends through that and Bates started coming to our house after a few months for Sunday dinner,” said Stuart. “In effect, as the judge said, he became part of the family but he abused the trust as a friend of the family, Scout leader, member of the church and policeman – but that’s how they work.”

Stuart was 30 when he first told his parents about the abuse in 1996.

He said: “I first went to the police in 1999 – that was the Met and they told me that because he (Bates) had already served time for similar offences the CPS would not be interested. But they put something completely different on their computer – they said I wasn’t prepared to make a statement.”

From the age of ten he’s feared police and authority. He says Bates assaulted him while wearing police uniform, Scout uniform and civvies.

He pursued a formal complaint again in 2013 after an encounter with police brought back memories of Bates.

“I smoked from the age of 11,” said Stuart. “I look back now and think ‘why did I start smoking and smoking regularly?’ It was a crutch and he supported it.”

He said Bates never drugged him but he used Pernod and to this day that drink makes Stuart feel physically ill. “If you are indoctrinated from the age of ten into what happens between special friends you don’t know any different,” said Stuart.

Stuart is urging anyone who has suffered abuse, and loved ones who are supporting them, to seek proper help.

Previously ...

BREAKING NEWS: Former scout leader sentenced to 20 years’ prison

Paedophile had been jailed before for attacks in Spalding

Dog owners in the Deepings and Bourne can make use of the area’s litter bins by putting their pets’ waste in them - as long as it is bagged.

A growing number of litter bins around Market Deeping, Bourne and the surrounding villages now have the message “Dog Waste Accepted” on them to encourage people to use bins, as long as the waste is put in a bag.

Ian Yates, executive manager for environment at South Kesteven District Council, said: “Our environmental health team works with dog owners to educate them on their responsibilities to pick up their pets’ waste.

“We want everyone to enjoy our public open spaces and leave highways and paths free of mess and litter.

“So if you have bagged the waste but cannot find a litter bin, then please do the right thing and take the waste home.

“We know that rules vary across Lincolnshire and so we are continuing to remind dog owners that they can use litter bins for their pet waste in South Kesteven.

The man in charge of policing rural crime in Lincolnshire has pledged to “consider all tactical options” in combating hare coursing countywide.

Chief Inspector Jim Tyner, ex-neighbourhood policing inspector for South Holland and now Lincolnshire Police’s force lead on rural crime, was responding to figures which showed a 300 per cent jump in the number of hare coursing reports across South Holland between 2014-15 and 2015-16.

A rural crime policing meeting took place last Wednesday after which Chief Inspector Tyner said: “From September 1, 2015 to March 31, 2016, there were 176 men arrested or reported for summons in relation to hare coursing incidents.

“In addition, 19 vehicles and three dogs were seized, while 93 other men were dealt with by other disruption tactics and enforcement action such as Directions to Leave and traffic offences.

“However. this was against a backdrop of a 300% increase in incidents of hare coursing reported in the Boston and South Holland area.

“Operation Galileo is here to stay, it will continue next season and we are considering all tactical options to prevent and disrupt hare coursing activity in Lincolnshire.”

THE HIGH LIFE: By students of Spalding High School

On Thursday, 12th May, Year 8 students from Spalding High School showcased some of the 
work that they have been doing in French over the year in a French Cultural Evening.

With the hall decorated in tables garnished with French patisseries and flower arrangements, the walls laden with bunting, the stage decorated with an Eiffel Tower, and flutes playing the Can Can in the background, the relaxed evening felt much as though it were in Paris, and gave a wonderful atmosphere to make the event as authentic as possible.

The performances, which featured over 12 acts, were organised by the Year 10 Modern Foreign Language Leaders, as part of the MFL Leaders award, wherein pupils must plan and take events and lessons in their chosen language, to celebrate the progress that Year 8 has made in French over their two years at the school. Along with the poems, songs and plays from year 8s, the 17 Year 10 students also performed their rendition of I have a dream, or Je garde un rêve, from Mamma Mia. English teacher Mr Bouchard also displayed his French fluency with a poem, followed by an example of how not to do a French Speaking Controlled Assessment, by Head of English, Mr Isted, and Assistant Headteacher, Mr Blackbourn.

Not only did the comedy of the sketches shine out, but also the talent of the students who took part in learning, and for many writing, their pieces to perform on stage in front of a crowd of 200 people in a foreign language.

Through many meetings and hours of practice and planning, along with an unlimited amount of dedication from all partaking, the students and teachers alike were able to make the inaugural event a success and one to be continued on long into the future.

• Total money raised from fundraising, such as a non-uniform day, book stalls and a Spring Fayre, at Spalding High School, following another week of stalls selling extra goods left over from the week prior’s events, was counted this week at around £3,000.

Not only were the numerous events enjoyable for all involved, but this money, which will be spent on a variety of projects decided by the Senior Leadership Team and School Council, will be invaluable in purchasing new lockers, benches and other resources that will benefit the students who worked with the teachers to raise the money, and improve the school environment.

Smartphone users are being tricked into downloading a fake version of popular messaging service WhatsApp which infects their device with Malware.

Messages are sent to users inboxes offering the ‘exclusive’ chance to download WhatsApp Gold which offers enhanced features ‘used by big celebrities’. Claimed features include video calling, being able to delete messages after they have been sent and the ability to send more than 100 pictures at once.

If you follow the link, you will be directed to a fake download page and users of Android devices will see their phone or tablet infected with malware.

Malware can allow criminals to steal your data and track your online activity - putting your passwords and even bank details at risk.

WhatsApp Gold is the latest incarnation of a scam which has previously gone under the name WhatsApp plus.

In order to safeguard security, WhatsApp will actually disable any user accounts the service believes to be compromised with the malware.

The WhatsApp FAQ site has this to say: “WhatsApp Plus is an application that was not developed by WhatsApp, nor is it authorized by WhatsApp.

“The developers of WhatsApp Plus have no relationship to WhatsApp, and we do not support WhatsApp Plus. Please be aware that WhatsApp Plus contains source code which WhatsApp cannot guarantee as safe and that your private information is potentially being passed to 3rd parties without your knowledge or authorization.

“Please uninstall your application and install an authorized version of WhatsApp from our website or Google Play. After the 24-hour countdown ends you will be able to use WhatsApp.”

Users who have already followed the link are being advised by fraud reporting service Action Fraud to install reputable antivirus software such as Sophos, AVG or Avast to rectify the problem and remove the infection.

For the seventh year running the Elloe East Deanery organised an event for Year 4 children from 16 primary schools as part of its Mission work.

Each school came to Gedney Victory Hall for half a day over three days and over 300 children thoroughly enjoyed a range of experiences.

The children explored the story of Moses through drama, music, dance and craft, gaining an understanding of God’s plan for the Hebrew people.

The activities were delivered by Spalding professional theatre company ACT II and freelance dance instructor and choreographer Katrina Brackenbury.

The project, organised by a small committee, is funded by the Mary Bass Charity Trustees and all the churches in the Deanery. The children are given a T shirt as a permanent reminder of their involvement in the event.

Clergy and other interested lay people from the parishes visit the event, so there are plenty of opportunities for networking and promoting various youth initiatives in the Deanery.

The new Bishop of Grantham, who visited on the second day, expressed his delight at the work being done with young people.

A spokesperson for the event said: “The children all thoroughly enjoy the activities offered. We believe we are giving them an invaluable experience and hopefully laying a firm foundation stone which will encourage them to explore further the meaning of Christianity in their lives.”

• More pictures in next Thursday’s Spalding Guardian (June 2).

The sun shone for the first Spalding High School Spring Fayre and around 400 people enjoyed the day.

Everywhere you looked there were people participating in activities such as welly‐wanging and golf , there was face painting, baking, sponge throwing and even a clown.

The school hall was full of plants, cakes, tombolas and raffle prizes and The ‘Mother/Daughter bake off’ saw some fierce competition, with Year 8 student Grace Seaton victorious.

A fantastic £3,070 was raised to benefit peupil activities and plans are already being made to make the 2017 event even bigger and better.

• More pictures in next Thursday’s (June 2) Spalding Guardian.

Year 5 and Year 6 pupils from Ayscoughfee Hall School in Spalding went on a visit to 
Warning Zone in Leicester, which is an interactive learning experience, teaching life skills to keep children safe online and out and about. Pupils learnt about E-safety, fire, safety around strangers and the dangers of alcohol among other subjects.

Kellogg’s Special K Biscuit Moments Cioccolato packs sold in a popular Lincolnshire frozen foods shop have been recalled following concerns over ingredients,

The boxes containing five 25g bars are not in English and do not warn shoppers they contain soya, milk and wheat which may pose a risk to allergy sufferers.

The food watchdog warned people not to eat the bars but return them for a full refund.

The boxes with the best before dates 9 July 2016 and 14 July 2016 are sold by Hull-based Heron Foods which has stores in Boston, Spalding, Horncastle, Louth, Skegness, Mablethorpe and Bourne.

No other Kellogg’s products are known to be affected.

The firm said: “As a precautionary measure Heron Foods is recalling the Kelloggs Special K Biscuit Moments Cioccolato due to Soya, Milk and Wheat not being declared in English.

“If you have purchased this product and are allergic to Soya, Milk or Wheat, do not eat this product. Instead, return it to your local Heron Foods/ Cool Trader store for a full refund.

“We are very sorry for any inconvenience caused. Any customers with queries or concerns can contact Heron Foods on 0845 6037300 or email info@heronfoods.com.”

The Food Standards Agency said: “The above product contains wheat (gluten), milk and soya which are not mentioned on the label in English.

“This means the product is a health risk to anyone with an allergy or intolerance to wheat (gluten), milk or soya.

“If you have bought the above product and have an allergy or intolerance to wheat (gluten), milk or soya do not eat it. Instead return it to the store from where you bought it for a full refund.”

A renown grower of daffodils from Holbeach who has won 22 gold medals in consecutive Chelsea Flower Shows has done it again.

Quality manager Johnny Walkers was presented with his 23rd consecutive gold medal for a display of daffodils that shows the flowers at different phases across the 12 weeks of flowering.

The display of 86 varieties and 2,500 flowers is the result of 15,000 flowers grown in controlled conditions every year especially for the show.

Mr Walkers, who with his team, represent the specialist daffodil mail-order collection of Taylors Bulbs, said: “The weeks running up to the show are exhausting and stressful but we all support each other and hope nature allows us to put on a grand display.

“I’m particularly proud to show such a spread of flowering time this year as visitors are always amazed when we explain the difference between the varieties. Daffodils from February to May in one day!”

A company spokeswoman said: “The Lincolnshire daffodil man with the Midas touch has struck gold again.”

The latest show success comes as changes in the weather appear to have created one of the most remarkable flowering seasons.

Adam Taylor, director, said: “The normal expectations might be for 16 weeks of colour. We have recorded flowers over a 24 week period this season and the relatively cool weather means this is about to stretch into 25 weeks.”

He said: “The varieties in question are just as we would expect with Spring Dawn flowering first and Pheasant’s Eye being our last variety to flower.

“However, never before has the Spring Dawn been so early and then for Pheasant’s Eye to be so late in the same flowering season.”

John Taylor, commercial director, said: “In my 55 years working in the bulb industry, I’ve never known such a season as the one we are experiencing this year.

“Although we can experience an early season or a late season, the two have never normally come combined together like this.

He added: “We don’t know what the effect of this will be on the bulb yield as there is no experience of this, but there are always quirks of nature that we learn about with each occurrence.

“Lifting the bulbs will start in about four weeks.”

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The following decisions have been made by magistrates at court hearings. In all drink-drive cases the legal limit is 35 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath, 80 milligrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood or 107 milligrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of urine. Addresses of defendants published here are taken from the legal records held by the magistrates’ courts. V/S means victim surcharge.

Boston Magistrates’ Court

April 28

Mark Reid (53), of Pinchbeck Road, Spalding. Indecent exposure (Spalding). £250 fine, £50 compensation, £25 v/s, £100 costs.

Robert Storr (25), of Willington Road, Kirton. Criminal damage (Boston). £175 fine, £200 compensation, £85 costs. Assault. Community order with curfew requirement.

May 4

Ryan Bates (24), of Penny Gardens, Kirton. Criminal damage (Boston). 12 months conditional discharge, £100 compensation, £15 v/s, £85 costs.

Mark Gay (26), of Kings Road, Spalding. Drunk and disorderly (Spalding). £100 fine, £20 v/s, £85 costs. Committing a further offence during the period of a suspended sentence which was imposed for actual bodily harm, suspended sentence varied to 12 weeks prison suspended for 12 months, 50 hours unpaid work.

Danielle Nuttell (30), of Musician Mews, High Street, Kirton. Stole 4 Radley purses worth £276 belonging to Oldrids (Boston). 18 months conditional discharge, £20 v/s, £60 costs.

David Varey-Acton (38), of Dean Close, Weston. Drink driving (Weston). £230 fine, £30 v/s, 385 costs, disqualified from driving for 20 months.

Ryan Brooks (22), of Delgate Bank, Weston Hills. Failed to stop after an accident. Community order with curfew requirement, £85 fine, £200 compensation. No separate penalty for no insurance. Disqualified from driving for 6 months. No penalty for driving otherwise than in accordance with a licence and failing to stop for a police constable.

Lincoln Magistrates’ Court

April 25

Craig Lazell (62), of Riverside, Spalding. Speeding (Pinchbeck). £200 fine, £20 v/s, £43 costs, 4pts. No separate penalty for driving otherwise than in accordance with a licence.

Gary Palmer (39), of Aveland Close, Aslackby. Stole a purse containing £164 (Deeping St James). 10 weeks prison sentence, suspended for 1 years, £174 compensation, £80 v/s, £85 costs. No separate penalty for failing to surrender to custody.

Anne Davis (54), of Frognall. Failed to give driver ID (Nettleham). £660 fine, £66 v/s, £85 costs, disqualified from driving for 6 months.

Christan Fenwick (31), of St Botolphs Mews, Boston. Speeding (Whaplode). £40 fine, £20 v/s, £43 costs, 3pts.

Stephen Warner (59), of Chapel Street, Crowland. Speeding (Swineshead Bridge). £140 fine, £20 v/s, £85 costs, 3pts.

April 26

Peter English (54), of Angell Lane, Holbeach. Driving while disqualified (Holbeach). 8 weeks prison sentence suspended for 12 months, rehabilitation activity requirement, £80 v/s, disqualified from driving for 3 years. Failed to surrender to custody (Boston). 2 weeks prison sentence concurrent, suspended for 12 months, £20 v/s, £85 costs, 3pts.

Lewis Chilvers (24), of Waveney Hill, Lowestoft. Speeding (Swineshead Bridge). £153 fine, £20 v/s, £85 costs, 3pts.

Robert Clayford (52), of Rydal Road, Kendal. Speeding (Swineshead Bridge). £270 fine, £27 v/s, £85 costs, 5pts.

Charmaine Hemingway (31), of Page Close, Sibsey. Speeding (Spalding 4.10.15). £60 fine, £20 v/s, £85 costs, 3pts. Speeding (Spalding 6.10.15). £60 fine, 3pts.

Caroline Melville (49), of Francis Street, Spalding. Speeding (Spalding). £40 fine, £20 v/s, £50 costs, 3pts.

Jed Oakleigh (20), of Wisbech Road, Littleport. Speeding (Swineshead Bridge). £150 fine, £20 v/s, £85 costs, 4pts.

Nassim Qatauni (36), of Heron Road, Norwich. Speeding (Swineshead Bridge). £220 fine, £22 v/s, £85 costs, 3pts.

Matthew Skoyles (28), of Burnham Avenue, King’s Lynn. Speeding (Whaplode). £220 fine, £22 v/s, £85 costs, 3pts.

Dragos Stancu (33), of Little London, Spalding. Speeding (Swineshead Bridge). £220 fine, £22 v/s, £85 costs, 3pts.

Mark Tucker (49), of Ainsworth Lane, Bolton. Speeding (Swineshead Bridge). £220 fine, £22 v/s, £85 costs, 3pts.

Lukas Zuza (25), of Regent Street, Spalding. Speeding (Swineshead Bridge). £220 fine, £22 v/s, £85 costs, 3pts.

April 27

Shane Kelk (21), of Princes Street, Sutton Bridge. Driving while disqualified (Sutton Bridge). Community order with 60 unpaid work, £60 v/s, disqualified from driving for 6 months. No separate penalty for no insurance and for failing to surrender to custody.

April 28

Dmitrijs Konstantinovs (28), of St Thomas Road, Spalding. Failed to give driver ID (Nettleham). £660 fine, £66 v/s, £85 costs, 6pts.

Rosebella Odame (44), of Applewood Drive, Hampton Hargate, Peterborough. Speeding (Baston). £160 fine, £20 v/s, £85 costs, 4pts.

Victor Pearsall (70), of Princes Street, Sutton Bridge. Failed to give driver ID (Nettleham). £660 fine, £66 v/s, £85 costs, 6pts.

Andrew Quinn (48), of Anfield Road, Long Sutton. Failed to give driver ID (Nettleham). £660 fine, £66 v/s, £85 costs, 6pts.

Damon Alison (43), of Wood View, Bourne. Failed to give driver ID (Nettleham). £660 fine, £66 v/s, £85 costs, 6pts.

Cieren Brownsword (25), of Frostley Gate, Holbeach. Failed to give driver ID (Nettleham). £660 fine, £66 v/s, £85 costs, 6pts.

Ingus Laipnicks (30), of Livingstone Drive, Spalding. Failed to give driver ID (Nettleham). £660 fine, £66 v/s, £85 costs, 6pts.

Lee Roberts (36), of Oxford Gardens, Holbeach. Stole cider worth £4.50 belonging to One Stop (Holbeach). £100 fine, £4.50 compensation, £20 v/s, to be detained in courthouse and detention deemed served by reason of time already spent in custody. No action taken on breach of conditional discharge.

People in Frampton, Kirton, Swineshead and Wigtoft can have their say on the future of non-emergency transport to and from Boston’s Pilgrim Hospital.

Lincolnshire East Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is inviting patients who rely on the transport service to give their views on its future at an event at Pilgrim Hospital on Monday, June 13, between 9am and noon.

The meeting will take place in the hospital’s Committee Room 1 where suggestions as to how non-emergency transport should be provided in the future will be welcome.

A spokesman for Lincolnshire East CCG said: “The Non-Emergency Patient Transport Service is paid for by local NHS Commissioners to provide transport to and from hospital for people with a medical need.

“We are currently in a contract procurement process (to re-purchase the service) and intend to enter into a new contract with a provider in July 2017.”

The meeting will be led by officials from Lincolnshire East and neighbouring Lincolnshire West CCGs, who are part of a wider team responsible for re-designing the contract for the transport Service.

The spokesman said: “As members of the public, we would like get your view and opinions so that these can be taken into account.

“We would like to hear about your health care needs, how the service can support you to stay healthy or access the right healthcare service when you need them.

“Ultimately, we need to understand what an excellent service would feel like for you and your feedback will then be used to ensure that the service works for you.”

Anyone interested in attending should call either Debbie Evans or Claire Hornsby on 01522 515305.

Two sections of road in Holbeach Fen and Wyberton Fen will be closed for engineering works next month.

Frostley Gate, at its junction with the B1165 Raven’s Bank, will be shut from June 20 to 27 for maintenance works by BT.

Diversions will be in place along Strongs Gate and Ravens Gate onto the B1165.

Before that, West End Road, Wyberton Fen, near its junction with Chain Bridge Road, will be closed from June 6 to 10 for essential maintenance works by Western Power.

Motorists will be diverted along the A52 Swineshead Road, Fen Road, B1391 Ralphs Lane, B1397 London Road and West End Road.

A group that formed more than 35 years ago folded this week - but on a happy note with the announcement they had topped £500,000 in money raised.

The Spalding and Bourne Leukeamia and Lymphoma Committee, now known as Bloodwise, formed in 1980 and in their first year they raised £2,300.

As the group grew larger, the annual sum sent to the head office of the charity increased yearly and peaked in 2003, when £20,000 was sent.

In more recent years the total has decreased to a yearly average of about £10,000 but now with just eight committee members.

On Monday, at the committee’s annual general meeting, the group decided to fold as many of the members are now older.

But chairman Andy Fuller was able to tell them that the group had raised a massive £550,000 over the years.

At the 2015 AGM, having reached £450,000, the group set a target of reaching the half a million mark within 
five years but thanks to two large in memoriam donations, the group has been able to surpass that target in a 
year.

Speaking to The Local, he said: “When I first joined the group in the early ’90s, 
I would never have believed in a million years that we would reach such a milestone.

“It’s just unbelievable 
and everyone was very pleased.

“I personally feel exceptionally proud to have served on the committee with these people.

Andy’s young daughter Daisy was diagnosed with leukaemia in 1989 and lost her battle in 1995, aged 10.

He said many of the committee members had personal reasons for joining the group and that it would remain a cause close to their hearts.

Andy said: “I think people were sad to see the group fold but a little relieved as well.”

One of the group’s biggest fundraising events was the McGregor’s annual coffee morning, which is a popular event in the Bourne calendar, and was set up in memory of Dr Michael and Margaret’s son John. Last year’s event broke the £100,000 mark.

The coffee morning will still continue and this year’s event will take place on Thursday, November 24.

Andy said: “The McGregor’s are definitely going to continue with their coffee morning, which is extremely well supported in Bourne.

“I think many of the committee members will be there but as personal friends, rather than as charity representatives.”

Staff and students, governors and friends of Spalding Grammar School gathered in the hall on Wednesday to remember Peter Wasley’s 33 years’ service.

Peter joined the school as a young teacher of French and German in September 1978, and remained at the school throughout his professional career, rising to deputy head.

Former colleagues commemorated his outstanding skills as a teacher where he prepared students to achieve excellent results and inspired them to explore, and grow to love, foreign cultures.

He passionately believed that students should travel and genuinely experience life in France and Germany through residential visits in Annecy and work experience placements.

Mme Laurence Gamble read Jacques Prévert’s poem: ‘Pour faire le portrait d’un oiseau’ as testimony to Peter’s linguistic skills.

Peter was a hugely accomplished man. He studied music and was a brilliant violinist; he played the first movement of Vivialdi’s ‘Spring’ from the Four Seasons in his final school summer concert, a piece Roger Loose played in this commemoration to echo Peter’s musical skill.

Two previous headmasters contributed to the commemoration.

Nigel Ryan reminded the audience of Peter’s lasting contribution to the school through the curriculum and the buildings, a tribute affirmed and extended by Michael Stewart who commented that Peter “took the school forward with giant strides in the realms of technology, educational thinking and curriculum development”.

Although the commemoration was deeply sad, there were moments of humour too: Kevin Arnold gave a very personal reflection on the impact of Peter as teacher and later colleague then, after an introduction by John Charlesworth, current staff and students sang ‘Ethelred Radio’, a revue number closely associated with Peter.

After the commemoration, current headmaster Steven Wilkinson and Dr Peter Gorton led Catherine Wasley, Steven Wasley and all guests to the business block garden for the dedication of a magnolia tree in Peter’s memory.

The last word should go to Peter’s first headmaster, John Fordham, who eloquently summed up Peter’s service to the school as “an excellent man to have on the staff”.

• Headmaster Mr Wilkinson has also paid tribute to a school governor who has passed away.

He said: “The school was saddened to hear of the death of Dr Michael Townsend. Michael has been a governor since 1979 and was chairman for 14 years between 1991 and 2005.

“He has given a huge amount to the school and, on a personal level, has been supportivemy first year as headmaster. Our thoughts are with his family at this time.”

Bourne Town Hall will either be run by a charitable trust or sold to a private owner, its current trustee has announced.

Lincolnshire County Council, trustees of the hall since 1974, voted for a transfer of ownership or sale option at its May meeting of all 77 council members.

The decision was made after a recommendation from a group, the Bourne Town Hall Trust Management Committee, set up to consider its future.

Coun David Brailsford, chairman of the Bourne Town Hall Trust Management Committee, said: “Further to a consultation with the people of Bourne last year, the committee put its recommendations to full council and these were agreed.

“We are having ongoing positive conversations with interested parties who have formed a steering group to look at the future use of Bourne Town Hall as a charitable purpose for the building is the recommended option.

“Athough these conversations are at an early stage, we are supporting the group in taking their ideas forward.”

The preferred options were decided after people in Bourne were asked for their views on what should happen to the town hall which was gifted to the town by Marquis of Exeter in 1821.

Almost 170 people took part in the two-month public consultation between October and November last year, with 79 per cent of respondents wanting to see the town hall used for charitable purposes.

Cllr Brailsford said: “While discussions are ongoing about the future of Bourne Town Hall, we are continuing to meet our duties in ensuring the building is watertight and secure.

“Following the latest inspection of the building, people in Bourne may see some remedial works taking place at the hall in the coming weeks.”

Work continues to decide town hall’s future

Transfer or sale option for Bourne Town Hall