If you enjoyed pancakes on Shrove Tuesday, we bet you were not up until 3am preparing them. Well, 90-year-old Lorna Webb was as she turned out 250 ready for the annual coffee morning at her home in Poacher’s Gate, Pinchbeck. About £400 is heading to St Barnabas Hospice in Woolram Wygate, Spalding, as a result. And The Children’s Society is ...

South Holland is about to lose its popular community policing inspector. Jim Tyner has been promoted to temporary chief inspector for East Lindsey, based at Skegness. He takes up the post in mid-March and although initially for three months, it has to be assumed that it is unlikely he will return at the end of that period. Insp Tyner will ...

A Cessna Skyhawk plane suffered landing gear and propellor damage on landing at Holbeach St Johns. The 53-year-old pilot aborted her flight from Fenland Airfield and returned due to worsening weather. A report into the incident on September 18 last year said: “She flared the aircraft for landing about one third of the way along the runway. “The aircraft bounced ...

More than 200 tonnes of rubbish – the equivalent weight of 30 adult elephants – has been cleaned up as part of the district council’s Pride in South Holland campaign. Litter and fly-tipping which blighted alleyways, footpaths, roadsides and verges has been blitzed by the council’s street sweeping team, with items including car tyres, bags full of rubbish and a bath removed. Areas cleared include Crowland, ...

John Hayes says Britain must stop building “ugly” roads and in future wants new highways to pass a “beauty test”. South Holland and The Deepings’ MP is the government’s Transport Minister and believes the past 50 years of road construction have suffered from “intrusive design”. He said: “As the road network developed, we seem to have cared less and less ...

A Spalding residential care home is the latest to benefit from funds being distributed from the wound-up charity DASH Holiday Homes. Southfield House in Woolram Wygate has received £2,000 towards establishing further planters and troughs for residents to use. DASH trustee Angela Newton said: “They are built so that residents in wheelchairs can pull right up to them and set ...

Holbeach charity shop Chosen has made its first two donations of 2015. The local branch of The Samaritans has received £1,000. And £500 has been given for renovations at Moulton Seas End war memorial and purchase of a flagpole and flag. Chosen, in Fleet Street, donated more than £27,000 to good causes during 2014. This year the aim is £30,000. ...

When her youngest child was about to go off to university, Wendy Ingrey worried about how she would cope with the emptiness at home. She tackled that fear by setting about climbing the highest free-standing mountain in the world. It was a terrifically difficult but rewarding achievement for Wendy (57), of Claudette Avenue, Spalding – but there was little time ...

The UK Independence Party has declared that it is actively trying to recruit EU migrants to stand in this year’s South Holland District Council elections. The move might come as a surprise to many people who accuse some of the party’s thinking at national level to be racist and anti-immigration. But South Holland and The Deepings group chairman Paul Foyster ...

South Holland could have more than 100 trains pass through on each of five forthcoming Saturdays. The East Coast Main Line is being shut north of Peterborough to enable maintenance work to be carried out. As a result, many passenger and freight trains in both directions will be diverted on to the recently-upgraded GNGE line running through Deeping St Nicholas, ...

Unrest among some staff at Spalding’s Sir John Gleed School has been the focus of trade unions talks in recent days. Representatives of the National Union of Teachers (NUT) and The Teachers’ Union (NASUWT) have been working to resolve issues. The school, which has been in special measures since April 2013, declined to elaborate much. However, a statement issued by ...

A major project to reduce the risk of patients being prescribed the wrong medication is set to be rolled out across 150 East Midlands GP practices following a major funding award. Thousands of people will benefit from PINCER, a project led by Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust. The partnership working on it last week received news of £500,000 funding ...

The portion of council tax for Lincolnshire Police is to rise to ensure the current number of officers can be maintained. The county’s Police and Crime Commissioner Alan Hardwick has welcomed the decision by the Police and Crime Panel to approve his proposal to increase the 2015/16 Police Precept by 1.95 per cent. “I am delighted at the unanimous vote to ...

The search has begun to crown a Moulton Chapel tulip time queen, prince and princess to ride on a decorated float leading the 36th village parade on Sunday, May 3. Age categories are: Queen – 11 years plus Prince – six years plus Princess – six to ten years The winners will receive commemorative prizes and gift vouchers. All entrants ...

Pupils at Spalding’s Monkshouse Primary School held a red carpet event to premiere their very own short film. Year Four pupils worked with specialist firm Enrich for a number of weeks to create the film and did all their own camera and sound work, learned about editing and special effects, wrote scripts and acted. Headteacher Sue Goodsell said: “We decided to ...

South Holland district councillor and former Lincolnshire county councillor Amanda Puttick has died after a long struggle with ill health. Coun Puttick (pictured) had been a ward member for Donington, Quadring and Gosberton since 1999, and was a former chairman of the district council. She passed away in hospital on Saturday. Council leader and fellow Conservative Gary Porter paid tribute ...

One of South Holland’s top artists has completed a tough outside challenge to paint a landscape every day but one throughout January. Mo Teeuw ventured out in all weathers every day from New Year’s Day to last Friday. On one occasion the temperature was so low that the paints on her easel froze. Mo, a professional artist and experienced tutor ...

The proposed doctors’ super-surgery for Holbeach is poised for planning approval next week. South Holland District Council officers are satisfied with the proposal and will recommend that the planning committee grants permission. The plans for the former Langwith Builders’ site in Church Street were revealed in November. The idea is to bring services currently offered at Littlebury Medical Centre in ...

Phil Scarlett, the president of Spalding and District Area Chamber of Commerce, is standing for UKIP in the forthcoming South Holland District Council elections. Mr Scarlett, who is a member of Sutton Bridge Parish Council and lives in the town, will stand in that ward. He will be up against Conservative candidates Vicky Hills and Shirley Giles and sitting ward ...

This year’s South Holland District Council election is shaping up to be one of the most keenly-contested. The Conservatives – who currently hold 25 of the 37 seats – are contesting all 18 wards as they seek another term as the ruling group. However, the Labour Party – who put up just one candidate at the last election in May ...