Gleed’s global ambitions for its students
A Spalding school will forge new links with schools around the world when it becomes an academy in January.It’s the latest seismic shift for the fledgling Sir John Gleed School.When Janet Daniels...
View ArticleButcher scoops six golds for its sausages
Grasmere Farm’s traditional butcher’s shop in Market Deeping will be celebrating National Sausage Week in style having just scooped six gold awards for its sausages at the biennual Lincolnshire Poacher...
View Article£27,000 earmarked for Spalding bandstand, signs and mosiac siting
Spalding councillors are getting ready to splash the cash because they fear they might lose £27,000 that’s burning a hole in their pocket.The money is an underspend in the town forum’s special expenses...
View ArticleCOURT REGISTER
THE following decisions have been made recently by local magistrates at court hearings.• In all drink-drive cases, the legal limit is 35 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath, or 80...
View ArticleCHAMBER TALK: Get networking for free
Our very popular Speed Networking event is not so far away now, so please get your place booked by emailing: rachel.mooney@lincs-chamber.co.ukIt takes place on Thursday, November 15 from 5.30pm to...
View ArticleMONEY MATTERS: Women’s cover at a premium soon
What women want – the age old question that Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt tried to shed some light on in year 2000 and one that a recent IPSOS survey of American women attempted to answer.They concluded...
View Article‘Spin’ of wind farm developer under fire
Protesters made their objections heard outside a public exhibition on plans for a wind farm in West Pinchbeck.Residents carrying banners and placards set up outside the meeting while inside Wind...
View ArticleBusinesses meet with the Bank of England
A panel made up of local business people have been giving feedback their to the Bank of England on whether companies are budgeting for growth or shrinkage for the rest of the year and into 2013.At the...
View ArticleNew pictures released in Spalding robbery.
Monday, 11.30am. Police investigating a robbery at a Spalding building society have released new images of the man involved.Anyone who recognises the suspect – or his distinctive red and black jacket –...
View ArticlePupils awarded food hygiene certificates
Students at Spalding’s Sir John Gleed School (girls’ campus) are celebrating after achieving their Food Hygiene Award certificates.The girls, who are all in Year Nine at the town secondary school, have...
View ArticleShelley scales Ben Nevis to raise £1,260 for Holbeach home
A grandfather’s last gift was the spur for Shelley Cooper to climb Britain’s highest mountain and help a local nursing home.Shelley (36), from Cowbit, was left some money by Edwin Ayre before his death...
View ArticleWinter’s here – it’s time for a flu jab
It’s time to get a free flu jab.People aged 65 or over, or those who care for older people, can get the jab at their GP surgery. The best time to get the jab is from October to early November.Contact...
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Iwona Baranska (26), of Main Road, Dyke. No insurance (Baston). £110 fine, £15 victim surcharge, 6pts. No separate penalty for a licence offence.Susan Black (56), of Langary Gate, Holbeach St Johns....
View ArticleFree Tumble Tots session
Tumble Tots are offering free sessions with vouchers collected through the Petits Filous & Frubes After School Club for the sessions at Wyberton Village Hall, Coronation Hall, Market Deeping and...
View ArticleSchool’s support for Shelter Box
Youngsters at Gosberton Primary School have been learning about Shelter Box which provides boxes of essentials to people who have lost their homes to disaster.The school will be supporting the charity...
View ArticleHarvest baskets for home residents
Children at Fleet’s Willows Day Nursery made harvest baskets to take to the residents of Field House Nursing Home. The children grew some of the produce and visited The Chestnuts Tea Rooms to choose...
View ArticleHope rises in Glenfield fight
Campaigners in South Holland have made a breakthrough in their fight to save children’s heart surgeries at an East Midlands hospital.A full review has been ordered by Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt into...
View ArticleDrunken woman stormed out of ambulance, swearing at crew
A woman who shouted and swore at paramedics in a drunken rage has admitted that she made an “honest, stupid mistake.”Charlotte Piccaver (26) acted aggressively towards an ambulance crew trying to treat...
View ArticleDriver twice sped by same safety camera
A lorry driver risked his house and his job when he was caught speeding twice – just seven days apart – by the same camera at Deeping Common.John White (54) was clocked at 48mph on April 5 and 47mph on...
View ArticleMan whose tumour op postponed five times
A patient has been left living in fear that a tumour in his neck is cancerous after the fifth operation to remove it was cancelled.Melvyn Bright was sent home from Boston’s Pilgrim Hospital last week -...
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