Peterborough Northern Star 1 Holbeach United 6 Ruthless title favourites Holbeach made the perfect start to the new UCL Premier Division season on Sunday as they hit nine-man Star for six in their own back yard. Goals from Lee Beeson (pen 21), Ashley Fuller (33), Liam Parker (49), Lee Dube (70 and 78) and Jake Duffy (90) steered the Tigers ...

Spalding Town picked up a losing draw against defending Lincs ECB Premier League champions Sleaford on Saturday. The visitors made 247-7 batting first in the rain-hit clash at Spalding Grammar School, with Town closing on a respectable 230-7 in reply. Amazingly, the match finished at 8.31pm. More on all of the weekend cricket to follow. Results: Lincs ECB Premier League: ...

Spalding United 5 Wisbech Town 1 Andrew Tidswell fired his second hat-trick of the summer to help get Spalding’s stuttering pre-season back on track in emphatic fashion on Saturday. The striker notched on 1, 27 and 85 minutes against UCL Premier Division outfit Wisbech Town at the Sir Halley Stewart Playing Field, with Mark Jones (44) and young gun George ...

Guardians Of The Galaxy 3D review These days, I tend to look forward to Marvel films more than any others – and I imagine there are quite a few of you out there that will feel the same. All of the Captain America, Thor and Iron Man movies, along with (of course) The Avengers Assemble, have been enjoyable cinematic experiences ...

By Andrew Tidswell This weekend sees the new United Counties League (UCL) Premier Division campaign get under way. Over the close season and summer months there has been a lot of transfers and new recruits being added to many teams. As ever, whispers of budgets and which teams are going to be the main contenders is the main talk amongst ...

Spalding United supremo Pat Rayment reckons that he is in the midst of his worst-ever pre-season at the club. A combination of other teams letting the Tulips down and player unavailability has left the UCL Premier Division champions undercooked – and at times embarrassed. That has been the case this week, with Rayment branding last Saturday’s 4-0 drubbing at Deeping ...

One of South Holland’s top defenders is plotting Holbeach United’s downfall ahead of the start of the new UCL Premier Division season this weekend. Spalding lad Jonny Clay will be the rock at the heart of Peterborough Northern Star’s defence in Sunday’s clash with the Tigers at Chestnut Avenue (11am). Clay, who won Peterborough and District League Premier Division titles ...

Pinchbeck (135-7) lost to Freiston (136-3) by 7 wickets Pinchbeck were on the receiving end once again last Saturday as promotion chasers Freiston recorded a comfortable seven-wicket win at Spalding Grammar School. Despite the hot conditions, Freiston elected to field first with seamers Ollie Booth and Tommy Atkinson restricting Pinchbeck’s openers to very few scoring opportunities in the early exchanges. ...

A sublime 111 from Phil Barnes couldn’t stop Long Sutton Sunday 2nd from slipping to a four-wicket loss at Hampton on Sunday. The experienced opener was the mainstay of Sutton’s innings in Rutland League Division Seven, as they made 192-9 in 45 overs. But hosts Hampton reached their target in the 42nd over to leave a youthful Sutton deflated. After ...

Joint Holbeach United boss John Chand is confident that his much-fancied side will make a winning start to the new UCL Premier Division season. The Tigers are one of just six UCL sides to begin their campaign this weekend, with Peterborough Northern Star their hosts on Sunday (11am). The unorthodox nature of the kick-off is down to a Groundhop Day ...

Holbeach United battled back to earn an impressive 2-2 draw at higher-graded Coalville Town in their final pre-season friendly on Tuesday night. Goals from Ant Carney and Ash Way put the Evo-Stik League First Division South side 2-0 ahead, but free-scoring defender Niall Delahoy and winger Lee Beeson hit back to secure the Tigers a share of the spoils. Bossed ...

The Purge: Anarchy (15) review When it comes to sequels, bigger isn’t always better – but sometimes it’s the only way to go. That’s the case in The Purge: Anarchy, where the grim concept of the 2013 original gets a sizeable steroid injection and delivers all out chaos. For those of you unaware of the first film, here’s the rough ...

Spalding Town roared to their best result of the season so far on Saturday as they humbled Lincs ECB Premier League leaders Bourne on their own patch. Young gun Henry Charlton (73) and Ben Smith (81) both made impressive contributions in Town’s 239-9 at the Abbey Lawn, with Josh Newton (25) also scoring smartly. Charlie Kearns (4-52),  Jack Barratt (3-20), ...

Long Sutton shooter Aaron Heading blasted his way to silver in the men’s trap at the Commonwealth Games on Tuesday. Heading, who is representing England at the Glasgow games, was outgunned by Olympic bronze medallist Australian Adam Vella in the gold medal match at the Barry Budden Shooting Centre. The 27-year-old South Holland ace missed three of his first six ...

By Ruth Jones Nene Valley Harriers’ throws coaching team came up trumps again when Isaac Huskisson threw a personal best in the hammer at the invitational UK Athletics Jumps and Throws Festival in Birmingham to place fourth under-20. Huskisson, who has only just turned 17, threw a huge 50.93m with the 6kg hammer on July 20, proving all the hard ...

Spalding Golf Club has won another county competition – the Sir Henry Lunn Shield. They came out on top of the 19 teams of three, who were representing all of the top clubs in the county. Played at the Surfleet course this year, the Spalding team of John Reynolds (11 handicap), Phil Wakefield (13) and Wayne Wallace (4) lifted this ...

Spalding United 1 King’s Lynn Town 4 An under-strength Spalding United were handed their first pre-season defeat by classy King’s Lynn Town outfit at the Sir Halley Stewart Playing Field on Saturday. A clinical brace of penalties from talented Lynn skipper David Bell (3 and 45) and further strikes from ex-Tulip Ross Watson (58) and Michael Frew (81) put Pat ...

Holbeach United 2 Grantham Town 2 (Grantham win 4-2 on penalties) Grantham Town won the first ever Drury Memorial Shield after beating hosts Holbeach United 4-2 on penalties following a 2-2 draw at Carter’s Park on Saturday. Former Spalding United midfielder gave visitors Grantham – who play in the Evo-Stik League Premier Division – the perfect start with an early ...

Pat Rayment has admitted that things went ‘horribly wrong’ for his side during Saturday’s 4-1 friendly loss to King’s Lynn Town. David Bell (pen 3 and pen 45), ex-Tulip Ross Watson (58) and Michael Frew (81) all bagged for the Linnets at the Sir Halley Stewart Playing Field, with Jordan Thomas (48) grabbing a consolation for the hosts (see report here). Spalding ...

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes 3D (12A) review Isn’t it great when a massively hyped film actually delivers? I haven’t looked forward to a film as much as Dawn of the Planet of the Apes for quite some time – and it was everything that I wanted and hoped for. Set around ten years after the events of ...