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After 45 years of raising thousands of pounds for charity through coffee mornings, Lorna Webb has poured her last public cuppa. The 93-year-old, who is aided by a team of helpers, is now helping others take on the mantle of raising money for charity. Lorna herself hasn’t been counting how much she’s raised over the years, but it started when ...

It takes more than three hip operations and debilitating conditions to stop Jean Ruck from volunteering at Holbeach Hospital. This month marks 20 years of the Holbeach resident helping out at the hospital through its League of Friends. And at the monthly entertainment event she hosts for residents, this month with singing group Velvet Souls, the hospital surprised her with ...

Pupils from Weston St Mary C of E Primary School have helped plant 150 trees in the school grounds. The school teamed up with London North Eastern Railway (LNER) and Carbon Footprint as part of a new project which aims to raise awareness regarding environmental issues. A combination of Birch (Silver), Common Alder, Dog/Guelder Rose and Green Beech species, totalling ...

There are fears for the future of a Holbeach play area which was due to be refurbished. The Hall Hill Road site is owned by South Holland District Council and there is money in the bank to provide new equipment. But the parish council has been trying to secure a lease for 18 months in order to release the cash ...

It’s your last chance to help make a child’s Christmas by donating to the Give a Gift appeal. We’ve had a fantastic response so far but every gift will unwrap a whole world of delight for a young person aged between three and 14 on Christmas Day who might otherwise receive nothing. The generous people at Westlode Fisheries in Spalding ...

There’s been a significant increase in the theft of bikes with one Spalding mum urging others to be vigilant after her 11-year-old son’s bike he’d bought himself with birthday money was stolen in the town centre. Nichola Good is warning people to wary after son Thomas’s silver Carrera bike was taken while locked up outside Barclay’s Bank in the town. The ...

Mobile fingerprint scanners will be introduced by Lincolnshire Police in a bid to save the force £1.8m. Police will make 130 scanners available at a cost of £29,000. A police spokesman said the scanners will allow officers to take fingerprints on the spot, rather than having to take people to a police station. They will also be used to identify ...

Today (Friday, December 14) marks exactly 100 years since the first women voted in a General Election. And to celebrate, some prominent local women held a Suffragettes Tea Party at Ayscoughfee Hall last week where they paid tribute to those women who helped take huge steps in the fight towards equality. They included Jennifer Alcock who recently found out her ...

A Gedney Hill shop has been robbed at gunpoint. Around 9pm on Thursday, December 6, a man entered the McColl’s Shop on Hillgate in Gedney Hill and threatened a member of staff with a shotgun.  Police said no one was injured and the man made off with a quantity of cash.  He is believed to have left the area in a ...

A person has died after being struck by a train in Pinchbeck in the early hours of this morning (Friday). British Transport Police attended a call at Blue Gowt Lane just after 3am. A police statement said: “‘Officers were called to the line close to Pinchbeck at 03.19am this morning following reports a person had been struck by a train. ...

Children as young as four were told Santa wasn’t real by a charity worker in a primary school assembly and pupils were told to demonstrate this by smashing chocolate figures with a hammer, parents have claimed. The pupils crushed chocolate Santas and reindeers at Fleet Wood Lane School in an assembly taken by Emily Taylor, an official children’s worker from ...

Spalding’s Johnson Hospital should be upgraded to a ‘super urgent treatment centre’, says a letter from MP Sir John Hayes. Following news that the hospital may become a GP hub instead of a minor injuries unit, Sir John sought reassurance that this would not happen from the chief operating officer of South Lincs CCG Andrew Rix, who told him the ...

Santa popped in to help The Meadows Day Centre celebrate its first Christmas as a newly independent charity. The centre, which provides a place for the local elderly people to go and mingle together, put on two huge Christmas parties for its regulars on Monday and Tuesday. As well as fantastic musical entertainment and turkey dinner, the staff put on ...

The annual St Nicholas Fair in Holbeach had an amazing light show this year for the first time. A variety of local businesses took part in the event which saw crowds of visitors on Friday and Saturday around the church of All Saints’. The traditional fayre was first started in 2014 by the Holbeach Regeneration organisation. This year the children ...

A Holbeach house operating as an unlicensed multiple occupancy home thought to have had up to 17 people living in it has been condemned. On November 23, South Holland District Council (SHDC)inspectors found eight people at the address at Chapel Street during their inspection, but believe up to 17 might have been living there. The council deemed the house to ...

Two councils have teamed up to tackle ‘grot spots’ in Holbeach. The town’s parish council is working with South Holland District Council’s Pride team leader Tony Crofts in an attempt to reduce litter. Mr Crofts said: “Since joining the team I have laboured the point of making the most of the resources available. “Challenges such as funding have meant I ...

A Spalding chip shop is offering the chance to enjoy your Christmas meal completely battered without you even having to touch a drop of alcohol. Oh My Cod on Alexandra Road has taken the unusual step of launching the Battered Christmas Dinner for the festive season. It includes chicken, jumbo pigs in blankets, Brussels sprouts and stuffing, all of which ...

Friends of William Stukeley C of E Primary School has received a £750 cash boost from Alexandra Masonic Lodge in Long Sutton. The Friends have been raising money for a Trim Trail playground set, as well as educational aids. Tracey Carter added, “This fabulous donation from the Lincolnshire Masons is hugely appreciated, thank you to all the members for supporting ...

Children from a Spalding Kindergarten enjoyed a special private visit to Santa ahead of Birchgrove’s official grotto opening. Birchgrove Garden Centre in Pinchbeck ran a Facebook competition for schools and nurseries to attend the special event, and Spalding nursery Munchkins Kindergarten was the lucky winner. Children from Munchkins went along to the winter spectacular on Wednesday, November 28. “We thought ...

Those in need are again able to get a hot meal on Christmas day thanks to a Spalding chip shop. Westlode Fisheries will open Christmas Day between noon and 2pm to serve hot meals to local homeless and vulnerable elderly people. The chip shop will also donate ten per cent of its Christmas Eve takings to a local charitable cause. ...