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HAYES IN THE HOUSE: By South Holland and the Deepings MP John HayesThe latest James Bond blockbuster ‘Spectre’ is topping the charts for cinema attendances across the world. Ian Fleming’s creation has...
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THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK: Rev Adrian Mason, Mid-Elloe Anglican ParishesRemember, remember the fifth of NovemberGunpowder, treason and plot………This little ditty was written about Guy Fawkes and his cronies...
View ArticleYOUR LETTERS: Spalding road is a race track
I write in response to your story asking for comments about speeding in the town of Spalding. We live on the racetrack known as Cowbit Road. Ever since the opening of the new bypass (A16 Peterborough),...
View ArticleWoman from Market Deeping raising smiles on charity trek
A Market Deeping woman and her partner have just set off on an around the world charity trek to raise 180 smiles in 180 days. Jaymie Duke and her partner Alvaro will spend six months travelling to...
View ArticleYOUR LETTERS: Use of Spalding’s Castle Sports Complex for social events is...
Having been a member of Castle Sports Centre for the last 10 years (I play 50-plus badminton), I have noticed that the centre is used more and more frequently for social events, resulting in the sports...
View ArticleHolbeach Town and Country Fayre lining up for new record bid
A South Holland country fayre is hoping to hurl itself into the record books next year after coming up with another idea to take the world by surprise.After the success of the World Cabbage Hurling...
View ArticleYOUR LETTERS: MP wrong to support tampon tax
Perhaps you could ask John Hayes MP to use his regular half-page of party political musings in this newspaper to explain why he and almost all his Tory colleagues voted to retain the five per cent rate...
View ArticleTop 10 retro toy list from 1985: The age of Transformers and Care Bears
As toy manufactures publish their top ten toys for Christmas 2015, how many of you grown-up kids remember the chart from 1985?We’ve dug in our archives and found some great favourites from 30 years...
View ArticleDesigns for new Pilgrim Hospital building are revealed
Pictures have been released of how a new modular build for Pilgrim Hospital is set to look when it is finished.As reported in May, the hospital was given a share of £25 million by United Lincolnshire...
View ArticleTeenager seriously hurt after car crash in Twenty, near Bourne
A 19-year-old man is in hospital with serious injuries after a car crash near Bourne.The man was a passenger in a red Volkswagen Fox which left the A151 in North Drove, Twenty, and ended up in a ditch...
View ArticleCould ‘Abigail’ the first named storm of the winter be about to hit the UK?
Barney, Eva and Henry are among the names we could be calling future storms affecting the UK and Ireland.However, Quentins, Yvonnes and Zanes will be disappointed, as names starting with the letters Q,...
View ArticleMan in serious but stable condition after Market Deeping crash
A man rescued from his vehicle after a two-car collision near Market Deeping on Friday evening is in a serious but stable condition in hospital.The man, in his 50s, was trapped in his vehicle after the...
View ArticleSpalding War Memorial upgraded in time for Remembrance Sunday service
Spalding’s famous war memorial has been upgraded from a Grade II to a Grade I protected listing.The memorial is one of 44 First World War memorials designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens – who is famous for the...
View ArticleStaying true to legacy left to Spalding church
A large crowd assembled in 1886 for a stone laying ceremony for a Spalding chapel.A hundred and twenty nine years later an equally large crowd gathered for the re-opening of that place of worship –...
View ArticleReminders of past in Spalding church
The early worshippers at Broad Street Methodist Church in Spalding reached out from the past to have a presence at the official reopening of the refurbished church.There were displays in the new coffee...
View ArticleBourne policeman’s four patriotic sons
A Bourne policeman’s four patriotic sons were pictured in these newspapers in 1915.They were Sgt Horace Brighton, who had been severely wounded at the front and reported missing. Nothing had been heard...
View ArticleSpalding man jailed for fourth breach of court order
A man who breached a court order for the fourth time was sent straight to prison by magistrates.Martyn Miles (22), of Pinchbeck Road, Spalding, was given 12 weeks’ custody when he appeared at Boston...
View ArticleBritish women working for free for the rest of the year according to charity
Today is Equal Pay Day and the #equalpayday is trending on twitter, but the upbeat name for November 9 hides an alarming fact, according to charity The Fawcett Society - women, in effect, don’t earn...
View ArticleWhatsApp and iMessage will not be banned in UK
Popular messaging services such as WhatsApp and iMessage will not be banned after the British government confirmed the upcoming Investigatory Powers Bill will not restrict encryption in the country.The...
View ArticleAnother unseasonably warm November day and night...but how long will it last?
Monday saw one of the warmest November nights on record and we have already had the hottest November day ever record in the UK as parts of the country hit 22.4c last week...so will it last?Well...
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