Students help with dance competition
PUPILS from Gedney Hill Primary School were treated to a day of hip-hop and street dancing. Students Kieran Watson, Beth Mason, Ellie Rodgers and Inca Honnor from the South Holland Post-16 Centre,...
View ArticleNightclub cleans up act over drugs
EDUCATION and cracking down with a zero tolerance approach has helped a nightclub in Bourne show its customers drug users are not welcomed. Staff at Jubilee Nightclub on North Street have spent weeks...
View ArticleMissing boy is found safe
A 13-YEAR-old boy sparked a police hunt when he failed to turn up at Peele Community College in Long Sutton on Tuesday.The boy was reported missing by his parents at 10.45am when they discovered that...
View ArticleCaught red handed
SHOP thieves described by their solicitor as “cack-handed” were caught in the act when they stole console games from Tesco in Bourne.David Iacono and Clive McPherson were recorded on CCTV as they took...
View ArticleStreet chase after till grab from shop
A PLUCKY female shopkeeper gave chase down Spalding’s Westlode Street when two thieves ran out of her shop with a cash register containing the day’s takings.Svitlana Solomka (46) grabbed hold of the...
View ArticleAccused of over 20 church lead thefts
THREE men accused of conspiring to steal from more than 20 churches across Lincolnshire and stealing lead from another church in Sutterton are being sent to crown court. Tadas Andruska (35), Andrius...
View ArticleGirls from 9J take to the stage with percussion duo Maraca2
ARTISTIC wizardry is how South Holland Centre’s concert last night was described, and that’s what the Spalding schoolgirls taking part hoped to achieve.We caught up with pupils at The Sir John Gleed...
View ArticleRecord figures for our website
WE’RE delighted to say that our website spaldingtoday.co.uk is proving more popular than ever - and we want to thank you, our online readers.Figures for February show that page views were up 12 per...
View ArticlePublic meeting over expansion plans
COUNCIL bosses behind plans to expand Spalding Primary School will be answering questions at a public meeting on Monday. Lincolnshire County Council says residents will have the chance to have their...
View ArticleWhat on earth were the magistrates thinking of?
In the words of a famous grumpy old man: “I do not believe it!”What on earth was the panel and the magistrate Jim Price thinking of just issuing a very lenient fine when William Kelly had not only once...
View ArticleCCTV could be monitored 24/7
SOUTH Holland’s CCTV cameras could be monitored round the clock, seven days a week, from August.A report will go to the district council in June and it’s likely councillors will be asked to sanction a...
View Article‘Abduction’ investigation is ongoing
POLICE investigations into the claim that a nine-year-old boy was abducted from his garden in Surfleet and dropped off a few miles away in a Gosberton park are ongoing.The incident happened on Friday...
View ArticleD-day for 24/7 fire station in Spalding
PROPOSALS for Spalding Fire Station to become staffed 24 hours a day will be decided upon by councillors on Tuesday. The station on West Elloe Avenue is one of nine to have been identified by...
View ArticleQueen of the road to keep on trucking
WHEN most Spalding mums were slaving over a hot oven on Christmas Day, Jill Noble was showing her mettle driving tonnes of steel as one of the area’s newest female lorry drivers.Jill’s journey from...
View ArticleCulture lessons for young foreign nationals
A WEEKEND education centre for young foreign nationals has become the first of its kind to open in Spalding.Diana Gajek (36) has transformed a former antiques store on Abbey Path into The White Eagle...
View ArticleRetail would mean we’d need to bypass the bypass!
When the Spalding bypass was about to be built I attended a meeting where a group of people from the Highways authority were in attendance. The official representing Highways stood up to address the...
View ArticleMan punched pub window
A MAN was asked to leave Spalding’s Punchbowl pub after throwing a glass at a doorman, but once outside he put his clenched fist through a £50 window, magistrates heard.Darren Matthews was celebrating...
View Article‘Our day care fight goes on’
CAMPAIGNERS battling to save Spalding’s Chappell Centre from the axe will demonstrate with placards on Tuesday when county councillors decide its fate.Parents and carers have won a partial victory with...
View ArticleCouncil and ex-clerk gagged over settlement
SUTTON Bridge Parish Council says it is unable to reveal how much it paid in a settlement to former clerk Karen Treacher and will “mask” the sum in its accounts.Parish council chairman Coun Christopher...
View ArticleMen cut free after crash
TWO men had to be cut free by the fire brigade after the car they were in left the road.The accident happened at 6am on Saturday on the A16 between Surfleet and the power station roundabout.The car, a...
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