Michael Seymour enjoyed his first stint as South Holland District Council chairman so much that he was happy to be elected into the role again on Wednesday.(May 11) He was previously chairman for two years from 2011. Coun Seymour, who lives in Holbeach and is the Conservative ward member for The Saints, said: “It is a great honour and something I’m ...

A Spalding off-licence has been given a further opportunity to resolve a dispute over work carried on the premises without planning permission. South Holland District Council is awaiting a fresh planning application for International Food, which operates from the former Station Gates pub in Winsover Road. Last summer the council gave permission for the temporary removal of a window and ...

France has awarded its highest order for military merit to a D-Day veteran now living in Fleet. Bernard Hale (91) served with the Royal Naval patrol service and was on a mine-sweeping trawler sent to clear the Normandy beaches before the landings in June 1944. For three days, Bernard – who earned five shillings a week as a boy telegraphist ...

by Sally Slade (South Holland District Council portfolio holder for legal, performance and democratic services) The other day, one of my children asked me, “Mummy, what do you actually do?”. It’s a question that I sometimes ask myself! My portfolio is so broad, encompassing a variety of departments, that it makes my working life incredibly varied. My official title is ...

Spalding has become a hotspot for providing fine produce for one of the leading retailers in the country. Three farmers from the Spalding area have signed deals to supply fresh cut flowers and plants to M&S stores. James Lacey and Lauren Senior, from L&D Flowers, in Pinchbeck are cultivating M&S’ sweet williams, whilst Pete Hicks, of Westside Nursery in Spalding. ...

There is reasoning behind the bushy sideburns currently being sported by Spalding pub landlord Pete Williams. He’s playing Bill Sikes in Spalding Amateur Dramatic and Operatic Society’s production of Oliver!, which begins a four-night run at the South Holland Centre on Wednesday.(May 18) Few people might know that Punchbowl owner and South Holland district councillor Pete went to drama school ...

Spalding Police are asking for information on the wheareabouts of this man. Court warrants have been issued  for the arrest of Thomas Parr (18), who is from the Spalding area. Anyone with information is asked to contact PC Alastair Pullen, at Spalding Police Station, by calling 101.

A former Spalding scout leader carried out a series of sex attacks on boys, a jury at Lincoln Crown Court has been told. John Edward Bates, who is also a former Lincolnshire Police officer, is alleged to have committed offences against four youngsters in the 1970s and 1980s when he was a scout leader in South Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire. Bates, who ...

A businessman who fly-tipped a car engine in a road – causing its closure until it was removed by council workers – has been ordered to pay £515. Michael Shailes, of Lincoln Lane, Holbeach St Marks, dumped the engine near the house of a man with whom he had just had a disagreement. Sally Burke, prosecuting for Boston Borough Council at Boston Magistrates’ Court on ...

Police have issued CCTV images of two men they want to talk to about thefts in Surfleet. A red mountain bike and a damaged 42in TV were stolen from outside a property in Reservoir Road at 2.20am on Bank Holiday Monday (May 2).  Police said outboard motors were stolen from boats moored at properties in Reservoir Road and Seas End Road  during ...

More tickets have been released for a popular visit to Spalding next month by Brian Blessed (pictured). The star – who describes himself as “actor, adventurer, raconteur” – will be on stage at the South Holland Centre on Thursday, June 9. He will be recounting tales of his adventures, notably up Mount Everest and becoming the oldest man to walk ...

Making tasty soup for themselves will be one of the many activities and interests on offer at the next meeting of a Holbeach support group. Here-4-U recently received a free soup kit through South Holland District Council’s Kitchen Garden Project. The group offers support to people suffering with dementia, their carers and others such as stroke victims, people with Parkinson’s ...

Memories from more than 50 years ago were fondly recalled at a class reunion in Long Sutton. Many people from 1960’s Upper Five class at The Peele School (as it was then) had not seen each other in the intervening 56 years. The reunion was the work of Dennis Woods, who managed to pull together 23 of the 30 former ...

The minister who founded Calvary Baptist Church in Spalding more than 30 years ago has handed over to a new pastor. The present ministry is now under the leadership of Pastor Kevin Cowdrey. It was June 1985 under the leadership of the Rev Glenn Palmer that the first meeting was held. It was in the Ivo Day Centre in Albion ...

Great horticultural products at the keenest prices – that’s the promise of a new outlet in Gosberton. A huge variety of Neame Lea Nursery’s fantastic range is now available to the public direct from the company. Neame Lea Outlet has just opened, showcasing the freshest outdoor plants at discount prices. It caters for all budgets, starting with pocket-money prices. From ...

Marc Jones is the new Lincolnshire Police and Crime Commissioner. The Conservative candidate takes up his £65,000 post on Thursday (May 12) after winning yesterday’s election. Mr Jones polled 48,033 across the county, more than 10,000 ahead of UKIP candidate Victoria Ayling (37,420). Labour candidate Lucinda Preston gained 25,475 votes and Daniel Simpson (Lincolnshire Independents) 18,497. It was a fairly ...

A motorist is in hospital in a serious condition after a road crash at Donington on Thursday.(May 5) Police are appealing for witnesses to the three-vehicle collision in Bicker Road at about 4.40pm. It involved an Astra van, a Renault van and a Ford Mondeo. Police said: “The driver of the Astra, a 43-year-old local man, was flown to the Queens ...

A teenaged man has been charged with drink-driving after a car hit a house in Spalding. Mantas Radajevas (18), of West Elloe Avenue, Spalding, is said to have had 142mg of alcohol in 100ml of blood. The legal limit is 80mg. The incident happened on March 20 in Winsover Road, near its junction with Park Road. Radajevas is due to ...

Lincolnshire’s next Police and Crime Commissioner will be chosen today (May 5) – and they have been urged to make fighting rural crime a high priority. People head to the polling stations with four candidates to choose from – Victoria Ayling (UKIP), Marc Jones (Conservative), Lucinda Preston (Labour) and Daniel Simpson (Lincolnshire Independents). CLA – the organisation, which represents landowners, ...

Two junctions on the A16 at Crowland are to undergo an urgent review of their layout amid concerns about road safety. It follows an on-site meeting which enabled leading Lincolnshire county councillors and highways officials to witness first-hand some of the issues. It was held on Thursday evening during peak time for traffic. The two staggered junctions observed were: B1166 ...