Students celebrate special achievements
SIX Spalding High School students are celebrating special achievements.Head girl Alice Braybrook will be studying in America for a year after winning the Ridgeway scholarship, awarded by the University...
View ArticleFact-finding on wind turbines
DEVELOPERS who want to build a wind farm in West Pinchbeck will meet with parish councillors to outline their plans. Wind Ventures had contacted the council to request a meeting after members of the...
View ArticleCall to fight library move plan
COUNTY and district councillor Chris Brewis urged Long Sutton parish councillors to fight the proposed move of the town’s library to Market House.Speaking at the council’s open forum on Thursday, Coun...
View ArticleCrashes kill two in two days
TWO men died in two days in road crashes at Baston on Friday and Toft on Saturday.An 82-year-old man lost his life on Friday lunchtime when his Rover collided with a lorry on the A15 Deeping Road at...
View ArticleWelcome U-turn on proposed pasty tax
STUDENTS in Spalding can stop worrying their favourite lunchtime snack is going to bust the budget after this week’s announcement about the pasty tax.Pasties and other bakery items will no longer...
View ArticleCharity group recovers from blow
MANY small charitable groups would not have recovered from the devastating blow of having its entire funds stolen by a trusted member, but Bourne Wellbeing Group has gone from strength to strength...
View ArticleRestraining order for text pest
A TEXT pest who sent messages threatening to kill and rape his former fiancee was given a restraining order banning him from contacting her for the next year.Mark Williamson (32), formerly of Westwood...
View ArticleNurses honoured for dedication
TWO community nurses from south Lincolnshire have been recognised for dedication to their work. The nurses from Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) were nominated for trust Jubilee...
View ArticleFamily upset by taxi refusal
A MUM-of-four has been left fuming after she and her children were turned away from an eagerly-anticipated ride on Spalding’s water taxi.Julie Holmes had promised Ben (9), Max (7), Amy (4) and Zak (3)...
View ArticleWe’ve throne Jubilee party!
Would jubilee-ve it... ‘The Queen’ gives a right royal wave from Surfleet’s very own flotilla on Sunday.Craft sporting red, white and blue navigated their way from the reservoir along the River Glen to...
View ArticleBattle won over Spalding bridge litter – but war goes on
A SPALDING grot spot is finally looking “spick and span” after a prolonged campaign to get it cleaned up.South Holland district councillor Roger Gambba-Jones has been waging an ongoing battle to...
View ArticlePolice forced to issue warning over drivers’ road hazard near tip
POLICE have warned action could be taken against drivers if they cause a road hazard while queuing to get into Spalding tip.In the past couple of weeks queues stretching back to the A16 from the West...
View ArticleHolbeach’s part in Queen’s jubilee river pageant
Flowers grown in Holbeach were used to decorate the royal barge carrying the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh in Sunday’s Diamond Jubilee River Pageant.Gardener and barge decoration designer Rachel de Thame...
View ArticleMore than double drink-drive limit
POLICE stopped a Volkswagen Polo on Cowbit Road, Spalding, just before 3am on May 13 and found driver Arturs Eversons was more than twice the drink-drive limit.Eversons (26), of Commercial Road,...
View ArticleDrink-drive case put off
SPALDING man Nicholas Kidd (47) denies driving on the town’s Love Lane with 112 microgrammes of alcohol in breath – more than three times the legal limit – on February 5.Magistrates on Thursday...
View ArticleStray moggy is purr-fect ‘surro-cat’ mum to school’s chicken eggs
IF you had to pluck an animal out of the air to be a surrogate mum to a clutch of eggs, a stray cat probably wouldn’t be your first choice.But the pretty tabby which has adopted Weston St Mary’s School...
View ArticleJUBILEE VIDEO: Events from around the district
Our photographers Tim Wilson, Mike Davison and Nikki Griffin were all over South Holland and South Kesteven covering Queen’s Diamond Jubilee events.Our chief snapper Tim captured and put together this...
View ArticleJUBILEE VIDEO: Spalding bell-ringing and Holbeach beacon lit
Spalding and Holbeach events on Monday night marked the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.Bell-ringers entertained at St Mary and St Nicholas Parish Church in Spalding and over in Holbeach, Frank Sauntson (86)...
View ArticleBusinessman accused of paying off witness
A MILLIONAIRE businessman is to face a jury trial accused of offering money to a witness who was due to give evidence against in an earlier wounding trial.Michael Chinn (37), of Old Fendike Road,...
View ArticleChange to advice event
THE date of an information and advice session for people with cancer and their carers in Spalding has been changed. The outreach session at the Johnson Community Hospital in Spalding, which usually...
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