Things to do

A specialist French market will visit Bourne next week to give South Kesteven a flavour of the continent. A group of 14 traders will promote and sell French food, fashion and goods in Bourne outside the Corn Exchange in the market’s usual location, hosted by SKDC. Vintage music and family entertainers will welcome shoppers from 8am to 2pm. SKDC’s portfolio ...

Spalding will come to life on Friday as the Pumpkin Parade comes to town once again. The ever popular family event will see a host of attractions throughout the day, including live entertainment from local artists, charity market, themed activities and competitions. Live acts include Diamondz DG, The Bourne Borderers and Zebra. The day will be rounded off with the ...

October 8 South Holland Healthy Walks, 10.30am, start Holbeach Services Club. Meet your local Health Trainer, 9am-4pm, Sutton Bridge Community Centre, contact 07532 236616. Holbeach and Spalding Explorers: Spalding, 7pm-9pm; Holbeach 7.15pm-9.15pm. Open to 14-18 year olds. Visit www.handsscouts.com Tots and Carers Group, 9am-11.30am, Moulton Village Hall. Vitality classes, Broad Street Methodist Church Hall, Spalding, 11.30am-12.30pm and 1.45pm-2.45pm; Weston Village ...

I’ve had a long think about it – and I reckon that being left for dead on another planet (Mars in this case) probably ranks as the worst-possible scenario anybody could realistically face. That’s the situation facing NASA astronaut Mark Watney (Matt Damon – The Bourne Identity) in this Ridley Scott directed adaptation of Andy Weir’s book The Martian. Imagine ...

Acclaimed artist Mo Teeuw is inviting people to share in places she has visited in a new exhibition. Home and Abroad is a collection of more than 50 paintings featuring places which Mo has travelled to in the past year, including France, Morocco, Greece, Venice, Norfolk and Lincolnshire. It’s the latest of many successful exhibitions which the Moulton artist has ...

South Holland Concerts will be opening its 32nd season with a performance by exciting brass quintet Pure Brass. The concert takes place at the South Holland Centre, Spalding, on Saturday, at 7.30pm. They will be playing music from traditional brass band compositions to classical renditions, modern compositions and vibrant jazz numbers. The quintet consists of Andrew Connell-Smith and Iain Archibald ...

TODAY South Holland Healthy Walks, 10.30am, Holbeach Services Club. Meet your Health Trainer, 9am-4pm, Sutton Bridge Community Centre, 07532 236616. Holbeach and Spalding Explorers: Spalding, 7pm-9pm; Holbeach 7.15pm-9.15pm, www.handsscouts.com Tots and Carers, 9am-11.30am, Moulton Village Hall. Vitality classes, Broad Street Methodist Church Hall, Spalding, 11.30am-12.30pm and 1.45pm-2.45pm; Weston Village Hall, 2pm-3pm, £1.50, 01529 411941. Vibe Contemporary Youth Choir, 5.30pm-7pm, South ...

Funhouse Comedy Club returns to the South Holland Centre, Spalding, tomorrow (Friday) for another laughter-packed night. Headlining is sharp and intuitive Irishman Keith Farnan, who has performed as a stand-up all over the world, from Montreal, to Amsterdam, to Hong Kong and has appeared on radio and TV including Michael Mcintyre’s Comedy Roadshow. Both charismatic and bold he delivers his ...

Tomorrow night (Friday, October 1), the South Holland Centre in Spalding is hosting a play on national tour that has had all the critics raving. Gaining four star reviews across the national media in both the UK and New York, Every Brilliant Thing is a funny play about depression. Performed by Duncan MacMillan, it tells what happens when a six ...

The high-flyers and the bad guys descend on Holbeach Community Centre on Saturday, October 10 for another night of international professional wrestling action. The show, which is family friendly, will feature championship and tag team tournament matches. Wrestlers scheduled to appear include “Dangerous” Danny Steel, Captain Rick Wildfire, Mad Dog Maxx, Johnny Thunder, Big Paulie and many more. Tickets for ...

I watched a lot of films at Boston’s West End Cinema in 2014, but the original Maze Runner was one of the more surprising hits. Young adult (YA) films based on a popular book and placed in a dystopian setting are pretty commonplace in today’s market, but Maze Runner really stood out. So, although this sequel – The Scorch Trials ...

Families are being urged to make Spalding Pumpkin Festival another big hit. The annual event takes place on Friday, October 9, with the pumpkin parade (6.30pm from Sheep Market) and fireworks display (Market Place, 7.30pm) the highlights. There’s also daytime entertainment from 11am including a charity market, street entertainment, activities and competitions. In the evening, there will be live entertainment ...

TODAY South Holland Healthy Walks, 10.30am, Holbeach Services Club. Meet your Health Trainer, 9am-4pm, Sutton Bridge Community Centre, 07532 236616. Holbeach and Spalding Explorers: Spalding, 7pm-9pm; Holbeach 7.15pm-9.15pm, www.handsscouts.com Tots and carers, 9am-11.30am, Moulton Village Hall. Vitality classes, Broad Street Methodist Church, Spalding, 11.30am-12.30pm and 1.45pm-2.45pm; Weston Village Hall, 2pm-3pm, £1.50, 01529 411941. Vibe Contemporary Youth Choir, 5.30pm-7pm, South Holland ...

As somebody that considers going to the cinema or watching a football game as a form of thrill-seeking, I’ll never be able to understand the psyche of those that want to climb Mount Everest. Those ordinary people bidding to achieve the most extraordinary of feats are the focus of Baltasar Kormákur’s take on the 1996 Everest disaster, which saw eight ...

The Fenland Family History Society is holding a Family History Day on Saturday. The event runs from 10am until 4.30pm at St Peter’s Church Hall in Wisbech. There will be the chance to get help from experienced researchers and Family History Society stands offering books, CDs and advice. There will be two special Sessions in Wisbech Library – Martin Edwards ...

South Holland Centre, Spalding Box office: 01775 764777 Royal Opera House Ballet: Romeo & Juliet Sunday, 2pm Roger Waters – The Wall Tuesday, 8pm 45 Years Tuesday, 2pm, and Wednesday, 2pm and 7.30pm Blackfriars Arts Centre, Boston Box office: 01205 363108 The Comedy Tea House Tomorrow (Friday), 8pm King’s Lynn Corn Exchange Box office 01553 764864 Comedy Club Today (Thursday), ...

Hollyoaks star Fabrizio Santino is the latest celebrity confirmed for a visit to Spalding. The actor, who plays Ziggy Roscoe in the Channel 4 soap, will be at Loaded Night Club, Westlode Street, on Saturday, October 10. Dave Charlesworth, of Loaded Night Club, said: “It has been over a year since we went down the ‘hunky male’ route and keep ...

Two South Holland-based not-for-profit organisations are to share details of the work they do. Presentations from Agape Foodbank and the Lighthouse Projects and Holbeach and East Elloe Hospital Trust form part of this month’s South Holland Voluntary Sector forum. The free forum is an opportunity for charities, community groups and not-for-profit organisations to meet up, share information and promote their ...

There is a remembrance service and parade in Donington on Sunday (September 27). The 1st Air Troop Royal Engineers the Parachute Regiment World War Two veterans will be parading at 10am in Market Place, followed by a 10.30am service at St Mary and The Holy Rood Church and the laying of wreaths at the Arnhem Oak Memorial. Eveyone is very ...

A new five-week long walking festival has its launch event at a free family fun day at Willow Tree Fen Nature Reserve on Saturday (September 26). South Lincolnshire Walking Festival gets under way on Friday (September 25) and runs until Saturday, October 31. It will feature 76 free guided walks in South Holland, North and South Kesteven, and Boston. Heritage Lincolnshire and Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust ...