Cinderella presented by Polka Dot pantomimes South Holland Centre December 10, 2014 to January 3, 2015 Box office 01775 764777 Get your tickets early and you shall definitely go to the ball when Polka Dot Pantomimes bring their production of Cinderella to the South Holland Centre. There’s sure to be lots of audience participation in the centre’s annual festive production, ...

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, ...

The Gruffalo The Key Theatre, Peterborough Tuesday, 1.30pm and 4.30pm, and Wednesday, 10.30am and 4.30pm. Tickets £12. Box office: 01733 207239 Don’t miss Tall Stories’ hit musical stage adaptation of the award winning picture book, The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. Meet a wheeler-dealer fox, an eccentric old owl and a maraca-shaking, party mad snake! Mouse can scare ...

Forget Glastonbury – there’s a music festival happening much closer to home this weekend. The Bell at Weston Hills hosts its annual free music festival on Sunday and with loads of fantastic bands on the bill, it promises to be a great event. The music starts from 3pm and there will be seven live bands playing including The Soundinjectors, Sleeve ...

There’s something for everyone at the QV Foods funday this Sunday. The event takes place at Holbeach United Football Club from noon to 6pm. Attractions include a rodeo bull, a 60ft assault course, kids’ and adult’s bouncy castles and a penalty shoot-out. There will be dance, Zumba and kickboxing displays, live music, charity stalls and face painting. Refreshments on offer ...

Plans for 49 new homes in Crowland have received mixed reactions from local residents. Holbeach firm Ashley King Developments Ltd wants permission to put up the new properties on a site off Peterborough Road. The site is currently an agricultural field within 15 minutes walking distance from the town. The development will deliver 49 two and three-bedroom homes which will ...

Spalding’s Ayscoughfee Hall School won first prize in a competition to commemorate the centenary of the outbreak of World War One. All the work was completed in extra curriculum clubs by children from Year 3 upwards. They completed a woven picture of Flanders fields, a mosaic poppy wreath and a book of creative writing imagining what it must have been ...

A man who robbed a shop worker of her mobile phone after she refused to give him cash from the till has been jailed for 18 months. Ben Courtney walked into The Grocers in Francis Street, Spalding and approached the counter with two apples. But as he went to pay the 40p he told the assistant: “Just give me all the notes from ...

The army bomb squad was called to Spalding last night after police found a suspicious package. Officers discovered the unidentified object when they were called to Waterside Court at 3.20pm in response to a suspected drugs offence. A number of cannabis plants were found and while searching the property police found the package. As a standard precautionary measure, the army’s Explosives Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team was consulted ...

A prolific criminal who was having a “seriously negative impact” on the South Holland community has been deported to Poland. Since 2010 Spalding police have arrested 26-year-old Lucasz Jalocha dozens of times in relation to theft, burglary and drugs offences. He even damaged a cell door while in custody for another crime. Jalocha was last imprisoned for a burglary at a Spalding shoe ...

The manager of Spalding’s Oxfam shop will be running the Seabank Marathon in honour of his parents, both of whom he lost to cancer. Gary Peatling takes on the Boston to Skegness marathon on Sunday and will be raising funds for Macmillan Cancer Support and Oxfam. Gary said: “Completing a marathon is a big task, but Oxfam’s global mission of ...

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, ...

A 25-hectare solar farm, complete with sheep, is on the cards at Crowland. Push Energy wants permission to cover three fields at Decoy Farm with around 61,000 panels. Permission has already been granted for an anaerobic digestion plant, biomass boiler and eight hectares of glasshouses, along with which the solar farm will create an energy park at the forefront of ...

Leading food law firm Roythornes Solicitors has announced the details of its first new product development food conference. Featuring a range of keynote speakers the event will cover the entire development process from initial concept to getting onto supermarket shelves. Topics to be covered at the event on July 9 include the importance of branding, ensuring legal requirements are being ...

Nearly 1,500 people proved that Holbeach has the appetite for an annual food festival. Organised by Lincolnshire county councillor Nick Worth, the event at the William Stukeley Primary School, was really well received. On the menu was a mix of food, music and culture thanks to the likes of Transported, Holbeach Town Band and Bakkavor Pizza. Coun Worth said: “It ...

Holbeach Town and Country Fayre has been hailed the best yet thanks to a brilliant turn out. The event took place at King’s Field over two days and had something for all the family ranging from martial arts demonstrations and a Hurricane flypast to art and craft stalls and vintage tractors. Committee member Andy French said: “We’d outgrown our previous ...

Pupils at Ayscoughfee Hall School learned about a new culture with a visit to Spalding restaurant The Spice Affair. Headteacher Clare Ogden said: “The children in year five had a wonderful time when they visited The Spice Affair in Spalding. “They learnt about the places and culture of Goa. “The children loved making naan bread and afterwards enjoyed a delicious ...

Nine school choirs took part in this year’s South Holland Primary Schools’ Music Festival. The event was held at Ayscoughfee Hall School with choirs from Spalding St John’s, Holbeach, Long Sutton, Gedney Church End, Spalding St Norbert’s, Gedney Drove End, Holbeach William Stukeley, Bicker Prep and Ayscoughfee coming together for a morning of singing and performing songs from the first World ...

Four-year-old cancer sufferer Liam Phillips had his dreams turned into reality when he got to fight crime with hero Spider-Man. Diagnosed at just two weeks old, Liam is fighting Neuroblastoma. He loves Spider-Man, so Make-A-Wish Foundation UK – the charity that grants wishes to children and young people fighting life-threatening conditions – arranged for Liam to meet him. Liam, who ...

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, ...