A self-defence seminar at Spalding’s Castle Sports Complex was a big hit. Gym members were invited to take part in last Saturday’s session with top martial artists Mike Constantinides and Ian Parker, and 28 took up the offer. Castle sales rep Katrina Biggadike attends a class of Mike’s in Peterborough and used the one-off event to gauge interest on forming ...

Gosberton D’s Jack Craft kept them right on track for the Division Three title in Spalding and District Snooker League. Consti A skipper Pete Law got his side off to a winning start, beating Shane Davies 66-37, but Paul Whyte and Simon Slinger put the league leaders back on course. Paul Kent’s win for Consti A levelled things up at ...

Relegation-threatened EPH Allstars eased their fears in Spalding Leisure League as they beat already-doomed Balotellitubbies 6-0. It took EPH a while to break through, thanks in part to a man of the match – and slightly heroic – performance from Andrew Evans. Univeg Team beat Ultra D 2-1. Both keepers put in inspired performances, Univeg’s Jake Read getting his fourth ...

Spalding and District Billiards League title hopefuls Donington made the most of a match in hand by taking all seven points against Crowland B. Norman Gookey’s side swept aside the visitors, winning 600-435. Jim Thompson had breaks of 22 and 20 in his 200-170 defeat of Allan Sharman. That result meant Long Sutton started Monday’s match at Consti as deposed ...

Stocksbridge Park Steels 0 Spalding Utd 2 by Ray Tucker Victory at Stocksbridge on Saturday sent the Tulips sky-rocketing to their highest ever placing in the Football Association pyramid. The success took the Tulips into fourth position in Division One South (Level four in the pyramid) of the Evo-Stik Northern Premier League with games in hand on three of the ...

NLD Cup quarter-final: Spalding RFC 14 Market Rasen & Louth 55 A heavy cup defeat formed part of a tough few days for Spalding RFC. The NLD cup exit last Saturday – during which two players had to have hospital treatment – came hard on the heels of news that Harry Sharman was no longer club captain. Town were still ...

South Lincs Competitive Swimming Club member Luke Elliott won six medals in the Snow Frills Open Meet at Ponds Forge, Sheffield. Coached and supported by Callum Lawson, he took gold in 200m and 50m freestyle, 50m butterfly, silver in 50m backstroke and bronze in 100m and 50m breaststroke. Emily McCann won gold in 200 individual medley, silver in 50m breaststoke ...

  A pair of 2-0 away wins on Saturday kept in-form Spalding United and Hollbeach United on track for success this season. The Tulips leapt up to fourth place in Evo-Stik First Division South play-off spot with victory at lowly Stocksbridge Park Steels, while the Tigers continued their pursuit of the UCL Premier Division title with a win at Eynesbury ...

Graham Drury reckons togetherness is reaping rewards for Holbeach United. The joint boss watched Jamie Clarke and Lee Beeson fire the goals to rattle off another win and maintain the Tigers’ second place in the UCL Premier Division table. But he was quick to point to the strength of the club as a whole – and the assistance of the ...

An assurance has been given that the controversial Bull and Monkie site in Spalding will not escalate into anything like the infamous Hacienda situation which developed in Gosberton ten years ago. South Holland District Council tidied up the Bull and Monkie site recently after a notice ordering owner Crispen Holdings Ltd to do so was apparently ignored. Council leader Gary ...

Doodson Sport Cup 2nd round: Spalding United 5 Coalville Town 1 Pat Rayment has a delicious dilemma going into Saturday’s league match with Romulus (Sir Halley, 3pm). Striker Andrew Tidswell staked his claim for a return to the starting line-up with two goals inside the first eight minutes as the Tulips eased into the Doodson Cup third round on Tuesday ...

Time has run out for the owner of a Donington eyesore to tidy up the site. After the success of tidying up the controversial Bull and Monkie site in Spalding, South Holland district councillors have selected The Red Cow Hotel as next on their hitlist. At last Wednesday’s full council meeting, members were asked by leader Coun Gary Porter to ...

A long-standing member of South Holland District Council has received a stinging rebuke from the leader for “slagging off” the firm which operates the energy switching scheme which the council recommends and uses. In a report to fellow members of Sutton Bridge Parish Council, Coun Chris Brewis incorrectly stated that iChoosr is linked to uSwitch – a price comparison website ...

More than 20 years of support for the Holbeach branch of Royal Air Force Association has been marked with a show of appreciation. The RAFA branch first collected at The Farm Café on the A17 at Fleet in 1992. Robert Healey, sitting on a pallet of potatoes, filled the collecting tin which Frank Sauntson (now 89) issued to him by ...

Title hopefuls Services A cleared a significant hurdle in their bid for Spalding and District Snooker League Division One glory by beating a strong Long Sutton B side 4-2. The Spalding outfit, who have been top for some time now, are six points clear after defeating high-flying Sutton thanks to frame victories from Charlie Mullane (R21), Pete Mullane (O21), and ...

Lincolnshire Co-operative is hoping to buy Budgens’ store in Holbeach. It has been confirmed that the food store chain is in discussion with Budgens about taking over the Fleet Street premises. This is subject to approval by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). It is understood that, if the purchase is approved, the team at Budgens Holbeach would be transferred ...

Two goals from in-form striker Edgaras Buzas helped Division Two leaders Spalding United Reserves to an impressive 4-0 win at Wittering in ChromaSport and Trophies Peterborough League. Ash West opened the scoring before Jack Wycherley set up Buzas for number two. Buzas made it 3-0 after the break and man of the match Wycherley’s efforts were rewarded with a goal. ...

Former Spalding RFC scrum-half Kevin Wand insists the 1st team should have nothing to fear in the NLD Cup on Saturday. Town host fellow Midlands One East side Market Rasen and Louth at Memorial Field (2pm) in a welcome respite from league action. Last month Town took a 62-0 pasting at Rasen, but their two most recent performances have shown ...

Pinchbeck United Juniors Under-14s are in the Hereward Cup quarter-finals after a 13-4 win at higher league Riverside Blue. Not even 30 seconds in, Pinchbeck were ahead through Ben Mansour. And within 15 minutes he had scored his first hat-trick of the game. Riverside got one back from an own goal before Dan Taylor and Mansour made it 5-1. Jonny ...

Satisfied Spalding United boss Pat Rayment believes the 4-0 thrashing of one of their promotion rivals will have other Evo-stik Division One South sides sitting up and taking notice. He rates last Saturday’s demolition of Stafford Rangers – in front of the largest Sir Halley Stewart Playing Field crowd this season – as good as it gets. “I haven’t seen ...