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A Gosberton Risegate man has started a prison sentence after admitting assaulting a woman. Darren Paul Matthews, of Sheppersons Avenue, was handed a six-week term seven days after beating Megan Parr on May 24. He was also ordered to pay £50 compensation. Appearing before Boston magistrates on May 31, Matthews (45) also pleaded guilty to: taking a car on May ...

A Deeping St Nicholas man accused of having 71.5 grams of cannabis with intent to supply has been remanded on unconditional bail. Luke Hugh Perry (19), of Cornfield Close, is said to have been in the possession of the class B drug  in St George’s Avenue, Stamford, on November 20, 2016. Perry appeared before Boston magistrates on May 31 and ...

A Holbeach firm’s expertise at growing daffodils earned it a place at the Champions League final last Saturday night. (June 3) Walkers@Taylors Bulbs was chosen specifically to provide the displays within the corporate areas for the showpiece event at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff. Grower Johnny Walkers explained: “We were asked last November if it would be possible to have ...

Planning permission has been granted for 188 new homes in Holbeach. After an hour-long debate by South Holland District Council’s planning committee on Wednesday (May 31), members agreed 12-2 in favour of King Bros (Butchers) Ltd’s proposal for an 8.4 hectare site off the town end of Damgate. Councillors were generally pleased with the plan in terms of layout, density and ...

The daughter of one of the many elderly burglary victims targeted in the Spalding area over the past fortnight says her mother will not feel comfortable using a key safe again. Many of those targeted have been burgled using keys kept in coded boxes on the outside of the property, which enable access for trusted people. The daughter (who we ...

University Academy Holbeach’s first Battle of the Bands was organised by some of its older students.   As part of their BTEC Level 3 Diploma in Music, Edward King and Austin Walker-Hyde had to organise and run a community music project. They decided to work with Year 7 pupils to develop the younger pupils’ knowledge of and skills in rock ...

Calls for tolerance, education and to remain united have been made after a heated social media debate over a Sikh man photographed wearing a large sheathed ceremonial sword in a supermarket. The law allows knives to be carried in public for specified good reasons – including in the case of a Sikh carrying a kirpan, a religious symbol worn by ...

A woman accused of having cannabis in Holbeach with intent to supply has changed her plea to guilty. Caroline Kelly Moxon (40), of Moulton Washway, Fosdyke Bridge, admitted the charge surrounding 10.05 grams of the drug on September 19, 2016. She had previously denied the offence but before Boston magistrates on May 26 Moxon entered a guilty plea. She was ...

Police investigating a string of 20 burglaries and attempted burglaries at homes of elderly people seized property at a Spalding home on Thursday (June 1). A search warrant was executed at a house in Halmer Gate. No arrests have yet been made. Det Insp Dave Rimmer said: “This is very much a live enquiry. We have searched an address today, ...

Former England rugby union captain Phil Vickery is opening a branch of his popular clothing brand at Springfields Outlet Shopping in Spalding.   Raging Bull is expected to open in mid-July and is another good addition to the centre’s big names such as Next Outlet, Ernest Jones Outlet Collection, Fatface and Starbucks.   Raging Bull, founded by Vickery in 2003, ...

About 4,000 visitors made the second annual Spalding Beer and Music Festival another smash hit. The joint Spalding Round Table and Spalding Ladies’ Circle event is expected to have topped £15,000 profit – all of which will be distributed to good causes in the local community in the coming months. Across the event from last Friday (May 26) to Sunday, ...

A former Crowland parish councillor who admitted viewing indecent images of children has been  jailed for eight months.     Peter Bird, 72, was caught after police executed a search warrant at his Crowland home in October.     Lincoln Crown Court heard officers attended at the property after receiving information that an IP address belonging to Bird had downloaded a ...

A wedding goods supplier who defrauded a number of customers after failing to declare she was a bankrupt has been jailed for 18 months.   Amanda Vines (48) was made bankrupt in March 2014 but continued to run an internet business supplying items for weddings, Lincoln Crown Court heard.   Mark Knowles, prosecuting, said Vines was a self employed sales ...

Five months after the introduction of an order to crack down on anti-social behaviour in Spalding town centre not a single ticket has been issued – but officials say that’s a positive sign.   Lincolnshire Police and South Holland District Council have said people are complying on request with the Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) launched in December.   New ...

Talks are continuing over the future of Spalding’s Pennygate Foundation – a health and wellbeing centre said to be operating beyond its planning permission.     Brenda Wickham, who founded the centre, in Pennygate, with Dr Nathu, of the next door medical centre, said need for it is growing and wants people to know it is still up and running. ...

A lapse in concentration by a long-time Spalding GP may have contributed to his death in a road traffic accident, an inquest has heard.   Dr Charles Lennon, who had been at the Munro Medical Centre in West Elloe Avenue for 28 years, was cycling along the A15 near Thurlby when he was in collision with a bus.   The inquest ...

Motorists face a month of delays and diversions with another emergency closure of Pinchbeck Road, Spalding.     Anglian Water is repairing the area of road outside Taylors Vauxhall which has been cordoned off and collapsing for months.   A spokesperson said: “Our teams are currently repairing a collapsed sewer on Pinchbeck Road in Spalding.    “After the road surface ...

Improvements to cleanliness and management at Spalding swimming pool are having a noticeable effect, councillors have been told.     For some considerable time, criticism dogged South Holland District Council –owner of The Castle Sports Complex – and 1Life, the leisure company contracted to run it.    But members of the council’s performance monitoring panel received a positive update last Tuesday from ...

Patients recovering in hospital are now able to access a small collection of Polish books, thanks to kind donations from members of an online support group.   Staff from Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) made an appeal for books written in Polish after a special request for help from a homeless patient, who did not have anything to ...

A renewed bid is to be made to enable expansion of Pinchbeck doctors’ surgery – turned down earlier this year after residents expressed fears about parking issues.     Munro Medical Centre, of which the Church Walk surgery is part, has been told it can still access the NHS England funding to enable the plan, which may have been lost ...