Baked treats at Spalding vets raise cash for wildlife
Home-cooked treats are going down a storm at Spalding’s Riverside Vets this week as staff raise cash for three wildlife good causes. Regulars who take pets to Riverside, in Cradge Bank, boosted the...
View ArticleOverjoyed but second power station battle continues for Sutton Bridge great-gran
There was joy in Sutton Bridge today (Wednesday) when the final deadline passed for an appeal over the district council’s refusal of a gasifier power station at Wingland.EnergyPark Sutton Bridge had...
View ArticleStephen and Pamela keeping Long Sutton sweet
Stephen Barker jokes that he walked into his wife’s sweet shop a customer and ended up a husband.Customers at Stephen and Pamela’s new sweet shop in Long Sutton might also end up with more than they...
View ArticleSpalding students were “fantastic ambassadors”
Sir John Gleed School received a commendation for successfully completing its Sky Sports Living For Sport project.Eighteen students spent two days with their Sky Sports Athlete Mentor, ex-Paralympic...
View ArticleHistory of Foresters Hall in Long Sutton
Stephen Barker has done some research into the listed building where Barker’s Sweets is based.He says it was built in 1889 and was originally intended as a Post Office, but was taken over instead by...
View ArticleHands off our bangers say south Lincolnshire butchers
Butchers from south Lincolnshire are fighting back after reports sausages are bad for you and could even lead to cancer.The World Health Organisation has included sausages alongside cured and processed...
View Article‘Top brands are NOT leaving Springfields – they’re coming here’
Spalding’s town centre manager has spoken out in support of Springfields Outlet Shopping Centre after rumours top brands are being driven out because of rising rents and refit demands. Dennis Hannant,...
View ArticleMigraine prevention – and recovery
DOCTOR CALLING: By Dr Kevin HillMigraines affect 8 million people in the UK and the World Health Organisation has rated it among the most disabling lifetime conditions. But it’s still very much a...
View ArticleOur butchers are the best
GUARDIAN ANGEL: The latest news from our girl about townAngel noticed some weeks ago that Flowers N Things had done something rather lovely with the old Watkins curtains and carpets shop next door to...
View ArticleWhy I have nothing to do with Halloween
THOUGHTS OF A FRUITCAKE: By Carolyn AldisSo, this week, children all around the country will be traipsing along the streets, knocking on people’s doors and asking for treats. The shops have been full...
View ArticleSpalding school children become reporters
Year five pupils at Spalding Parish Church Day School are shown here learning about how local newspapers work. Spalding Guardian and Lincolnshire Free Press Reporter Neil Coaten visited the school to...
View ArticleNow is the time to make an appointment for your flu jab
HEALTH MATTERS: By Jenny Hinchliffe, Head of Clinical Services for the South at Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS TrustWith the dark nights drawing in and the colder weather upon us, it’s time...
View ArticleCOURT REGISTER
The following decisions have been made by magistrates at court hearings. In all drink-drive cases the legal limit is 35 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath, 80 milligrammes of alcohol...
View ArticlePLANNING APPLICATIONS
Before the local councilsSouth Holland District CouncilPush Energy, Decoy Farm, Spalding Road, Crowland. Solar farm and associated infrastructure (modification to delete reference to flood risk...
View ArticleMoulton Seas End inventor is licensed to sell – a 007 toilet roll holder
James Bond may be ‘licenced to sell’ to help fund the latest £226 million film Spectre but product placement will never thrill a madcap inventor from Moulton Seas End whose 007 gadget invention is also...
View Article‘Act before someone dies at Sutton Bridge junction’
A motorist in Sutton Bridge fears that some day a life will be lost after being involved in a collision with a moped at one of the village’s notorious junctions.Mike Wyatt said he was driving out of...
View ArticleFabulous Christmas gifts in Spalding
Spalding Action Medical Research’s annual Christmas Gift Fair takes place on Monday and Tuesday, November 9 and 10.It’s being held at Springfields Events Centre in Spalding (2-9pm on Monday and 9am to...
View ArticleFormer Spalding High School student Josie is rocking her way back home from Oz
A former Spalding High School student, who is finding fame after “rocking” all over to the other side of the world, has vowed to bring her new band back to her home town.Josie O’Toole (29) is a member...
View ArticleExcess alcohol charge after car collides with house
A man has been arrested and charged with driving with excess alcohol after a car collided with a house this morning (Friday).A Lincolnshire Police spokesman confirmed they had been called out at just...
View ArticleTV COLUMN: The Last Kingdom, Jekyll and Hyde, Unmade Movies: Orson Welles’...
Columnist James Waller-Davies takes a look at this week’s television...It was the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt this week, and though television largely passed good ol’ Henry V by, the...
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