In Transported Live’s latest production, join Boy and Girl as they journey through the yearning and searching, the romance and fun, the joy and hope and heartbreak of looking for love. Colourfully created for town centres and market places, this promenade performance lets you follow either Boy or Girl and then listen into their innermost thoughts through your own pair ...

An enterprising young Spalding boy has completed the first of two fundraising events this month for charity. Jake Winkett was the chief organiser of a fun day at St Paul’s Primary School in Spalding on Saturday. It raised £200 for Peterborough City Hospital’s Amazon children’s ward. And on Saturday, August 30, the youngster is doing a two-and-a-half hour solo sponsored ...

A park attendant who served Ayscoughfee Gardens for 25 years has retired with more than a tinge of sadness. Roger Nix (65) enjoyed his time at the Spalding park, but felt forced to take retirement earlier than he had hoped because of the stress brought on by anti-social behaviour which has blighted the place. He said: “There are five acres ...

The Kustom Kulture Blastoff event comes to Spalding for the fifth time later this month and organisers are hoping it’s going to be the best yet. Hosted by Horny Mike from the History Channel’s Las Vegas TV Series Counting Cars, the event from August 29 to 31 at Springfields Events Centre brings a slice of true Americana to Spalding, giving ...

  A major new visitor attraction for South Holland is being planned at Fleet. Hundreds of thousands of people have glimpsed Bill Payne’s ever-increasing large collection of vintage tractors as they pass his home on the A17 Washway Road. Now the Farm Café owner is hoping to capitalise on the growing interest. He’s ready to spend £250,000 creating a vintage ...

A man is due in court today (Monday, August 11) charged with a Spalding burglary which was reported on Saturday. Dimitrijs Afanasjeves (27), of no fixed abode, will appear before Lincoln magistrates in connection with a burglary in Pinchbeck Road. Meanwhile, town police are investigating a sneak-in burglary at about 5pm on Thursday. Someone entered an insecure house in Edinburgh Drive and stole ...

Everyone will have their chance to raise issues with the police at a series of public engagement events. The events, which have been highly popular in the past have given hundreds of people the opportunity to talk to officers and for officers to listen to the public. In many respects they formalise what officers and PCSOs do every day – ...

Lincolnshire Police are refusing to tell the public which are the county’s busiest and most lucrative road safety cameras – for fear the machines will be attacked. Despite admitting that it would create greater awareness of speeding hotspots, they have declined to give details about the number of offences and the revenue of the highest earners among the 52 fixed ...

A major business park for Spalding, which will create 2,000 jobs, has been granted outline planning permission. Lincs Gateway Business Park will include a Premier Inn hotel, Brewers Fayre pub, restaurant/cafe, conference and function centre, and fuel station. The plan by Holbeach firm Ashley King Developments will be on land either side of Barrier Bank, next to the A16 roundabout. ...

Josh Newton praised a top team effort from Spalding Town as they secured 12 hard-fought points against defending Lincs ECB Premier League champions on Saturday. The visitors made an imposing 276-9 batting first on a rain-hit afternoon at Spalding Grammar School, before Town made 230-7 in reply to seal a losing draw. That represented a good day’s work for Spalding, ...

Several neighbouring residents are unhappy with the Lincs Gateway Business Park plan for Spalding in its current state. They want the ‘noisy’ warehouse element to not be located near their properties, and they say a bridleway alongside the site cannot and should not be upgraded to a pedestrian and cyclist access. Graham Brown has lived in Fen End Lane for ...

A proposed house with a “ski slope” roof has been given planning permission. The design of the home to replace a dilapidated garage at 2 Osier Road, Spalding, didn’t sit well with all members of South Holland District Council’s planning committee. Chairman Coun Roger Gambba-Jones wondered whether members were happy with the roof, which he likened to a “ski slope”. ...

Two of South Holland’s top teams clash at the Sir Halley Stewart Playing Field tonight (Thursday) as Spalding United play host to Moulton Harrox (7.45pm). The hastily-arranged clash will serve as a final pre-season friendly for both sides ahead of the start of their respective seasons. Entry will be a reduced £3, with fans of both sides encouraged to attend. ...

Three South Holland sides get their ChromaSport Peterborough League campaigns under way on Saturday. In the Premier Division, Ian Dunn’s new-look Pinchbeck United side make the tough trip to Netherton United, while promoted Holbeach United Reserves visit Sawtry (both 2pm). Down in Division One, Long Sutton Athletic welcome Whittlesey Blue Star to London Road (also 2pm) in what promises to ...

A Spalding man was stung 17 times when a swarm of bees attacked him without provocation. Steve Holmes, a leakage technician with Anglian Water, was targeted when he lifted the cover to a sluice valve in a corn field. It was something he’s done almost daily in his working life for 30 years – and never before had a problem. ...

A Spalding archer who underwent a kidney and pancreas transplant this year is asking for sponsorship to compete in the Westfield Health British Transplant Games. Just a year after almost dying from kidney complications, Sam Newton is in Bolton this week competing in the archery and volleyball events for Addenbrookes Adults team. Sam said: “Because of my health I was ...

This was the scene at the war memorial in All Saints’ churchyard in Holbeach on Monday. Children joined members of the Holbeach branch of the Royal British Legion and other adults for Lights Out, a national commemoration of the anniversary of the start of World War One. Roger Green, honorary secretary of the branch, said: “A group of people reaching ...

A proposal for a third care home in Saracen’s Head run by the same operator has been refused. Last week’s planning committee meeting at South Holland District Council heard that one user of the facilities run by Regard Partnership had given carers the slip recently. Village resident Erica Wicks said a worker was spotted looking for him in pampas grass ...

A drugs dealer caught twice within 48 hours with a stash has been jailed for 30 months. Owen Reeve was initially stopped by police while driving in Holbeach. Prosecutor Mark Knowles told Lincoln Crown Court that officers could smell cannabis and when Reeve was told the car was to be searched he produced a bag of cannabis. A quantity of the ...

Spalding’s Iceland store has children’s TV characters Peppa Pig and George in store on Saturday (9am-3pm). It’s part of a week of fundraising for the Royal British Legion by Iceland. The Winfrey Retail Park store has a raffle to win £50 of vouchers, tombola, cake stall on Friday and Saturday and a sponsored bike ride around Grafham Water by staff ...