Police have launched their summer drink-drive campaign by asking people to text details of suspected offenders. Texts starting with the keyword DRINK and including details of the vehicle and where and when should be sent to 80800. Spalding police community inspector Jim Tyner said the campaign coincides with the start of the World Cup in Brazil next week. Some matches ...

A parade and service of remembrance for the D-Day Landings is being held in Spalding on Sunday. Organised by the Spalding Royal Naval Association, fall-in for the parade is 10.30am at Ayscoughfee Gardens cafe. The service will take place at the garden’s war memorial at 10.45am. Ex-service organisations are invited to attend with their standards. A Spalding RNA spokesman said: ...

Seventy years ago on Friday saw the launch of Operation Overlord – commonly known as the D-Day Landings. It marked the beginning of the end for the German troops’ occupation of Western Europe. The Anglia Motel Veterans’ Pilgrimage Fund, which has raised more than £500,000 during its 21 years, has funded the final trip back to Normandy for six war ...

A 31-year-old man has admitted several counts of burglary – including last month’s attempted ramraid at a Spalding clothes shop. James Steven Evans, of Wisbech, was charged on Friday and has appeared before magistrates in Lincoln. Evans admitted burglaries in Spalding at Chiltern Drive on May 13 and at Holland Road on May 5. A police statement said: “He was ...

  A Pinchbeck-based firm has won a top award at the 2014 British Bodyshop Awards. AS Whitaker and Sons was named Large Bodyshop Site of the Year and was awarded the Direct Line Group Award. Celebrity Rob Brydon hosted this year’s awards, which saw bodyshops and individuals from across the UK being rewarded for their contribution to the industry. At ...

As gestures by best friends go, Jacky Mitchell was ready to show her utmost support for breast cancer sufferer Caroline Bunning. Caroline (38) started four months of radiotherapy and chemotherapy treatment on Wednesday. So the night before, Caroline pre-empted losing her hair by shaving it off – and Jacky followed suit. Jacky (28) said: “Caroline was told that she would ...

The 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings next week will also mark the final return to Normandy for six veterans from our region. Four D-Day veterans and two Desert Rats will be with Fleet businessman Harold Payne as The Anglia Motel Pilgrimage Fund embarks on its last trip on Monday. During the nine-day excursion, the “Old Boys” and 48 other ...

The decision to refuse homes to be built on Ye Olde Dun Cow site in Cowbit has been appealed. Market Homes believes there are grounds for South Holland District Council’s decision to be quashed and the Planning Inspectorate will hold a hearing on July 8. Meanwhile, Cowbit group The Campaign to Save Ye Olde Dun Cow has vowed to maintain ...

Spalding worker Andrea Cameron has completed a mammoth fundraising hike – the equivalent of seven marathons in seven days. Andrea strolled back into the town on Friday – her 34th birthday – to complete the final leg of a 184-mile hike from Bristol. She hopes to have raised more than £3,000 from the Severn in 7 challenge to share between ...

Pinchbeck History and Archaeology Group begins a new attempt to find the village’s lost manor next week. The diggers will move onto Abbey Field in Northgate on Monday and will remove earth to create deep trenches six feet wide in six designated areas highlighted in a survey carried out in a geophysical scan. Visitors will be able to watch the ...

Spalding’s former tax office could be demolished as part of a planned housing development. The old Government office forms part of a bigger plan, which also incorporates the neighbouring historic Holland House. South Holland District Council planners meet on Wednesday (June 4) and are to be asked to grant permission for the house to be converted to five apartments and ...

A vacant factory site in Gosberton is poised to come back into use and create five jobs by the end of the year. A packaging, manufacturing and distribution firm currently based in Bicker wants to relocate to the former Gosberton Food Park in Quadring Road. Plasto Sac UK Ltd currently employs nine full-time and three part-time staff. Five additional people ...

A proposed new gas-fired power station at Sutton Bridge is set to pass through South Holland District Council unopposed. Planning councillors are being advised to raise no objection to the plan for a second combined cycle gas turbine when the scheme is discussed on Wednesday, June 4. The plant would create up to 1800MW of electrical generation capacity to be ...

Motorists and businesses are being warned to expect significant disruption when a massive rail improvement project in and around Spalding gets under way. The works will involve the closure of level crossings and roads for two-week periods but Network Rail has vowed to do its best to limit the impact. The £280million Great Northern Great Eastern project aims to enable more ...

South Holland was reflective of the national mood as the UK Independence Party topped the poll in the European Parliament elections. UKIP came top in the district with 10,408 votes – that was 48 per cent of those cast. South Holland is part of the East Midlands region, which has five of the 70 UK seats. UKIP retained its two ...

UPDATE: A police search for a woman who knocked down a girl during a hit and run in Spalding is over after she handed herself in. Following an appeal through the media, the woman went to the police station as soon as she realised officers were looking for her. The incident happened at 4pm last Monday, May 19, near Rooke’s Pet ...

Cowbit Parish Council has vowed to investigate the process which culminated in a new travellers’ site in Spalding being granted planning permission. Members are angry that Moulton, Weston and Cowbit district councillor Anthony Casson declared himself unable to vote at South Holland’s planning committee meeting earlier this month. The vote on granting permission was tied at 6-6 and passed on ...

A shopowner in Spalding has been fined £2,300 for selling out-of-date food. Londis supermarket at 8 Holbeach Road was found to have 24 products for sale which were out of date during a visit by Lincolnshire Trading Standards on April 12 last year. A further 17 out-of-date items were found on another visit on May 30, 2013. Shopowner Pararajasingam Sutenthiran was ...

At 87 years old, Dora Watkin could be forgiven for not wanting the fuss of the latest technology. Yet the effervescent nan is positively embracing it – by buying an Apple iPhone. “Everyone seems to have got one and I was starting to feel a bit left out,” she said. Dora’s getting to grips with texting family members and enjoys ...

Market Place in Spalding has received a welcome double tonic. Part of the former White Hart Hotel and the neighbouring ex-Wimpy burger bar are to be given new leases of life thanks to successful planning applications. At the former hotel – a Grade II* listed building – internal alterations will create two units on the ground floor and a large ...