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It’s 60-years since The Beatles released their debut album and a South Holland record shop is looking to raise money for charity with a special display to mark the occasion. Uptown Vinyl, which is based at Baytree Garden Centre, has managed to get hold of 60 copies of Please, Please Me which came out on March 22, 1963. It includes ...

A new shop and space to help less fortunate families is to open in Holbeach. Mandy Baxter has conceived the idea after trying to equip hundreds of Ukrainian refugees in recent months as part of her Boxes of Hope charity. But as well as those and the 20 lorry loads of aid she’s shipped to help the war effort in ...

A Spalding couple are celebrating their diamond wedding anniversary in the same place they celebrated 60 years ago. Barbara (nee Godby) and Frank Lawson married at Moulton All Saints’ Church on March 23, 1963. They lived with Barbara’s uncle George Clark until they saved £250 deposit for their £1,500 three bed home on Hannam Boulevard, Spalding. Frank worked at JT ...

A charity’s annual bid to help households celebrate Easter has been launched. The Ella’s Project Easter Appeal, in conjunction with the Nat West Bank in Spalding, is asking people to donate an Easter egg or chocolate. They can drop it off during normal branch hours and they will all be donated to families in crisis and children in need in ...

A special event to crown Spalding’s Flower Parade Ambassador is to take place next month. The South Holland Centre will see which of the ten final nominees lands the top position for the event on Saturday, May 13. Before that though, the person who will be the Ambassador for the parade and sit atop one of the main floats need ...

A martial arts loving air cadet is hoping to reach new heights by being the Ambassador for the Spalding Flower Parade. Star Perry, of Weston Hills, has taken part in Wado Ryu, Ju Jitsu, Akido, freestyle Karate and even weapons training, skills that led to her being chosen to display in front of the president of Cyprus when young. The ...

St John’s Care Home in Spalding has shown its appreciation for local emergency service responders in and around Spalding with a Blue Light Breakfast offering. Local paramedics, district nurses and firefighters attended the free breakfast earlier this month. Staff at St John’s were on hand to serve breakfast baps, teas, and coffee freshly made on arrival by the kitchen team ...

Holbeach Hospital residents were given a smile by members of a class at a local school. The children in Year One and Two (Oak Class) at Weston Hills Church of England Primary School have been looking at thankfulness. As part of their learning they had to think about how they could give gifts rather than saying thank you for gifts. ...

Friday saw people don their red noses to raise money for charity. Red Nose Day 2023 was the first to be held annually after it previously took place every other year. The staff and pupils at Spalding’s Wygate Park Academy were among those to get involved with fundraising for the BBC appeal raising £329.65. A spokesman for the school said: ...

A group that aims to help others where its needed are on the look out for new people to get behind it. The Spalding and Pinchbeck Good Neighbour scheme is recruiting new volunteers and especially people willing to join its committee. The group meet roughly once a month, often by Zoom, but have recently started using Morrison’s community room. A ...

A new flower parade inspired artwork to brighten up a Spalding passage branded as a ‘latrine’ has been given a £30,000 boost. Abbey Passage is to be the subject of the work ‘Flos Pompa’ (Latin for flower parade) by Transported Arts. It’s intended the tile mosaic will be a community effort created and designed by local groups and schools. A ...

A South Holland community group is digging in to help more people than ever with food, clothing and energy bills by launching its own allotment. The Holbeach Hero’s was originally started during the second lockdown in the midst of the pandemic. Initially it was a community self-help group offering support and practical help to those who were struggling. But it ...

A Holbeach fundraiser has reached a huge milestone in her support for a dog charity. Ann Gregory has been helping Jerry Green Dog Rescue, which has a centre at Algakirk, since she read a sad story relating to two of the residents – and has hit £30,000. Brandy and Marley were taken to the charity and Brandy needed extensive surgery ...

Members of the Lithuanian community in Spalding teamed up with the Ella’s Project charity to hand out flowers on International Women’s Day last week. It’s a tradition in Lithuania to hand out flowers to women, so the community’s Vaida Janina Trabsaite alongside friends and Mark Le Sage, of the charity, was out and about in Spalding Market Place. Mark said: ...

There was cause for celebration in South Holland when Donington dog breeders took honours at Crufts. Mother and daughter Lynda and Pam Havard were delighted when their 22-month-old beagle Tiana won best of breed. She had taken the puppy title last year. Dog lovers from around the world could be found in Birmingham at the NEC for the annual four-day ...

The organisers of a charity ball’s last act has been to donate an amazing £9,309.11, making nearly £80,000 raised for local healthcare. The Johnson Hospital Ball committee donated the total for the last few events to Friends of Johnson Community Hospital. It has run for 13 years with all the profit raised going to the charity. Hospital ball committee chairman ...

More than £1,000 was raised for the hosting of this year’s Spalding Flower Parade on Sunday, as part of a sponsored walk. There were 20 people who took on the 12.5 miles sponsored walk around the town. Flower parade organiser Steve Timewell organised it and said: “It was a great day and we managed to raise over £1,000 for the ...

A memorial tree has been planted in memory of Coun Angela Newton in her former ward. The former county and district councillor passed away last year. Members of Angela’s family including husband Alan Porter and cousin Coun Jane King were in attendance at the event on The Parkway. It was organised by current district council member Steve Timewell. “A couple ...

Four employees of a Spalding company have been given long service awards by the Royal Horticultural Society. The quartet who work for Taylors Bulbs all have over 40 years’ experience in the industry. * Di Beales started working full time for Taylors in February 1983. She has always been renowned as the quickest flower cropper at Taylors – nobody can ...

There was a Big Spring Clean-Up in South Holland when an army of volunteers got to work. Parish councillors led the event which saw bin bags at the ready in Moulton, Moulton Seas End and Moulton Chapel at the weekend. The clean-up has been held for six years and is always well-supported by residents. “I was really pleased with the ...