Holbeach Cemetery Chapels trustees organised a stained glass workshop for University Academy Holbeach students.    Eight 6th form art and foundation learner pupils were led by Strawberry Glass tutors Gillian and David Wing. They learnt about the traditional skills of stained glass making, using the copper-foil method, made famous by Louis Tiffany during the early part of the 20th century. The ...

A free Easter egg hunt organised by Spalding optician Molsom and Associates is under way. Children aged 4 to 12 can collect a clue/entry form from the practice in Hall Place. The clues lead to paper eggs displayed in nine other shops/places in the town centre. Molsom’s Vicky Harvey said: “Each egg has a message to write on their sheet ...

South View Community Primary School in Crowland had singing workshops with Young Voices principal conductor David Lawrence. It followed the school’s annual trip to the O2 in London to take part in the Young Voices concert. Mr Lawrence is an internationally acclaimed choral conductor who has led the London Symphony Orchestra. More than 200 children from South View’s Key Stage ...

Spalding Parish Church grounds have a definite look of spring about them thanks to the efforts of The Rotary Club of South Holland. St Mary and St Nicolas Church has a ring of purple crocus outside the west door. Five thousand crocus bulbs were planted by members of the Rotary Club of South Holland on World Polio Day in October ...

I watched traffic going past my home for about an hour at school leaving time on Wednesday (March 15), when the road use was busy, and saw eight people in particular. Two I could clearly see were using their phones, both of them professional drivers. The rest of them were looking down at their lap, it was fairly obvious as ...

Anglian Water’s preparations to repaint Chatterton Tower in Spalding got under way on Monday.(March 20) Chatterton Tower is one of nine water towers in the East Lincolnshire area, and one of hundreds across the Anglian Water region, all serving customers’ homes with clean, fresh drinking water at the turn of a tap.  Few of these water towers are local landmarks right in the ...

Spalding Royal Naval Association shipmate and branch treasurer Geoff Buck (85) is pictured with his new Apple iPad receiving training from and branch secretary Terry Day. The RNA got funding from the Aged Veterans’ Fund for Project Semaphore, which helps to get veterans aged 65 or over online with the supply of IT. Geoff applied and was selected to receive an ...

A Spalding man has admitted inciting under-age girls to engage in sexual activity.   Roy Hayes (44) pleaded guilty to three sexual offences when he appeared at Lincoln Crown Court on Monday.(March 20)   The offences related to a 13-year-old girl on April 7, 2014, a 14-year-old girl on October 11, 2012, and a 15-year-old girl on July 30, 2014.   Michael Cranmer-Brown, prosecuting, said the ...

A Spalding man accused of making more than 400 indecent images of children has had his case sent for trial. Gareth Raymond Oddy, of Wygate Road, is said, on or before January 20, 2016, to have made: 256 category A photographs 108 category B photographs 84 category C photographs Category A photographs are the most serious. Oddy is also accused of possessing ...

There is now much publicity about the coming work at Peppermint Junction in Holbeach. At last we get the roundabout that should have been built there in the first place.   There seems to be a sudden spurt of activity and media coverage about our council portfolio holders. These people are appointed by the leaders of the Conservative ruling party. Our local ...

A grant scheme that secured and created a vast amount of jobs in South Holland is being relaunched with £1.3million of new funding available to businesses in the district. Small and medium-sized businesses in South Holland can apply for a slice of the funding under the Grants4Growth scheme, which saw grants of between £1,000 and £40,000 awarded in two years ...

Young men in Lincolnshire are being urged to sign up to a blood stem cell or bone marrow register. It’s a potentially lifesaving move but statistics revealed by blood cancer charity Anthony Nolan reveal that 46 per cent of young men from the East Midlands could not be encouraged to sign for any reason. There are 3,226 from Lincolnshire on ...

A challenge has been set for people to get behind nine-year-old Peter Bailey who will be running a bake sale to help others with autism at this weekend’s Spalding United match. Dedicated supporter Peter, a pupil at Gosberton House Academy, which caters particularly for those on the autistic spectrum, has earned himself the moniker Mascot Pete after last year selling ...

The latest venture by Holbeach Cemetery Chapels Trust to engage the local community in discovering and exploring an important heritage site is a photography competition. The theme is “Holbeach Cemetery – the chapels and their environment” and entry is free. There are three age groups – 5-11 years; 12-17 years; 18 years and over. The winner of each category will ...

A kids’ club, with 125 children on roll, has raised standards to “good,” according to a recent Ofsted inspection. Pinchbeck Kids Club, at Pinchbeck East Primary School, had been judged “requires improvement” in 2015. A report published this month (March 2017) said: “Following the previous inspection, the manager has made good use of training available to extend the professional development of ...

A dog walker who fell into the River Welland wants to thank the mystery passer-by who jumped in to save her life. Jane Jackson doesn’t know the man’s name but says she would have drowned without his intervention. The retired 64-year-old said: “My life flashed before my eyes and I thought that was it, I was going to die. “Whoever ...

South Holland District Council is bracing itself to pay out up to £70,000 to settle a dispute over a planning decision. The cash has been set aside in budgeting processes, but the council says details cannot be made public at this stage. A spokesman said: “This relates to an historical planning matter, subsequent complaint and investigation into the background by ...

Re. Springfields. Expansion of the opening hours to weekdays at 9am and Sunday at 10am would be good for starters! Terry Byatt via email

Your front page (March 9) casually mentioned that “Springfields, which opened in 2005, was always supposed to have been limited in what it could sell so that it didn’t compete with the town centre”. Followed by the “acceptance by South Holland District Council that that policy has never been properly enforced”. It wasn’t properly enforced because it had never been ...

I read with interest your front page (March 9) regarding the expansion plans for Springfields Shopping Outlet. Yes, I agree, with the ongoing housing development plan for South Holland, it will bring thousands of homes which will be built over the next three decades, bringing more people, more cars and the greater need for added infrastructure and amenities. With more ...