A group of around 60 senior golfers took part in the Tydd St Giles Seniors’ Prostate Cancer stableford charity day, an individual stableford competition.Organiser Toby North thanked all for taking part in the competition and was pleased to announce more than £2,000 had been raised on the day, which is a record amount raised by Tydd seniors.He also thanked to ...

Sunday saw eight Welland Yacht Club boats take to the water for the three races that count towards the Ralph Gibson Memorial Trophy, and now almost weed free thanks to the EA and a good breeze blowing, it was an ideal day.The wind in the north meant a short tack to the number 1 buoy from the start line and ...

Bugbrooke 30Spalding RFC 22 With two early season wins in the league, Spalding travelled over to Bugbrooke near Northampton for their first ever league encounter with the home team, who had lost both their opening games. With a large home crowd due to their annual beer fest and three other games already played, the scene was set for a challenging ...

It was all about Division Three this week in the Spalding and District Snooker League with two teams winning 6-0. The first hammering came from Consti I, who were away to Gosberton B, while Holbeach F whitewashed Consti D.Two games into the season, the result puts Holbeach F at the top of the table, with Consti I in fifth, having ...

Some weekends go well and others do not but for G&S Racing Kawasaki it was a case of both scenarios at Oulton Park.Jorel Boerboom suffered a crash in the National Superstock race through no fault of his own on Saturday, and on Sunday the two Junior Superstock riders, Sam Laffins and Asher Durham, finished third and fourth in the Junior ...

Moulton Harrox moved to the top of the GCE Hire Fleet Peterborough League with a 5-0 defeat of Ramsey Town. Declan Earth scored twice to go with goals from Nathan Smith, Joe Townsend and substitute Jacob Drew. It put Moulton two points clear of reigning champions Uppingham.Celebrations were also the order of the day at the opposite end of the ...

More misery was piled on Pinchbeck United manager Lewis Thorogood just as he thought his team had turned the corner after a woeful start to the season.A six-match losing run was ended in style the previous week with a 5-0 win at Hucknall and confidence was built in last Wednesday’s United Counties League KO Cup tie against Lincoln United.The Knights ...

Revenge proved sweet for Spalding United as they bounced back from Saturday’s FA Trophy exit with a 2-0 victory over Grantham Town in the Lincolnshire FA Senior Cup on Tuesday. That avenged last season’s 1-0 defeat in the final and came courtesy of a quickfire double from Lewis Hilliard.He put the Tulips ahead after 27 minutes and it was 2-0 within ...

A solid start to the Thurlow Nunn Eastern Counties League season continued for Holbeach United with two four-goal blasts.Wednesday’s 4-2 League Cup win at Parson Drove was followed by a 4-1 home league win against Needham Market u23s to leave the Tigers one place and one point outside the play-off zone in Division One North, with games in hand over ...

Spalding did just enough to avoid a bottom-two finish in the Lincolnshire Board Premier League in a 94-run defeat at Market Deeping.The hosts rattled up 362/4 and Spalding ran out of overs in reply on 268/6. However, that was enough to secure six points and push them 25 points off the bottom two with one game, and 20 points still to ...

Spalding made it two wins out of two as they started life at their new Centenary Park home with a 34-6 victory over Peterborough Lions in Counties League One Midlands East (South). There was a big build up and excited expectations to the Elephants’ first home league game at the Drain Bank North ground, welcoming the Lions, who only a few ...

Moulton Harrox have been crowned Guardian Trophy winners in the Spalding & District Bowls League.Meanwhile, Whaplode Drove have been presented with the Sid Lane Cup after that success, while individual honours went to Hase Cup winner Dan Mills, Munson Cup and Rushby Rose Bowl winner Tracey Philpott and Fisher Shield winner George Alley.The Stokes Cup was won by Paul Caress, Nigel Brown ...

A former Spalding Golf Club professional and a current club member came out on top at the annual Lincolnshire Open. It was played at Spalding Golf Club and saw about 40 professional and amateur golfers from all parts of the county at the Lincolnshire Union of Golf Clubs(LUGC)-organised event.A two-round medal competition, played off scratch, on a very hot and humid day was run by ...

Nick and Kim Markillie’s reward for a 49-point winning score in the Gedney Hill Golf Club Ping Mixed Fourball Betterball competition in July was a place in the finals, which were played last week at Thonock Park, Gainsborough.They were among 52 pairs from all over the country and the husband and wife team came second with 45 points to win ...

Spalding Snooker League started the new season with several high breaks in Division One. Bourne SC A’s Mark Gray (O105) knocked in a 59 break, despite going on to lose 128-72 to Holbeach C’s Nick Edwards (R7). There was some consolation though as Bourne won 4-2.Pete Ransome (028) got a 43 break for Holbeach E on his way to victory ...

Welland Yacht Club were back in action on Sunday, thanks to the efforts of the Environment Agency and Ryan and Lee from Somerset Boat Centre.Their work during the week clearing weed from the river allowed sailing to restart after an unplanned break from action.However, following all that work, the wind failed to show in any strength.To make up for the ...

The South Holland community has been thanked for supporting a local charity.Ella’s Project appealed for help on behalf of Spalding Children’s Services.“It has been a fantastic effort, we are extremely grateful to everyone concerned,” said Mark Le Sage, founder of the Rightside Trust and Ella’s Project.“We are also grateful to the teams at Spalding NatWest and Spalding Travel who collected ...

A plea has gone out for volunteer help to support hospital patients and staff. The United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust Charity is launching a new campaign to help promote and support its invaluable work to a wider audience.The charity provides additional extras to lift the work of the staff, which is not provided by the NHS.In recent months the charity has ...

Gateway Clubs from Spalding and Boston took part in the first Rotary Games since the COVID-19 pandemic.Teams of people with learning disabilities were challenged in walking races, standing long jump and shot put.Indoor contests included new age kurling, boccia and skittles.Spalding were the winners after the games were abandoned due to torrential rain.The Rotary Games have traditionally been held annually ...

The Chief Constable of Lincolnshire has apologised to the LGBTQ+ community for his force’s past homophobic persecution. Chris Haward is only the fifth police chief in the country to do so, after the Metropolitan, City of London, Sussex and South Yorkshire forces.The campaign #ApologiseNow was launched by human rights activist Peter Tatchell.Responding to an appeal by the Peter Tatchell Foundation, ...