Following a very successful first Moulton Chapel Pumpkin Party in 2013, the Moulton Chapel Tuliptime Committee is holding its second Pumpkin Party on Saturday, October 25. The event will been at Moulton Chapel Community Centre from 7pm to 11pm. Tickets cost £5 each or £15 for a family, to include a jacket potato supper. The evening includes a disco, a ...

This year’s fireworks spectacular at Springfields Outlet Shopping and Festival Gardens will be in honour of the service men and women from WWI and WWII. The annual event will combine iconic military themed music, fantastic fireworks and dynamic lighting to create a unique, unforgettable evening for all the family. To be held on November 6, from 6pm, it will be ...

Children can share in the celebrations at Crowland library as it celebrates 40 years in its current purpose-built premises. The actual anniversary is Saturday, but the library has been holding events all week, including family history sessions. But today is the turn of Bookstart Bear, who is inviting pre-school children to join him between 2.15pm and 2.45pm. The library has ...

Halloween is almost upon us and under 18s are being invited to celebrate with a YOYO – You’re Only Young Once – night at Spalding nightclub Loaded. YOYO events are back at the club by popular demand after a gap of several months, but other “special occasion” events are already in the pipeline, including Christmas, Valentine’s Day and April Fools. ...

Holbeach Town band is looking forward to its Autumn Concert at All Saints Church, Holbeach on Saturday. Tickets are on sale at £5 (£3 for under 12s) and the concert will start at 7.30pm. The concert will include nostalgic war-time pieces, including sing-a-longs, together with a variety of music from the band’s repertoire.

Police investigating the theft of a vacuum cleaner from a Spalding store have issued CCTV images of a man they wish to trace. The theft happened around 9.15am on Saturday (October 11) at Beale’s department store in Market Place. A man entered the shop and removed a grey and yellow Dyson DC50 cleaner from the electrical department on the first floor. After ...

Police are investigating after a burglary at a Spalding sandwich shop and attempted break-ins at two other town centre businesses over the weekend. Damage was caused at Daisies flower shop in the Crescent during Friday night when burglars attempted but failed to get inside. Also during Friday night, there was an attempted break-in at J F Inkley’s in Vine Street, but again no entry ...

Police have confirmed that the road closures in Weston Hills as a result of Wednesday’s military aircraft crash are likely to remain in place for a further week. ·         Broadgate is closed from the junction with the B1357 Moulton Chapel Road to the junction with Fengate Drove ·         Mill Drove North is closed from the A16 to the junction with ...

The United States Air Force, Royal Air Force and Lincolnshire Police visited children at Weston Hills Primary School after a US aircraft crashed nearby. The F15 aircraft landed in a field behind the school and most of the children had already gone home.  A small number of children were taking part in after school clubs and were collected shortly after the ...

A Weston Hills business owner was the first on the scene to help the pilot of the stricken F-15 which crashed in Weston Hills on Wednesday afternoon. Brian Jex, owner of Dennis Jex agricultural engineers based in Austendyke Road, saw the pilot parachuting to safety after his aircraft, believed to cost around £35million, spiralled out of control and burst into ...

MP John Hayes showed his support for a charity’s vital work by visiting the team at a Spalding shop. Mr Hayes met shop staff and volunteers at the British Heart Foundation shop to learn more about what the charity is doing in the community. He said: “It was great to pop in and meet the dedicated members of staff and ...

A Spalding special school has won an award recognising its work to bring the world into the classroom. The Priory School’s international work includes collecting items and fund-raising for Mary’s Meals, ensuring internationalism is part of the whole curriculum, sampling food from other countries at celebration times – including Burns’ Night and Chinese New Year, delivering a modern foreign language, ...

Souvenir hunters are being warned not to attempt to approach the scene of yesterday’s plane crash in Weston Hills. As investigations continue into the cause of the accident, a cordon remains in place around the scene, staffed by Lincolnshire Police  and Ministry of Defence officers, and people have been told if they breach the cordon they could find themselves in serious ...

It’s business as usual at a village school this morning after a military plane crashed just yards from it yesterday afternoon. A spokesman for Weston Hills Primary School said almost all of the children had been able to get to school this morning after road closures were lifted. She said: “The roads are mainly open around Weston Hills now. “The ...

The ever popular sounds of the 60s and 70s filled Spalding Grammar School hall when Spalding Lions held its latest fundraising event. This year the proceeds are being donated to the charity Hope for Tomorrow, which aims to bring a mobile chemotherapy unit to our local hospital. The evening, as in previous years, was a resounding success. The hall was ...

Schools and colleges may have to form closer links to ensure funding cuts do not affect the variety of courses on offer for students after 16. It is feared smaller sixth forms across Lincolnshire could be left floundering by funding cuts which could see £2.8million wiped off education budgets this year and a further £1.2million next year. Lincolnshire County Council ...

Friday, November 28, sees Spalding’s Christmas Lights switched on for 2014 by the brand new Tulip Queen with Santa as part of what promises to be a truly glittering event based around Hall Place in Spalding. As part of the run up to the big event, the ever popular Schools’ Christmas Choir Competition will take place. This competition which started ...

The high-flyers and the bad guys descend on Holbeach Community Centre, Fishpond Lane, on Saturday (October 11) 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, Burchill, Luscious Lucas Black and many more. Tickets for the ...

Barbed Wire for Kisses A Village at War – A new production inspired by Lincolnshire lives. Wednesday, November 5, 7.30pm South Holland Centre, Spalding Tickets £10, £9 over 60s, disabled & companion, £5* under 26s Box office 01775 764777 www.southhollandcentre.co.uk With the passing of the last survivors, the events of the Great War are slipping beyond human memory. In a ...

A unique art exhibition centred on the history and culture of Lincolnshire windmills opens at Ayscoughfee Hall in Spalding this month. Since Sliced Bread, by artist Fi Burke, binds social history with food heritage and contemporary art, integrating the voices of millers, rural communities and the land itself. The exhibition stems from an immersive year of artistic research into the ...