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Here are the latest entries for this year’s Festive Pets competition. Sponsored by Rooke’s Pet Products, the winner will be the pet that judges think shows the most Christmas spirit. The winner will receive a £100 voucher to spend at Rooke’s Pet Products in Spalding. We will be featuring all this year’s entries in the paper throughout December and the ...

Over £1,000 has been raised for charity after Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue took Santa on a tour of Crowland. Crew members from Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue were joined by their family and friends and Fireman Sam as Father Christmas took time out from preparing for December 25 to visit the town last week. Generous residents stood up to the plate ...

Dance and drama groups with a disability or inclusive focus are wanted by Transported and artsNK who are putting on a show in March at the South Holland Centre. The free performance on Friday, March 9, will be the second of the organisation’s Inclusive Dance Platform events. The night will be headlined with a performance by professional dance group Casson ...

Holbeach Red Hatters took some festive spirit to St John’s Care Home, Spalding. The Fen Fatales (pictured), in their trademark clashing colours of purple with a red hat, sang for all residents – even those who were in their rooms. The Red Hatters is a group aimed at women over the age of 50 looking to “grow old disgracefully”.

Christmas classics belted out during karaoke made The Punchbowl the most festive place in town on Thursday, December 14, during the Chappell Centre party. It was the second year in a row the Spalding pub hosted a Christmas bash for the day centre used by adults with a range of learning disabilities. Chappell Centre’s Abby Holland said that around 40 ...

A new home made entirely out of shipping containers is set to be built in Sutton St James. The owners of storage business Lift and Shift Limited, Simon and Dee Reed, say the state of the art eco-friendly home to be built next to their business on Broadgate will be the first of its kind in the area. Despite officers ...

First responders charity LIVES had is busiest ever month in November, attending almost 2,000 medical emergencies across Lincolnshire. Last month, LIVES attended 1,972 medical emergencies across the county, 62 of which were in South Holland, a spokesman said. LIVES responded to 384 incidents in South Holland alone between January and October this year. The charity has volunteers who are responding ...

Friends of Johnson Community Hospital brought the sound of Christmas to patients at the weekend. South Holland and the Deepings MP John Hayes, South Holland District Council leader Rodney Grocock and Coun Elizabeth Sneath read the lessons. The St Mary and St Nicholas Singers sung carols while Rodney Britten played the organ for the party. Father Christmas also arrived with ...

Ahead of their gig on Friday night (December 15), we pinned down Spalding punk-rock band I Got Spiders who explained their new genre of music – grapple punk. We find I Got Spiders rehearsing in their Spalding lair in preparation for the gig at The Black Swan with Peterborough Polish punk group The Moonshiners and Peterborough alt-rockers The Deadites. Local ...

Sunday’s snowfall wasn’t enough to dampen spirits at the Long Sutton Christmas Fayre. The event at St Mary’s Church featured a return of Santa’s grotto, which hundreds of children visited for free. Long Sutton Parish Council Chairman Charles Moore said after the event: “Well we did it! Another year completed with just shy of 300 children in to meet Father ...

Holbeach developer Ashwood Homes is set to build nearly 150 new homes in the area after planners gave the go-ahead to separate developments in Cowbit and Donington. South Holland District Council’s committee granted permission to the building of 73 dwellings in Town Dam Lane in Donington and 72 homes off Backgate in Cowbit at its latest meeting on Wednesday, December ...

St Paul’s School in Queen’s Road, Spalding is holding its Christmas Fete this Saturday, (December 9). The fun starts from 11am with a host of stalls and games on offer as well as the opportunity to visit Santa in his grotto. Entertainment will also be provided by the school’s choir singing Christmas carols.  

Pupils at Stamford High School were given a grilling recently to help them prepare for their university applications. The Rotary Club of Spalding and Welland held their annual mock interviews for 20 sixth form students looking to go to university. Rotary Club president John Ralph, said: “Our objective is to boost the interviewees’ self-confidence.” Mrs Dawn Bushell, head of sixth ...

A museum could be among the new arrivals at Spalding Station. Turning one of the historic building’s derelict rooms into a permanent exhibition of railway memorabilia has been mooted as an option. Spalding and Peterborough Transport Forum together with the Spalding Station Adoption Team had already announced it was looking to create spaces for community groups to use as part ...

A homeless couple are in accommodation following a successful appeal launched by a Spalding woman and her daughter. At the end of October, Stephanie Lamont and her daughter Clementine Cousins started an appeal to help house Jason and Jane Paul by Christmas. She is now celebrating after some large cash donations allowed her to meet her goal. Donations pledged online ...

Extra trains to Lincoln Christmas Market are stopping at Spalding Station on Sunday, December 10. The Peterborough to Lincoln services will leave Spalding at 9.31am and 10.31am arriving in Lincoln at 9.11am and 10.11am respectively. There are two return journeys. The first leaves Lincoln at 2.45pm arriving at Spalding at 3.41pm. The second leaves Lincoln at 4pm and arrives at ...

Two local businesses have come together to help provide some festive cheer for unwell youngsters. Swinton Insurance Brokers and Delivery Driver Service UK are collecting gifts to deliver to the Children’s Ward at Boston’s Pilgrim Hospital this Christmas. Anyone with spare toys or gifts can take them in to Swinton’s New Road premises in Spalding. Dominic Calitri of Delivery Driver ...

A Spalding family had more snow than any of us over the weekend. There was none forecast, and Thursday’s flurry just wasn’t enough so the Tangs had their own snow delivered. A white Christmas certainly came early after Liisa Tang won a competition. She spotted a hidden snow globe on the website of retailer TK Maxx and won her very ...

Here are the first entries for this year’s Festive Pets competition. Sponsored by Rooke’s Pet Products, the winner will be the pet that judges think shows the most Christmas spirit. Whether you have a Christmassy cat, a merry mutt, a festive fish or a holiday-loving hamster, we want to see your photos. So, what are you waiting for? Get your ...

Santa and his helpers from the Rotary Club of South Holland will be out and about in Spalding throughout December. Tuesday, December 5 – Beechfield Gardens, Holland Road, Church Mews, Cley Hall Drive, Cley Hall Gardens, Link Way, Halmergate, Halmer Gardens, Neville Avenue, Avebury Gardens, Low Road, Juniper Crescent, Pine Court, Ash Close, Lowfield Avenue, Helmsley Way, Ingelby Court, Rainton ...