Photographers from across South Holland have been showing off their favourite images at an exhibition in Spalding. Members of Spalding Photographic Society have been proudly displaying their work to the public at the club’s annual exhibition. The display is available for all to see at The Geest Gallery in Ayscoughfee Hall Museum and runs until Sunday. Admission to the exhibition ...

Lincolnshire County Council is looking for someone to take on the role of “Independent Person” to assist the monitoring officer. County councillors work to an agreed code of conduct and occasionally become the subject of complaints that they have not met the standards set out by that code. The independent person will help the council’s monitoring officer by giving advice, ...

Listings from Thursday, April 24 to Wednesday, April 30 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 ...

If you are aged 12 to 25 and want to be more involved with the South Holland Centre then go along to the Centre’s cafe on Tuesdays between 4pm and 6pm. The Youth Takeover group has so far organised two mini music festivals, a series of acoustic music sessions featuring a variety of talented young local musicians in the cafe ...

A litter pick in Surfleet will kickstart the next part of South Holland District Council’s Litter Blitz campaign. It will be part of a series of events in the run-up to the launch of the Community Litter Warden scheme later this year. District council waste and recycling officer Laura Simpkins said: “The aim of the scheme is to get local ...

A jungle-themed day of workshops and activities for the whole family to enjoy is being hosted by Spalding’s South Holland Centre. The venue is offering a full day of drama, dance, music, craft and cookery workshops aimed at primary school aged children and their accompanying adults to enjoy. All based around the theme of the jungle, there will be an ...

Ayscoughfee Hall Museum and Gardens is often described as the jewel in Spalding’s crown and there’s always something exciting going on there. Although April is nearly over there’s still time to catch a couple of events running this month. Spalding Photographic Society is running its annual exhibition in the Geest Gallery until Wednesday. It’s a welcome return by this popular ...

A fun-filled family pantomime from this multi-award winning inclusive theatre company. The Lavender Hill Mob Theatre Company presents its version of Robin Hood – an original script and music to suit everyone’s palette, filled with lots of surprises along the way! Robin Hood King’s Lynn Corn Exchange Saturday and Sunday, April 26 and 27 Adults £11, children £9.50 Box office ...

This weekend there is a chance to explore the Medieval and Tudor worlds at Ayscoughfee Hall. Take a journey back through centuries of history and learn about knights and ladies, find out about games, food and crafts of the time. The sessions run from 12.30pm to 3.30pm on Saturday and Sunday. There is a Georgian and Victorian Explorers and Inventors ...

Donington youngsters got their hands on some treats thanks to the Flinders Founders Easter egg hunt. This fun event is held on Easter Sunday every year in Flinders Park. Teens were invited to register to get treasure hunt clues, hunt all round the park and if successful collect an Easter egg prize. As well as the treasure hunt there was ...

Sporting clubs across South Holland are being urged to apply for a slice of £32million of funding. Sportivate is a nationwide campaign that gives people aged between 11 and 25 the chance to receive six weeks’ sport coaching or led sessions for little or no cost. This includes disability sport. An example of one local recipient of funding is Volleyball ...

Youngsters were able to get up close and personal with some baby animals at a special Easter event. The Playbarn at Springfields Outlet Shopping, Spalding, hosted Ark Farm’s mobile petting zoo over the weekend. Children were able to meet chickens, ducks, lambs, cows, piglets, goats and a black Labrador puppy at the event. The petting zoo was held over four ...

More than 50 tractors took to the streets of Moulton for the annual tractor rally. Organised by Paul Beecham and Mark Seymour, the sixth annual Moulton Tractor Rally has been hailed a success. Mr Beecham said: “We’ve raised £1,056.16 so far and we have more to collect in. “The money will go to Moulton Mill.”

Police are urging residents in Holbeach to be vigilant to suspicious activity following an increase in shed and garage burglaries in the area. Overnight, between April 14 and 15, offenders forced entry to a garage at a property in Washway Road, Holbeach, and stole a Lincoln electric compact 185 mig welder, a Stihl petrol disc cutter and a gas bottle. ...

Users of Surfleet’s Fraiser Room can enjoy new kitchen facilities thanks to grant funding. Trustees and guest recently celebrated the completion of the extension and refurbishment. Grants to fund the work were obtained from The Big Lottery Fund and WREN, along with donations from South Holland district councillors Sally Slade, Elizabeth Sneath and David Avery from their discretionary funds. Other ...

Residents will have the chance to air their views on the future of a village pub site at a public consultation tonight. In the latest round in the battle to bring back a pub on the former Ye Olde Dun Cow site, campaigners will hold the meeting to listen to views about protecting the site as a community asset, preventing any ...

More young people need to be attracted to jobs in the construction industry to fulfil plans for 80,000 new homes in Lincolnshire within the next decade. It is feared that today’s students do not see the building sector as “first choice” when considering future career options and parents can discourage them further because they see it as an “unstable” industry ...

Pupils could have less choice of where and what they study if smaller sixth forms are forced to close. It is feared that a drop in the number of youngsters in the 16 plus age group and changes to the way sixth forms are funded could mean that some will not be able to afford to continue. If that happens ...

The next board meeting for Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) is on Tuesday. The meeting starts at 1pm in the Royal Oak Boardroom at the trust’s headquarters at Bridge House, The Point, Sleaford. Items due to be discussed include a review of the trust’s vision, strategic objectives and priorities for 2014/15 and annual reports from a number of ...

Youngsters hunted high and low around Moulton Mill and were rewarded for their hard work with some delicious chocolate treats. The event was organised by the team who run the mill as part of the Easter celebrations. l The next fundraising event takes place on Friday, May 2 and is a folk night with fish and chip supper. An evening ...