By Peter Start (secretary of Friends of Speyer) The 60th anniversary of the formation of the partnership between Spalding and Speyer (in Germany) occurs this year. The civic authority in Speyer and the Friends of Spalding wish to mark and celebrate this anniversary with as many people as possible from Spalding and district who have had past or who have current ...

Three projects are hoping to get the most votes this week to earn the top £12,000 grant in the Tesco Bags of Help scheme. Fleet Wood Lane Primary School, Holbeach In Bloom and Spalding Monkhouse Primary School have already done enough to get at least £8,000 each, but they are all asking for people’s support to help them get a ...

The new CCTV system in South Holland has led to eight arrests in Spalding in the past three months. However, there is not such good news about the seven cameras in Holbeach and Crowland, which have so far been unable to transmit images to the 24/7 monitoring suite in Boston. Contractors are looking at “alternative transmission options” to resolve the ...

A fresh way of growing tomatoes in the UK could be on its way to Crowland. If it goes ahead, the move would create 70 full-time jobs and lead to production of a fruit normally imported from warmer climates. Plans for five hectares of special greenhouse at Decoy Farm, along with a biomass boiler and packhouse have been drawn up ...

Police are appealing for information after a burglary at the garage of a home in Holbeach. A Sovereign petrol chainsaw was stolen during the incident in Hall Hill Road between February 16 and February 20. The niche number of the chainsaw is 16000032587. Police say the garage is at the end of a row and the offender prised it open using a metal bar. Anyone with ...

Ten health trainer jobs are at risk after a Lincolnshire County Council decision to stop funding the service. Lincolnshire Community and Voluntary Service (LCVS), which delivers the service in South Holland, Boston and South Kesteven, has begun a restructuring effort to try and retain the service. LCVS employs ten people – three in South Holland – and hopes to find ...

Stallholders on Spalding market are holding a prize tombola for customers on Saturday (March 5), with prizes having a Mother’s Day theme. The draw follows the success of a similar promotion last month when 12 Valentine’s Day prizes were offered by traders. David Burgess, chairman of the recently-formed Spalding branch of the National Market Traders’ Federation, said it went “very ...

A fresh application has been made for a premises licence for the former China City Restaurant in Winsover Road. The property is currently being altered in preparation for it opening as a general store. Previously, Karwan Ahmad had applied to South Holland District Council for permission to sell alcohol. But Mr Ahmad had his premises licences for neighbouring stores Winsover ...

A new dementia café run by volunteers has opened at a Spalding nursing home. Tanglewood Cedar Falls in Little London. has allowed use of its premises for Memory Lane. Residents and families get to enjoy a cuppa and cake and have a chat. Tony Westland, of Whaplode, whose mother Lilian is in the nursing home, said: “It was the idea ...

A special networking event giving local businesses the chance to understand about opportunities for working with South Holland District Council was a success. The first ever Meet The Buyer event, at the South Holland Centre in Spalding, had over 80 people attending. Organised by the council’s economic development team, business representatives had the opportunity to learn about winning contracts to ...

A former Pinchbeck man who sent naked photographs of a woman to 13 of her neighbours has been sentenced to 12 weeks’ imprisonment. Christopher David Mills (57) included the pictures in a “round-robin letter” which also made allegations about the victim’s background, Lincoln Crown Court heard on Wednesday.(March 2) A number of the woman’s neighbours on the quiet cul-de-sac in Sutterton were ...

Free transport to Lincolnshire’s 16 grammar schools is under threat. There is no statutory requirement for the county council to provide or pay for transport to a grammar school, unless it is the nearest school over three miles to a pupil’s home. Currently, 25 per cent of the county is not within an area benefiting from free grammar school transport, ...

A concerted effort is being made for the government to make allowances for South Holland District Council continuing to fund internal drainage boards. The local authority is one of fewer than 20 across the country which collects a precept for IDBs. Were it not for that, South Holland’s council tax bill would be the second lowest in the country. The ...

A car was the subject of an arson attack in Holbeach town centre on Sunday night.(February 28) A Peugeot 307 was set alight in the Station Street/Belle Vue Close area at about 7.10pm. A spokesman for Lincolnshire Police said on Monday: “The offender hasn’t yet been traced and enquiries are ongoing.” Anyone with information is asked to call 101, quoting ...

A name change of Moulton Parish Council to The Moultons to better reflect the area it serves has been passed despite criticism by ward district councillor Rodney Grocock. He told last week’s meeting of South Holland District Council: “I’ve never heard anything so daft in all my life. What next? Are we going back to The Suttons and The Elloes. ...

A drug dealer who transformed his life with help from the Prince’s Trust has been spared an immediate jail sentence. Shaun Taylor is now free of drugs, has found himself a job and was short-listed for a national award for the way he has turned around his life. Judge Michael Heath praised him when passing sentence at Lincoln Crown Court ...

SPAR Pinchbeck has celebrated a store refit with a grand re-launch event and healthy lunch giveaway for more than 300 local schoolchildren. The store on Knight Street re-opened its doors last Thursday (February 25) after a major refurbishment. It now features a brand new Daily Deli food service department, offering hot and cold food to go, and an improved fresh ...

A driver was killed on the A16 near Surfleet on Friday.(February 26) The 20-year-old woman, from Sutton-in-Ashfield in Nottinghamshire, was driving a blue Renault Clio which collided with a Scania HGV at about 4.10pm. The lorry driver, from Fleet Hargate, was not injured. Police want anyone who saw the collision or the vehicles prior to it to call 01522 558855. ...

At the start of this week, following the conclusion of the Prime Minister’s negotiations in Brussels, I made clear my view that Britain should leave the European Union. Ultimately, my decision has little to do with the details of the agreement that has now been reached, which is self-evidently somewhat better than the status quo. Rather, I believe that the European Union is ...

South Holland District Council leader Gary Porter is one of 150 top councillors nationwide calling for the Prime Minister to press ahead with plans to update the Sunday trading laws. A letter also signed by 40 MPs, which was published in The Telegraph, calls on David Cameron to allow local councils to decide upon shop opening hours. It reads: “We ...