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In response to a few queries and complaints in the press recently we are pleased to announce that this year’s Holbeach Town and Country Fayre AGM will be held on Monday, September 24 at Holbeach Services Club. The meeting will be held in the club’s function room starting at 7pm. We welcome anyone who has questions, queries or complaints to ...

“Feelings ran very high” at a parish council meeting during the discussion of an application for an 18-acre football complex in Pinchbeck. Monday night’s extraordinary meeting of Pinchbeck Parish Council was called to discuss the South East Lincs Local Plan, but it was the proposed football pitches that caused heated discussion. Pinchbeck United Junior Football Club (PUJFC) has submitted a ...

Women in South Holland could be waiting up to three months for results from their routine smear tests. There is up to a 12-week wait for the results which should take just a fortnight to come through. Women are invited to have the procedure every three or five years, depending on age, and a range of conditions, including cancer, can ...

A woman was taken to hospital on Saturday morning with broken bones following a collision with a van in Donington. Lincolnshire Police said that at 11.05am on Saturday, August 18, it received a report of a road traffic collision involving a van and a pedestrian at Market Place. A police spokesman said: “The van, a white Ford Transit, has collided ...

The popular Glen Park play area in Surfleet has become a more colourful place thanks to a group of volunteers who have spent the summer painting the fences bright colours. Surfleet woman Gaynor Fiske, who grew up in the village and moved back a few years ago, helped coordinate the efforts of a group of dedicated volunteers, who together have ...

Representatives of five Royal British Legion (RBL) branches in South Holland took part in a huge pilgrimage to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War. In one of the largest ever RBL operations, thousands of people travelled to Ypres, Belgium, for a three-day event. Representatives from Fleet and District, Holbeach, Spalding, Pinchbeck, Long Sutton and ...

Put your local knowledge to the test and fill in the gaps with the Spalding Gentlemen’s Society (SGS) quiz. The 100-question quiz is themed Spalding and South Holland and is a good excuse to get out and about. SGS member Dave Jacobs said: “If you think you know your local history or, if not, would like to get to know ...

Members of Spalding’s National Citizen Service (NCS) volunteer programme have raised almost £400 for local causes. By spending a fortnight of their summer break in doing good deeds in Spalding, the 15 to 17-year-old NFC members raised £374 for the 5th Spalding Brownies and Spalding Rugby Football Club. The NFS programme, which is designed to build confidence and skills through ...

The 60th anniversary of the link between Spalding and its French twin town Sézanne is being rung in with a special celebration being held this weekend. The Friends of Sézanne host their counterparts from the Champagne region on alternate years and this year it will mark its diamond celebration with a special event at the South Holland Centre. From 5.30pm ...

A Spalding society hopes its specially commissioned bronze statue will take its place in Spalding town centre by October half term. The Hiring Fair depicts the meeting of a farmer and a shepherd and is hoped it will be sited at Hall Place, where hiring fairs traditionally took place each year in May. Currently the figures are stood in an ...

Holbeach’s Chosen Charity has donated £500 to save the leg of a dog called Cappo after seeing an appeal online. At 15-weeks-old, Cappo was attacked by another dog and suffered a broken leg. Staff at Sutterton Hospital put out an appeal in an attempt to raise funds to repair the fracture and Chosen responded with a £500 donation. Amy Trigg ...

Patients at the soon to close Pennygate Surgery have called for it to remain open after the retiring doctor offered to hire the building out rent free. Supporters of the surgery gathered at a packed and heated meeting on Monday to discuss South Lincolnshire Clinical Commissioing Group’s (CCG) proposal to transfer all patients to the Johnson Hospital from September 7. ...

Lincolnshire Police has launched an appeal to help find a man following a tragic death in Spalding last month. It follows the body of a man being found of a man found in the river near Clay Lake around 4.30pm on July 8. The force has previously called the death “non-suspicious”.  It is now looking to speak to a man ...

With an over 99 per cent pass rate and a host of A* and A grades, there were plenty of happy faces at Spalding High School this morning (Thursday) as students learned how they did. Anna Villers was one of the school’s top performers picking up three A*s. “I wasn’t expecting that,” she said next to tearful mum. “I was ...

There was some fantastic A-Level results at Spalding Grammar School including one student who delivered more than just grades over the summer. Amelia Knight was delighted to get a BCC after taking the exams while eight months pregnant. She went to pick her exam results up with the now month-old Isla-Mae Knight on Thursday. “My last exam was two weeks ...

A court has issued a six-month ban on a 32-year-old Spalding man from going to a local pub after hearing that staff were “cowering” behind the bar as he fought with a friend he had fallen out with. Christopher John Wayne Morris of Spring Gardens admitted using threatening behaviour likely to cause alarm or distress, when he appeared at Boston ...

A drinker from Holbeach injured two women when he lost his temper and threw a beer glass across a crowded night club, Lincoln Crown Court was told today (Wednesday).   Benjamin Flatters had been arguing with his then girlfriend Lauren Hancock during a night out in Brown’s Bar in  Dolphin Lane, Boston, when he suddenly threw a half-pint glass towards the ...

A teenager battling a rare disease that has left her in constant pain is planning for university ahead of tomorrow’s (Thursday) A Level results. Gaby Taylor (18), of Spalding, has been diagnosed with type two a-typical trigeminal neuralgia, a chronic pain disorder brought about by a faulty nerve. It means she has constant pain that includes daily attacks so strong it ...

Residents of a Spalding cul-de-sac have been left fuming after a wood burner with a nearly 30ft chimney was built without planning permission behind their homes. Those living on Westminster Drive first noticed building work taking place at Cedar Falls Care Home in May and complained to South Holland District Council. Owner Tanglewood has since submitted a retrospective planning application ...

A South Holland man had the shock of his life when he was presented with an £85,000 car he won in a draw. Andy Pegler, of Lutton Gowts, was lost for words when he was shown to a gleaming Nissan GT-R Recaro, which sell for £84,995, along with a briefcase rammed with £20,000 cash. He won both with BOTB, which ...