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A developer has been criticised for littering around its site. Stinders Homes are currently building The Meadows in Quadring.But residents had been left concerned at the state of the site over Christmas.One resident Stuart Bensberg sent in these pictures (right): “It’s been like this for a month.“It’s totally unacceptable pollution of a beauty spot and public right of way.”Stuart said ...

A transport group is calling for more to be done about speeding in and around Pinchbeck. George Scott, the chair of the Spalding and Peterborough Transport Forum, says not enough is being done in the village, particularly while more young people walk along its roads to Spalding with Two Plank Bridge still closed due to the ongoing Spalding Western Relief ...

Why bollards were removed from a narrow Spalding street is to be looked at amid a complaint vehicles are getting stuck. Measures to stop people driving along a narrow stretch of road between Palin Drive and Green Lane had been in place for around 20 years.That’s because the section is not big enough for two vehicles to pass each other ...

Parking restrictions are to be bought in on part of a Weston Hills road, despite objections from members of the public. Following a request by the local parish council, Lincolnshire County Council is placing 24-hour no waiting measures on Broadgate between the junctions with Carisbrooke Way and St John’s Road.It follows concerns staff are parking there to work for a ...

An appeal has been launched for a man wanted for robbery and recall to prison. Lincolnshire Police say Kamil Dudek is ‘thought to be still in or around the Spalding area’. Anyone with any information is asked to contact the force by calling 101 quoting occurrence 23000722817 (Robbery) / 23000727692 (Recall to prison), or by emailing DC James Wood, james.wood@lincs.police.uk, quoting ...

A car burst into flames after its brakes failed and it hit barrier last night. Spalding Fire Crew were called to London Road in the Little London area of the town shortly before 6pm last night (Tuesday, January 9). It’s not clear if anyone was injured in the incident. A spokesman for Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue said: “There was severe ...

A car went in to a ditch on the A151 at Moulton this morning (Friday, January 5). The road remained passable following the incident which took place shortly before 7am. Nobody was injured in the incident. A spokesman for Lincolnshire Police, said: “This was a single car collision in which a car left the road.”

The Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance has experienced its busiest year on record, responding to 1,771 missions in the last 12 months. The charity’s crews of pilots, doctors and paramedics responded to 541 missions in Nottinghamshire, 1,044 in Lincolnshire and the remaining 181in the surrounding counties.  Serious medical injuries accounted for 676 missions, followed by 488 road traffic incidents as ...

There’s been reports of rivers bursting their banks in South Holland. The River Welland has overflowed on to Cowbit Wash flood plains while near Quadring the Footy Foot Drain has spilled in to fields. The Environment Agency has issued a ‘flooding expected’ warning over the drain saying it could affect some homes. The warning is for isolated properties and villages ...

Spalding’s Argos is to move out of its Holland Market branch and into the nearby Sainsbury’s store. The shops now have the same owner and its part of a nationwide initiative to bring them under the same roof.Sainsbury’s has applied for planning permission to change the signage on the front of its own store on Holland Park to include the ...

A woman has been taken to hospital with potentially serious injuries after her car entered a ditch off A151 between West Pinchbeck and Twenty this morning (Thursday, January 4). The road is currently blocked and those looking to use the Bourne/Spalding Road have reported stationary traffic and cars having to do u-turns. Lincolnshire Police say the incident was reported at ...

A bid to open Moulton Park up to the public looks set to get the green light from planners. South Holland District Council is in the process of selling the majority of the site to the charity the John and Maureen Biggadike Foundation who are to open the space up for people to enjoy. The authority’s planning officers have recommended ...

People can now drop off letters to missed loved ones at Spalding Cemetery thanks to a family mourning a loss. The Woolsey family have paid out of their own pockets for the erection of a Letters to Heaven postbox in memory of Ray Woolsey who passed away on September 1 after a four and a half year battle with leukaemia. ...

A South Holland family are looking to create a new wood in memory of their friend Benjamin Zephaniah. The poet, activist and actor, who lived in Moulton Chapel, was laid to rest last week in a private ceremony after his death aged 65 last month.The Birkett family have been working on creating a wood for the public for several years ...

A Gedney Drove End man has been awarded an OBE for public service in the King’s New Year’s honours list. Nicholas Leader worked in the prison service for 40 years.After joining the prison service as an officer at HMP Birmingham in 1985, Nicholas moved to South Holland to work with HMP Whitemoor in Cambridgeshire in 1993, before retiring last September.He’s ...

A dog walker has urged anglers to be more careful after his Siberian Husky was injured by hooks left on a footpath. Kevin Kibble (62) was walking Rambo along the Coronation Channel in Spalding around 11am on Saturday, December 23 when he got one four-pronged hook in his paw and another in his back leg.Thankfully Rambo is set to be ...

Residents at a Spalding home for assisted living held a special surprise party for their departing development manager. Amanda Johnson has retired after 21 years working at Georgian Court.The grandmother of three is looking forward to spending more time with her family.Amanda, who previous to the role was a manager at Safeway said: “It’s been a wonderful two decades and ...

A public event to discuss the proposed ‘devolution’ which includes having an elected mayor for Greater Lincolnshire will be held in Spalding later this month. It comes amid criticisms of the devolution itself.Lincolnshire County Council, which is pushing for the link up with North and North East Lincolnshire County Councils, is putting on 22 consultation events, though only one is ...

A hospital trust has been given an award for the way it treats the staff it brings in from overseas. United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) has achieved the NHS Pastoral Care Quality Award. Over the last three years, in excess of 780 internationally educated nurses have joined ULHT across 42 cohorts, ranging in size from five to 65 from ...

Lincolnshire councillors are outraged by the government’s decision to redirect £235 million from the scrapped northern leg of HS2 to repair roads in London. In October, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak unveiled a £36 billion plan to revamp British transport, allocating £8.3 billion for road improvements, in the wake of the HS2 line cancellation between Birmingham and Manchester.Yet, the decision to ...