Food firms help jobless find work in support of scheme
Some of South Holland’s leading food producers are backing a new campaign to help unemployed young people get onto the career ladder.Feeding Britain’s Future is a national project creating...
View ArticleMore than 30 new jobs for Spalding town centre
More than 30 jobs will be created in Spalding with the opening of frozen food chain Iceland and Costa Coffee.Iceland will employ 20 people when it opens in the former Allied Carpets store on Winfrey...
View ArticleRound Table brings smiles of joy to autism sufferer Thomas
An autistic youngster is sporting a smile a mile wide after a cash donation to buy a new iPad.Thomas Stebbings received a cheque for £300 after his mum Lauren submitted an application to the Smile...
View ArticleMotorcyclist falls off bike near Moulton
A middle-aged man has been taken to hospital after coming off his motorbike on the A151 between Weston and Moulton today.The accident happened at about 7.10am when police and ambulance crews were...
View ArticleDriver misery after crashes in A15 area
Motorists faced rush-hour delays in The Deepings area after a spate of accidents in villages along the A15 corridor.All three crashes happened on Thursday morning, the most serious when a 33-year-old...
View ArticleBusinesswoman nails a career change
A Donington business woman nailed it when she ditched her career in media advertising for something completely different.Since Beverley Rose opened in the Market Place, the nail technician from Bicker...
View ArticleMP John Hayes backs fight to save Cowbit’s only pub
MP John Hayes is backing a fight by Cowbit residents to save Ye Olde Dun Cow from being bulldozed to make way for nine new homes on the site.Members of the Save the Dun Cow Campaign presented the South...
View ArticlePair admit mugging woman in the street
Two people who carried out a street mugging in Spalding are to be sentenced later this month after admitting robbery when they appeared at Lincoln Crown Court. Shane Osbourne (26), of St Thomas’s Road,...
View ArticleThrew drugs down drain after police stopped car
A woman was throwing illegal drugs down a drain while police were speaking to a man after stopping their car.Zena Lunness (34), of Hereward Road, Spalding, discarded cannabis and heroin on the...
View ArticleCrowland councillor gets role on crime panel
A South Holland district councillor has been handed a major role in holding the man overseeing policing in Lincolnshire to account.Coun Paul Przyszlak was elected vice chairman of the county’s Police...
View ArticleOff-duty cop spots man smashing phone kiosk glass
A man was “having a bad day” when he lashed out and kicked a phone box in front of Spalding Magistrates’ Court.But it got worse because he was spotted by an off duty police officer.Marie Stace,...
View ArticleMade ‘gestures’ to police while he had bags of cannabis
A man carrying bags of cannabis was stopped and searched by police after he made “gestures towards them”.Officers were on a patrol at 8pm on February 9 in Church Street, Spalding, when their attention...
View ArticleStole family caravan and sold it for cash
A man stole his step-sister’s caravan and sold it for £100 after he had been living in it and had done it up.Tony Halsall (47), of Pinchbeck Road, Spalding, had been staying with his family in Devon...
View ArticleStrategic plan for town comes into sharp focus
The future of Holbeach town centre could look clearer if plans for a meeting of parish, district and county council officials goes ahead.Reviving empty business premises and increased parking provision...
View Article‘Inspirational’ leader signs up for awards day
South Holland Enterprise Day and Business Awards organisers are celebrating a major coup with one of Lincolnshire’s leading business figures set to attend the event.Ursula Lidbetter MBE, chief...
View ArticleDream to save library for a village hub
Villagers are to be asked if they would support a dream to take over a library and create a community hub.Early work is being carried out by Pinchbeck Parish Council looking into whether it is feasible...
View ArticleEx-cop takes up new beat on Shopwatch
He patrolled the streets for about 30 years but now a retired Spalding police sergeant has taken on a new beat in tackling shoplifting.Stuart Brotherton is putting his policing career to good use after...
View ArticlePrison for ‘dangerous’ man who stabbed his friend in the neck
‘Dangerous’ Fredrick Ward has been jailed for six years after nearly killing one of his friends by stabbing him in the neck.He was also given a three-year extended parole licence which places him at...
View ArticleNext step in plan for village shop
A meeting is to be held to drive forward plans for a community shop after villagers voted “overwhelmingly” in favour of the idea.A trio of residents from Gedney Dyke sent out surveys to 500 homes in...
View ArticleMP goes to the top in fight to save court
Britain’s top Government minister responsible for courts is “concerned” about steps to close Spalding’s court house.South Holland and The Deepings MP John Hayes met the Lord Chancellor, the Rt Hon...
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