ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
FED-UP Spalding Guardian readers are demanding action after our stories about cheap booze on sale in a Spalding town centre shop and an alleyway dubbed the “path of horrors.”Residents are calling for...
View ArticleTeenager injured in road crash
A TEENAGE girl is in a serious but stable condition in hospital after a two-car collision in Crowland.It happened on the A1073 Postland Road where a grey Skoda Octavia collided with a grey Audi A3 just...
View ArticleReaders appalled at cheap booze sales
GUARDIAN and Free Press online readers have expressed their outrage through our website over cheap booze on sale in a Spalding town centre shop alongside shampoo and soap powder.Discount health and...
View ArticleSuggestions include more cops and CCTV
A GREATER police presence and CCTV are just two of the ideas from residents to stop the misery of drugs and drink in a Spalding alleyway.People living and working near Abbey Path are concerned that the...
View ArticleHeat is on for hare coursers
FARMERS in Sutton Bridge are delighted Lincolnshire Police is launching its first ever full-time team to combat hare coursing.Five officers and one sergeant start work next month.County police received...
View ArticleCat converter theft warning
MOTORISTS are advised to be vigilant after a catalytic converter was stolen from a car in Spalding.A Mazda BT-50 4x4 was parked outside a house in Mayblossom Walk where the theft happened some time...
View ArticleTerritorial Army gets a boost
SOUTH Holland councillors are to give £15 of their budgets to boosting a fund used to welcome home local people serving in the Territorial Army.Councillors are given a budget of £5,000 for special...
View ArticleIt’s all systems go for £915,000 marina plan
THE cost of a pleasure marina to be built at Sutton Bridge this year has shot up by £85,000 to £915,000.But far less money than originally planned will be ploughed in to the project from Section 106...
View Article‘Purge’ on illegal parking in town
SPALDING is in line for a purge on illegal parking – but the date of the first autumn swoop by a team of enforcement officers is being kept secret.Lincolnshire County Council now has a team of 20...
View ArticleDog spared from death sentence
A RESCUED German shepherd dog involved in two attacks has been spared the death sentence by a judge at Lincoln Crown Court.Four-year-old Jason, owned by Gedney Drove End woman Sarah Lake, went for a...
View ArticleHow to banish the holiday blues
KIDS getting fed up with summer holidays at home will find an antidote to boredom at Holbeach Library.Story Time at 2pm on Friday afternoons for younger children turns into free-for-all fun to include...
View ArticleSummer of fun to rise from ashes of disbanded club
RESIDENTS at Hovenden House Nursing Home in Fleet can look forward to some summer treats after a donation from a disbanded charity.Trustees of the former St Raphael Club for physically disabled people...
View ArticleWe’re about to change – want to help?
HERE at the Spalding Guardian and Lincolnshire Free Press we are constantly striving to come up with ideas to improve our publications.It’s not easy to persuade people to buy two newspapers on set...
View ArticleAndy wins dad’s seat on council
FIRST-time candidate Andy Tennant bagged his late dad’s seat on South Holland District Council in a by-election at Long Sutton on Thursday.His dad, long serving councillor Dennis Tennant, died in June...
View ArticleA taste of district’s first pop-up parties
CORDON Bleu cook and hostess with the mostest Lulu Rymer has launched South Holland’s first pop-up restaurant in the front room of her home in view of Moulton Mill.You can invite as many as eight...
View ArticlePlay area for disabled children on the cards
SUPPORT is growing for a campaign for play equipment suitable for disabled children in Bourne.About 120 people responded to a survey compiled by Dare to Be Different, a social support group for parent...
View ArticleYouth centre to open up for all
HOLBEACH’s Youth Centre is all set to be opened up so that everyone in the community, regardless of age, will be able to use its sports and social facilities.The former school building in Boston Road...
View ArticleVandals damage play area
POLICE are appealing for witnesses after vandals struck in Gedney Hill and damaged the sports pavilion and a concrete play tunnel used by children.PCSO Ben Harrington said damage was caused between...
View ArticleShining a light on life of Sir Peter
AS HOLIDAY homes go, the East Lighthouse at Sutton Bridge is far from perfect.It’s miles from anywhere for its owners, who have to travel up from Kent to stay there. And it’s damp in...
View ArticleBid to save hospital unit
MORE than 50,000 people have signed an online petition trying to save the children’s heart surgery unit at Leicester’s Glenfield Hospital.The petition is in response to a review of children’s heart...
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