Things to do

For audience members’ eyes only, No Time to Die, the 25th instalment of the James Bond franchise, will be showing from Spalding with love next month as it comes to the South Holland Centre, just two weeks after its international premiere. The long-awaited film, which has had its release delayed three times due to the pandemic, will be screening at ...

Holbeach Town Band are offering free music lessons for brass instruments this Saturday as part of Learn to Play ’21, organised by Music for All.The 10-15 minute sessions are taking place at the Back Lane Bandroom from 2pm to 5pm.Mel Hopkin, musical director, said: “We invite anyone interested in learning to play to join us on Saturday for a free ...

There are opportunities to sing your heart out this week The South Holland Singers are recruiting new members and are looking for anyone to come to one of their practice sessions.The group meets on Thursday evenings, 7.30pm to 9pm at Spalding Baptist Church on Swan Street.A spokesman for the group said: “After the long inactivity forced upon us by Covid ...

The next Spalding Gentlemen’s Society lecture takes place on Friday and will be presented by John Gandy, Senior Librarian at Blickling Hall in Norfolk, the National Trust’s largest library of printed books.The event is at Broad Street Methodist Church, Spalding, at 7.30pm and admission is £3.Lectures are also via live stream on Microsoft Teams which must be booked and paid ...

Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances Moulton Windmill will now only be open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays each week from 10am-4pm each day.The mill will not be open on Thursdays until further notice. Trust members apologise for any inconvenience.

Walk leaders Julie and Judy are pleased to announce that the popular walks for health will be resuming on Monday, October 4.Julie and Judy would love to welcome walkers old and new to join them at the new venue of Spalding Constitutional Club, Broad Street, Spalding, by kind permission of the club steward.Meet at 10.30am for registration followed by a ...

Award-winning comedian Omid Djalili comes to Spalding next week and there’s still a handful of tickets left. The popular British-Iranian actor/comedian takes to the stage at the South Holland Centre on Friday, October 1 with his rescheduled UK tour The Good Times Tour.And it could not come soon enough for Omid – after experimenting with a Zoom gig where he ...

If John Wick is your kind of film, Gunpowder Milkshake is going to be right up your street. Brimming with A-list talent, the Sky Original Film – which is also being released at cinemas – always looked like, at the very least, it would be a whole lot of fun. And, despite its over-the-top world and a slightly disappointing ending, ...

Folk legends Martin and Eliza Carthy are headlining a weekend of music and events coming to Gosberton’s St Peter and St Paul’s Church from September 17-19. Septemberfest is part of English Heritage’s Future of the Past series of events and the link up with Sound Lincs is to feature some excellent musical talent, many of whom will be playing their ...

As we enter a new phase of Marvel’s Cinematic Universe (MCU) post Endgame, Shang-Chi is the first new hero to hit the big screen – and what a welcome addition he is. The Legend Of The Ten Rings serves up perhaps the best hand-to-hand fight sequences the MCU has seen yet, while also introducing a host of new characters with ...

It’s always great when a film pleasantly surprises you at the cinema. Often the pre-release hype can leave some movies feeling like a damp squib, but Free Guy – starring the excellent Ryan Reynolds and Jodie Comer – is perhaps the most enjoyable action comedy I’ve seen in years. If you’re into video games, this Shawn Levy-directed offering is very ...

A town-wide table top sale is taking place in Holbeach this Sunday.Organised by Holbeach Parish Council, around 30 stalls look set to take part in the event due to take place from 11am to 4pm.The council’s vice chair Sophie Hutchinson said: “We have over 25 houses signed up so far across Holbeach town and the Women’s Institute Hall will be ...

St John’s Church in Weston Hills is holding a table top sale this Saturday.The event will be inside or outside the village hall, depending on the weather from 9am to 12pm.A spokesman said: “There will be cakes, tombola, bric-a-brac, books puzzles, plants and much more.“Please come and support us.”

A blonde moment is providing a local theatre group with its return to the stage. Act II are back and bringing their production of the comedy Legally Blonde to the stage next week.The show was originally meant to be staged in April 2020, but two years after first rehearsals the group are finally bringing it on stage at Spalding Grammar ...

With Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Emily Blunt at the helm, there’s much to like about Disney’s Jungle Cruise before the opening sequences run. The A-list pair are among the safest hands in Hollywood at the moment and emerge as a great on-screen combination for this light-hearted and fun summer blockbuster. Sure, Jungle Cruise is pretty limited. But it manages ...

A new initiative to bring musical opportunities to young people in South Lincolnshire was officially launched in Spalding last week. The Rock School Bus rolled into to The Sessions House for a special event to thank those who have helped sponsor the project. Amber Sinclair has converted a bus to include a host of musical instruments and recording equipment, as ...

Around 100 people descended on Spalding Market Place this lunch time to show their support for the South Holland Centre, the staff for which are subject to redundancies. Operators South Holland District Councils say the number of roles at the centre is being reduced from 24 to seven and the loss of many of the technical staff has led to ...

For the first time in 16 months dancers returned to the floor of a Spalding nightclub in the early hours of Monday morning. XO was booked out in advance as restrictions were lifted at the Westlode Street venue. DANPICS ©Stephen Daniels/DANPICS 19/07/2021 Owner Matt Clarke, said: “There was a lot more demand than we thought and everyone just seemed to ...

The endless horizon of South Holland’s wide skies provides both inspiration and comfort to BAFTA-winning poet Benjamin Zephaniah. The television awards were announced on Sunday evening and Benjamin was named as the winner of the Entertainment Programme category with his Life and Rhymes show. Screened by Sky Arts, the show beat heavyweight competition from Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway, ...

Live music returned to a Spalding record shop recently for a nationwide festival. Boston band Kings and Bears played an impromptu show at Uptown Vinyl in Baytree Garden Centre, Weston, as part of the BBC’s Airwaves festival. A host of local radio stations, including BBC Lincolnshire, put on the shows and broadcasted them over the Bank Holiday weekend. Due to ...