Kwiksave heading for Spalding town centre
DISCOUNT supermarket Kwiksave is getting ready to open a branch in Spalding.If planning consent is given for the Sheep Market store – which could open from 6am-midnight seven days a week – it will take...
View ArticleMum’s upset at loss of son’s school memorial
THE mum of a little boy who died from a brain tumour says she has been “saddened” that play equipment put up in a school playground in his memory has been ripped out.Janet Croker discovered the wooden...
View ArticleSpalding resident suffers 15 months of anti-social behaviour hell
A WOMAN has been left “angry, frustrated, tired and vulnerable” after a 15-month nightmare of booze-fuelled and threatening behaviour outside her Spalding home.Attempted break-ins and vandalism are...
View ArticleTWO HOUR WAIT FOR 999 HELP
A 93-YEAR-OLD woman was left waiting more than two hours for medical attention after her son called 999.And even when a paramedic turned up to offer assistance to the very poorly woman, it was a...
View ArticleApology over loss of son’s memorial boat
A NEW memorial will be put up at a Spalding school to a former pupil who died from a brain tumour after a wooden boat bearing his name was destroyed.Spalding Primary School chairman of governors Paul...
View ArticleNew adventure on horizon after swim
TWO teachers are already looking for their next challenge after helping to raise £45,000 by swimming the English Channel.Nikki Saines and Alice Dooley, work colleagues at South Holland Post-16 Centre...
View ArticleAction against bad behaviour
POLICE, business leaders and councillors have met to draw up a plan of action to stamp up drunken and rowdy behaviour in Spalding town centre.The meeting at South Holland District Council yesterday was...
View ArticleFinal push to capture the Olympic experience
WE did the Mo-bot, we cheered runners of all nationalities as though they were our best friends and we soaked up the festive Olympics atmosphere on the last day of London 2012.It has been said over and...
View ArticleRecord year for transplants
IN a record-breaking year, 3,960 transplants were carried out in the UK in 2011/12, NHS Blood and Transplant has announced.The Organ Donation and Transplantation activity report 2012 shows the seventh...
View ArticleGhosts, ghouls and things that go bump in the night
MUM of two Gemma King has her first book in print, Haunted Spalding, following paranormal investigations in pubs, hotels, restaurants, hairdressers, shops and the town’s most celebrated building,...
View ArticleCould railway bridge finally be lit?
THERE could be light at the end of the tunnel to make a Spalding railway bridge safer at night.Poor lighting at Steppingstone Bridge means the well-used footpath between Park Road and King’s Road is...
View ArticlePet memorial thief ‘lowest of the low’
A THIEF who stole an ornament from a graveside has been branded “the lowest of the low”, by the grieving woman who placed it there in memory of her beloved dog.Jean Collins and her husband Rick bought...
View ArticleEDITOR’S COMMENT: We must be doing something right!
ACCORDING to a former editor of mine, it was a good thing if your relationship with the local council and the police was slightly strained at times.His thinking was that, if everything was hunky-dory...
View ArticleCar seized by police
POLICE seized a young driver’s car after he was caught driving anti-socially.The Vauxhall Corsa was seized by officers in Pinchbeck Road, near the junction of New Road, in the early hours of last...
View ArticleHomes hit by heating failures
IT IS feared council tenants could be left out in the cold this winter after a record number of heating failures.In the four months since April there have been 39 central heating system failures in...
View ArticleTaxi driver escapes ban
A SPEEDY taxi driver was allowed to keep his driving licence after he told Spalding magistrates he would lose his job and his home if he were banned.William Shand (39) was clocked doing 56mph in the...
View ArticleTrade show celebration
FOR 20 years, Pinchbeck company Kirby & Wells has been supplying everything needed to build a house, apart from the bricks and mortar.Directors Richard and Lesley Westlake, who run the business...
View ArticleMan with tights on his head performed sex act in public
A SHOCKED police detective looked out of the station window and saw a man with ladies’ tights over his head performing a sex act. Rafal Ciesielski (35) was “too desperate” to wait until he got home...
View ArticleCouncil bugging row rumbles on
A GROUP of ex-Holbeach parish councillors have hit back in a row over paying a firm of private investigators to check whether the council offices were bugged.In a statement, the group described as...
View ArticleBREAKING NEWS: Body found
A PASSER-BY found a man hanging in a tree in Pecks Drove West, Spalding on Sunday morning.The dead man has been named as Richard Little (25), of Lansdowne Court, Spalding.An inquest into the death is...
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