I was saddened by the remarks from some of the local businesses on Holbeach market. I’m sorry to find that it is traders versus traders – we should be working in harmony to resolve the situation to achieve a better Holbeach. The High Street businesses would rather work hand-in-hand to achieve a solution to this situation rather than mud-slinging and ...

About 14 years ago, there was a serious problem with racist attacks in south Kent (Dover, Deal, and Folkestone) area, and the Isle of Thanet. These were being committed against people perceived as being asylum seekers or refugees, and were largely orchestrated by the British National Party and the National Front. Fast forward to the present, and we still have ...

Mr Hayter, of UKIP, advises young people who are thinking of voting “in” in the EU referendum: “It’s your future that’s at stake and taking the advice of self-serving elites who have lined their pockets at the public’s expense is a dangerous game.” Undoubtedly a true statement except that the bit about “self-serving elites” may be applied to some on ...

Popular Spalding book store Bookmark has been taken over by the team behind Charmed Interiors. Jason Sutton, who owns Charmed Interiors’ Spalding and Downham Market stores, took the reins at The Crescent book shop last week. Christine Hanson, who has had 25 successful years at the helm, leaves the business on Friday. Darren Sutton, who is e-commerce and sales manager ...

I understand and share the concerns of voters locally about pressing issues, such as shortages of affordable housing, shortages of school places and lengthening queues for NHS healthcare. However, are these issues really caused by our membership of the EU or perhaps something else? Let’s take a quick look, for instance, at the current housing crisis, which has resulted from ...

The status quo is not an option. It is not on the ballot paper, whichever way we vote things can not stay the same as they are now. A remain vote would mean that we would be subservient to Brussels politicians for ever. Pity our poor youth! A remain vote would give a mandate from the British people, to a ...

Rhythm of the Dance Key Theatre, Peterborough Wednesday, June 29, 2.30pm & 7.30pm Tickets £25 Box office 01733 207239 www.vivacity-peterborough.com This incredible live show celebrates the rich history of Ireland and the art of Irish dance, from the disciplined Celtic Step to the sensual, ancient Sean Nos dance style. Rhythm of the Dance creates a new era in Irish entertainment, ...

Paintings by a Spalding artist who won the public vote at this year’s South Holland Open Arts competition can be admired at Ayscoughfee Hall. A selection of work by Dina Perejogina is on display in the Geest Gallery at the historic venue throughout June. The work includes paintings of farm animals from the South Holland area as well as animals ...

Organising a wedding fayre from scratch would faze a lot of people but not June Wright. June is working hard to bring together an event, which takes place at Ayscoughfee Hall, Spalding, on September 11 (10.30am-4pm), and all proceeds will go to Sue Ryder’s Thorpe Hall Hospice. June, of Spalding, lost her first husband David to cancer 20 years ago ...

Gruffalo’s Child King’s Lynn Corn Exchange Thursday, June 23, 1.30pm and 4.30pm and Friday, June 24, 10.30am and 1.30pm Tickets £11.50 Box office 01553 764864 www.kingslynncornexchange.co.uk Following hot on the heels of The Gruffalo’s monstrous success comes The Gruffalo’s Child – with attitude! Just how brave is she? The Gruffalo said that no Gruffalo should ever set foot in the ...

The Rick Parfitt Jnr Band has been announced as the headline act for this year’s Holbeach Music & Beer Festival. Plans are well underway for this year’s event, which takes place on August 5, 6 and 7 at The Holbeach United Community Sports Academy. Organiser Sean Taylor promises a “high standard” in the music line-up with special headline acts to ...

The Proclaimers The Cresset, Peterborough Sunday, August 7, 7.30pm Tickets £30 Box office 01733 265705 Strikingly individual, twin brothers Craig and Charlie Reid have enjoyed huge successes across the globe and in April last year released their tenth album. They have carved a niche for themselves where pop, folk, new wave and punk collide as the emotional honesty, political fire, ...

Holbeach Town and Country Fayre takes place this weekend offering something for everyone. The annual event takes place at Kings Field, Ravens Gate, Holbeach, and runs from 10am to 5pm on Saturday and Sunday. There will be plenty of stalls, along with displays of vintage tractors and farming equipment, classic cars, military vehicles, motorcycles and steam engines. Events in the ...

Matthew Bourne’s The Car Man South Holland Centre, Spalding Thursday, June 23, 7pm £13.50, £12 concessions Box Office 01775 764777 www.southhollandcentre.co.uk Dance fans will have the opportunity to watch an incredibly powerful reworking of a classic opera at the South Holland Centre’s screening of The Car Man. Performed by Matthew Bourne’s Dance Company, New Adventures, award-winning The Car Man is ...

Shoe retailer Brantano is helping to ensure no-one faces cancer alone after launching a partnership with a cancer care charity. The footwear chain has chosen Macmillan Cancer Support as its charity for the year, and has a host of fundraising events and initiatives lined up. Brantano is calling for South Holland residents to help support its first event – Go ...

A woman whose daughter is suffering from cancer is organising a charity event to help the hospital where she is receiving treatment. Janet Pell, of Broadgate, Weston Hills, will hold the event at her home on Saturday, October 15 (10am-4pm), to raise money for the chemotherapy suite at Boston’s Pilgrim Hospital. She said: “The chemotherapy suite always needs funding for ...

When you go on holiday, so should your dog – that’s the view of Claire Purliant and her staff at Orchard House Luxury Boarding Kennels. Dog lover Claire opened the Surfleet kennels at the beginning of December and prides herself on offering “the Hilton experience for dogs”. Claire’s dad Ray Ellison and her sister Lucy Ellison-Rowe, both work part-time at ...

While I’m no fan of the Church of England, I’m delighted that the Archbishop of Canterbury seems to have echoed my views in The Mail on Sunday (the UKIP hand-sheet) a week after my letter was published in the press. Put simply he believes, as do I, that Britain should have a vision for the world – “a vision of ...

You should vote leave on June 23. Why? We had a choice of jobs before we joined the EU, pay was much better then than now. The only people this benefits is those in business, legal or illegal, with many folk on minimum or less than minimum wage. Most jobs are now only part-time. It may, on paper, show that ...

Young people who have decided to vote “in” at the EU referendum, or who simply can’t be bothered to vote at all, need to think again. It’s your future that’s at stake and taking the advice of self-serving elites who have lined their pockets at the public’s expense is a dangerous game. This country is on the skids with a ...