A chance to remember the victims of terror in Spalding
People are being invited to lay flowers in the Peace Garden at Ayscoughfee Hall in Spalding – as a mark of respect to those involved in the recent terror attacks.What has happened in Manchester and...
View ArticleCandidates are quizzed by NFU
National Farmers’ Union members in the South Holland area met three of the prospective parliamentary candidates to set out their five key policy challenges for today’s General Election. At the...
View ArticleCROWLAND PARISH COUNCIL: Call for action on Japanese knotweed near nature area
Welland and Deepings Internal Board (IDB) is to be pressed on its plans to tackle Japanese knotweed near Crowland Wildlife Pond.The plant, capable of growing up to 8 inches per day, has been sprayed...
View ArticleCROWLAND PARISH COUNCIL: New allotments face test of time
A project to provide new allotments in Crowland has now reached a critical stage, with councillors growing “quite frustrated” by a number of issues.Talks have taken place over access to the allotments...
View ArticleLIVE NOW, 2.10AM: Result in South Holland and the Deeping before 3am
The counting team here must have been drinking plenty of Red Bull! We were anticipating a 4.30am count result but are now being told the result could come through as early as 2.30am.EARLIER: Out of the...
View ArticleELECTION 2017: Winner Hayes mixed campaigning with revision
After securing a sixth term as MP for South Holland and the Deepings, Conservative MP John hayes told the crowd at this morning’s count that he had mixed campaigning with GCSE revision.Mr Hayes, who...
View ArticleELECTION 2017: Labour’s Voyteck – ‘I’ll be back’
Labour candidate Voyteck Kowalewski vowed to fight at a future election after increasing his party’s vote in South Holland and the Deepings by over 4,000 and coming second.Two years ago Matthew...
View ArticleELECTION 2017: No progress for Liberal Democrats
It was a disappointing night for the Liberal Democrats in the South Holland and the Deepings constituency.In 2015 George Smid finished last out of five with 1,466 votes and although candidate Julia...
View ArticleELECTION 2017: Lots of walking but not so many votes for Greens
Green Party candidate Dan Wilshire’s share of the vote dropped from his showing in the 2015 election.He received 894 votes this time, coming in fifth out of six candidates. Last time out he had...
View ArticleELECTION 2017: Humbled Hayes will stay area’s MP as long as he is wanted
A humbled but delighted John Hayes told me this morning he will stay on as MP for South Holland and the Deepings for as long as the electorate want him.Conservative Mr Hayes easily won a sixth term...
View ArticleELECTION 2017: Conservatives hold other nearby seats
The Conservatives have retained their seats in the constituencies of Boston & Skegness and Grantham & Stamford.In Boston, where UKIP leader Paul Nuttall was standing, Matt Warman easily kept...
View ArticleSpalding Academy head girl on top of the world
Spalding Academy head girl Ellis Taylor-Williams is on the top of the world now she’s raised the £2,800 to enable her to go on a trip to Swaziland.Ellis (16) raised much of the cash herself with events...
View Article‘Twilight killers’ were victim’s daughter and her boyfriend
Kim Edwards has been named along with Lucas Markham as the killers of Lizzie and Katie Edwards.Markham and Edwards, both now 15, were branded “cold, calculated and callous” when they were each...
View ArticleAUDIO: Lincolnshire Police release edited interview with Kim Edwards
Police have today issued extracts of interviews with Kim Edwards, one of the teenagers convicted of the murders of Elizabeth and Katie Edwards.Kim Edwards, now aged 15, helped plan the “cold,...
View ArticleEdwards listened as Markham slaughtered her mum and sister
Besotted schoolkids Kim Edwards and Lucas Markham plotted to kill her mother and sister, then kill themselves with booze and pills, but changed their minds.Kim Edwards and her schoolboy lover, Lucas...
View ArticleAUDIO: Hear Kim Edwards talk to police about the murders of her mum and sister
Lincolnshire Police have today issued two edited audio interviews given by Kim Edwards following the horrific double murder in Spalding.This is the first of those interviews following Kim’s arrest over...
View ArticleSPALDING DOUBLE MURDERS: Teenage killer reveals ‘peace of mind’ about deaths...
Convicted double murderer Kim Edwards (15) told police that the deaths of her mum Elizabeth (49) and younger sister Katie (13) gave her “peace of mind”, according to a recording released today.During...
View ArticleYOUR VIEWS: Drivers don’t have a clue on this road
After reading the thoughts of Martin Yorke in the Spalding Guardian last week regarding the B1166 Junction and The A16 road. The photograph in your paper was taken on May 31 last year – during this...
View ArticleCrime on the doorstep in Sutton Bridge
Elderly and vulnerable people in Sutton Bridge are being targeted on the doorstep by crooks charging by the thousand.In one case reported to police, a man was duped into paying around £1,500 for a...
View ArticleHealthy fun at open day
There was four hours of non-stop fun as Flinders Founders teen park in Donington held another open day last week.The day was all about being active, and to celebrate the completion of grant-funded...
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