UPDATE: Thursday (9am): The person killed in the accident on the A16 in Crowland on Wednesday was an 81-year-old woman from the Spalding area. Police said: “She was a passenger in a blue Ford Mondeo travelling north when it was involved in a collision with a blue BMW 730 travelling in the opposite direction around 3pm on Wednesday. Sadly, she was ...

The finals of the Spalding Primary Schools Hockey Tournaments were held at Glen Park, Surfleet on Friday (May 15). Around 160 schoolchildren played in a great spirit throughout, with plenty of skill, action and keenly-contested hockey on show. Twenty teams from 12 local primary schools were divided into four graded leagues of five teams from beginner to experienced levels. Division ...

Anita Cross’s handicap was cut by one shot to 17 after winning Spalding Gold Club Ladies’ Mary Hendry competition. The 27-hole strokeplay event had 31 entrants. The course – in excellent condition with fast greens – proved very tricky and the competition standard scratch went out to 77. Of those starting out, 19 completed the full 27. Cross won with ...

Last week I sat down with current Holbeach United managers Darren Jarvis and Tom Roberts. The discussions took place on Thursday and many things were spoken about in regards to the new season and football in general. The Tuesday prior to the planned meeting I was as surprised as everyone else to read I had already signed and agreed the ...

Brennans Sports came close to a surprise win and snatching runners-up spot in Spalding Sunday League. The Spalding side lost 5-4 to champions Pinchbeck United Sunday in the league’s final fixture of the season. However, it was a double header and six points would have seen them leapfrog Sutton Bridge Sunday, who finished second on goal difference, and Swineshead Institute ...

Vivacious Holbeach resident Hilda Millett was one of the oldest people in the country to vote in this year’s General Election. She turned 107 on Monday and is the 154th oldest person in Great Britain. There have been five monarchs and 19 Prime Ministers in her lifetime, and she has always voted Conservative. In fact it was at a dance ...

A plaque acknowledging the long service of a Spalding signalman has been resited at the town’s railway station. The plaque in memory of John Lee (known as Jack) was on the Winsover Road signal box, where he spent much of his 51 years’ service to British Rail. It was bought by Jack’s family and put up shortly after his death ...

A last-gasp goal from Liam Parker sent Evolution up from Division Two on a rollercoaster final night of the season in The Spalding and South Holland Voice Six-A-Side League. Sarah’s Boys and Evolution went into their games against Le Saux Solid Crew and BK’s Athletic respectively as the only two sides who could join Simple FC in Division One next ...

Central defenders Jamie Stevens and Nathan Stainfield took top honours at Spalding United’s end-of-season awards night. The duo – who played much of the campaign together at the heart of the fourth-meanest defence in Evo-Stik League First Division South – scooped the two most coveted honours. Stevens, who rejoined the Tulips from Holbeach United midway through the season, was named ...

With Nene Valley Harrier’s senior team riding high in the national leagues, their youngsters were eager to show that the club’s future is in safe hands. This was achieved when the Harriers took a superb second place in a highly competitive Eastern Young Athletes League match at Peterborough’s Embankment track. With two of the strongest clubs in the league – ...

Spalding Town 1st (69) lost to Grantham (326-6) by 257 runs: Spalding 1st were cut adrift by 19 points at the foot of Lincs ECB Premier League following this heavy defeat on Saturday. The gap grew from six points after they were skittled out at Spalding Grammar School by Grantham for just 69 runs in little more than 25 overs. The ...

The Spalding homeowner who was told to put a fence back to its original line has appealed the decision. Simon Barker was shocked last November when council officers arrived to say his £1,000 new fence required planning permission. The line of it had been extended to enclose a small piece of land belonging to Mr Barker, which was often covered ...

Holbeach United’s new squad continues to quickly take shape after left-back Chris Ward agreed to join. The 21-year-old’s contract at King’s Lynn Town has expired. Ward, who lives in Sutton Bridge, has been on the radar of Tigers assistant manager Tom Roberts since being part of the King’s Lynn Town Reserves team that won the Peterborough League Division One title ...

Two students from University Academy Holbeach – Charlotte Bycroft (Year 13) and Eleanor Palmer (Year 11) – were part of a tour of World War One battlefields. As part of their follow-up work, they have taken part in Legacy 110 – an initiative which encourages students from the tour to deliver a community-based First World War project to spread the ...

The introduction of Universal Credit in South Holland is one of the subjects on the agenda at a free networking and information event for community organisations. Free tickets are now available for Lincolnshire Community and Voluntary Service’s (LCVS) second South Holland Voluntary Sector Forum. The event will include two guest speakers as well as creating an opportunity for community organisations ...

UKIP’S beaten candidate for the South Holland and The Deepings parliamentary seat is to withdraw from active participation locally. David Parsons polled 10,736 votes to take a 21.7 per cent share of the turnout in the General Election on May 7. He finished second to Conservative John Hayes, who received 29,303 votes. The result tripled UKIP’s number of votes from ...

A team from Spalding’s Johnson Community Hospital has been nominated for The EBP Investors In Education Awards in recognition of its partnership with local schools and for providing high quality work experience opportunities. The team has been providing work experience opportunities for several years. Annette Goulding, administrator at Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS), said: “Our team at Johnson Community Hospital ...

A heart attack scare started the ball rolling for a defibrillator being installed at Holbeach St Johns Village Hall. Joan Joyce was so frightened at witnessing the episode during a parish church lunch in January that she set about gathering information. The device was paid for out of the designated member budgets of district councillor Malcolm Chandler and Bob Creese, ...

NHS South Lincolnshire Clinical Commissioning Group is supporting Dementia Awareness Week, which runs from Monday (May 17) to Sunday, May 23. Dementia is arguably the biggest health crisis facing the UK and there are currently around 850,000 people diagnosed with dementia in the UK, with numbers set to rise to one million by 2025. In Lincolnshire, it is estimated that 10,502 ...

A Ukrainian was fact-finding at the South Holland District Council election count in Spalding. Yuriy Mironenka had come to the district to witness British democracy in action – visiting polling booths, district and General Election counts, meeting candidates and election officials. Yuriy, who now lives in Russia, said: “I am a member of one of the electoral organisations in Russia trying ...