The Fenland and Spalding Model Club holds its annual Wings & Things exhibition this Sunday. The event takes place at Spalding High School, Stonegate, from 10am until 4pm. The show brings together the best of plastic modelling from across the country. Displays include aircraft, ships, figures, armour, science fiction and much more. Youngsters can have a go at building and ...

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, contact Donna Lill on 01522 870252. Moulton Seas End Youth Club, 6.30pm-8.30pm, £1.50 for ages seven to 16, contact Margaret Hains on 01406 371796. Meet your local Health Trainer, 9am-4pm, Sutton Bridge Community Centre, ...

Funhouse Comedy Club South Holland Centre, Spalding Friday, September 19, doors 7.30pm, show 8.15pm Tickets £10 in advance Box office: 01775 764777 www.funhousecomedy.co.uk The Funhouse Comedy Club is back at South Holland Centre, Spalding tomorrow (Friday) for a laughter-packed night. Headliner is Christian Reilly who at the age of 15 joined a band to get laid. The Salvation Army had ...

Live music, stalls, games and a Dakota flypast combined to make Holbeach Hospital’s annual summer fair a great success. The theme for the event was country and western, with live music and several members of staff dressing up as cowboys and Indians. Other attractions on the day included a red bus that has been turned into a mobile fish and ...

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, contact Donna Lill on 01522 870252. Moulton Seas End Youth Club, 6.30pm-8.30pm, £1.50 for ages seven to 16, contact Margaret Hains on 01406 371796. Meet your local Health Trainer, 9am-4pm, Sutton Bridge Community Centre, contact ...

Omid Djalili – Iranalamadingdong South Holland Centre, Spalding Sunday, September 21, 8pm Tickets £23 www.southhollandcentre.co.uk Box office 01775 764777 This comedy favourite back on tour with a new show, following a sell-out four week West-End residency and a sold-out season at the Edinburgh Festival. A firm favourite with his legendary performances, Omid’s stand-up awards include the Time Out Award and ...

A Spalding postman is pedalling his way 120 miles to Norfolk and back in memory of a colleague who died from cancer. Ade Mills will take on the cycling challenge on Sunday to raise money for the cancer ward at Boston’s Pilgrim Hospital. He will be joined along the way by Malcolm Smith, Steve Allison and Tony Quinton. The ride ...

After ten years at the helm, Spalding Grammar School headteacher Nigel Ryan has announced that he is stepping down. He will be retiring at the end of the academic year to spend more time travelling with wife Elaine. Mr Ryan said: “The Grammar School has a long standing tradition of developing well rounded, considerate young adults who are ready to ...

The fairies and staff at Sainsbury’s Spalding have been out in force again trying to beat the amazing £1,032 raised at the store last month for charity Anna’s Hope. At this month’s Fairy Friday staff member Vanessa Pardy took part in a sponsored head shave. The charity helps to make a difference to local children suffering with brain tumours.

Firefighters from Spalding’s station will swapping their fire hoses for garden hoses on Sunday when they’ll be washing cars for charity. The crew will be at Sainsbury’s car park from 10am to 4pm raising money for the Fire Fighters Charity. They will also be handing out fire safety information. Be warned no cash is not an excuse as the team ...

A ceilidh night at Spalding will raise money for the Butterfly Hospice. The event is at Springfields Event Centre on Saturday, September 20, from 8pm-11.30pm. Music will be provided by Lincolnshire ceilidh band Akmeds Camel. Tickets are £10 from the Butterfly Hospice charity shop on Station Street, Spalding, the shop in Market Place, Boston, or by contacting Clair Bint on ...

Towers and tunnels, factories and follies, chapels and synagogues – thousands of England’s most unique and undiscovered historic sites will be throwing open their doors for free, as Heritage Open Days celebrates its 20th anniversary. The following events are happening across South Holland: Crowland Abbey – Open day for prayer and visitors, with a chance to see displays depicting the ...

Beautiful weather added to the atmosphere at Moulton on Sunday for the village’s annual country show. The show took place at Moulton Park and attractions on offer included horse and dog shows, displays of vintage tractors and classic cars and motorbikes and plenty of stalls and trade stands.

Professional photographer Nigel McMillan is holding a photography workshop on Saturday, September 20. The workshop is perfect for beginners in digital photography who want to learn how to use their cameras to take better photographs. The workshop is at Unique Cottage Studios, Low Fulney, from 10am to 4.30pm and costs £75 including a buffet lunch in the cafe. Numbers are ...

Tulip Radio is pleased to announce the return of South Holland’s much loved Tulip Queen competition. After a gap of two years since the final Flower Queen, Inca Honnor, was selected as ambassador for the area, many organisations have asked Tulip Radio who they might ask to open their galas, new premises and so on. Tulip Radio’s Jan Whitbourn was ...

Police who raided a terraced house in Sutton Bridge discovered a cannabis growing operation. Officers went to the rented property in Withington Street and found that one of the upstairs bedrooms had been converted to grow cannabis. Katarina Wilson, prosecuting at Lincoln Crown Court, said: “Police went to the address due to there being suspicious comings and goings. “When the ...

A deaf woman who was knocked over by a cyclist on the pavement is calling for police to do more to stop it. The Spalding pensioner, who has asked not to be named, was walking through the Pied Calf Yard when she was hit by a cyclist. She said: “There were two men on bikes cycling along the pavement. “They ...

All kinds of weird and wonderful was on display in Spalding at the weekend thanks to Kustom Kulture Blastoff 5. The event at Springfield Events Centre is described as the most amazing rock n roll art show you will find in the UK. Attractions over the weekend included live music, working tattooists, artists displaying, demonstrating and selling their work, the ...

Plans to refit a Spalding butcher’s shop have been given the go ahead – despite objections from the town’s Civic Society. T Law and Sons has been sold to Simpson Butchers, which wants to carry out a £150,000 refit of the Hall Place shop. Plans went before South Holland District Council’s planning committee last week when they were passed unanimously. ...

Twenty years ago astronomers were not sure whether planets existed around other stars in the universe or not. Today we know of over a thousand. Tonight (Friday), Professor Andrew Norton will be giving a talk on Exo-Planets and How To Find Them at the South Lincolnshire Astronomical and Geophysical Society meeting. Prof Norton, who is vice president of the Royal ...