The Rotary Club of Holbeach are once again playing host to Santa and accompanying him on his tour of the area. To follow his progress and find out when he will be arriving in your area, search for Rotary Club of Holbeach on Facebook.

East Elloe Lions are spreading some festive cheer with their Santa’s sleigh tour. On Saturday the Lions will be taking part in Holbeach Christmas Fayre and the sleigh will be sited outside Holbeach Church. Santa will be housed in the children’s corner inside the church and will be looking forward to welcoming children and their parents from 11am until 4pm. ...

Spalding Lions will be accompanying Santa and his sleigh on his annual trip around the villages, spreading festive joy wherever they go. Thursday, December 4: Quadring – Town Drove, Casswell Drive, Boyfields, Ashwin Gate, Doecotes, Ludlow Gardens, Watergate, Gosberton Road, St Margarets. Monday, December 8: Gosberton – High Street, Park Close, Bowgate, Lila Drive, Churchfleet Lane, Poachers Hide, Welby Drive, ...

Shoppers have helped raise more than £800 for a good cause in their community. By using their dividend card at Long’s Sutton Lincolnshire Co-op food store, they have helped staff raise £847, which has been handed over to “Community Champions” from Christ Church Parish Church Council. A spokesman for the Co-op said: “I believe the church is going to be ...

There will be a break with tradition this festive season as Long Sutton’s long-running Christmas Market moves under cover. But tradition will be upheld in other aspects as the market will boast its usual Santa’s grotto, children rides, hot roast chestnuts, craft stall, competitions, raffles and lots of people – although this year they will be protected from the biting ...

Three girls from 1st Pinchbeck (St Mary) Guide Unit have achieved their Baden Powell Awards, the top award achievable as a Guide. Kelly Sawyer, Zoe Chappell and Molly Smith completed ten challenges in order to obtain the award. Among the challenges they had to organise a disability awareness night and make a presentation about a current global issue. All three ...

Spalding Lions have presented £1,000 to a charity which aims to bring a mobile chemotherapy unit to South Holland. The cheque was presented to Rosa Woodley, head of events and community fundraising at the Hope for Tomorrow charity, which was set up after a woman lost her husband to cancer. Whilst he was having his chemotherapy they had to travel ...

Spalding Library has presented a prize to a young reader. Alejandro Holmes took part in the Reading Agency’s Summer Reading Challenge, which is rolled out to young readers each year by Lincolnshire County Council’s Library Service. Children aged from four to 11 were invited to read six books of their choice through the summer holidays and receive small incentives to ...

Small Business Saturday this weekend is a grass-roots campaign that encourages people to shop local and support small businesses in their communities, both on the Saturday and beyond. It is traditionally an American shopping holiday held on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, one of the busiest shopping days of the year. The initiative started in 2010, and has generated a lot ...

One in 157 households in South Holland are at risk of losing their homes, new figures reveal. Research by homeless charity Shelter ranks the district at the 19th highest risk area in the East Midlands for eviction or repossession, with 237 households facing eviction or homelessness. Across the region, the figures mean the equivalent of 97 people are at risk ...

Nestling beside the River Welland, on the southern borders of South Kesteven, sits the town of Market Deeping and the villages of Deeping St James and West Deeping. Attractions include the triangular market place, featuring fine stone buildings and former coaching inns, and the 13th century church of St Guthlac, with two sundials on the tower. There is the fine ...

Staff at Pinchbeck’s Spar raised a whopping £2,149 with a 12-hour boxathon in aid of Children in Need. Money was raised by asking shoppers to make a donation and guess the number of punches that would be thrown in total throughout the day. A spokesman for the shop said: “We found it very hard as this was the first year ...

A Lincolnshire Police officer has been honoured for his hard work and dedication to tackling wildlife crime. PC Nick Willey has won the WWF-sponsored Wildlife Law Enforcer of the Year Award for his outstanding work and achievements while tackling wildlife crime since joining the force’s wildlife department in 1994. Nick works tirelessly to raise awareness of wildlife crime in a ...

A man was due to appear before magistrates this afternoon (Tuesday, December 2) charged with attempted theft from a shop and abstracting electricity in Spalding. Dmitrijs Afanasjevs (27), of no fixed abode, was due before a court in Skegness charged with attempting to steal meat from Iceland on 1st December and a further charge of using electricity dishonestly

Police are appealing for information after a motocross bike was stolen near Holbeach. Thieves forced a lock and cut through a chain to break into a garage at a property on Roman Bank, Saracens Head. The break-in happened some time between 5pm on Wednesday, November 26, and 1pm on Saturday (November 29). A lawnmower was taken, together with a KTM 450cc black and orange motocross ...

The last step to smarten up the derelict Bull and Monkie site in Spalding got underway with a graffiti clean-up. Contractors were drafted in by South Holland District Council to remove the ugly writing from the outside of the building. A spokesman for the council said the process took several hours as a chemical was painted over the graffiti before ...

Lincolnshire Police are launching Operation Washer to tackle crime and anti-social behaviour in Spalding town centre in the run-up to Christmas. The lead up to Christmas traditionally sees an increase of visitors to Spalding  town centre.  During this busy period it is anticipated that there will be an increase in reports of street drinking, cycle offences, theft from shops and ...

no images were found Almost 200 of South Holland’s key business leaders gathered at the Springfields Event Centre to celebrate the best in innovation, hard work, entrepreneurial spirit and customer care within the area. “Now in its second year, the South Holland Business Awards once again showcased the outstanding level of innovation and services being developed across our diverse and ...

Making the road from Spalding to Peterborough a dual carriageway is to be reconsidered. South Holland and the Deepings MP John Hayes made a promise to seriously consider the issue after a delegation representing businesses from the district visited him in Downing Street. They told him, in his role as Transport Minister, that the district is at a “moment in ...

Santa is getting ready to climb aboard his sleigh for his annual ride around Spalding to see who has been naughty and nice. The Rotary Club of South Holland and other organisations will be starting their rounds with Santa’s sleigh on December 1 and hope to visit as many homes as possible before the big day. The first outing for ...