Sexual suggestions to girl (13)
A man made sexual suggestions to a 13 year old girl after contacting her on Facebook, Lincoln Crown Court was told yesterday.Aaron Britchford, who knew the girl, had conversations with her on the...
View ArticleNews on your doorstep in coming week
Spalding Guardian and Lincolnshire Free Press reporters will be out on the road again in the coming week giving you the chance to bring the news to us.Our team of reporters will be out and about in...
View ArticleTough subject made easier
Child cruelty was highlighted when students ran workshops on slavery at a Quadring school. Thomas Cowley High School students used a number of games to teach Quadring Cowley and Brown’s Primary School...
View ArticleMaking music
Music makers at Spalding High School donated £200 to Marie Curie Cancer Care in memory of a former head of music, Jennifer Chappell, who died last year.The sum was raised from the school’s Christmas...
View ArticleSchools working together
Primary schools around Long Sutton got together for their annual school councils’ conference.Organiser Sonya Ripley, head of Tydd St Mary, said this year’s theme was eco-schools and how to make your...
View ArticleGovernment aid with deposits extended now
Seven first-time homeowners were due to move into new Broadgate Homes properties at The Triangle, Wygate Park today with help from the Government’s FirstBuy scheme.Since last week’s Budget the scheme...
View ArticleTrial by winning students
Legal brains at a Long Sutton school were on the right side of the law when they won a countywide competition. Students from Years 8 and 9 at The Peele Community College travelled to Lincoln to compete...
View ArticleSupport for scrap business
A vehicle dismantling business is likely to be allowed to carry on operating after submitting a restrospective planning application.NKR Motors of Gull Bank, Whaplode Drove, had applied for permission...
View ArticleFeedback on patients’ experiences
A troubled hospital trust is changing the way it collects feedback in a bid to improve the service it provides.United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust, which runs Boston’s Pilgrim Hospital among others, is...
View ArticleSuicide verdict on Sutton St James seige man
“Tell my family I only need a black bag. When you pick my body up, you put me in the black bag, you take me to the crem... burn me up and then dump my ashes and that’s all I want.”Sutton St James...
View ArticleTHEY DIED HOLDING HANDS
A husband and wife who owned two care homes were discovered holding hands after they committed suicide in their car.Jaswant Beeharry and Isabel Ibanez-Mahiques died of carbon monoxide poisoning in June...
View ArticleNumber 10 role for John Hayes
John Hayes has been moved from his role as energy minister to a new post as ‘senior parliamentary adviser’.The MP for South Holland and the Deepings has changed positions as part of a move announced by...
View ArticleTop cop’s suspension quashed by judge
BREAKING NEWS THURSDAY 1.30PM: Lincolnshire Police Chief Constable Neil Rhodes has today had his suspension from duty thrown out by a judge.The decision to suspend Mr Rhodes by the county’s Police and...
View ArticleField ideas helping to build a community
Villagers living near a playing field are to be asked their opinions on how it can be used to bring their community together.The large open space between the long-established Thackers Way and Crowson...
View ArticleWind mast at West Pinchbeck gets go ahead
Controversial plans for an 80 metre-high wind monitoring mast – opposed by Energy Minister John Hayes – have been given the go-ahead for farmland at West Pinchbeck.A packed public gallery and a...
View ArticleDrive to fill Red Lion Quarter
Experts have been drafted in to create a multi-million pound education, hospitality and business complex at Spalding’s troubled Red Lion Quarter.Owners of the £7.5million building, Boston College, have...
View ArticleUPDATE: Sutton Bridge Power Station evacuated
The power station at Sutton Bridge (pictured) was evacuated and fire engines called at lunchtime today (Thursday) when an electrical component gave off acrid fumes and triggered alarms.Some 28 staff...
View ArticleHolbeach heating fire
A build-up of oil in the extractor unit of a heating system caused a fire in a house in Holbeach this afternoon (Thursday).Fire crews from Long Sutton, responding to reports of black smoke coming from...
View ArticlePrint company goes large
A Spalding print firm is making a foray into the sign making and display market after spending £30,000 installing a new large-format printer.The Epson SureColor SC-50600 large format printer, which was...
View ArticleWoman to appear at Skegness court in threats to kill case
A 28-year-old woman from Swineshead is due to go before Skegness magistrates next Wednesday in connection with a violent domestic incident in the village.Victoria Keal of Drayton Road is charged with...
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