Patients with urgent hospital appointments are being asked to let their doctor know if they can’t attend. South Lincolnshire Clinical Commissioning Group is asking people who are offered an urgent two-week wait appointment to say if they are unable to keep it. This type of appointment is offered to patients showing symptoms that may be associated with cancer. Approximately nine ...

Promising entrepreneurs looking to profit from the recent upturn in the regional economy are being invited to The Franchise Conference in Woodhall Spa. According to the second RBS Regional Growth Tracker, the East Midlands is the fastest growing English region in 2014 and is one of four regions which have now grown bigger than their pre-2008 peak. Julie Taylor, managing ...

A new web portal is to be launched to help businesses in Greater Lincolnshire use digital technology to grow. The Growing through Technology in Lincolnshire online project will provide factsheets, how-to guides and videos to encourage firms to get online and grow their business through digital technology. E-learning courses will also be available through the new service. Funding totalling £176,000 ...

Pinchbeck has a lovely new tea room where you can relax with a slice of homemade cake and a cuppa. Louise and David Anthony opened Tiffins Tea Room in August and since then the business has picked up many loyal customers. Located in Knight Street, the tea room serves breakfast and lunch six days a week. Louise deals with the ...

Fireworks events across the district went with a bang. Around 8,000 people went to the Tulip Radio display held at the Memorial Field in Spalding, while people turned out in droves to see the spectacular display put on by Harold Payne at Fleet’s Anglia Motel. Allotment holders, friends and family got together at Spalding’s Horseshoe Road allotments to celebrate.

A South Holland dance project is in with a chance of winning £50,000 worth of lottery funding – but needs your support to do it. Dance Factor Lincolnshire is one of only six groups in the ITV South Yorkshire Region shortlisted to battle for the public vote and £50,000 worth of lottery funding from ITV’s The People’s Millions TV Competition. ...

TODAY (THURSDAY) South Holland Singers, 7.30pm-9.30pm, St Paul’s Primary School, Queens Road, Spalding, 01775 761106. South Holland Healthy Walks, 10.30am, start and end at Holbeach Library, 01522 870252. Moulton Seas End Youth Club, 6.30pm-8.30pm, £1.50 for ages seven to 16, 01406 371796. Meet your local Health Trainer, 9am-4pm, Sutton Bridge Community Centre, 07532 236616. Holbeach and Spalding Explorers: Spalding, 7pm-9pm; ...

A £250 donation from East Elloe Lions will help to keep the Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance flying. The Holbeach-based Lions invited Heather and Tom Chambers, who represent the air ambulance, to their meeting to hand over a cheque towards the helicopter’s running costs. Tom and Heather introduced the Lions to Linda Helmn, who works with them, helping with publicity ...

Spalding veterinary nurse Suzhy Winfield has been honoured at her company’s awards night. Suzhy was the winner of the Outstanding Contribution Award at the Best Friends Veterinary Group’s fourth annual staff awards event, which celebrates the dedication and excellence of the staff across its 34 small animal practices. The event was held at Cambridge Golf and Conference Centre where ten ...

Santa’s coming! And you can have tea and supper with him too! Santa will be arriving at Springfields this year today (Thursday) and staying every Tuesday until December 23 and there will even be a chance to have supper or tea with him! Kids will be able to tell him if they’ve been naughty or nice this year by writing ...

  These 14-week-old Border Collie pups are less than half the weight they should be after being neglected by their owner. They are now in safe hands after a concerned member of the public contacted Central German Shepherd Rescue but these two, and their two sisters, are in desperate need of loving new homes. Bev Chamberlain, who runs the local ...

Over 200 people have signed a petition urging Lincolnshire County Council to surface what is reputed to be the most used footpath in Holbeach. On Thursday members of the Skinners Chase Action Group handed the petition to their county councillor Nick Worth. Parish councillor and member of the group, Carol Rudkin, said: “The signatures were collected from people using the ...

Spalding retailers are doing everything they can to make the town sparkle this Christmas. For three days at the end of November, there will be loads of things going on in the town in a bid to attract Christmas shoppers. Friday, November 28, is the date for the switch-on of the town’s Christmas lights display, organised by Tulip Radio and ...

Andrew Clingo and his ladies at Spalding Handful of Harmonies certainly know how to raise funds for charity. On this occasion a soup and bread roll lunch followed by apple pie and cream or custard followed by the normal choir singing session and concluding with tea and cakes raised £400 for Breast Cancer and the Wear it Pink Day. This ...

Two girls aged 15 and a 17-year-old boy have appeared at Lincoln Crown Court charged with the murder of Spalding man Warren Free. Mr Free was rushed to hospital from his home in Coronation Close, Spalding, on Thursday, August 28, with a serious head injury. He was airlifted to Queens Medical Centre in Nottingham, but died in the early hours of Friday, August ...

Spalding Power Station was cordoned off last night after a “very small gas leak” was discovered. Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue crews were on site at West Marsh Road dealing with the leak at about 6.30pm. As a safety precaution a 200 metre cordon was put in place, meaning West Marsh Road was closed, along with a stretch of the A16 ...

A Christmas Carol South Holland Centre, Spalding Saturday, November 29 1.30pm & 6.30pm Tickets £11/£10 Box office: 01775 764777 Bah Humbug! Scrooge is an old miser who never celebrates Christmas – or anything for that matter! But this Christmas Eve, the Spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Future transport him on a journey through time to make him see the ...

Moscow Ballet present Sleeping Beauty Kings Lynn Corn Exchange Sunday, November 9, 5pm Tickets £25.50/£23.50 Box office: 01553 764864 Tchaikovsky’s sumptuous music fills the air and wondrous characters come to life before your very eyes. Fairytale characters abound alongside a king, a queen, good and evil fairies, fairies of gold, silver, diamonds and sapphire plus the inevitable handsome prince, all ...

Kinesonic South Holland Centre, Spalding Friday, November 7, 1.30pm and 7pm Tickets £7.50, £25 family ticket Box Office: 01775 764777 southhollandcentre.co.uk A few years ago, lifelong friends Alex Flanagan and Augusts Dakteris left their hometown of Spalding to pursue their dreams of joining the circus. After many years of studying and perfecting their skills they are returning with their own ...

The Sensational 60’s 50th Anniversary Friday, November 7, 7.30pm The Cresset, Peterborough Tickets £26.50 Box office: 01733 265705 www.cresset.co.uk If you love 60s music then this is definitely a night out not to be missed! For one night only six legendary names from the 1960s take to the stage and deliver to you a night never to be forgotten. Herman’s ...