Donington’s volunteer run library isn’t eligible for Co-op Community Fund cash.
Sue Holland-Leavens said you must be a registered charity to apply as she updated councillors on library projects.
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A much-loved rugby player was tragically killed in a car crash as suspects were fleeing the scene of a ram raid at Crowland Co-op.
Peterborough Rugby Union Football Club (PRUFC) led tributes veteran player Mark Collin (51), who also played games for Deeping and had captained Thorney vets.
Mark died when his car was in a head-on crash with a stolen Audi S3, which Cambridgeshire Police are linking to Tuesday’s ram raid at the West Street store when the shop front was smashed and an ATM dragged into the road.
The ram raid happened shortly before 4am and the crash on Ramsey Road, Whittlesey, that claimed Mark’s life was reported at 4.20am.
Denham Hughes, captain of vets’ side Deeping Dinosaurs, said: “It’s a terrible shock.
“It’s a horrible accident that fate placed Mark at that spot in those few seconds and to find out now that the driver of the other vehicle involved is suspected of fleeing from the scene of a crime makes it even harder to bear.”
Although a regular with PRUFC, Mark, who lived in Whittlesey, would turn out for other sides when he didn’t have a game with his club.
“He absolutely loved rugby,” said Denham. “He was a massive fan of watching it and playing it.”
The Deeping club will join other local sides on September 30 to play a match in Mark’s memory.
Denham said: “Mark was a very good rugby player and was very dedicated. He was in particular a very good number 10, which is a key position in any rugby team. He played that position for me a number of times and in any other position that I needed.
“Mark would work a night shift and then come and play rugby for us.
“He was a quiet, calm guy off the pitch – on the pitch he was a good leader and he was a tough competitor.”
Following the fatal crash, Cambridgeshire police arrested a 30-year-old Peterborough man on suspicion of dangerous driving.
Cambridgeshire Police said two other men from the Audi left the scene and are “still outstanding”.
Yesterday, a fundraising page set up by friends to help meet the cost of Mark’s funeral – www.gofundme.com/mark-collin-funeral-funds – had reached more than £2,000.
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BREAKING NEWS: Suspected Crowland Co-op ram raiders involved in fatal collision in getaway car
A £2.5million overhaul of the way reports of crime are dealt with has been announced by Lincolnshire Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC), Marc Jones.
Commitments on a range of issues, including rural crime, speeding in Cowbit, the A16/B1166 junction in Crowland and the return of Neighbourhood Policing Panels were all made during a public meeting in Crowland on Thursday night.
Mr Jones, Deputy PCC Stuart Tweedale and Sergeant (Sgt) Mike Alford, of the South Holland Neighbourhood Policing Team, were the guests of Crowland county councillor Nigel Pepper at the town’s Royal British Legion Hall.
About 55 people, including representatives from Cowbit, Crowland, Deeping St Nicholas and The Moultons Parish Council, questioned the Commissioner and Sgt Alford on issues of crime, anti-social behaviour and road safety.
Mr Jones said: “It was an absolute pleasure to spend the whole day in Crowland where I met district and parish councillors at a meeting hosted by Coun Nigel Pepper.
“I was taken to meet an array of business owners in the main streets of Crowland and I checked out the damage caused in the recent ATM raid at the Co-op.
“Also, I was given a guided tour of the town’s incredible abbey and then attended the evening meeting which really helped towards my understanding of local issues.”
Answering a question about problems with the non-emergency 101 number, Mr Jones said: “There’s a national issue in that the amount of calls have gone up so much that no one can really cope with it.
“The biggest challenge we have in Lincolnshire is that our command and control structure is old, so we’re going to replace it at a cost of about £2.5million which will enable us to have contact from the public in new and different ways.”
Mr Jones renewed his commitment to rural community safety and “people being protected in their homes within isolated locations”, as well as thefts of oil, farm machinery, wildlife and heritage crime against animals and churches.
“Hare coursing is the pastime of bad people, generally, and we need to do what we can to stop it,” Mr Jones said.
“The Chief Constable has made it a commitment and said ‘This is a priority and we will tackle it’, but we’ve got to get much smarter at knowing where the key players are and how to take them out.”
Mr Jones also announced plans for a Road Safety Summit in November in response to concerns about speeding on the A1073 Barrier Bank in Cowbit.
He said: “I’m not happy with the level of road safety we have in Lincolnshire and we want to make things as safe as we can.”
The lack of policing resources, both in terms of manpower and money, dominated talks about tackling disorder in Crowland and speeding in Cowbit.
In response to a question about continuing anti-social behaviour in Crowland town centre, Sgt Mike Alford said: “There are issues in the town and we’ve addressed that by having specific patrols and sending letters to parents.
“We do what we can but a lot of the problem comes from a lack of evidence and quite often there are reports that a group of youths have been throwing stones, but we can’t prove they are ones causing the problems.”
Limited police officer numbers were also a factor in the question of reintroducing Neighbourhood Policing Panels and the Operation Galileo campaign against hare coursing.
Sgt Alford said: “It’s very difficult to cover South Holland as we want and when we get 20 to 30 calls around hair coursing, we’re playing a game of cat and mouse when it comes to rural crime issues.”
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Firefighters from Long Sutton and Spalding assisted with casualty care after a one-vehicle crash in Fleet in the early hours of this morning (Wednesday).
The accident happened at 12.28am on Fleet Road.
Morrisons shoppers can tomorrow (Thursday) meet some of the local farmers who produced the food stocking the Pinchbeck supermarket’s shelves.
Farmers will be at the Wardentree Lane store from 2pm to 4pm, distributing information about British produce and talking to customers about their farms and produce from the region.
Morrisons says it is introducing the opportunity to ‘Meet the Real Farmer’ so Pinchbeck’s customers can see how local farmers produce food for the store, and so farmers can explain the benefits of homegrown British food.
Store manager Jason Savage said: “We believe that by meeting our real farmers, customers will understand that we are supporting real local businesses and understand more about where their food comes from.
“Our farmers will meet the Morrisons customers they are feeding and be able to explain the importance of eating homegrown food.”
Some 83 per cent of the UK population live in urban areas – some 46 per cent of Brits have never met a farmer, 32 per cent have never visited a working farm and 52 per cent say they don’t know how the food they buy is grown.
The in-store activity coincides with Farm24, a day of action for farmers to explain the effort that goes into producing our food. Farm24 day also falls at a time when the availability of British produce reaches its peak. More than 70 per cent of the food sold by Morrisons this week will be British, the highest share it reaches during the year as British lamb, soft fruits and summer vegetables reach the peak of their seasonality.
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Tribute to rugby player killed in death crash linked to Crowland ram raid
County Police and Crime Commissioner Marc Jones wants the taking of “up-skirting” photos to be a criminal offence.
Mr Jones has written to the Secretary of State for Justice to ask for the practice to be made a specific sexual offence in new laws due to be introduced this year.
His letter follows national headlines about the practice of “up-skirting”, where people take pictures of women’s underwear by pointing phones up their skirts. The images are then often shared online.
The issue came to prominence recently when London student Gina Martin caught a man taking pictures up her skirt at a music festival. Miss Martin managed to seize the camera and made a complaint to police.
When the police told her they could not pursue the case because no laws were broken she launched an online petition calling for the act to be made illegal, and it currently has nearly 54,000 signatures
The issue has been raised by Mr Jones in his capacity as the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners’ deputy lead on the Victims portfolio, a role he took on last month. The letter was co-signed by Dame Vera Baird, the PCC for Northumberland and chair of the APCC Supporting Victims and Reducing Harm group.
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Two new homes could be built behind the fire damaged Bridge Hotel at Sutton Bridge.
Plans for a pair of two-bed, semi-detached homes have been submitted to South Holland District Council.
The planning application, made by Mrs A P Cox, of Wisbech, says access to the homes would be via Wharf Street.
The hotel was once the heart of village life but its future remains uncertain, despite Sutton Bridge Parish Council hearing a potential developer is waiting in the wings.
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A retired businesswoman living with breast cancer wants to share her experience with others by starting a new support group in Spalding.
Francine Paluch, of Churchill Drive, Spalding, wants to set up a forum where herself and other patients can exchange information and organise events that can help to lift the isolation that can be brought on by breast cancer.
The idea came to Francine after having treatment at Peterborough City Hospital and discovering that the nearest breast cancer support group to her home was one based in Tallington, near Market Deeping.
Francine, who is married to husband Louie, said: “We moved to Spalding in December last year after selling our business and retiring here.
“Unfortunately, in June of this year, I had a recurrence of breast cancer and when I looked for a group I could go to and talk about what I was going through, I couldn’t find one.
“I spoke to someone at the Johnson Community Hospital in Pinchbeck who said there was a gap in Spalding and had I thought about starting a group.
“As time went on, I found that there was very little appreciation of what women with breast cancer needed.”
According to the Lincolnshire Local and National Cancer Support Group Directory, published in June 2016, the only breast cancer support groups across the county are in Boston, Grantham, Lincoln and Louth.
Louie said: “What people don’t realise is the huge psychological impact breast cancer has on the person who has treatment, their family and friends.
“Yet there’s no information, support or after-care available after an operation for patients, their partners and carers.
“For example, we previously lived in Rutland and my wife had her first treatment for breast cancer at Glenfield Hospital in Leicester.
“Francine had 25 courses of breast cancer treatment and she was chauffered from her home to the hospital by volunteer drivers on a one-to-one basis.
“But we wouldn’t have known about the voluntary wheels scheme without our friends and social media groups.
“If there had been a group to tell us about care services available, things would have been better.”
Anyone interested in being part of the group should call Francine on 07497 706460.
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Spalding’s Aldi store is about to undergo a major refurbishment that will see it close for around five weeks.
It is expected the temporary closure will begin on Friday, August 25.
Aldi was given planning consent last year to demolish three neighbouring small shops on Winsover Road, to modernise and extend its own store as well as introduce more parking spaces in its car park accessed from St Thomas’s Road.
An Aldi spokesman told us the store will close temporarily for the works.
The spokesman added: “We look forward to welcoming our customers back to the store at the end of September.
“The store will feature newly-designed fixtures for beers, wines and spirits, fresh produce and baby and toddler, as well as a new food-to-go fixture.
“The store will also benefit from a significant increase in chill space, underlining the growth of our fresh ranges.”
When the plans were unveiled last year, the company said: “The extension will facilitate the addition of a greater number of tills, allow for increased merchandising space for each product, and increased aisle widths.
The store’s area will be boosted from 1,204sq m to 1,472sq m and car parking spaces will go up by ten to 80.
Stoas Architects, who designed the scheme for Aldi, said the plans involved rendering the store in white and installing new glazed shop fronts.
In a statement accompanying the planning application, Stoas said: “The popularity of the store has been exceptional and therefore the need has arisen to further extend the store to facilitate increasing consumer demand.
“The aim is to improve the food store to provide a high-quality attractive modern food store for the local community.”
Shops making way for the development included Winsover Off Licence, which lost its licence to sell acohol in February last year.”
Aldi has traded from Winsover Road since December 2000.
• What do you think of Aldi’s new look in the picture above? Email you views to lynne.harrison@ilffepublishing.co.uk
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A Spalding business is literally investing heavily in its future – and the future of the town centre – with the installation of a £24,000, state-of-the-art dry cleaning machine.
The one-tonne monster was hoisted through the doors of Geoff Neal and Son Dry Cleaners, in Bridge Street, by a crane on the back of a lorry.
Boss Geoff Neal said: “When the old machine started to go wrong, I thought I could retire and pack up because I am 73 but my son, Ben, who runs the shop has got to look to something for his future.”
Geoff has been in business in Bridge Street since 1988 and the shop has been a dry cleaners since 1955.
The Neals say they have something unique to offer their customers as theirs is the only dry cleaners in Spalding to clean curtains and garments such as suits, wedding dresses and ball gowns on the premises.
The business offers a same-day service, which sometimes sees people travelling 40 or 50 miles to drop off items before doing a spot of shopping until their dry cleaning is ready to collect.
Opposite Neals is the now closed Store Twenty One, a stark reminder of the growing number of Spalding shops that have shut their doors over the last few months.
But Geoff isn’t ready to pack up.
“I could be retired,” he said. “But I don’t come to work for money, I come for the love of the job and to help Ben, to be honest.”
He believes more could be done to boost town centre trade, including bringing back short-term parking in Market Place.
The business opens 8am-5pm weekdays and until 2pm on Saturdays. Besides Geoff and Ben, who has worked in the business for 20 years, there are three part-timers.
• How can we best support our independent traders? Email lynne.harrison@iliffepublishing.co.uk
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Long-awaited resurfacing work is underway in towns and villages as part of an ongoing £6 million investment.
Work has been completed in parts of both Quadring and Gosberton and was scheduled to start on the A151 near the hamlet of Twenty earlier this week.
It is part of a huge investment in south east Lincolnshire’s highways network, designed to improve our roads.
The work was met with relief from homeowners in Sarah Gate Lane in Quadring, where potholes were making it difficult to get down the road.
One resident said: “It’s about time the road has been fixed. I’ve lived here eight years and this is the first time I can remember the road being done.
“It was getting in such a state that it was becoming difficult to drive the car to get to our home.
“The potholes must have been about 10cm deep and 150cm in length. They were like craters!”
Donington, Fleet, Gedney Broadgate, Gosberton Clough and Risegate, Holbeach St Marks and St Matthew are also among those where resurfacing work is scheduled or has been completed this summer.
Other places are: Long Sutton, Pinchbeck and Pinchbeck West, Spalding, Surfleet, Sutton Bridge, Sutton St James, Sutton St Edmund, Tydd St Mary, Weston and Weston Hills, Moulton, Whaplode and Whaplode Drove.
Speaking about the resurfacing work in last week’s Spalding Guardian, Coun Richard Davies, executive member for highways, said: “As part of these works, we will be replacing road material that is nearing the end of its serviceable life.
“We ask for your continued patience while these works are carried out.
“Not only will the road’s life be extended, but these improvements will also ensure smoother journeys and increased safety for all road users.”
The work on the A151 near Twenty is expected to last for three weeks (from Monday, August 7) - until September 1, subject to reasonable weather conditions.
For the duration of the resurfacing works, a full 24-hour road closure of the A151 between Twenty and Guthram Gowt will be in place,
The signed diversion routes for the closure will be via the A151 to A15 to A16 and vice versa.
A full list of resurfacing work being carried out by Lincolnshire County Council can be found on its website.
Go to: www.lincolnshire.gov.uk and search for road surfacing and dressing.
Potholes can also be reported on line via www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/faultreporting
To do this you will need to create an account and password when you click on the above link.
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A Weston Hills woman has spoken out at negative comments - after reaching the finals of a competition to find the ‘Hottest Vegan’ in the UK and Ireland.
Trainee retail manager Kate Halgarth (22) entered the competition, run by PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), to be a spokesperson for vegans.
But she admits she was hurt by some of the comments that she received.
After our story in last week’s Spalding Guardian, people posted various comments on our Facebook page, in reaction to the story.
One said: “Didn’t know being vegan made us such vapid attention seekers?
“How about spending less time on pointless competitions and more on investing in farmers markets and vegan shops/cafés?”
Kate replied online: “It is possible to do both, spread the message and help charities and local shops!”
Another said: “Is this a joke story?”
Someone even posted a picture of a rare steak, with the comment: “This looks better,” which Kate said was “a bit harsh.”
She said: “I was shocked by some of the feedback. The story was also on Mail Online and I nearly cried reading some of the comments there.
“I don’t know if people have a stereotypical view of vegans or they just think vegans are very outspoken.
“This is not about going out there bragging but a way to be a representative for vegans without being pushy.
“I thought that by entering the competition I can help animals and get the message out at the same time.
“It is showing that you can be healthy as a vegan.”
While Kate didn’t win the competition she said she would enter again.
She said: “I wanted to get involved, not because I think I am the sexiest person alive but to have my say and speak my voice.”
The winners of the competition were a fitness instructor from Eastbourne and a charity worker from Bexhill-on-Sea.
“I did not think it would get as much coverage as it did.” Kate added.
“You can eat healthily as a vegan. I am into my food. I eat a lot of fruit and veg and make sure I include protein in my diet - things like Spirulina and chia seeds.
“For lunch I like to eat rice, peas and chickpeas.
“My boyfriend is vegetarian and my brother is pescatarian (eats fish but not meat).
“Being vegan is a personal thing and it is just part of being me.”
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MAN’S BEST FRIEND: By the South Lincs Centre of Jerry Green Dog Rescue
Charley is a very sweet girl with a very special talent. Charley can actually sing on command, which does make for a very impressive trick and duet partner.
She is a seven-year-old collie and is looking for a forever home of her own. She can be a little shy meeting new people so slow introductions are best for her but once she has made friends she is a very cuddly girl.
The way to Charley’s heart is her love of tennis balls. Like most Collies, she loves to play ball. Charley is a super clever lady so you could have so much fun teaching Charley lots of clever things to do.
Charley has been socialising with other dogs at the centre and is happy to greet them but can sometimes be worried or overwhelmed by them. Charley is looking for an adult home, preferably with previous collie experience. If you think Charley could sing her way into your heart call the Algarkirk team to arrange a visit on 01205 260546.
TRAINING TIP: Does your dog jump up to greet you and your guests? Dogs jump up for many reasons, including excitement and frustration.
The biggest reason dogs do this is because they want your attention and they get a reward from any attention you give them, good or bad.
The biggest tip we can give you for stopping a dog jumping up is to ignore it.
Don’t look at them, touch them, shout at them or talk to them.
If you need to, turn your back away until they get down.
Once they are on the ground, reward them by fussing them, but only when their feet are on the floor.
When your guests arrive at your home make sure they also do this – consistency is definitely the key here.
Your dog will soon learn that jumping up will not receive any attention and will start greeting you in a calmer way.
We run a variety of training classes and 1-2-1s at Jerry Green Dog Rescue. If you would like to find out more about positive training techniques call our centre trainer Therena on 01205 260546.
• Did you join us for the Fanfare Big Band evening?
We had an amazing time and we hope you did too. We wanted to let you know that thanks to your generosity from ticket sales, the auction and grand draw tickets we raised an amazing £1,071 for our rescue dogs.
Thank you so much to everyone who joined us and gave so generously on the night.
We would also like to say a huge thank you to Gordon Grant for donating the services of his band and also to the Boston Big Local Community Chest Fund for sponsoring the event.
WARD’S WORLD: By John Ward
With the latest chunk of news (debatable) about electric cars being the norm by the year 2040, assuming the planet lasts that long of course, it is quite something to think about or ponder over presently as you fill up with petrol or diesel.
I personally still think that steam is the answer as water is plentiful, usually lots of it falling during the summer months, more so during the school holiday period plus with the local area water companies digging the roads up on a fairly regular basis you would never be ‘caught short’ for supplies as any major road in the area would possibly be your oasis in a manner of speaking.
By using steam as a motive force as in years gone by, this would help by not requiring petrol or diesel stations and they could be converted into ‘Log and Coal Stop-Offs’ as we imagine asking: “Five bags of logs, two bags of your best nutty slack (if you feel left out and are below a certain age, Google ‘coal slack’) and three thick squirts of water in the boiler and no dribbling or splashing, please.”
Back to the leccy car idea then and 2040.
2040... it sounds like a title for one of those mind numbing films that you go to the cinema to see and three hours afterwards, have no idea of what it was all about but the bloke playing the part of Dirk Clackdawn has just left his wife to shack up with his co-star, Zarina Lhittle-Talantt because if the film ‘plot’ did not get ‘bums on seats’, then the thought of their supposed private lives would get folk into the cinema and point fingers at the screen.
This 2040 (plus VAT) ‘announcement’ for what it’s worth comes hot on the heels of a prior motoring related missive a short while ago when we were told about ‘driverless’ cars and a whole plethora of assorted items and ideas cropped up on phone-in radio programmes, numerous ‘experts’ were writing about this new fangled idea that would revolutionise motoring but begs the question what would you do while the car is driving itself or more importantly, is there any point in being a part of all this in the first place?
If I hear and read it right, by the year 2040 (plus VAT) there will be no cars being made with either petrol or diesel engines like in today’s world but if this being the case, a few thoughts on the matter as I see it now as I have no idea if I will be here then personally.
Listening to various bods on assorted radio programmes recently who own electric cars and you can’t fail to notice in some cases it’s a bit of a snobbish thing – in one instance an owner said his vehicle/status symbol “only chost just hover fifty shix thousand phounds” and yes, he spoke just like that but I managed to translate it as best I could with my low level ed-you-cation – but assume ‘entry level’ peasant models are available for slightly less money but you have to park them round the corner away from the ‘top of the range’ section so as not to upset the well-heeled lot who have shelled out their mega-bucks like the above Nigel Wehaveit-Hall chappie.
Considering people trying to get on the ‘property ladder’ nowadays, will saving up for an electric car overtake that strategy?
But hopefully the common motorist will be all electric if we are going to believe these things but at this point, hands up all those who don’t believe this will happen?
Right then… 73 per cent don’t believe it, 15 per cent do believe it, one wants to leave the room as he’s ‘on new tablets’ and the others are dithering or asking all their friends on social media what to go for, so that’s the final results from those present with only Sharon abstaining due to her having her nails polished.
As a possible minus in this way of thinking, just what will happen to that travelling roadblock that is seen on most roads and byways at any given time of the year, the mobile caravan owner and how do they figure in all this?
Will bigger and thicker batteries be available for those wanting to tow their pride and joy over possibly hundreds – or thousands – of miles as some presently do?
But basically this could kill off the mobile caravan manufacturers in a swoop as what electric-powered vehicle would be able to pull these palaces on wheels with all their constant add-on features like built-in sauna, swimming pool, 16-seat cinema, fold out barbecue patio area in the owner’s quest to ‘get away from it all and enjoy the great basic outdoors’ line of thought.
Plan R: Perhaps inflatable caravans to cut down on weight, maybe?
The range these type of vehicles are supposed to possess is questionable as ‘official figures’ are nothing to go by as recent events relating to violin playing on a grand scale by some big names in car manufacturing have been found to be ‘enhanced’ recently in assorted claims etc and more are still coming to light.
So apart from buying and finding out the hard way that your electrically-powered marvel does not do the miles as was claimed by the makers and assuming you can walk back to let us know that this is the case, who or what do you complain to?
Considering how highly petrol and diesel fuel is taxed currently there will have to be another form of taxation system and so something will have to replace it regardless but all this electric vehicle malarkey is, supposedly, to ‘save the planet’ but when you consider what it takes to manufacture the batteries alone and the fossil fuels used to do so, it seems as if all those windmills sited offshore and in fields to blight the landscape will have to be working overtime to keep up with all the demand because as well as producing the actual batteries, they will forever need charging as well.
Hands up anybody who knows how to order up extra wind power... and don’t be bashful.
Charging might be a problem for some that live, say, on floor seven in a high rise building – do they get a long extension lead and trail it out the window and down among the flower beds, mind the gnome, and surface a few feet from the road and then to plug into the car?
But what 2040 (plus VAT) holds nobody at this present time can really say for certain but a few non-automotive ideas could be:
• The Rolling Stones final, final farewell tour will be on at selected care homes;
• The last final, final stages of the Brexit UK-EU exit negotiations will be signed if anybody is still interested;
• The latest furniture massive sale will end on a Monday as usual but instead of another ‘sale’ starting on Wednesday, a truce will be declared and will start on the following Friday instead as a mark of respect for the consumer, introduction of the money dongle as cash type money was outlawed the year before to save on plastic and metal and Star Wars:37 ‘Return of Some Old Ideas’ is about to be released.
2040 (plus VAT) – will the bloke who played the part of Dirk Clackdawn be back with his missis by then?
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Spalding female choir Mirinesse Singers finished its second season with a performance at Tanglewood Cedar Falls Care Home in the town.
Members of the choir performed to a very appreciative audience.
They sang a varied programme including pieces by John Rutter, some African songs and a couple of “singalong” items: I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside and It’s A Long Way To Tipperary.
Musical director Samantha Graper said the choir has had a very successful season, in which it has grown bigger and performed a range of interesting music.
She said: “It is always important to remember that music is a gift, which can be uplifting and therapeutic.
“This performance was one of the most enjoyable gigs of the season because it was clearly so appreciated by the audience and we will certainly try to do it again next season.”
Former Gleed Girls’ Technology College and South Holland Post 16 centre student Sarah Hemstock has graduated in BA (Hons) Primary Education from Nottingham Trent University with a 2.1 degree.
Sarah, daughter of very proud parents David and Claire Hemstock, of Moulton, is also a former pupil of John Harrox Primary School in the village.
From September she will be teaching a Year 6 class at a school in Boston.
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
July 4
Liam Croft (20) of Gull Bank, Whaplode Drove. Attempted to enter a dwelling as a trespasser with intent to steal (Moulton Eaugate). £200 fine, £30 v/s, £185 costs.
Paul Huckle (25), of Woolsten Croft Avenue, King’s Lynn. Driving while disqualified (Long Sutton). 12 months conditional discharge, £20 v/s, £50 costs, 6pts. No separate penalty for no insurance and no MOT.
July 5
Dean Arnold (29), of Willesby Road, Spalding. Drug driving (Spalding). £120 fine, £30 v/s, £85 costs, disqualified from driving for 12 months.
Benjamin Coddington (32), of High Street, Morton. Used threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour (Bourne). £120 fine, £30 v/s, £85 costs. Assaulted a police officer. £120 fine, £50 compensation.
Fernandas Mykolaitis (29), of Pennygate, Spalding. Two counts of assault (Spalding). Community order with 120 hours unpaid work and alcohol abstinence monitoring, £100 compensation, £85 v/s, £85 costs.
July 7
Stephen Homewood (49), of Broadgate Road, Sutton St Edmund. Assault (Sutton St Edmund). Community order, building better relationships and rehabilitation activity programmes, £85 v/s, £85 costs. Drink driving. Community order, disqualified from driving for 12 months, building better relationships and rehabilitation activity programmes.
Steven Hubbard (55), of River Lane, Anwick, Sleaford. Speeding (Swineshead Bridge). £40 fine, £30 v/s, £85 costs, 3pts.
July 12
Remigiusz Stefanski (20), of Pode Lane, Old Leake. Possession of amphetamine (Spalding). £165 fine, £30 v/s, £85 costs, drugs destroyed. Drug driving. £250 fine, disqualified from driving for 14 months. No separate penalty for possession of cannabis.
Reginald Thompson (75), of Farrow Avenue, Holbeach. Three counts of making a false representation to obtain pension credit. Community order with 70 hours unpaid work, £85 v/s, £85 costs.
Christopher Hill (29), of Bramble Grove, Stamford. Assault (Bourne). Community order with 80 hours unpaid work, restraining order, £85 compensation, £85 costs.
Terry Parbury (31), of Little London, Spalding. Resisting a police officer (Spalding). £50 fine, £30 v/s.
July 17
Caulton Birkinshaw (21), of Rotten Row, Pinchbeck. Driving without due care and attention (Spalding). £120 fine, £30 v/s, £85 costs, disqualified from driving for 6 months. No insurance. £120 fine. No separate penalty for driving otherwise than in accordance with a licence and two defective tyres.
Russell Evans (51), of South Street, Stanground. Driving otherwise than in accordance with a licence. £220 fine, £30 v/s, £85 costs.
Owen Rogers (25), c/o The Courtyard, Billingborough. Three counts of assault, criminal damage and sending an electronic message that was grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character (Billingborough). Community order with 80 hours unpaid work, rehabilitation activity requirement, restraining order, £200 compensation.
Vanessa Silva (27), of Willesby Road, Spalding. Assault (Spalding). Community order with rehabilitation activity requirement, restraining order, £85 v/s. Commission of a further offence whilst subject to a conditional discharge order.
Lincoln Magistrates’ Court
July 4
Gary Palmer (40), of Aveland Close, Aslackby. No insurance (Bourne). £660 fine, £66 v/s, £85 costs, 6pts.
Martin Peel (52), of St Peters Close, Yaxham, Norfolk. Speeding (Little Sutton). £220 fine, £30 v/s, £85 costs, 3pts.
Steven Wyse (45), of Creek Road, March. Speeding (Cowbit). £220 fine, £30 v/s, £85 costs, 3pts.
July 6
Ali Ahmad, of Falcon Road, Wisbech. Speeding (Horbling). £220 fine, £30 v/s, £85 costs, 3pts.
Kenneth Arnold (65), of Whitmoor Lane, Collingham, Notts. No MOT (Gosberton). £220 fine, £30 v/s, £85 costs.
Jaydene Atkinson-Thomas (21), of St Thomas Road, Spalding. No insurance (Boston). £120 fine, £30 v/s, £85 costs, 6pts. No separate penalty for driving otherwise than in accordance with a licence.
Emma Brocklehurst (36), of Viking Way, Thurlby. Failed to give driver ID (Lincoln). £660 fine, £66 v/s, £85 costs, 6pts.
Gareth Brown(31), of Hardwick Estate, Kirton. Speeding (Leverton). £220 fine, £30 v/s, £85 costs, 3pts.
Kolesovas Deividas (25), of Holbeach Road, Spalding. Failed to give driver ID (Lincoln). £660 fine, £66 v/s, £85 costs, 6pts.
John Mallett (51), of Hockland Road, Tydd St Giles. Speeding (Tydd Gote). £220 fine, £30 v/s, £85 costs, 3pts.
Jorge Pinto (35), of Sydney Street, Boston. Speeding (Sutterton). £186 fine, £30 v/s, £85 costs, 5pts.
Hubert Polak (23), of Pine Street, Heywood, Rochdale. Speeding (Swineshead Bridge). £220 fine, £30 v/s, £85 costs, 3pts.
Marcin Puchalski (24), of Pen Street, Boston. Speeding (Kirton Holme). £146 fine, £30 v/s, £85 costs, 3pts.
Hazel Smart (41), of Thornton Avenue, Bonnybridge, Falkirk. Speeding (Little Sutton). £220 fine, £30 v/s, £85 costs, 3pts. Speeding (Swineshead Bridge). £220 fine, £30 v/s, £85 costs, 3pts.
Lee Stockton (21), of Postland Road, Crowland. Speeding (Crowland). £40 fine, £30 v/s, £30 costs, 3pts.
Rory Sutherland (33), of Woodstock Drive, Cannock, Staffs. Speeding (Cowbit). £142 fine, £30 v/s, £85 costs, 3pts.
James Washington (52), of Osier Road, Spalding. Speeding (Cowbit). £230 fine, £30 v/s, £85 costs, 3pts.
Celebrities from the world of football, acting and singing will be at Holbeach Bank on Saturday as the village celebrates the refurbishment of its football pavilion.
Holbeach Bank FC’s pavilion was built in the 1940s following the club’s birth in the previous decade.
Since then the building has fallen into disrepair, been used as storage, and suffered a number of break-ins.
In 2014 thieves broke into the building and stole a ride-on lawnmower.
Two years before that copper piping, a water tank and shower heads were also stolen.
Recently new management made it their duty to transform the pavilion into a usable changing facility complete with kitchen and community hall.
After obtaining nearly £12,000 in funding to refurbish the run-down, asbestos-filled structure, work is nearly complete.
A football tournament will be held on Saturday to celebrate refurbishments finally being finished.
RebeccaBaxter,Holbeach Bank FC secretary, said: “The club was established around roughly 1930 so it’s a real grassroots little village team.
“The pavilion was built for the football club but for the past 10 years it hasn’t been loved. It hasn’t quite become derelict but it was just being used as a store.
“On Saturday, the little tournament kick off is 10am and the main charity match is 3.30pm. Evening entertainment is yet to be finalised but will go on until 11pm. We’re still confirming bands. Entry is £5 for adults and under 12s are free.”
Celebrity faces due to appear during the tournament include Alan Kennedy (Liverpool football legend), Danny Miller (Emmerdale star) and Jack Quickendale (X-Factor and I’m a Celeb star).
Rebecca continued: “In the last couple of years new management have taken over and spoken to a new committee and the local community.
“They’ve applied for funds from Tesco and other charities and were lucky enough to obtain money to upgrade the pavillion.
“From April of this year the pavilion has been gutted and refurbished and a new community hall has been put in with disabled toilets and a kitchen.
“There’s a referee room where referees can change and shower in their own private space. Ultimately the pavillion is now a nice area for the teams to use.”
Rebecca believes the break-ins suffered over the years affected the community’s trust in the building, as items left overnight were at risk.
She added: “There was a break-in around five or six years ago where various items were stolen and damage caused inside.
“It was made safe but people lost faith in the area and we’ve been restoring faith in it since.
“We were given £8,000 by Tesco, and £1,000 from Chosen. The local council donated a little bit of money and the others are personal donations.
“Altogether we raised around £12,000.”
After the pavilion is completed residents of Holbeach Bank will have a new community hall to put on events.
The building will also give Holbeach Bank Football Club, and other teams a boost as the pavilion offers players a nice place to relax before and after matches.
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Fundraiser for Holbeach Bank village pavilion
Forward progress on improved sports pavilion in Holbeach Bank
Smoking illegal tobacco causes more deaths as it keeps burning for longer, Spalding firefighters have warned.
More people die in fires caused by smoking than any other single reason according to government statistics.
A third (36 per cent) of all fire related deaths were because of ‘smoking materials’.
This means habits such as smoking whilst drinking alcohol, or smoking in bed are causing a large majority of deaths as people fall asleep without putting out their cigarette.
Spalding’s firefighters tweeted this week to warn of the dangers of illegal tobacco which takes longer to burn out.
Their tweet read: “Think u save a few quid buying #IllegalTobacco? Think again! They keep burning and are more likely to start a fire.”
The tweet comes after Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue released a statement calling for more care to be taken when smoking.
They listed a number of risks, including smoking in bed, when drowsy, leaving a lit cigarette, not using a proper ashtray or having lighters around children.
A spokesman for Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue said: “Smoking can kill you very quickly. More people die in fires caused by smoking than in fires with any other single cause.
“Tobacco keeps burning. Tobacco is manufactured to stay alight, especially cigarette tobacco. It can quietly smoulder out of sight, starting a slow, deadly fire.
“People often smoke late at night when they’re tired or have been drinking. They often fall asleep while smoking or they don’t notice that a cigarette is still burning.”
Firefighters are eager to warn smokers of the dangers of smoking without considering possible risks.
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Spalding Guardian columnist and madcap inventor John Ward has designed a swimming pool for the birds that visit his Moulton Seas End garden!
Originally a shop-bought bird bath, John adapted it using some left-over plywood, a Poundland paint roller tray and some ‘other bits and bobs found in the shed’.
The pool-style bird bath now has a diving board, ladder and sun longer, plus a beach ball, which was a cat’s toy that became surplus to the pet’s requirements.
The ladder was made from a plastic coat hanger, the diving board from an aspirin bottle lid and a foam off-cut and the sun lounger from lolly sticks.
The weight of the wrought iron stand means it will not blow over in the wind and special fitted valves mean it won’t overfill when it rains.
John told the Free Press: “So far the birds are a bit wary of using it but one or two are testing the water.
“So it’s just a question of time before we get ‘standing room only’ and ‘mind where you point that beak’ signs put up.”
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