A new state-of-the-art medical centre is on the cards for Holbeach – bringing the town’s existing surgeries together under one roof. Holbeach-based firm Ashley King Developments is seeking permission to build a new surgery, together with retail pharmacy, on the former Langwith Builders’ site in Church Street. The proposal, which will be submitted to South Holland District Council imminently, ...

What The Dickens? Key Theatre, Peterborough Tomorrow (Friday), 7.30pm Tickets £12 Box Office: 01733 207239 Young Charles Dickens is a rookie reporter on The Morning Chronicle. Whilst investigating the foggy slums of Ye Olde London Towne, he accidentally stumbles on a story that could make his reputation. Follow our hero on the adventure of a lifetime! This inventive and gripping ...

Sooty King’s Lynn Corn Exchange Wednesday, April 1 11am and 2.30pm Tickets £13, under 16s £11, family (3) £30 (4) £40 Box office: 01533 764864 Izzy wizzy Let’s get busy – it’s The Sooty Show! Direct from Citv, Sooty heads into King’s Lynn in a fabulous new show to delight the whole family. Joining the nation’s favourite bear will be ...

  High School Musical The Cresset, Peterborough Today (Thursday), tomorrow (7.30pm) and Saturday (2.30pm & 7.30pm) Tickets £14.50/£13 Box office: 01733 265705 RARE Productions present High School Musical. Set in East High School, Troy Bolton, captain of the basketball team, and Gabriella Montez, a newly- arrived and very academic student, decide to audition for the school winter musical. Sharpay and ...

The legendary Wishbone Ash – pioneers of the twin-guitar rock that influenced groups from Thin Lizzy to Iron Maiden – stop off in Bourne as part of their Live Dates Live World Tour for a glorious mixture of the old and new. As well as playing tracks from their highly acclaimed new album Blue Horizon, they’ll be performing their biggest ...

  Organisers of a village balloon race were left astounded after receiving a return ticket all the way from California! The helium-filled balloon took just nine days to travel some 5,144 miles and arrived faster than a letter sent via the post to the man who found it! Hundreds of balloons were released from Glen Park as part of the ...

A group at the forefront of transport issues for Spalding and Peterborough is hoping to gain new members to help organise a special conference next year. Spalding and Peterborough Transport Forum holds its annual general meeting tomorrow (Thursday) at the South Holland District Council offices in Priory Road, starting at 7pm. Over the last couple of years the group has lost ...

South Holland residents are being given the chance to get involved in the bid to make Spalding a shopping centre of excellence and choice. People are being asked to get involved in the re-branding of the town by designing a logo and brand strapline. The Town Centre Management Board (TCMB) believes that the promotion of Spalding’s heritage base including food, ...

The essence of South Holland has been captured through sound thanks to community project Transported. Over the summer months, Transported commissioned sound artist Rebecca Lee to explore the sound and sense of place in several villages across South Holland. Tulip Radio will be broadcasting Rebecca’s recordings between November 25 and December 30. Rebecca is a musician and artist who has ...

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BOS Musical Theatre Group presents Miracle on 34th Street Blackfriars Arts Centre, Boston Saturday, November 22 to Saturday, November 29, times vary Tickets £14/£12, £45 family Box office 01205 363108 If you’re not feeling festive yet, get yourself along to Blackfriars Arts Centre in Boston over the next couple of weeks – the Christmas line up promises to get you ...

Mark Watson: Flaws The Cresset, Peterborough Sunday, November 23 Tickets £17.50 Box office: 01733 265705 www.cresset.co.uk Over 14s only Winner of five major comedy awards. 24-hour-show luminary. Novelist. Mark Watson, star of Dave’s Road to Rio, BBC’s We Need Answers, Never Mind The Buzzcocks, Mock The Week and cult Radio 4 series Mark Watson Makes The World Substantially Better, returns ...

A local dance troupe has just returned from dancing on board the Royal Caribbean cruise ship Independence of the Seas. Spalding’s Polka Dot Dance Troupe are all aged between ten and 17, and using songs from Madonna, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston and more, each year they take their performances worldwide. This year they were invited to return by Royal Caribbean ...

Youngsters from 1st Pinchbeck Brownies got an insight into the life of a firefighter when they spent a couple of hours with the team at Spalding Fire Station. Brown Owl Val Sandall and her Brownie pack visited the fire station as part of a badge-gaining and general awareness exercise. Bob Machin was their fireman guide.

The next board meeting for Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) will take place on Tuesday, November 25. The monthly meeting will start at 1pm in the Royal Oak Boardroom at the trust’s headquarters at Bridge House, The Point, Sleaford, NG34 8GG. Items due to be discussed this month include updates on finance, performance and the Chief Inspector of ...

The Lavender Hill Mob Theatre Company make a welcome return to Pinchbeck Village Hall on Sunday, November 30. Tickets are available now priced at £5 for adults and £1 for under 15s. The price includes a cup of tea or coffee and biscuits. Supporting the Lavender Hill Mob Theatre Company are local duo Acoustic Fusion. Doors open at 2pm and ...

People all over South Holland got into the Children in Need spirit last week – raising hundreds of pounds for Pudsey. Staff and children at Spalding’s Little Treasures Nursery thoroughly enjoyed dressing up as their favourite superheroes to raise cash for the charity. The children also had their faces painted with Pudsey bears and eye patches. Manager Rebecca Genever said: ...

Holbeach Community Larder has been awarded a £2,000 grant, just in time for the launch of its Christmas appeal. Following a public vote, the community larder has been awarded the money from the Lloyds Bank Community Fund 2014 to enable it to continue doing good work in the community. Holbeach Community Larder comprises a food bank, a community cafe and ...

In the last two weeks children at Ayscoughfee Hall School have been really busy trying to help others. Children wore pink and sold cakes and loom band bracelets which they had made on Pink Day raising £348 for breast cancer research. They have been making shoeboxes full of gifts to send abroad to children less fortunate as part of Operation ...

Vintage Hollywood was the theme for this year’s Kidney Research Ball and guests went all out with the glitz and glamour. Sisters Natalie Herring and Hannah Robinson and family friend Richard Spurr rolled out the red carpet at Spalding’s Springfields Events Centre and raised £6,000 for the charity, taking their five year fundraising total to more than £30,000. The trio ...