Food flooding in for festive feast
SHOPPERS in Spalding have been lending their support to a campaign to make Christmas extra special this year – and we’re asking you to join in too.Items worth more than £240 were handed over to...
View ArticleTeens give park views
TEENAGERS have blamed boredom for why they feel Holbeach’s Carter’s Park suffers from vandalism.A total of 87 out of 148 young people aged between 11 and 15 gave the reason as part of a survey carried...
View Article£400,000 windfall for Lincolnshire Co-op members
A PRIMARY school and a parish council are among community groups that have benefited from grants totalling more than £24,500 dished out by Lincolnshire Co-op.As part of the company’s 150th birthday...
View ArticleHealth meeting
THE board for Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust will meet on Tuesday.The meeting will take place at 1pm in the Royal Oak Boardroom, Bridge House, The Point, Sleaford.The regular...
View ArticleBusiness help for hockey club
LONG Sutton Juniors benefited from new training balls and cones donated to them by Wingland Foods Community Fund. Wingland Foods employee Sarah Thorpe, whose son goes to junior coaching, applied to the...
View ArticleDo you own this land in Bourne?
THE Environment Agency is appealing for the owner of a small area of land in Bourne to come forward.Grass and weed-cutting works are planned on the banks of Car Dyke, near Victor Way, and access is...
View ArticleFood and drink stolen
CATERING equipment, food and cans of drink were stolen during a burglary in Spalding.Thieves got into a garage on Beaufort Drive by forcing the doors with a crowbar between 8pm on Monday and 8am the...
View ArticleHunt on to allow grave restoration
THE search is on for the owner of a dilapidated gravestone so work can be done to restore it.The Gedney Drove End and Dawsmere Branch of the Royal British Legion wants to repair the gravestone for free...
View ArticleHolbeach hotel has fight to keep licence
POLICE have forced a review of the premises licence for The Chequers Hotel in Holbeach following vicious attacks, mass fights involving up to 20 people throwing bottles and under-age drinking.Officers...
View Article£420,000 to use hospital car park
PATIENTS and visitors to Boston’s Pilgrim Hospital shelled out almost £420,000 to use its car parks between January and October this year.The figure, revealed as the result of a Freedom of Information...
View ArticleNew police post at community centre
POLICE officers should be on hand every day to deal with problems in Sutton Bridge when a new community centre opens this weekend.Two councillors who represent the Sutton Bridge ward on South Holland...
View ArticlePupils can’t wait for summer to try out their new willow shelter
YOUNGSTERS in Whaplode can’t wait for the summer to try out their new living willow structure.Whaplode Primary School is developing a sensory garden and the new structure has been installed as part of...
View ArticleArrest over cycle theft
POLICE community support officers patrolling on bikes came across a suspected cycle thief.PCSOs Ryan Ellis and Paul Coupland were cycling in the Willow Road area of Spalding when they found three men...
View ArticleSutton Bridge off-licence faces hearing
AN off-licence in Sutton Bridge has had its licence put under review after police and trading standards conducted a secret camera “sting” in which children were sold alcohol and tobacco.The man who...
View ArticleMan tried to hug 16-year-old girl
“NOT being a gentleman” to a 16-year-old girl landed a Spalding resident in court.Adrian Krzyczowski (20) was drunk when he tried to hug the girl as she walked past him outside Ladbrokes in the town’s...
View ArticleDrove friend while banned
ATTEMPTING to drive a friend to an emergency dentist appointment despite being banned from getting behind the wheel led to police stopping Saulius Saulys.Saulys (35), whose address was listed as the...
View ArticleShort changed
FOOTBALLERS at Sutton Bridge found their wallets had been emptied when they returned to the changing rooms at the end of a match.Jenny Sutton, speaking at the public forum before the start of the...
View ArticleJailed for biting his partner
A MAN who attacked his partner after getting drunk at a party has been jailed for 15 months.Martin Whitehouse suddenly leaned over and bit his girlfriend Kharis Barber on the cheek during the party at...
View ArticleFamily having to come to terms with second tragedy
THE mother of a teenager who died in a car crash three years ago is now grieving the loss of her husband.Anna Hackett has paid tribute to “loving husband and devoted father” Ian after he died in what...
View ArticleFeedback on countywide parking proposal
ONLY 133 people across the whole county responded to a survey about plans for a ‘traffic warden’ replacement scheme.The consultation on a new draft parking policy took place over the summer and of the...
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