Moving on from last week’s edition this week we are concentrating on cruising with couples in mind. At Holiday With Us & Spalding Travel we search independently for the best prices for our clients. We are able to match online prices and offers through various reader publications. So when you have a date and a destination in mind, call or ...

I have recently seen your post over social media about the complaints on the pool temperature and cleanliness. I pay monthly for a gym membership with 1Life and when I signed up was pleased that swimming was included, that didn’t last long! The pool is always freezing cold, and pool sides not very clean. I have two young children, we ...

After reading your article “Network Rail not interested in talks with town forum” (September 17) it’s clear they are a law unto their own and the managers spin the same line. I complained about noise in the middle of the night with goods trains and got a similar response. It’s clear they have no thoughts for the public and I ...

On behalf of the Committee of the Holbeach Town and Country Fayre I wish to offer our most sincere thanks to everybody who made this year’s event the success it was both in terms of people attending plus their positive feedback afterwards. I would like to offer grateful thanks to Ashley King for the kind use of his field and ...

Following your article “Swimmers claim water at Spalding is too cool” (September 17). Yes, I find the water too cold far too often in the main pool. Whether the water in the learner pool is at the right temperature or not, I find it is too cold for little ones. I question who decides what the temperature should be. But, ...

A brain tumour sufferer has raised £1,041.52 for the hospital caring for her. Alice Prior (20), of Spalding, did a tandem skydive back in June and last week presented a cheque to staff at the neurosurgery department at Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham. Alice was diagnosed with the tumour, which is currently dormant, in April last year. She said: “It is ...

A man has been taken to hospital after apparently falling 30ft from a roof in Spalding. The accident happened at about 10am on Tuesday (September 22) at a property near the swimming pool site at Castle Sports Complex in Pinchbeck Road. It’s believed the man was working on a roof at the time. The Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance landed on Castle Field and ...

Italia in Piazza, the real Italian food market comes to Spalding on Sunday. The market will be held in Sheepmarket from 10am to 4pm. The Italian Piazza Market sells real Italian food from genuine Italians, all served with a smile, including some of the best cured meats and cheese you will ever taste. If you are a real “foodie”, you ...

If your children are looking for something fun and exciting to keep them occupied on a Saturday morning, then the “Alien Orchestra” could be the answer. Held weekly at St Margaret’s Hall, Quadring, the workshops run from Saturday, September 26 to December 19 and give youngsters the chance to learn to play tuned percussion and perform in the orchestra, along ...

TODAY South Holland Healthy Walks, 10.30am, Holbeach Services Club. Meet your Health Trainer, 9am-4pm, Sutton Bridge Community Centre, 07532 236616. Holbeach and Spalding Explorers: Spalding, 7pm-9pm; Holbeach 7.15pm-9.15pm, 14 to 18-year-olds, www.handsscouts.com Tots and Carers, 9am-11.30am, Moulton Village Hall. Vitality classes, Broad Street Methodist Church Hall, Spalding, 11.30am-12.30pm and 1.45pm-2.45pm; Weston Village Hall, 2pm-3pm, £1.50, 01529 411941. Vibe Contemporary Youth ...

The annual Fenland Working Weekend takes place in Branches Lane, Fleet, this Saturday and Sunday. This popular event, held near Holbeach, attracts many tractors with farming machinery plus many farming enthusiasts who are able to take their tractors and machines along to plough and cultivate the fields in the traditional way. The event is open to both exhibitors and those ...

South Holland Centre, Spalding Box office: 01775 764777 Mari Wilson Tomorrow (Friday), 8pm ACT II Theatre Company presents Elton John and Tim Rice’s Aida Wednesday, 7.30pm Blackfriars Arts Centre, Boston Box office: 01205 363108 Broad Horizons Theatre Company presents Edith Cavell – Facing the Silence Today (Thursday), 7.30pm Dance Krazy – Celebrate 35 Years of Dance Saturday, 7pm & Sunday, ...

Lutton Autumn Show takes place on Saturday at the village hall. Organised by Sneath’s Mill Trust the show runs from 2pm to 4.30pm. This fun, informal event aims to celebrate the quality of local crafts and produce, while bringing people together for a fun afternoon. Entries are to be staged from 9.30am to 11am and there are certificates for each ...

The Fenland and Spalding Model Club holds its annual Wings and Things Show at the weekend. The show is on Sunday from 10am to 4pm, at Spalding High School, Stonegate, Spalding. Admission is £2 for adults and £1 for children and OAPs, with all proceeds this year going to the Spalding Hospice Foundation. Model clubs from around the country will ...

A charity lunch raised more than £1,000 for Holbeach United Community Sports Academy. The event, which was held at Chameli Tandoori Restaurant, saw around 60 people attend. Rafique Miah, who owns the restaurant in St John’s Street, Holbeach, provided a two-course Sunday lunch at Holbeach Community Centre, with all the proceeds going to support the first Holbeach Music and Beer ...

More than £9,000 was raised for the new Holbeach United Community Sports Academy thanks to the First Holbeach Music and Beer Festival. Event organiser Sean Taylor said: “I wanted to create a great family fun weekend for the local community to enjoy complete with attractions including Roger Tuby Funfair, inflatables, outdoor games, hot food vendors, ice-creams, crazy golf course, 36 ...

Following a successful food festival, we are now looking forward to events leading up to Christmas. This coming Sunday will see the second visit to the town of the Italian Piazza Market being held on the Sheep Market between 10am and 4pm, and will have 16 speciality stalls selling high quality Mediterranean foods including; freshly made Italian breads, olives, Salumi ...

We are currently in the process of writing a book about the history of 2nd Spalding Guide company which was formed in 1915. If anyone has any information or photographs about the unit that they would be prepared to lend, please contact me on 01775 769729. Jane Amess Pinchbeck

Despite an article in the Spalding Guardian (September 3) and an invitation to the people of Holbeach, not one person attended the Holbeach and District Community Vehicle Committee AGM in the town council office on September 9. This lack of interest, despite the article explaining the difficulties the management committee has been experiencing, is extremely disappointing. The Holbeach and District ...

Pressures of the job have lead to the resignation of the headteacher at the Peele Community College. Simon Gilman, who has been head of the school for three years, may return as a business studies teacher in the new year. In a statement published on the Peele Community College’s website, the board of governors said: “It is with regret the ...