A new Holbeach support group has been given £1,000 by town charity shop Chosen. Little Miracles was founded last August to help families with any member 0-25 years with disabilities (learning difficulties or additional needs). It depends entirely on fundraising and donations. Everything for the families is provided free. Little Miracles meets in the Reading Rooms every Monday 9.30am-11.30am. Any ...

All Saints’ Church in Holbeach has welcomed back an old friend as its permanent director of music. Barry Lancaster was organist and choir master there from 2009 to 2011. Rev Rosamund Seal said: “Our worship is so much enhanced by the quality of the music and the congregation are so much more confident in their singing when led by a ...

The monthly meetings of Royal Observer Corps Association 15 Group are on the move from Spalding to Holbeach as of next week. A spokesman said: “After many happy years at the Constitutional Club in Spalding we are having to move our monthly meetings owing to the fact that the room we have always used is no longer available due to ...

Former South Holland District Council officer Jim Scarsbrook will feature in the election results in May. But instead of reading them out – as he was four years ago – he’s planning to be one of the candidates announced as “duly elected”. Mr Scarsbrook (61), who is standing for the Independent Group, was returning officer at the last count in ...

The 4th Spalding Scout Troop can buy new camping tents, tables and lamps after a £980.50 donation by Spalding Round Table. Table’s ways and means officer Jason Parnell said: “We are proud to be able to support 4th Spalding Scout Troop and help them purchase much needed new camping equipment.” The cheque was presented to scout leader Rob Buck by ...

Four men believed to be illegal immigrants from Syria have been arrested after arriving at a fruit importer and distributor on Tuesday. Police said: “Just before midday, police were called to Empire World Trade, Enterprise Way, Pinchbeck. “Four adult men, believed to be from Syria, were arrested on suspicion of entering the country illegally.” The men were due to be ...

An extremely generous reader of The Spalding and South Holland Voice has pledged £50,000 to enable Hovenden House to replace a stolen minibus. The anonymous donor called the Fleet care home after seeing our story last week. They felt moved after reading how distraught the residents were by the theft from the home’s car park of the minibus, a Y-registration ...

Homes in Spalding and Crowland have been the target for a spate of burglaries during Tuesday and Wednesday. Three properties were burgled in Spalding and there was also an attempted break-in. A property in Chestnut Avenue was burgled some time between 5pm on Tuesday and 7am on Wednesday (police incident 45, March 4) and a house in West Elloe Avenue was ...

A fourth consecutive cut to South Holland District Council’s share of the council tax bill has been unanimously agreed by members. South Holland is one of only half a dozen councils in the country to deliver year-on-year reductions in council tax which, when added to the freeze introduced in 2010, means a real terms cut for the district’s residents of ...

A man died after being pulled from the River Welland on Tuesday. Police were called to Welland Bank in Crowland at about 11am. The man, who is believed to be from the Peterborough area, was pronounced dead at the scene. His death is not being treated as suspicious.

Spalding businesses are pleading with shoppers not to stay away after a quiet first Saturday of five weekends’ rail maintenance. With trains diverted through South Holland due to part of the East Coast Main Line being shut, it had been feared that some town centre roads would be gridlocked due to a huge increase in level crossing barriers downtime. However, ...

The fight for a better road infrastructure in South Holland will take a further step next month. Richard Davies, Lincolnshire County Counci’s portfolio holder for highways and transport, will meet key businesses and organisations pressing to see action. It follows a “fresh produce summit” with local MP and Transport Minister John Hayes in Spalding last Friday. For the past 12 ...

“Astonished” Long Sutton Parish Council is seeking a judicial review over a planning decision by South Holland District Council. The parish council was angered by the way an application for 87 eco homes on the former Butterfly and Wildlife Park was handled. The parish council said: “The council have made an official complaint to the district council and the ombudsman. ...

A leisure development with 12 fishing cabins is planned in Fleet Hargate. It’s hoped that, if the proposal receives planning permission, it could provide a boost for tourism in South Holland. The “small scale” two-bedroom properties would be on a site near Hovenden House, near Lowgate. A statement submitted with the plans said: “The cabins will provide accommodation for holidaymakers ...

Another piece of Spalding’s railway history will go this weekend when Winsover Road signal box is demolished. Hopes of seeing it preserved in some format have gone and the structure will be dismantled this weekend. A road closure is in place from 10pm on Saturday until 9am on Sunday. Rail enthusiasts Trevor and Susan Smith are sad to see the ...

John Hayes says Spalding has too many off-licences and he is ready to take a stand against further applications being approved. South Holland and The Deepings’ MP is concerned about the detrimental effect that granting more licences might have on street drinking and anti-social behaviour. Spalding town centre already has more than half a dozen off-licences in addition to large ...

Police say there is “no direct evidence” of fraud by a former chairman of Holbeach Youth and Sports Social Club chairman. Instead, they say John Spencer, who stepped down as chairman of Holbeach Parish Council during the investigation, is guilty of nothing more than poor management. Investigations started after it came to light last year that the club owed about ...

British heavyweight Tyson Fury went down a storm with guests at Spalding Round Table’s annual boxing night fundraiser. Over £10,000 was raised for local good causes – taking the total over the event’s 21 years to more than £200,000. Fury received rapturous applause by predicting in his speech that he would knock out world title rival Wladimir Klitschko inside “six ...

For many of us, Monday will signal the start of just another working week. For Stuart Parkin it will be poignant – the first day of the rest of his life after 38 years as one of Spalding’s best-known faces in retail. He is leaving Mann and Son in Hall Place on Saturday under redundancy ahead of its impending closure. ...

The fourth Spalding and District Civic Society blue plaque has been put up – and commemorates legendary guitarist Jimi Hendrix’s visit to the town. Hendrix stayed at The Red Lion Hotel in Market Place in May 1967 after the Barbecue gig at the Bulb Auction Halls in Winfrey Avenue, which attracted 4,000 fans. The unveiling ceremony was performed by another ...