The mystery of who knitted creations adorning tree stumps on Spalding riverside has been resolved. Three residents of Georgian Court housing development – Carol Usher, Jan Neale and Kitty Dickinson – have claimed responsibility. The first of three creations – Julipa – popped up in late May near Churchgate’s junction with Love Lane. Then in mid-June The Queen was depicted ...

Crowland Methodist Church has a new wooden cross thanks to the efforts of two pupils from a school for boys with learning difficulties. The project was carried out with great enthusiasm and came after a tentative inquiry to Wild Lodge School in Empingham, Rutland. Church members are delighted with the cross which will be placed in the transept and will ...

Chartered accountant Bulley Davey has presented £3,600 to its chosen charities, Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire and Magpas air ambulance services, so far this year. The money was raised through events including a carol concert, the Great Eastern Run, coffee mornings, dress-down days and egg sales from home-reared chickens. Andy Atkins and Julie Matthewson, directors at Bulley Davey’s Spalding and Holbeach offices ...

A Spalding couple are joining the fight over a decision to end congenital heart disease surgery for children at our region’s specialist centre. Six-year-old Sofia Larsson owes her life to Glenfield Hospital in Leicester after a series of operations to correct heart defects. However, Glenfield is one of three units which NHS England has told to stop surgery for patients ...

A toddler has died after falling into a pond at his grandparents’ home in Gosberton Risegate. The 19-month-old, who lived in Peterborough, was taken to the Queen’s Medical Centre in Nottingham after the incident last weekend. He died on Wednesday.(July 13) The coroner has been informed.

Spalding Gentlemen’s Society will rekindle a family tradition when Richard Montagu Douglas Scott becomes its patron later this year. He is the 10th Duke of Buccleuch and 12th Duke of Queensberry. The 2nd Duke of Buccleuch became the first patron of the society in 1732, and the 9th Duke was also patron until his death in 2007. The duke, who ...

The landlord of the Spalding property in which three people died in a fire has spoken publicly about the tragedy for the first time. Tricia Pite has been consumed with sorrow since the May 1 blaze which killed tenants Jaroslaw Lazarewicz (53), Sylwester Grabzewski (42) and Marian Mariusz Laczynski (38). She said: “They were decent people and we all got ...

The future of Greater Lincolnshire’s food and farming sector came under the spotlight in Pinchbeck on Friday.(July 8) The latest Greater Lincolnshire Local Enterprise Partnership Big Debate brought together farmers, food industry leaders and politicians to debate the big issues facing the agri-food sector. The LEP has ambitious plans to double the value of the sector by 2030, and the ...

A new hair and beauty business in Moulton is launching with an open day on Saturday. (July 9) The Little Village Salon is being run by Stephanie Lakey and Lucy Carr, with assistance from Steph Rowett. Village resident and South Holland and The Deepings MP John Hayes is due to mark the official opening of the High Street salon at ...

A family business synonymous with Holbeach for more than 50 years has been put up for sale. Patrick Limming, owner of garden and pet supplies JW Limming, says the time for him to retire has passed. He said: “There’s more to life than just working and I want to enjoy doing other things now. “When my father died at 64 ...

Householders in South Holland’s garden waste collection scheme are “paying over the odds”, it has been claimed. New research says the South Holland scheme is the second most expensive of 19 local authorities in the East Midlands. At £49 per year, only East Northamptonshire Council is dearer at £51.50. The annual subscription is 51 per cent more than the East ...

By Lord Porter of Spalding Leader of South Holland District Council We all know the country is facing some big decisions following the outcome of the EU Referendum. The direction will be played out over years to come, but what is clear is that people felt very strongly about the issue and went to the polls in high numbers. Here ...

South Holland District Council is considering new ways of running its three prized assets in Spalding. Fresh business cases are being considered for Ayscoughfee Hall Museum and Gardens, the South Holland Centre and the council’s offices in Priory Road. Deputy council leader Nick Worth said: “We’re looking at these three sites because they are the most costly to the taxpayer. ...

More than 1,000 visitors kept the 30 stalls busy at the third annual Holbeach Food Festival. Holbeach cupcake maker Stephanie Smithson and Silver Finns (fresh Cromer crabs) sold out, Lymn Bank Farm Cheeses and Berberis House Apiary (honey and related products) reported good days, and Bakkavor Pizzas’ stall was busy. Main organiser Coun Nick Worth said: “It was a great ...

A Holbeach resident has been handed a court bill for £362.37 for not disposing of waste correctly. South Holland District Council brought the prosecution against Peter John McManamon after enforcement officers investigating a large fly-tip at Gedney Hill linked it to him. He had paid an unknown person to remove and dispose of waste items. The council said on Wednesday (July 6): “Even ...

The latest blockbuster films could be screened in Spalding at the same time as in cinemas under a cost reduction proposal for the South Holland Centre. Extra cinema screens is one of the possible benefits from South Holland District Council’s plan to bring in a “high quality operator” under a lease agreement. It would mean residents not having to travel ...

A repeat offender off-licence in Spalding has been caught selling the type of fake cigarettes linked to fatal house fires. Police and Trading Standards officers raided Baltic in Winsover Road and seized 2,340 cigarettes. Among the haul including non-duty paid and counterfeit goods were packets of fake Pect. Cigarettes of this type have been linked to a number of house ...

There has been some speculation about the future of UKIP, post referendum.  It is being claimed that now we’ve achieved our original and primary goal, we can now sit back and leave it to the “experts”, people who were so sure that Remain would win, that those of them in actual government made no contingency plans for Brexit. Some experts. In fact more British people ...

Many thanks for all the help given to me by two ladies and the staff at Kwik Fit, Spalding, when I fell on June 6 and broke my hip. I’m now recovering well and greatly appreciate all the help that was given. Jean Wilkinson Spalding

A week on and I’m feeling much more optimistic about the future. Despite all the lies and the double talk it is important for us to remember that the Leave campaign won. In my view, this was a referendum that was shamelessly centred on immigration. Ok, let’s accept the result and the consequences. However, it seems somewhat strange to me ...