STUDENT WRITERS: If CSA is going to charge, make it fair
I HAVE been a mother for approximately 1,825 days (that’s five years, to save you the maths!) and I have spent at least half that number of days on the phone to the Child Support Agency. I have...
View ArticleMan will face trial for Internet fraud
BOURNE man Kelvin Ralph faces trial at Lincoln Crown Court for fraud charges where he is alleged to have opened Internet bank accounts in other names intending to take out loans totalling thousands of...
View ArticleDistrict council in firing line
SUTTON Bridge Parish Council chairman Christopher Brandon-King claims South Holland District Council “appears” to have acted beyond its legal authority by adding £150,000 of the Section 106 power...
View Article£460 bill for racially abusing taxi driver
SELF-employed door fitter Victor Bull swore at an Asian taxi driver – telling him to go back where he came from – while a policewoman was trying to help him get a ride home.Victor Bull (34), of Beech...
View ArticleAnger over workmen’s snow fun
RESIDENTS and motorists were left fuming as workmen appeared to down tools to have a bit of fun in the snow.During Sunday the men who are currently working on the closed-off Woolram Wygate crossing in...
View ArticleRecycling waste sold in new £500,000 deal
ROCKETING values of household recycling waste will mean an extra £500,000 a year in council coffers for the next three years.South Holland District Council has struck a new deal with an as yet unnamed...
View ArticleDrove to help friend after glasses of wine
A MAN who went to pick a friend up from work after drinking three glasses of wine has been banned from driving for three years.Spalding magistrates heard how Ludwig Ochurub (29) of Market Place, Long...
View ArticleConcern at new village homes
DEVELOPERS’ plans to build 35 new homes in Pinchbeck have caused concern among those living nearby.A number of residents near to Larkfleet Homes’ Viscount Close estate have written to South Holland...
View ArticleDog rescue
SPECIALIST water rescue teams were called to reports of a dog on the ice at South Forty Foot Drain on Saturday.Swift water rescue teams from Spalding and Bourne, along with a fire crew from Donington,...
View ArticleDriver ‘critical’
A HOLBEACH man remains in critical condition after a road crash at Deeping St Nicholas on Tuesday.The 21-year-old, who was driving a Volkswagen Corrado, suffered multiple fractures and spinal injuries...
View ArticleARMED SIEGE TRAGEDY: Our questions go unanswered
WE put a number of questions about last week’s armed siege to Lincolnshire Police, but officers say they are unable to answer them until the inquest into Barry Horspool’s death.• What type of firearm...
View ArticleMum of truant boys: ‘I call them ASBO children’
A MOTHER in court for failing to send her boys to school said she calls them “ASBO children” because they were allowed to roam free when they stayed with their late dad.The 39-year-old Spalding area...
View ArticleCouncillor lodges FOI request...to his own council
UNDER-FIRE Long Sutton councillor Julian Browse is pursuing two Freedom of Information Act requests to prise information out of his own council.But his move has put the cat among the pigeons with...
View ArticleTeenager grew cannabis at home
THIRTEEN cannabis plants were found growing in the house of a 19-year-old who has smoked the drug since he was just 13.The discovery of a number of 4ft plants and smaller ones waiting to be planted on...
View ArticleA lesson for student over drink-drive limit
A TEENAGER who drank half a litre of vodka after a morning at college was three times the legal drink-drive limit when he crashed on his way home.Alexander Morgan (19) decided not to return to college...
View ArticleFour skips filled with rubbish from rivers
MOTORCYCLES, tyres, traffic cones, shopping trolleys and even a bed have helped fill four skips with rubbish cleared from the River Welland and Coronation Channel.The rubbish is normally hidden from...
View ArticleCall to get Jubilee parties started
THERE’S no excuse to be a party-pooper for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebration this summer.South Holland District Council has launched a special “toolkit” to give planners all the help they need to...
View ArticleDisabled man to pay back £20k benefits
A DISABLED Spalding man was handed a £680 court bill on top of the £20,883.35 he must repay to the Department for Work and Pensions for failing to tell them his condition had improved.James Cropley...
View ArticleDrug-taking truant pupil’s mum ‘tried everything’ to get him to go to school
A SINGLE mum appeared in court over her problem son not going to school and told magistrates she had tried and failed to get him to attend.The 45-year-old Spalding mother of four told magistrates:...
View ArticleEngineering firm is shaking my house
A HOMEOWNER claims his walls are suffering from heavy machinery being used by a firm which does not have planning permission.Sutton Bridge Parish Council is objecting to Dodfrey Engineering’s...
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