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Landmark business premises in Spalding town centre are on the market for more than £1 million. The former Hills, latterly Coney’s, department store in the centre of town has an asking price of £750,000.With almost 15,000sq ft of space and a first floor restaurant, it’s one of the biggest buildings on offer.Hills was owned by the Turner family for 60 ...

Two new initiatives to boost the High Street are set to launch, including a long mooted business led one in Spalding. But a different one called Still On The High Street targeting independent businesses across South Holland is also launching with the woman behind it, Carys Dayne, saying the area’s ‘waited long enough’ for a Business Improvement District (BID) or ...

South Holland Markets’ inaugural Market Trader of the Year award has been announced. Julie Newman, who is on Spalding Market with the Sizzling Grill, came out top in a public poll to take the title.It was held as part of this years ‘Love Your Local Market’ campaign.She receives eight free markets for winning this year’s awardJulie, who has been on ...

A councillor has been publicly kicked-off a committee after the Holbeach Car and Bike Show went ahead, amid more parish council in-fighting. This year’s event took place on Sunday, July 22 at the Lawns Caravan and Camping site in Fleet.It was supposed to be at Holbeach Primary School and run by the parish council, but due to a wet weather ...

Five community groups in South Holland have been given extra funding for new projects. The Donington Ideas Group plans to improve Flinders Park ahead of its namesake’s return next year. The organisation is set to receive funding as part of the latest round of grants for the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF).Fleet Parish Council say its looking to use the ...

Campaigners bidding to stop the closure of the ticket office at Spalding Station are encouraging people to sign a petition against it as the consultation deadline looms. A number of people including Jan Whitbourn and MP Sir John Hayes have backed the campaign.District councillor Whitbourn has been directing people to a national petition which, if it gets 100,000 signatories, will ...

Opposition councillors at Lincolnshire County Council have promised to closely monitor a renewed £17m contract with Serco after a mixed history with the authority. The contract includes all aspects of the council’s customer services, including for highways, education, transport, libraries, heritage, adult and children’s services and road safety, writes Local Democracy Reporter Daniel Jaines.It will also support the council in ...

Lincolnshire County Council is actively seeking new foster carers as the national demand for these roles surges. Recent national reports have spotlighted a significant shortage of foster carers. The urgency for a “rocket boost” in fostering, to address the nationwide carer deficit, has been emphasised by national media, writes Local Democracy Reporter Daniel Jaines.Dame Rachel de Souza, the Children’s Commissioner ...

A man who allowed a Holbeach farm to be used for growing cannabis has been ordered to hand over £6,500 in assets by a judge. Daniel Magner, 34, was given a suspended jail sentence in February this year after police found over 240 cannabis plants worth up to £200,000 during a raid on Millbank Farm. Following the sentence hearing a ...

There were 92 per cent of students who earned at least one A* to C grade at University Academy Holbeach. The school has also hailed that all students that wanted to go to University have been able to do so.A spokesman for the school said: “University Academy Holbeach would like to congratulate all our learners on their results for A-Level, ...

Spalding Grammar School has hailed it successes among some of the toughest conditions to sit A Levels. A spokesman for the Grammar School said: “For a cohort that didn’t experience GCSE examinations and also weren’t given the additional preparation help for A Levels that last year’s cohort were given, there have been a great many pleasing performances by students this ...

Spalding High School is celebrating itss A* and A*-B grades after an excellent set of results. Students had nine per cent of all grades awarded A* and 60 per cent at least a B depsite government mark downs.Many subjects achieved above 60% A-B grades, including Art and Design (87%), Criminology (78%), Drama and Theatre Studies (60%), English Language (63%), French ...

Things went from bad to worse for a Spalding resident who tried to distance himself from a heated row at home. Bryan Holland got into a vehicle while over the alcohol limit and immediately collided with a neighbour’s parked Audi A6 car.Holland’s solicitor, Stuart Wild, told Boston Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday: “Mr Holland’s intention was to drive a relatively short ...

A Holbeach man who cut his former partner’s neck with a piece of broken mirror will be sentenced after a judge decides if he is dangerous. Kristian Butcher, 31, admitted a charge of Section 18 wounding after injuring the woman during a protracted assault on June 3 this year. Butcher, of Spalding Road, Holbeach, had gone back to the victim’s ...

A South Holland man will contest a charge that he supplied cocaine and cannabis to a youth. Daniel Bailey (46) indicated that he will admit possession of the class A and B drugs on October 13last year.But when the case goes to crown court next month he will deny supplying cannabis to the girl fromthe age of 14 and cocaine ...

Spalding students at Bourne Academy Sixth Form have produced some fantastic results. They include Jakub Baranowski who studied four subjects (Distinction* – Applied Science / A – Maths / A – Physics / B – Chemistry) and will be studying Physics at University of York. Jakub Baranowski  Roxana Coltatu meanwhile studied three A-levels (A* – Biology / A – Maths / A ...

Act II’s regular summer holiday workshops have proven big successes once again. Around 60 children took part in either the week long programmes and then production of Frozen or The Addam’s Family.The group’s members took over The South Holland Centre for two weeks.The first saw the younger members Let It Go and put on a production of Frozen.The elder ones ...

A new way to prosecute more businesses for selling illegal cigarettes and vapes is already having an effect in Spalding and is set to be rolled out across the county. Lincolnshire County Council says part of the process being taken on by police is allowing more of a crackdown on those flouting the law.It comes after two properties were served ...

A major new project is under way looking at the salt water threat to prime agricultural land in South Lincolnshire. With around 12 per cent of the UK’s food being grown or processed in the county, the importance of its agricultural role can’t be understated.Project Groundwater is joining with the University of Lincoln to help protect the land of the ...

A two-phase programme of expansion will see a South Holland primary school increase by more than 100 pupils. And an ‘exceptionally fine’ example of a Maidenhair tree is to be spared after initial design plans were amended.The original plan at the William Stukeley Primary School in Holbeach, had seen the tree, a ginko bilboa, earmarked for removal, but it is ...