Country house is the setting for new business ventures
The grade II listed St Nicholas House at Deeping St Nicholas has a new lease of life with the opening of a restaurant/cafe and hair salon.A beauty salon will be added towards the end of this month, to...
View ArticleWorker killed in knife attack
A man stabbed a Holbeach flower packer to death after going to the aid of a young woman who was walking home after a drunken night out.Stephen Sleaford (38) is alleged to have knifed Janusz Smoderek...
View ArticleTalks resume on waterway link project
Talks with landowners resume at the end of this month to open the way for a river link between Donington and Surfleet.The Environment Agency has identified a “broad corridor” to connect the Black...
View Article‘Don’t bury your head over debt’
Residents in South Holland are being urged to seek help before post Christmas debts spiral out of control.In just a couple of weeks, credit card bills will start falling on doormats across the...
View ArticleMan in night time pub raid
A man helped steal radiators in a night time metal raid at Long Sutton’s closed Crown and Woolpack pub.Luke Portor (22), of Barge Close, Spalding, went off with a friend in a van at midnight after his...
View Article‘Shape up to avoid crisis in hospitals’
Health bosses in Lincolnshire are putting their weight behind plans to avoid a crisis in hospitals serving the obese in South Holland.According to a study by the Royal College of Physicians, doctors...
View ArticleMan threatened to ‘knife’ his sister in row
A man grieving over his wife’s suicide attacked his sister at their mother’s home and threatened to knife her.Stephen Pite (43) still hasn’t come to terms with the loss of his wife four years ago, is...
View ArticleGedney Dyke’s historic buildings
The Victorian mill and the mill house at Gedney Dyke are currently empty, the house currently being sold by Pygott & Crone.Despite its dilapidated condition, there are still some original features...
View ArticleHarley’s gifts to children in refuge
A six-year-old made Christmas a bit more special for children left with little or nothing.Harley Lowndes, of Market Deeping, inspired by television adverts about poor children across the world, told...
View Article‘L’ plates wouldn’t stick
A man driving in Sutton Bridge without ‘L’ plates told magistrates they wouldn’t stick to his fibreglass car.Mantas Savickas (18), of Blake Court, Swaffham, was fined £37 and ordered to pay £15 costs...
View ArticleASB reports set to soar during snow
Reports of anti-social behaviour are set to increase five-fold.Police urge people to remember not everyone likes snowballs.
View ArticleChartered accountants to hold Spalding workshop
Lincolnshire chartered accountant Moore Thompson is inviting business owners to a workshop on Real Time Information (RTI) – a radical change to payroll procedures being introduced from April. RTI will...
View ArticleShare Crowland pictures
Today, locals are more likely to pop into Bridge Hardware for advice before buying a secure door entry system for a public building or to have a key cut.Jeff said: “All we have done since taking over...
View ArticleCar overturns in ditch near Bourne
BREAKING NEWS: Officers are on the scene of an accident on the A15 Folkingham Road just north of Morton, near Bourne, where a car overturned in a ditch.There have been numerous reports of accidents...
View ArticleMan goes to trial on assault charge
A man denies an assault in Spalding on November 30.Mohammed Sarfraz (27), of Summerfield Road, Peterborough, will stand trial on March 19 before Spalding magistrates.
View ArticleCourt Register
The following decisions have been made recently by magistrates at court hearings. In all drink-drive cases the legal limit is 35 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath, or 80 milligrammes...
View Article‘L’ plates wouldn’t stick to fibreglass
A man driving in Sutton Bridge without ‘L’ plates told magistrates they wouldn’t stick to his fibreglass car.Mantas Savickas (18), of Blake Court, Swaffham, was fined £37 and ordered to pay £15 costs...
View ArticleUndergrowth sex and drinks den is cleared
Shrubs have been cleared from a riverside sex and drinking den as the first step in a plan to improve the Double Street side of Spalding’s High Bridge.Spalding Town Forum earmarked the area for...
View ArticleClock is ticking on biomass power station plan decision
Parish councils meet tonight (Tuesday) to consider a joint response to controversial plans for a £300million biomass power station at Wingland.Sutton Bridge Parish Council will host the meeting with no...
View ArticleBREAKING NEWS: Fire crews free trapped van driver
Tuesday 8.45am: Fire crews removed a windscreen to free a trapped driver after a van plunged into a dyke at Beach Lane, Gosberton Risegate, this morning.The casualty was taken by ambulance to...
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