Keeping Lincolnshire’s livestock farmers informed
Lincolnshire Trading Standards is offering advice for all new and established keepers of livestock in Lincolnshire.Over the next few months, Lincolnshire Trading Standards will be working with farms...
View ArticleScheme funds farm innovation
Sainsbury’s, which helped the government develop its agricultural and horticultural graduate scheme, has pledged new funding to help farmers and growers take advantage of existing technologies and look...
View ArticleDonations to reopen play park
Your donations to help reopen a popular children’s play park at Surfleet are still rolling in.Generous readers have given £635 so children can return to the play area at Glen Park, Surfleet, which has...
View ArticleAgricultural crime in Lincolnshire UK third highest
Lincolnshire has the third highest rate of agricultural crime in the UK, with almost £2million worth of insurance claims by farmers last year.However, new figures from NFU Mutual reveal that agri-crime...
View ArticleBusiness broken into in Bourne
Intruders climbed onto a roof and broke into a business premises in West Street, Bourne, earlier this week.It happened overnight between Monday and Tuesday when suspects got into the building after...
View ArticleCharges after sisters’ deaths
A woman is to face a crown court hearing in connection with the deaths of two young Sutton Bridge sisters in a car crash just after Christmas.Marie Easter (44), of Herbert Ward Way, Terrington St...
View ArticleBid to change troubled pub to village nursery
Villagers fed up with noise and anti-social behaviour have backed plans to change the use of a former pub.Letters of support for a plan to use the old Golden Ball at Holbeach Drove as a children’s...
View ArticleRapist claims he was framed
A pensioner found guilty of horrific child sex offences is battling to clear his name - claiming his victims were “money motivated” and concoted their complaints to sell their story to a women’s...
View ArticleBuilder’s fury over empty cottage tax
A Pinchbeck builder is horrified he has to pay more council tax for a derelict cottage he refurbished than the four-bed property he lives in.Kevin Rawding’s revised bill from South Holland District...
View ArticleVote for Nicholas
Nicholas Watts, of Vine House Farm at Deeping St Nicholas, is one of eight finalists in the national Nature of Farming Award.Nicholas, one of the farmers being celebrated for their wildlife-friendly...
View ArticleTry Bento box for lunch in Spalding
Mimi Webber has lived permanently in the UK since 1995 but says she has never been homesick.She admits it was difficult, in the early years, to buy ingredients to make Japanese dishes.However, she says...
View ArticleTry flavours of Japan in Spalding
Thursdays and Fridays are popular days at Mimi’s Sandwich and Coffee Bar in Spalding.That’s when the bar’s proprietor Mimi Webber adds the flavours of Japan to the normal lunch-time food...
View ArticleHelp your kids get fitter
Parents wanting to help their children lose weight and get more active need look no further than a free exercise and nutrition course starting in Spalding next month.Fit Kids is a 12-week programme...
View ArticleMoney Matters: When it becomes a reality....
For getting on for 20 years I have been having frank, honest and sometimes uncomfortable discussions with clients about the ‘what if’ scenarios.How would they cope if one of them lost their job, was...
View ArticleWoman assaulted in Spalding nightclub
A 28-year-old woman needed hospital treatment for a head injury after being assaulted in a Spalding nightclub at the weekend.The victim from Moulton Seas End was at Loaded in Westlode Street where she...
View ArticleMP backs older people’s fight to keep wardens
MP John Hayes is backing elderly residents in their fight to keep district council wardens at South Holland’s sheltered housing complexes.Around 60 elderly people met the South Holland and the Deepings...
View ArticlePolice in talks to stop noisy boy racers
Discussions are talking place to finally stop boy racers keeping residents awake near Spalding town centre car parks.In the latest of a catalogue of complaints about boy racers in Sainsbury’s car park,...
View ArticleFight goes on to restore pub
Details have emerged of a failed district council bid to build homes on the site of a pub which villagers are now fighting to save.The news was revealed by Peter Mandell, who put together a bid to buy...
View ArticleResidents warned to check phone book ‘experts’ after fire
Albert Busley (85) and his wife, Kathleen (82) were told to “get out” as the man ran out of the Longhurst property in St Matthew’s Close on Tuesday afternoon, claiming to be calling his boss. Instead,...
View ArticleBenefits claimant was not dishonest
A woman who admitted being overpaid more than £5,800 in disability benefits was guilty solely on a technicality of failing to notify a change of circumstances, her lawyer said.Tracy Shepherd (42), of...
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