Police are eager to hear from anyone who knows the whereabouts of Stephen Keith Pickering.
The 42-year-old is wanted on a court warrant issued on October 5 for driving offences.
Pickering has links to Boston and Spalding.
If you know where he is, please call 101 and quote incident 225 of January 2.
Police are concerned about the whereabouts of a woman last seen in Spalding.
Carol Smalley (54) has not been seen since yesterday lunchtime (Wednesday) in the Spalding area. It is believed she may be in Hopton, near Great Yarmouth.
Carol is described as a white female, about 5ft 3in tall. She has short dark hair and is believed to be wearing a burgundy bobble hat, a beige parka-style coat, with light-coloured jeans and black ankle boots.
Nofolk Police are working with local Coastguard and lifeboat teams to try to find her.
Officers are growing concerned for her welfare and are asking anyone who may have information on where Carol may be or anyone who might have seen her to contact Norfolk Police on 999, quoting reference 27 if you think you can help.
Police are preparing to prevent a possible illegal hare coursing competition taking place tomorrow (Friday).
They have received information about The ‘Fur Cup’ – a contest potentially worth tens of thousands of pounds to the winner in breeding rights – as it is likely other hare coursers would want to breed from the winning dog.
At this time it is not clear if this is to take place in Lincolnshire but police are well prepared should hare coursers choose the county as their venue.
The force has officers on standby to operate the police drone, quad bikes and Ford Kuga off-road vehicles as well as support from neighbouring forces. Anyone with information about this event is asked to contact Lincolnshire Police on 101, quoting Incident 151 of January 3.
In addition, police wish to issue a warning to anyone considering visiting Lincolnshire for this competition.
Chief Superintendent Mark Housley says: “You are not welcome in Lincolnshire. We will work with our communities, stakeholders and partners to make Lincolnshire a hostile environment for you.
“Hare coursing is a cruel sport committed by people with little respect for the animals you hunt, the dogs you use and the people you abuse and threaten.
“Our policy of seizing your dogs is an effective deterrent and will continue. We will also seize your vehicles, phones, money and additionally we will use any legislation we can, whether it be criminal or civil, to prosecute you if you are suspected of hare coursing.”
Police are appealing for information as to the whereabouts of a South Holland burglary suspect.
Jake Joseph Albert Boyton (27) is wanted in relation to a commercial burglary offence.
Anybody with any information should contact 101 and say that this information is for DC 98 Nesbit.
Police responsible for the safety of the South Holland and Deepings farming community have adopted a “proportionate, firm and fair” approach to the menace of hare coursing.
All the evidence provided by a half-day patrol with Operation Galileo police officers on Saturday, along with the sometimes life-threatening challenges they face, suggests that such a strategy by Lincolnshire Police may be a wise one.
Make no mistake about it, intimidation, vandalism, harassment, victimisation, reckless driving and even violence are increasingly the tools of the trade for the “modern day hare courser”.
Chief Inspector Jim Tyner, force lead on rural crime for Lincolnshire Police, said: “I’ve been dealing with hare coursing for 25 years and whereas in the past hare coursers would wait for us to walk across the fields with a summons for them to appear in court, now they invariably drive across the fields to get away from us.
“Modern day hare coursers are more willing to use violence and be reckless with their driving in a way that would put our officers and other road users at risk.
“The manner of their driving is similar to that you would see in a gang escaping from an armed robbery and some hare coursers have links with organised crime gangs.
“We’ll continue to evolve our methods and tactics to counter that by targeting the right people, a very hard core of hare coursers who are coming into county, with our policy of seizing dogs, which has deterred a lot of them.”
Saturday saw police from three counties, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire and Northamptonshire, mount a day of action against hare coursers intent on pursuing their illegal pastime.
Officers armed with body-worn cameras, all-terrain 4x4 vehicles, Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) technology, microchip scanners to trace the owners of dogs and a drone equipped with thermal imaging capacity were all available for use by the Operation Galileo team.
Sergeant (Sgt) Nick Waters, commended last year for disarming a knifeman in Crowland, said: “South Holland is the mecca of hare coursing because the land we’ve got here, with its vast, open and flat fields, is the ideal grounds on which they can carry out their activities.
“Hare coursers don’t want hills or hedgerows, they need a place where there is a good population of the brown hare, good visibility and the ground is nicely ploughed.
”Your typical hare coursers are middle-aged males, some of whom see it as a God-given right to come down from where they live and go across other people’s fields.
“They take umbrage with anybody who tries to challenge them, with the view that ‘I’m not doing anyone any harm’.”
It took 90 minutes for police to make their first, significant find of an estate car parked outside a pub in Northborough, near Market Deeping.
Inside were two grey Lurchers, one with a scar on its nose, along with binoculars and slip leads, all seen as tell-tale signs of a hare courser.
PC James Perring, South Holland’s rural and wildlife crime officer, said: “If hare coursers are fairly confident they’ve been caught doing something they shouldn’t, we may get a bit of verbal abuse from them.
“But if they don’t think they’ve done anything wrong, they’ll just stop and chat to us about all the ‘wrong hare coursers who are giving us a bad name’.”
The main “action” finally came with a report of hare coursers on a field near the former Blue Bell Inn, Deeping St Nicholas.
Police tried to block the vehicle in but with no clear way of escape, it drove straight across the field and within inches of one of Lincolnshire Police’s new Ford Kugas.
PC Perring said: “There’ll be people who’ll say ‘ram them off the road’.
“But at the back of my mind, I always ask myself ‘what could go wrong’?
“Public safety is our number one priority and we have a duty to look after all road users.”
Ultimately, the success or otherwise of Saturday’s hare coursing day of action is measured by the farmers and their families most at risk from intimidation and violence.
One farmer, not named for their own safety, said: “I’m an innocent party affected by illegal hare coursers who are operating outside of the law.
“But I feel safer now that the 999 service is better.”
Police are to continue tackling shoplifting and disorder in Spalding after increased patrols over the Christmas and New Year period.
Two Spalding retailers reported a “quiet Christmas” as police carried out Operation Vivid in the town.
Sean Convelly, assistant manager of Sainsbury’s, Holland Market, said: “We had two shoplifting attempts of under £1,000, but no major incidents at a time when we normally get bulk shoplifting.
“It was a very quiet Christmas, both in terms of theft activity and from a shop security point of view.”
Linda Helm, manager of Beales, said: “We didn’t really notice any additional shoplifting this year and it’s been much the same as in previous years.”
One person charged under Operation Vivid was Paul Mark Anthony Charrington (47), of no fixed address, who was given a nine-month community order (with 20-day rehabilitation activity requirement) and fined a total of £270.
Charrington, who appeared at Lincoln Magistrates Court on December 14, admitted stealing goods worth £28.50 from Boots in Hall Place, Spalding, on December 13, and nearly £650 worth of items from Savers, also in Hall Place, on December 2.
He also admitted using threatening or abusive words or behaviour to staff at Dominos Pizza in Winsover Road, Spalding, on December 2.
Sergeant Nick Waters, South Holland community beat sergeant, said: “High visibility patrols in relation to Operation Vivid continue across South Holland, targeting shop thefts and anti-social behaviour.
“People can expect to see police on patrols across retail outlets and other locations.”
Before his death, Antonio Passarelli told his son Luigi about his time as a prisoner of war in a camp in Spalding during World War II.
He also spoke for the first time about another son called ‘Tony’ who he said was conceived during his time there.
Now Luigi (62) believes the boy on the tractor in the photograph on this page could be his half-brother and is looking for help in tracking him down or finding out more about him.
He said: “The child’s name should be Tony, or Anthony or Antonio, I’m not sure.
“He should have been born in 1946, on November 17 or November 19.
“My father spoke about him in the last times of his life (he died on January 2016, aged 96).
“From what I’ve been able to reconstruct, after he came back from the UK POW (prisoner of war) camp he continued for some years to have an epistolary contact (via letters) with a woman I have a picture of.
“Unfortunately my mother (Caterina) destroyed all the letters after their marriage. The only things that remained are two pictures.”
One is of the boy on the tractor, and the other of the woman his father remained in contact with.
“During the war my father was a private,” Luigi said.
“He was captured at the beginning of his departure when he arrived in Egypt.
“From what I know he never fired a shot.
“According to his record of service he was called to arms on February 2, 1940, and was captured by the British army on January 4, 1941. If I remember well he was captured in Alessandria in Egypt.
“He was brought to India and then from India was moved to the UK.
“He said that he was in Spalding and worked in the fields.”
Italy originally allied with the Germans during the Second World War at the decision of Prime Minister Benito Mussolini.
After defeating German and Italian forces in North Africa, Allied troops crossed over to Sicily in July 1943 and took the island in thirty-nine days.
Italian leaders deposed Mussolini on July 25, 1943, and six weeks later they withdrew from their alliance with Germany and signed an armistice with the Allies.
Luigi’s father Antonio was born on November 11, 1946 in Tiriolo, in Southern Italy, where Luigi still lives.
“From what I understand,” he added, “my mother forced my father to cut all the links with this son when they married.
“He married her some years after he came back from the UK, in 1949. But she died too this year.”
Luigi also has brothers Giuseppe and Francesco.
He originally put up a post on social media site Reddit, before someone suggested he contact the Spalding Guardian and he hopes readers can help him.
○ If you can help Luigi find out more information about the boy in the photograph you can email him at: passarelli87@hotmail.com
Or contact us at: The editor, Spalding Guardian and Lincolnshire Free Press, Priory House, The Crescent, Spalding, Lincolnshire. PE11 1AB. You can also email via: spaldingeditor@iliffepublishing.co.uk or tweet us.
○ It’s not known exactly where Antonio Passarelli was held as a prisoner of war.
According to research, however, there was a Second World War prisoner of war camp called Fulney Park Camp in Spalding.
In an article written by Ivan Bateman on the South Holland Life website, the camp is said to have been situated at Low Fulney and was recorded as a dispersed German working camp.
In the official government numbering it was called Camp 153.
The article reads: ‘The camp is said to have covered about five or six acres, and included a reinforced concrete communications bunker, a large vehicle servicing workshop with underground fuel storage tanks, a cookhouse and mess, an entertainment hall complete with stage, together with numerous Nissen huts for accommodation, plus a brick built ablutions building.
‘There was also a hut built from insulated panels for use as a medical and sick-bay.
‘The whole site was all served by a purpose built sewage farm, with all the underground pipes being encased in concrete.
‘It was therefore a self-contained unit, and luckily escaped any direct war damage.’
It is also known there was a POW camp in Sutton Bridge.
Police are appealing for witnesses after an incident in Bourne on Tuesday.
At 11.15am, a man described as 5ft 8ins, with short fair hair, and aged between 50 to 60-years-old, reportedly pushed his trolley into a stationary car, causing damage to the front of the vehicle while the driver was sat inside.
This occurred on Abbey Road and is being investigated for criminal damage.
If you saw anything related to the incident, please call 101 and quote incident 122 of January 2.
A young girl inspired by our Ten for 10 Appeal for cerebral palsy sufferer Alice Bates has become an ardent fundraiser.
Lilly-Mai Lincoln (10) has raised just over £540 towards the cost of a life-changing new bathroom for Alice with help from her grandad, Jack Tyrrell, and many generous donors, including Long Sutton Outreach who gave £100.
A £6,000, high-tech bath will enable Alice to soak away aches and pains in complete safety as a fast-drain function will keep the youngster’s head out of the water should she have an epileptic seizure.
We launched our Ten for 10 Appeal in November 2016 as Alice looked forward to her tenth birthday on February 3, and parents Andy and Charlotte were determined to make ten of her dearest wishes come true.
Charlotte said: “Since the Ten for 10 appeal, Lilly-Mai and Alice have met each other quite a few times and have developed a beautiful friendship.”
Alice and her family are amazed Lilly-Mai collected such a big sum at events staged by her grandad, including a Christmas meal for people living alone, a Christmas meal for Long Sutton Men’s Shed and visits by Tydd St Mary School and the public to the Santa Grotto at Jack’s Silverwood Garden Centre.
“Shedders” challenged Jack to wear an elf costume at the Tory association dinner and have his picture taken with council leader Gary Porter, which he did and boosted Lilly-Mai’s total by a further £50.
Charlotte says Lilly-Mai’s £540-plus collection will help towards installation costs.
She said: “Oh wow, that’s a fantastic lot of money and we’re really grateful to Lilly-Mai and to Jack.”
Jack says Alice and Lilly-Mai have a lot in common because they both turned ten in the same month.
Lilly-Mai has a neat way of summing up her pal and says: “She’s nice!”
• Hopefully Alice’s new bathroom will be completed this month thanks to the many generous people who raised thousands over a few days.
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A revised bid to redevelop the derelict Red Cow Hotel at Donington has sparked hope that work will start this year.
In 2016, Market Homes was given planning consent to build 31 apartment style homes on the site – incorporating much of the grade II listed building.
But now the company has dropped the number of homes to 18 and asked for consent to remove the hotel tap bar and “rear projections”, although it intends keeping the facade.
Some homes will be in a courtyard area behind the building and the proposal includes one, two and three-bed flats, townhouses and semi-detached houses.
The Red Cow has been empty for 16 years and rapidly deteriorated with repeated attacks by vandals who have damaged the structure and lit fires there.
The former coaching inn is on the district council’s “at risk” register.
District and parish councillor Jane King believes the fresh planning application is a signal that work could start this year, at last removing a blot on the landscape and salvaging a major part of an important historic building.
Coun King says the eyesore has been a dominant feature in the heart of the village for far too long, and believes it sends out a signal that nobody cares about Donington.
She says the hotel’s condition has put people off moving to the village and it was a millstone around the neck of the Donington In Bloom team because they lost points simply because the hotel was in such a bad state.
Coun King said: “We need to be getting on with this redevelopment and I can’t wait for work to start.”
• Email your views to our editor: jeremy.ransome@iliffepublishing.co.uk
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Donington ‘eyesore’ set for transformation after planning vote
If you spotted a mysterious flashing green light shoot across the sky on New Year’s Eve, you were not the only one.
At first sight it could have been thought to be a firework.
But as the light seemed to fly down to earth, rather than up, it was soon apparent it was something else completely.
It was, in fact, a large fireball meteor, with sightings at 5.33pm above the east coast and from Crowland to Sutton Bridge to Sutterton.
Samantha Anderson posted on our Facebook page: ‘I watched it go over - a lovely sight.’
Sonia Metcalf also posted: ‘We saw it. It was fantastic. The rest of the household said it was a firework but I had a feeling it was a meteor.’
Gary Green posted: ‘I saw it in Sutton Bridge when walking my dog’.
And a post from Claire Dowse read: ‘We saw something in South Kyme on our way to Lincoln on New Year’s Eve. It wasn’t green, it was orange!
‘We have been wondering what it was.’
Another reader said she was on her way home from Boston when she saw the light flashing through the sky over Sutterton.
According to the United Kingdom Meteor Observation Network, there were more than 700 public reports of sightings across the country.
It said that many people reported a green colour with fragmentation at the end.
‘The meteor was apparently moving quite slowly,’ it added on its website.
Some motorists managed to catch it on their dashcams.
A meteor is the burning trail that can be seen on a meteoroid (a small piece of rock that has been broken off an asteroid).
It is also known as a shooting star or falling star.
A fireball is a particularly large or bright meteor.
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Your views on Long Sutton marketplace, public figures, our MP and Brexit.... plus a thanks from the Red Cross.
Why is council wasting cash on assessment?
Just to give a gentle reminder that the officers of South Holland District Council (SHDC) are accountable to others, not just there for their own ego, job or pension.
We here at Long Sutton and district have a very good community, including our shopping area and Friday market.
Friday is the one day of the week when cars go through the town at less than 8mph, not in excess of 30mph as during the rest of the week.
It is at these other times, when there is no control, that these SHDC officers are hiding behind the assessment made by others two years ago that fell through.
With no finances available to spend, they are now looking in their archives, but I too have looked into mine on our free market and found that Lincs County Council, in September 2010 - more than seven years ago - concluded their report assessment was unfounded and should be scrapped.
Do we really need these officers in SHDC, at a time of hardship, spending good money for these assessments, which were already done some seven years ago?
We have three royal charters to protect our market, one going back to King John’s time, and these have to be rescinded by an Act of Parliament.
Despite King John and Magna Carta, we find some of the ‘barons’ still here - by not listening to the community and local elected members.
Tony Button
Daniels Crescent
Long Sutton
More integrity in a bag of cheese and onion crisps
Whether it’s ‘legal porn’ (whatever that is ) or MPs’ dodgy expenses, you would find greater integrity in a bag of cheese and onion crisps than you would in public life in the country today.
To have that sort of material on a work-based computer would guarantee that not only would you be dismissed, you would probably be escorted off the premises ASAP. Clearly a different set of rules apply in La La Land, AKA parliament and what do you know? It’s the whistle blower’s fault!
This country is rotten to the core.
Rick Stringer
Sutton St James
Politics
Can we have less Churchillian pomposity please?
Mr Hayes (South Holland MP), I applaud your patriotism and desire to keep us safe but can we please have less of your Churchillian pomposity, self-promotion and reliance on broad generalities rather that solid fact.
How about your agreement with Gavin Williamson’s comment “A dead terrorist can’t cause any harm to Britain”. Bang goes your 6th commandment. Is that the first chink in your Cristian armour? No, wait... You protest the rights of gays but choose to ignore other Leviticus edicts, along with those in Deuteronomy, Numbers, etc. Want me to list them?
Cherry-picking your Bible and applying its teachings selectively does bring into question your ability to objectively and fully represent your constituents.
Don’t we need political leaders that embody the views of all voters and provide us with fact rather than posturing plus making vague generalities and selectively applying religion?
Mr Hayes, since you took office 20 years ago, life has changed. However you appear to be stuck in an ancient time-warp, cluttered with religious bigotry and the oh-so naive belief that pontification rather than fact best serves us.
Sorry Mr Hayes, you are a political dinosaur. You live in a past world where you quote the likes of the murderers Rhodes and Kitchener plus when Britannia ruled the waves. Time for retirement.
Please, step aside for someone that has a clearer understanding of the modern world. I hear your pension plan is rather good – apparently four times better than the state pension. Take it!
Andrew MacDonald
Lutton
Our passports could have been blue all along anyway
It seems lots of Leave voters locally are celebrating the return of blue passports as a huge victory for Brexit (‘taking back control’, ‘regaining our sovereignty’ etc).
So, what are the facts concerning blue passports?
First, the standards for international passports are set not by the EU but by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), a UN body based in Montreal.
Second, there’s no need for the UK to leave the EU to have blue passports (if we really, really want them). For instance, citizens in Croatia, another EU member, already have blue passports. This is because the EU format was a voluntary agreement (not EU legislation), designed to deliver benefits for travellers and member states alike. Third, changing UK passports from burgundy to blue will cost the UK an estimated £490 million – a substantial sum of money that, personally, I’d prefer to be spent on the NHS instead.
Incidentally, the issue of blue passports neatly illustrates the wider muddled thinking of leading Brexiteers, who rail against “oppressive legislation from Brussels”, without realising that a high percentage of common EU standards and regulations exist because of global international agreements, rather than local EU standards and regulations that successive UK governments have contributed to and agreed to over the past 44 years.
So, if we end up leaving the EU, we’ll still be obliged to follow many of the regulations that Brexiteers vociferously complain about. Moreover, if any of our manufacturers still wish to export to the EU, they’ll still have to conform to EU standards and regulations, whether or not they like them. This is reality. So, no resulting benefits from Brexit whatsoever.
I know this statement of fact may surprise some readers locally. So let me give just one concrete example of something that matters hugely for our food industries in Lincolnshire. Wait for it . . . it’s the global “Codex Alimentarius”. Yes, I recognise few folks locally will have heard of the global Codex Alimentarius – and, obviously, you won’t hear any Brexiteers telling you about this vital international agreement.
So, let me briefly explain. The Codex Alimentarius (Latin for “food code”) is a United Nations and World Health Organisation body that governs all foods, whether processed, semi-processed or raw. It sets international standards for specific foods and covers vital matters, such as food labelling, food hygiene, food additives, pesticide residues, and things like the safety of the products of modern biotechnology. The one essential thing everyone locally needs to understand is that your health depends on the Codex Alimentarius.
Whatever ardent Brexiteers like Andrea Leadsom and Michael Gove, may tell you about their post-Brexit plans for a “bonfire of regulations”, please trust me when I say the UK won’t be burning the Codex Alimentarius anytime soon.
All I ask for is a referendum on the Leave and Remain terms actually available to the UK. When we voted in 2016, the Leave proposition was a string of lies, like “£350m a week” sent to the EU; and unsupported assertions, like “sunlit uplands of prosperity”, “have our cake and eat it”, etc.
I say: “Let the people decide, once they know what they’re actually voting for.”
How can anyone possibly object to this suggestion? If the terms of Brexit are as fabulous as the Brexiteers still assure us they will be (ie “they need us more than we need them”), then everyone, including me, will enthusiastically vote for Brexit. Problem solved. End of story.
Alan Meekings
via email
VOLUNTEERS
Thanks from the Red Cross
On behalf of the British Red Cross in Lincolnshire, thanks to our incredible volunteers across the region who have once again risen to the challenges 2017 has thrown our way.
Unfortunately the last 12 months has seen a succession of emergencies across the UK including terror attacks, floods and fires. No matter what the incident, volunteers across the county have been willing to drop everything and offer help.
We have launched Community Reserve Volunteers – an easy way to volunteer in your community when a crisis hits. It only takes ten minutes to sign up and you’d only be called on in a big local emergency. Find out more at www.redcross.org.uk/reserves.
Bernice Jones
British Red Cross
Hayes in the House: By MP John Hayes
What will be our impression of 2017 as it joins the pages of history? Certainly, the last year has witnessed its share of tragedy.
The consequences of the appalling fire at Grenfell Tower will be felt for many years. The terror attacks in London, Manchester and elsewhere provided stark reminders of the danger of our times, and fresh impetus to rid ourselves of the menace of Islamist extremism.
British servicemen have been killed in action overseas once again this year in the defence of that which we hold dear, and they deserve our gratitude and admiration for their willingness to make great sacrifices on our behalf.
We should all – at this time of year so closely associated with the family – reflect on those whose lives have been damaged by war and terror.
In the face of such challenges, however, we so often see the very best of Britain. In adversity, we find courage; in sorrow, we find strength.
Those virtues have their foundations in that which is constant in our lives: love for our families, the worth of work and, more widely, our sense of belonging to communities and duty to our country, nourishing the desire to good for others.
All this is personified by Her Majesty The Queen, whose service to the nation surely inspires us each and every year.
Most of all, as we look forward to 2018, our resolve comes from our indomitable sense of hope. It is the bedrock which compels us not to settle for the world as it is, but to strive to remake it as it ought to be.
There is no pre-ordained course of history – no script written for us – so the years to come will be what we make them. This is much more than mere wishful thinking, rather it is the impulse which tells us that promise awaits if only we have the focus and fearlessness to make it true.
With hope, we can look forward confidently to the year before us. We cannot know exactly what the next 12 months will bring, but we can be certain that an escape from socially corrosive cynicism provided by faith-filled hopefulness best equips us to meet the challenges which lay ahead.
Whether it is the Government dealing with Brexit negotiations, or individuals making life and career choices, a courageous belief in the motivating power of hope is the surest path to a brighter tomorrow.
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A round-up of recent appearances at Boston and Lincoln magistrates’ courts.
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
November 22
Arkadiusz Majewski (47), of King Street, Kirton. Stole a bottle of red wine worth £5.99 belonging to Co-op (Kirton). 12 months conditional discharge, £20 v/s, £85 costs. Stole two bottles of red wine worth £11.98 belonging to Co-op (Kirton). 12 months conditional discharge.
Lincoln Magistrates’ Court
November 2
Peter Barford (48), of Nansen Road, Ipswich. Speeding (Whaplode). £220 fine, £30 v/s, £85 costs, 3pts.
Gillian Bowden (54), of Frank Godley Court, Etfield Grove, Sidcup. Speeding (Deeping St Nicholas). £100 fine, £30 v/s, 3pts.
Lynn Callow (53), of Station Road, Old Leake. Speeding (Crowland/Cowbit). £220 fine, £30 v/s, £85 costs, 3pts.
Stephen Christie (39), of London Road, Wyberton. Driving without due care and attention (Boston). £261 fine, £30 v/s, £85 costs.
Fayzal Dass (27), of Raleigh Close, Eaton Socon. Speeding (Crowland/Cowbit). £70 fine, £30 v/s, 3pts.
Harvey Singh (37), of High Street, Westoning, Bedford. Speeding (Crowland). £102 fine, £30 v/s, £85 costs, 6pts.
November 3
David Jackson (33), of Roman Bank, Long Sutton. Speeding (Crowland). £96 fine, £30 v/s, £85 costs, 3pts.
November 6
Norman Charumbira (53) of Camwood Crescent, Lincoln. Speeding (Swineshead Bridge). £54 fine, £30 v/s, £85 costs, disqualified form driving for 6 months.
Benjamin Zephaniah (59), of Roman Road, Moulton Chapel. Speeding (Crowland). £217 fine, £30 v/s, £85 costs, 3pts.
Sally Carpenter (41), of Double Street, Spalding. Stole fragrances worth £118 belonging to Hills Department Store (Spalding). £118 compensation, detention deemed served by reason of time detained in courthouse.
John Harding (45), The Meadows, Spalding. Two counts of theft: Stole car accessories worth £25 from Halfords and cosmetics worth £59.90 from Lloyds Chemists. Failure to surrender to bail. Breach of conditional discharge issued 3/5/17; breach of condition discharge issued 7/7/16. Dealt with as for original offence: community order made.
November 7
William Elkington (18), of Bracken Road, Swinderby. Driving without due care and attention (Thurlby). £93 fine, £30 v/s, £85 costs, 8pts. No separate penalty for no insurance.
Lee Hannah (51), of Mill Lane, Skegness. Speeding (Crowland). £100 fine, £30 v/s, £85 costs, 3pts.
Stephen Hodge (55), of Rosyth Avenue, Orton Southgate. Speeding (Crowland/Cowbit). £383 fine, £38 v/s, £85 costs, 5pts.
Rui Rodrigues (34), of St Thomas Road, Spalding. No insurance (Moulton Seas End). £660 fine, £359 compensation, £66 v/s, £85 costs, 8pts. No separate penalty for driving without due care and attention.
November 8
Nicholas Cartlidge (29), of Welbeck Drive, Spalding. Assaulting a police officer (Tongue End). £300 fine, £200 compensation, £30 v/s, £350 costs. Failed to surrender to custody. £50 fine. No separate penalty for resisting two police officers.
Viktors Lahs (30), of Abbey Path, Spalding. Assault (Spalding). 8 weeks prison sentence, £115 v/s. Assault. 4 weeks prison sentence concurrent. Assault. 8 weeks prison sentence consecutive.
November 10
Christopher Harrison (53), of Hadleigh Road, Immingham. Speeding (Crowland/Cowbit). £220 fine, £30 v/s, £85 costs, 3pts.
Marcin Kukula (37), of Pennygate, Spalding. Speeding (Leverton). £146 fine, £30 v/s, £85 costs, 3pts.
Eitvydas Laimutavicius (30), of Clarence Road, Wisbech. Speeding (Crowland). £220 fine, £30 v/s, £85 costs, 3pts.
Gary O’Connor (50), of Anderson Crescent, Godmanchester. Speeding (Crowland). £166 fine, £30 v/s, £85 costs, 3pts.
November 11
John Hopkins (41), of NFA. Stole eight cans of lager, bag of cooked chicken and power charger, worth £48 belonging to Sainsbury’s (Spalding). £80 fine, £30 v/s, £85 costs. Used threatening or abusive words or behaviour or disorderly behaviour at Sainsbury’s. 12 months conditional discharge. Failed to surrender to custody (Boston). £80 fine.
Amanda Scales (34), of St Johns Road, Spalding. Stole perfumes worth £55 belonging to Lloyds Pharmacy (Spalding). £55 compensation.
November 13
Ben Grimwood (30), of Upsall Road, Butterwick. No insurance (Wyberton). £300 fine, £30 v/s, £85 costs, disqualified from driving for 6 months.
Marek Horvath (33), of St Thomas Road, Spalding. Failed to give driver ID (Lincoln). £660 fine, £66 v/s, £85 costs, disqualified from driving for 12 months. Three no separate penalties for failing to give driver ID with 6pts.
Nigel Isaac (44), of School Lane, Yardley Gobion, Towcester. Speeding (Crowland). £293 fine, £30 v/s, £85 costs, disqualified from driving for 6 months.
November 14
Mihails Burkevics (20), of Pilgrims Way, Spalding. Driving without due care and attention (Spalding). £660 fine, £66 v/s, £85 costs, 9pts.
Stefan Dascalu (20), of Washway Road, Holbeach. No insurance (Holbeach). £660 fine, £66 v/s, £85 costs, 6pts. No penalty for no MOT.
Christian Trip (32), of Dalston Walk, Northampton. Speeding (Whaplode). £115 fine, £30 v/s, £85 costs, 3pts.
Levi Twinley (45), of Ropers Gate, Gedney. Speeding (Crowland). £220 fine, £30 v/s, £85 costs, 3pts.
November 15
Lewis Parnham (24), of St Pauls Road, Spalding. Assaulted a police constable (Lincoln). £100 compensation. No separate penalty for failing to surrender to custody. No separate penalty for being drunk and disorderly and for damaging a Perspex screen, plant pot and hand sanitiser worth £526.13 belonging to Peter Hodgkinson Centre (Lincoln).
A tragic start to 1918 was reported in the Lincolshire Free Press....
A sad drowning tragedy occurred when a Pinchbeck boy drowned in the River Glen.
Norman Webster (8), son of farmer Mr John Webster, was sliding on the frozen river when the ice cracked and he plunged into the icy water.
The inquest was heard at the Red Lion Inn, Pinchbeck.
Mr Webster was the first witness called and said that on learning of his son’s accident, he went to the spot and entered the water, but failed to find any sign of the body.
Dr Burton, a medical practitioner residing at Pinchbeck, said he was called to attend to Norman Webster shortly after five o’clock and on examining the body, found life extinct.
The body had been in the water about an hour and death was due to drowning.
Phillip Russell, miller’s carter, of Pinchbeck, said he was at the mill when someone came and told him of the accident. Mr Russell assisted to drag for and and recover the body.
Cecil Webster (10), brother of the deceased, said he and his brother were on their way home about four o’clock and his brother went on the ice and walked along the middle of the river until close to the footbridge, where the ice cracked and he fell through.
They were about a hundred yards from home.
The younger boy clung to the ice while his brother ran to fetch Mr Wright, who lived close by.
The father was also called, but when he arrived, the boy was under water.
The verdict recorded was ‘death by misadventure’.
IN THE PICTURE: Baby love from nurse
The above photograph was submitted to the Lincs Free Press by Woodruff N White, of Penny Hill, Holbeach.
It shows a nurse - Mr Woodruff’s daughter, who was trained at the City of London Hospital - caring for babies of soldiers, while their fathers were at war.
Pictured are babies who were Australian, Canadian, South African, American and two orphans.
A FAMILY OF DISTINCTION
A family record for war decorations was created by a former Spalding resident.
The father, Chief Petty Officer J T Wren, and his son, Jack, also serving in the Navy, were both awarded the Distinguished Service Medal.
The son’s medal was in connection with the Jutland Battle, when he was only16 years of age and the father for submarine chasing.
The father has also been recommended for the Albert Medal in gold.
CHRISTMAS DAY DERBY
A football match was held on Snowden Field, Crowland, on Christmas Day, between the Crowland and Thorney teams.
The result went in favour of the home team, who scored five goals to Thorney’s none.
We look back at the Lincs Free Press this week in 1999.
William Smith made his entrance to the world on New Year’s Day 1999.
Sarah Smith (34) and husband Tom (34) were expecting their first child on January 1 - and he turned up spot on schedule.
William was born at Peterborough District Hospital at 6.33am, weighing 7lb 2oz.
The couple, from Langtoft, said William was “a good baby and was doing well”.
Mrs Smith said at the time: “It will be exciting next year when he celebrates his first birthday on the millennium.”
Young bookworm Paul wins library prize
Bookworm Paul Halon (7) was the winner of a book voucher after reading 10 books during the school holidays.
Paul, a member of Holbeach Library, completed an activity sheet each time he read a book, which qualified him for an entry in the prize draw for the £10 voucher.
The scheme was aimed at getting children to pick up a book and to enjoy reading in their spare time.
Liaison officer Bev Sims said the response had been “very good”.
FILM REVIEW: JUMANJI: WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE (12A) SHOWCASE CINEMA DE LUX PETERBOROUGH, OUT NOW
CAST: DWAYNE JOHNSON, JACK BLACK, KEVIN HART, KAREN GILLAN, NICK JONAS, BOBBY CANNAVALE, ALEX WOLFF, SER’DARIUS BLAIN, MADISON ISEMAN, MORGAN TURNER, RHYS DARBY & COLIN HANKS
RUNNING TIME: 1 HR 59 MINS
DIRECTOR: JAKE KASDAN
This sequel to the classic Robin Williams adventure is family entertainment at its finest.
Spot-on casting, the right mix of action and comedy, simple straight-to-the-point storytelling – and most importantly something for all ages.
Set 20 years after the events of the first film, the infamous board game that turned the life of Williams’ Alan Parrish upside-down in the original, has re-emerged as a video game.
And when four teenagers in detention tasked with cleaning out an old disused school room stumble across it, they get sucked into the game like Parrish did before – becoming the adult avatars they have chosen.
Alex Wolff’s Spencer changes into Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson’s muscle-bound archaeologist Dr Smolder Bravestone, Ser’Darius Blain’s Anthony turns into Kevin Hart’s short zoologist Franklin ‘Mouse’ Finbar, Morgan Turner’s Martha evolves into Karen Gillan’s (Guardians of the Galaxy) commando Ruby Roundhouse, and Madison Iseman’s Bethany, erm, ends up inside the body of a portly middle-aged man, in the form of Jack Black’s Professor Sheldon Oberon.
And in this virtual jungle expanse, they must join forces – with Bobby Cannavale’s corrupt explorer Van Pelt in pursuit – to complete the game without losing all of their three lives, or risk being stuck in there forever.
And that includes getting past hippos, crocodiles, jaguars, and other critters that makes this one unenviable task.
Fortunately the four actors involved couldn’t be more suitably matched as they seamlessly spin off each other with a blend that oozes family movie perfection out of almost every pore – led by the always dependable presence of Johnson – with all of the cast getting time to shine.
Cannavale’s main villain is a little on the weak side – almost being used as a token plot device than anything else – and there’s the obvious clichés of four teenagers bonding after putting their real-life woes to one side, but this really is a delightful follow-up to the first film.
In fact, it’s actually even better – and a new favourite guilty pleasure to boot.
You’ll definitely be able to smell what Johnson and Co are cookin’.
Ratings:
4/5 Gavin Miller
Grace Millican 4.5/5
AJ Millican (11) 5/5
Zac Lowe (10) 4.5/5
FILM REVIEW: PITCH PERFECT 3 (12A) SHOWCASE CINEMA DE LUX PETERBOROUGH, OUT NOW
CAST: ANNA KENDRICK, REBEL WILSON, BRITTANY SNOW, HAILEE STEINFELD, ANNA CAMP, JOHN LITHGOW, ELIZABETH BANKS, JOHN MICHAEL HIGGINS, GUY BURNET, RUBY ROSE, MATT LANTER, ESTER DEAN, HANA MAE LEE, ALEXIS KNAPP, CHRISSIE FIT, KELLEY JAKLE, SHELLEY REGNER & DJ KHALED
RUNNING TIME: 1 HR 33 MINS
DIRECTOR: TRISH SIE
Third time’s definitely not a charm for the successful Pitch Perfect franchise – as the reportedly final instalment ends the series on a bit of a whimper.
The noteworthy original and (to a lesser extent) sequel, helped turn the Anna Kendrick-led ‘A Capella’ group the Bellas into a musical-interjected money-spinner – but unfortunately the third film simply runs out of ideas.
That’s not to say it isn’t serviceable fare – the teenage girl age demographic it’s aimed at will still find plenty to enjoy here – but it doesn’t have that killer ‘Flashlight’ moment.
It doesn’t help that the joke ‘hit rate’ of Rebel Wilson’s Fat Amy has massively declined with multiple misfires, as the Bellas – including the likes of Hailee Steinfeld, Brittany Snow and Amy Camp – just go through the motions.
After graduating college, the members of the group all realise they hate their jobs, and decide to get back together on the back of a US Armed Services tour – looking to grab the attention of pop guru DJ Khaled (it’s almost a movie vehicle for him more than anything else).
In the process several tepid sub-plots rear their heads as the movie just rolls from one set-piece to the next: Fat Amy’s poor side story with her cringeworthy Aussie con-man Dad (John Lithgow); Beca’s (Kendrick) potential romance with Khaled’s side-kick Theo (former Hollyoaks star Guy Burnet); ditto between Chloe (Snow) and an army officer (Matt Lantner); and a lacklustre rivalry with a girl band (who actually play instruments) led by John Wick star Ruby Rose.
But all this is hastily cobbled together among a couple of decent musical numbers to milk the last bit of cash out of the Pitch Perfect cow.
Which leaves the final movie pitch far from perfect.
Ratings:
2.5/5 Gavin Miller
Mia Millican (13) 4.5/5
Olivia Goodale (12) 4/5
MAN’S BEST FRIEND: A weekly column from the South Lincs Centre of Jerry Green Dog Rescue
Exciting news to ring in the new year. We have done the math and added up our totals and are super pleased to tell you that across our five centres we managed to rehome an astounding 1,005 dogs in 2017, which is our highest number yet.
That is 1,005 dogs that are now in their forever homes, snuggled up to their new best friend. We couldn’t be happier for our new families out there.
Would you like to be a part of what we do and help our dogs in need? How about making an amazing new year’s resolution to come and volunteer with us?
We have lots of different roles to suit every person, from dog walking or admin assistant, to events support and community fundraiser.
We can even create a role to suit your skills. Handy with a camera? How about popping by to take some fantastic shots of our dogs to help them find a new home?
The great thing about volunteering with us is that once you are inducted with us you can pop by as regularly or as much as you can spare.
So if you have a really hectic life but still want to do something you can pop by for an odd hour here and there at a time to suit you.
It will be fantastic for the CV and also for the soul. We literally wouldn’t be able to run without our fantastic volunteers, who do a great job of making our dogs feel loved when all hope seems lost.
For more information or to sign up, check out our volunteering section on our brand new website www.jerrygreendogs.org.uk or give the team a call on 01205 260546.
DOG OF THE WEEK: JACK
Hi, I’m Jack and I am a 15-year-old Jack Russell Terrier, but please don’t be put off by my age because I am very young at heart! I love nothing more that pottering the day away using my very sophisticated nose to explore all of my surroundings.
I love food and my Jerry Green friends say that the best way to my heart is with a piece of hot dog. I am looking for a home where I will have a loving family, food and a nice warm bed by the fire (or a radiator will do).
I want a quiet pet- and child-free home as I would like my retirement years to be quiet and relaxing.
A kennel is no place for a gentleman of my age and stature so if you can’t adopt me could you perhaps foster me while I look for my forever home? I think a nice comfy sofa, some treats and a bit of affection could perhaps take the sting out of the fact no one has come forward to take me home yet. I will say thank you with my wagging tail and super adorable looks of love.
Call 01205 260546 or email slincs@jerrygreendogs.org.uk
THERENA’S TRAINING TIP
No matter the genetic makeup, all dogs have some level of motivation to chew. It is a behaviour derived from early dogs having to tear and chew up their food.
Chewing in wild dogs often signalled the end of a hunt which would flood the brain with endorphins that made them feel relaxed, fulfilled and sometimes even sleepy.
Modern dogs don’t usually have many opportunities to go hunting so they have developed play behaviours that are essentially hunting behaviours adapted to fit their new lifestyles.
Some dogs will rarely chew while others may have a high motivation to chew at all times.
Meal times
While complete diets have been a great step forwards in terms of dog health, it takes most dogs just a few minutes to eat their meals.
They spend less time chewing which means there are less endorphins released in the brain; it just doesn’t achieve the same effect as an hour chewing on something.
There are a lot of food puzzles available to help make meal times more fun for dogs. Some toys can be stuffed and frozen for a dog to lick at and others need to be pushed around to release food. These are all great ways to enrich your dogs’ meals.
Making meal times more interesting not only helps to give your dog a boost in fulfilling endorphins but it also takes longer and provides a great mental workout; especially useful for energetic dogs, dogs who eat very quickly and dogs that tend to chew a lot.
• Next week we can look at providing alternatives for our dogs to chew.
• 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 on 01205 260546.
Dr Kevin Hill sugests it’s time to give up the booze in HEALTH MATTERS...
January is a time when many of us want to give our body a break and start looking after our health again.
Cutting the amount of alcohol you consume is a good start and a whole month off alcohol is really good for your health.
It boosts your energy levels and improves your sleep, but it also gives you a sense of achievement and can save you money too.
Of those taking part last year:
79 per cent saved money;
62 per cent slept better and had more energy; and
49 per cent lost weight.
NHS South Lincolnshire CCG is encouraging people living and working in the area to take a break from alcohol by signing up for Dry January.
Dr Kevin Hill, GP and Chair of South Lincolnshire CCG said: “Last January, one in six people participated in Dry January and tens of thousands of people signed up online.
“Dry January is not about never drinking again, it just gives you the opportunity to give your body a break from alcohol, so why not get involved in 2017 and start experiencing the benefits?”
Dry January is a campaign by Alcohol Concern, supported by Public Health England, to encourage people to take a break from drinking for a month.
To sign up for Dry January and register for tips and tools to make the most of the month, visit www.dryjanuary.org.uk
More information about drinking less is also available on www.nhs.uk
Alcohol is the leading cause of preventable ill health and death in 15 to 49 year olds and is a factor in more than 60 medical conditions, including liver disease, a number of cancers and depression.