Success at food awards
A fish and chip shop and a hotel restaurant have both been recognised for great food and service in the East Midlands Food and Drink Awards. Both venues were celebrating after being selected as victors...
View ArticleBe a blood donor
There’s a chance to give blood at sessions taking place at the South Holland Centre, Spalding, on Tuesday, December 4. Call 0300 1232323.
View ArticleOwner sad and parents shocked about playgroup closure
A Spalding playgroup that has taught children for more than 25 years is to close next month, leaving worried parents in shock.Lack of numbers is behind the decision by owner Kirsty Casey to close 345...
View ArticleCollege students meet war heroes
A group of war veterans dropped in on students at the Peele Community College in Long Sutton this afternoon (Friday).The college has a proud recent record of remembrance activities and students were...
View ArticleSecond meeting on biomass?
Sutton Bridge Parish Council will hold an extraordinary meeting on Tuesday to decide whether to run a second public meeting on a £300million biomass plant proposed for Wingland.The move could open the...
View ArticleFens’ rare diversity of wildlife is under threat
Conservation work going on in south Lincolnshire was held up as the way forward at yesterday’s launch of a total audit of wildlife in the FensThe audit by academics from the University of East Anglia...
View ArticleHelp available to deal with memories of abuse
A counsellor working in Spalding wants people struggling with memories of abuse to know there is help at hand.Frances Garland, a counsellor and trainer as well as being co-ordinator of SPACE4U in the...
View ArticleThreat posed by ash tree disease to the local area
South Lincolnshire is bracing itself for the impact of Ashtree Dieback disease, which threatens to decimate Bourne Wood and has already caused local garden centres to withdraw their stocks of ash...
View ArticleRent rises will price families out of homes
A generation will be priced out of a home as rent rises go through the roof in South Holland and the rest of Lincolnshire.The warning comes from The National Housing Federation, which says rents in the...
View ArticleFamily forced out by American superstorm
A former Frampton man living in America has told of his encounter with deadly Hurricane Sandy, which almost destroyed his Long Island home. Stuart McEwing and his wife Amanda were terrified they would...
View ArticleJoined-up thinking as relief road plans put on hold
Plans for the next phase of a Spalding western relief road will not now be submitted this year.It had been expected a planning application would be ready by the autumn, but in an unexpected twist the...
View ArticleBring some festive cheer
South Holland residents can once again bring some Christmas cheer to local people in crisis by donating to a foodbank that helps those in need. Volunteers at Agape Care Foodbank in Spalding are...
View ArticleRoad crash in Long Sutton
A 20-year-old man from Sutton Bridge suffered a broken leg and rib injuries after his motor bike collided with a car in Long Sutton.The accident happened in Market Street last Thursday when the man’s...
View ArticleWoman given oxygen after house fire in Langtoft
A woman was treated for smoke inhalation after her house caught fire in Langtoft.The woman was making candles in the kitchen of her house in Stowe Road last Friday when paraffin wax left in a pan went...
View ArticleCourt report
Spalding Magistrates’ CourtMichael Coupland (43), of Honeysuckle Way, Spalding. Speeding (Deeping Common). £400 fine, £15 victim support, £85 costs, 4pts.Sindisiwe Dlamini (40), of Belsize Avenue,...
View ArticlePolice hunt man in Moulton village
Reports of a man wanted in connection with a harassment case being spotted in Moulton sparked a police hunt in the village last Tuesday.The search was concentrated in the East Cobgate area but the man...
View ArticleRacial abuse
TWO men aged 20 and 26 were arrested for verbally racially abusing the owner of a kebab shop on Bridge Road, Sutton Bridge, on Saturday.Police say both men were given fixed penalty notices for the...
View ArticleSpalding vet surgery raided
Spalding’s Riverside Veterinary surgery had two charity collecting tins stolen overnight Saturday/Sunday.Police say a window was broken at the Cradge Bank premises.• A Red Snapper lawn mower was also...
View ArticleTurbine residents face ‘complete’ ruin’
A campaigner has claimed those living in the shadow of nine proposed 125m turbines in West Pinchbeck will “face complete ruin” if a wind farm is given the go ahead.Tony Fear, of Stop West Pinchbeck...
View ArticleCrowland home raided
Police are investigating a burglary at a home in Crowland after raiders made off with jewellery and a watch.The house in Albion Street was targeted between Friday and Sunday lunchtimes.Witnesses are...
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