Minister says no extra police cash
POLICING and criminal justice minister Nick Herbert said this week there will be no extra cash for Lincolnshire Police – and the force must make savings like every other one in the country.The...
View ArticleShop prank causes a stink
CCTV had to be used to trace a stinkbomb in a Spalding supermarket.The bomb cause a stink in the town’s Heron Foods store on Monday afternoon much to the disgust of customers.A member of staff said:...
View ArticleFormer hospital may be back in use soon
NEW owners of a former hospital have hinted that it could be only a matter of weeks until they are ready to unveil their plans for its future.A lot of work has been going on to give the inside of the...
View ArticleAssurance that Spalding Magistrates’ Court will stay open
ASSURANCES have been made that there are “currently no plans” to close Spalding Magistrates’ Court.Fears that the court was to be closed “by the back door” surfaced earlier this month when its cells...
View ArticleRam raiders steal bank cashpoint
UPDATE Thursday, 5pm: Police are looking into whether there is a link between ram raids on banks in Long Sutton and Wisbech just three minutes apart.Barclays in Market Place, Long Sutton, was targeted...
View Article50 years of St Norbert’s
PUPILS celebrated their school’s 50th anniversary with a week of activities.A team from the Sion Community spent time with the youngsters of St Norbert’s Primary School, Spalding, dancing, dramatising,...
View ArticleJudith delves into Pinchbeck’s past
PEOPLE passionate about local history in hundreds of years’ time might uncover the fact that Judith Withyman was lobbying Pinchbeck Parish Council about wind farms last week.Lobbying the council is not...
View ArticleNew NHS Trust directors
LINCOLNSHIRE Partnership NHS Foundation Trust has announced the appointment of three non executive directors. At its meeting on July 19 the trust’s Council of Governors appointed Alan Lockwood, Laurie...
View ArticleDriver for sentence
A DRIVER who pleaded guilty to causing the death of a Sutton Bridge man by driving a Vauxhall Frontera and trailer without due care and attention is due to be sentenced on August 28.Terrence Shaw (69),...
View ArticleNHS Lincolnshire paying £250,000 for 4,000 people to go on WeightWatchers
HEALTH chiefs are paying £250,000 for 4,000 people to go on 12-week WeightWatchers programmes in a bid to tackle the area’s obesity epidemic.An NHS health profile for South Holland shows that 24.5 per...
View ArticleTHROUGH YOUR ARCHIVES: The people who got Woolies up and running again in 1941
THIS photograph was taken in 1941 after the opening of a temporary pre-fabricated store to replace the Woolworth’s building in Spalding destroyed during a German raid.It was submitted by Frank Slater,...
View ArticleTeenager cleared of revving loudly
A TEENAGE biker has been cleared of revving loudly.Nathan Ward (18) said the noise on John Eve Way, Market Deeping, came from a damaged silencer.PC Daniel McCormack was on duty at 7pm on January 5 near...
View ArticleNot guilty plea
A TEENAGER has denied assaulting a man in Spalding on July 10.Shane Kelk (18), of Park Avenue, Skegness, appeared at Spalding Magistrates’ Court on Thursday and his case was adjourned to October 4 for...
View ArticleAsbestos led to death
A MAN of 49 lost his life to an industrial disease linked to exposure to asbestos.Richard Kilbon, of Railway Lane, Sutton Bridge, died on July 20, an inquest in Spalding heard on Friday.South...
View ArticleMONEY MATTERS: Financial news and advice
Be cautious with the new one-year bond from the mutual society Re-Give. Will it really pay five per cent interest?An unregulated organisation is promising savers a market leading interest rate of five...
View ArticleSpalding bid to get slice of £5.5m regeneration pot
A CRUSADE is to be launched to secure cash to revitalise Spalding’s high street.South Holland and the Deepings MP John Hayes has vowed to lead a delegation made up of district councillors, traders and...
View ArticleYoungsters get insight into life behind bars
STUDENTS at Sir John Gleed School in Spalding were left in no doubt that crime never pays after a hard-hitting presentation by prison officers.The school welcomed prison staff and police during a...
View ArticleBourne regeneration on schedule
A PROJECT to regenerate the centre of Bourne is on schedule with the demolition of two bungalows on the site. The £2.1m Burghley Street project, which is being led by South Kesteven District Council,...
View ArticleKicked during street attack
A MAN had to go to hospital following a street attack in which he was punched and kicked as he walked home with his partner and her mum.Alan Wallace had left Sainsbury’s in Bourne and reached the...
View ArticleNew park benches in memory of Long Sutton councillor
New picnic benches will be installed in Long Sutton’s two parks in memory of a town stalwart who died recently.The parish council agreed to buy the benches for Cinder Ash and Winfrey Park at its...
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