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Businesses in South Holland can still access a £1 million pot of cash to help them grow. The Grants4Growth scheme delivered by South Holland District Council has already provided more than £375,000 worth of funding to over 50 companies in the district. More businesses are now being urged to apply for grants. These range between £1,000 and £25,000 available for ...

Lincolnshire Police are appealing for people to hand over any unwanted guns as part of a national two-week surrender of firearms and ammunition. Superintendent Kieran English said: “Keeping a firearm is a huge responsibility. This is an opportunity to ask if it is a responsibility that you really want and if so, do you have the legal right to hold ...

Parents have criticised a South Lincolnshire school for taking five hours to tell them about a gun incident while pupils were on site. But staff commended for dealing with situation. Worried students at the site were kept in their classrooms at around 9am when the alarm was sounded, but many parents were not told anything officially until just after 2pm ...

This weekend sees a raft of Remembrance Sunday events taking place right across South Holland. Pinchbeck: On Sunday there will be a service at the Baptist Church from 10.30am. The service at St Mary’s Church, Pinchbeck, beings at 10.45am. The parade will leave the village hall at 10:30 and then proceed to church. After the service, wreaths will be laid ...

Shop santas and their helpers can get a free lesson in sign language to make sure as many children as possible can join in the festive fun. Two free sessions are available to teach people working as festive figures the key signs and symbols that will help ensure all children can experience the same magical moments while visiting Santa this ...

Plans for a new academy in Spalding have met with a barrage of opposition. Springwell Alternative Academy is proposing to convert the former Post-16 Centre at Matmore Gate. The centre is in the grounds of the existing Spalding Academy and would be used for students aged from five to 16 who may have been excluded from other schools, or who ...

Stores in Spalding and Long Sutton will again participate in Lincolnshire Co-op’s popular Santa’s Suitcase appeal. After the success of last year’s collection for homelessness charities, Lincolnshire Co-op’s 13 travel branches are currently running the Santa’s Suitcase appeal – collecting presents which will be shared with local social inclusion groups. It forms parts of Lincolnshire Co-op’s Community Champions scheme, which ...

Holbeach Hospital has been presented with a cheque for £1,200 from Bakkavor Pizza. The money was raised at summertime events. Welly wangers at the Bakkavor Fun Weekend and people who enjoyed pizzas from the company’s mobile oven at the Holbeach Food Festival all contributed. Hospital manager Maxine Winch said: “I would like to thank Bakkavor for their very generous donation; ...

Public safety issues could force a traffic ban for Long Sutton Market Place when the market is in town. A public meeting has been called on Monday to discuss a range of options for the market. “The close proximity of moving vehicles to pedestrians, traders and customers as the market is erected, during trading hours and while stalls are dismantled, ...

Santa arrived in style on Saturday when he paramotored into Baytree Nurseries. Crowds at the Weston garden centre were wowed as they watched Santa descend from the sky before being collected and driven in by Mark Le Sage in a gold Rolls Royce. Ably assisted by his elves and Rudolph, Santa handed out treats to the children. His arrival marked ...

A hospital is asking new mums to take their own pain relief tablets in with them. The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King’s Lynn, says time will be saved by women taking in their own paracetamol and ibuprofen to use after giving birth. But it also points out that the painkillers cost around £1 to buy but can be 15 times as ...

South Holland District Council and Breckland Council in Norfolk have created the business training group Environmental Health Training and Consultancy (EHT&C) The organisation offers training in environmental, hygiene and health and safety issues. EHT&C comprises Craig Fowler, Daniella Nundy and Andrew Dawson. Commercial Manager Craig said: “Both councils employ staff who have decades of experience, a wealth of professional knowledge ...

Membership is growing at Holbeach Civic Society with new members signing-up at the last meeting. The society had been at risk of closing with a falling number of members and a lack of people coming forward to take roles within the organisation. But Nick Worth has stepped in as chairman, Tracey Carter has taken the position of secretary, with Val ...

Controversial plans for 100 new homes in Crowland may well be approved after the county council’s highways withdrew its objections. An application for the homes off Crease Drove was refused earlier this year. Objections came in from residents, MP John Hayes, Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue, parish council, Highways and the Environment Agency. But a meeting of South Holland District Council’s ...

Rail passengers were left stranded after a problem on the line between Spalding and Peterborough on Sunday. Replacement buses had to be called to complete journeys and passengers heading to London from Hull took around seven hours to complete their journey. Virgin said it had been a challenging day with a broken-down train near Spalding causing major delays on the ...

Andy Prior took the spoils in Welland Yacht Club’s Richard Glen regatta on what was the last full day of sailing of the season. Some nine boats took part on Sunday – including new junior Christopher Seaborn. Although cold, the sun was shining with a fair breeze. From the start, the faster boats of Prior and Paul Burton opened up ...

A bogus “Help for Heroes” collector who pocketed thousands of pounds by posing in military uniform and pretending to be a serving soldier was today (Monday, November 6) jailed for 15 months.   David Santini (55) from Quadring, was caught collecting cash from the unsuspecting people at Newark antiques fair after police became suspicious about the style of his uniform. ...

Dave Abram and Stuart Van Dyke defended their title at Tydd St Giles Golf Club’s annual nine-hole night golf event. A field of 40 players contested this year’s competition, with Abram and Van Dyke clinching top spot on countback after racking up 16 points. Some solid golf from Matt and Ian Prudence saw them finish second, having also scored 16 ...

A man who downloaded hundreds of photographs and videos of young girls being sexually abused claimed he was working as a vigilante to expose paedophiles, Lincoln Crown Court was told.   Matthew Pointon (43) has been jailed for three years for downloaded images of girls as young as five years old being abused and sharing photographs with other men using ...

A drugs courier caught with more than £80,000 worth of cocaine was today (Wednesday, November 1) jailed for six years at Lincoln Crown Court.   Bush Hykaj was arrested after police who were called out to an unconnected domestic incident at an address in Spalding found him sitting outside the property in a BMW car.   Hykaj said the car was ...