Fresh bid to demolish Cowbit’s wrecked pub
A housing company is making a fresh bid to demolish Cowbit’s only pub, the fire-wrecked Ye Olde Dun Cow, and build homes on the site.Market Homes Ltd say the pub should come down because it’s “not...
View ArticleHeating oil stolen from home in Rippingale
About 300 litres of heating oil was stolen from a house in Dovecote Estate, Rippingale, between Sunday January 5 and last Sunday.Meanwhile, police are looking for a man who is 5ft 10ins tall, in his...
View ArticleMan flown to hospital after road crash in Holbeach St Johns
A 50-year-old man from Whaplode Drove was flown to hospital by air ambulance after a car crash in Holbeach St Johns on Friday.Firefighters used hydraulic rescue equipment to free the man who was then...
View ArticleTwo-vehicle crash on A15 in Baston
A two-car crash on the A15 Deeping Road, Baston, caused the road to be closed for half an hour on Friday.It involved a Renault Megane and Volkswagen Passat which collided just before 8.45am, but it is...
View ArticleSpalding’s last man of Arnhem
Seventy years ago this month there must have been great excitement as about 250 men suddenly arrived in Spalding, living in accommodation huts on the Grammar School field, the Odeon Cinema and...
View ArticleReturn of some of the few
“They have come back, but the majority who went from here have not.”They are the words used in an article in the Lincolnshire, Boston and Spalding Free Press of October 2, 1944, entitled “Men of Arnhem...
View ArticleSwapping the playing fields of Eton for Bourne
High society magazine The Tatler is urging its readers to send their children to Bourne Grammar School rather than exclusive private schools like Eton.Bourne Grammar – described by the magazine as...
View ArticleOur nation of shopkeepers
by John Hayes MPThe wonderful situation comedy Dad’s Army pictures a world very different from much of modern Britain. The fictional Warmington-on-Sea was drawn from the reality of life in a typical...
View ArticlePlan for shop and 35 new homes at Cowbit
Plans to build 35 new homes and a shop in Cowbit will be on display for all to see at a public exhibition – before they are submitted to South Holland District Council.Holbeach-based Ashley King...
View ArticleRise in quad bike thefts lead police to issue fresh advice
Farmers and landowners in South Holland are being urged to protect their quad bikes after a spate of thefts across Lincolnshire.At least three thefts have been reported within the last month and police...
View ArticleReports of hare coursing cases fall across county
A dedicated team set up to combat hare coursing in south Lincolnshire is making progress success after a 27 per cent drop in reported incidents.Figures for Operation Galileo, an eight-strong team of...
View ArticleTribute to Gedney Drove End farmer David Piccaver
2014 has produced rain on virtually every day, but so far we have been lucky that the actual quantity of water has been far less and far less damaging than in other parts of the country, writes Ian...
View ArticleNo-irrigation farming at Sutton Bridge
Farming has to be done differently on land where the saline level of the available water is just too high.That’s the experience of Proctor Bros (Long Sutton) Ltd where some of the land used to grow...
View ArticleMajor changes ahead in UK farming prediction
More transformation is likely to happen in the UK farming industry in the next ten years that we have seen in the past 50.That is the prediction of the chairman of a key farming conference.Julian...
View ArticlePolice issue CCTV image in Spalding store case
Police in Spalding have released a CCTV image of a man they are looking for in connection with an incident in a town store.A public order offence took place at the B & M Bargains store in Winsover...
View ArticleWygate Park Academy gets new headteacher
A primary school due to open in Spalding in September has a new headteacher.Annabel O’Connell (33) is currently part of the leadership team at Boston’s Staniland Academy, which was steered out of...
View ArticleCoal stolen from house in Folkingham
An amount of coal has been stolen from a house in West Street, Folkingham, this week.It happened between 11.30pm on Monday and 9am on Tuesday and anyone with information should call 101.The incident...
View ArticleAirfield store gets go-ahead
Wingland Airfield has been given the go-ahead for a building to store microlight aircraft on land in Gedney Dyke.Plans put in by Wingland Aircraft Club for an 11 feet building in which to store an...
View ArticleGM proposal wecomed by Tongue End farmer
Proposals to allow a second GM crop in the UK have been backed by Tongue End farmer Julian Davis.Farm minister Owen Paterson has called on the European Union to approve a strain of genetically modified...
View ArticleFarmers tweeting about life
Farmers are helping the public understand the agricultural life through a newly launched Twitter account.@FarmersOfTheUK will show a different farmer every week sharing their life through tweets,...
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