Police are appealing for information regarding an incident that saw a 69-year-old woman get trapped under a bus. The incident occurred in Winfrey Avenue, Spalding at around 6pm on Thursday, December 22 with the woman having to be cut out from under the vehicle by fire crews. She suffered serious injuries though police now say they’re non life-threatening. In a ...

A 54-year-old man has died after a collision with a lorry near Deeping St Nicholas this morning (Saturday, December 24). Lincolnshire Police say the man was pronounced dead at the scene following the incident on the A1175 between Hop Pole and Deeping St Nicholas at 11.17am this morning. The man was pronounced dead at the scene. and his next of ...

A road between Hop Pole and Deeping St Nicholas is closed today (Saturday, December 24) after what police called a serious collision involving a lorry and a pedestrian. The public are being asked to avoid the A1175 following the incident reported at 11.15am. A spokesman for Lincolnshire Police, said: ”We are on scene at a serious collision between a lorry ...

A man has denied a charge of murder following a fire at a house near Spalding. Samuel Church, 36, of Acacia Avenue in Spalding pleaded not guilty to the murder of Vincent Markham when he appeared at Lincoln Crown Court this morning (Friday, December 23). He also denied two other charges of attempting to pervert the course of public justice ...

A new crime team has been set up for the east of Lincolnshire, with one of its first jobs having been to find two missing children in the Spalding area. Lincolnshire Police’s Neighbourhood Tasking Team aims to tackle the highest harm crime areas including County Lines, missing people and wanted persons. The team of one sergeant and six PCs was ...

A woman had to be cut from under a bus after an incident in Spalding last night. Spalding Fire Crew were called to the incident on Winfrey Avenue shortly after 6pm pm on Thursday (December 22). A fire spokesman said that a woman had been cut out and given casualty care. Police say the woman was taken to hospital with ...

The death of a 19-year-old ‘life of the party’ this week has led to her friends looking to raise awareness of the symptoms of sepsis. Holly May Maxwell, of Spalding, died in the early hours of Monday morning, hours after being admitted to hospital. Her friends say she was initially diagnosed with flu, and then days later was sent to ...

A man has appeared in court on numerous charges relating to a road traffic collision that killed a Whaplode Drove woman. Amy Cooper died as a result of injuries sustained in the incident on New River Gate, Holbeach on November 13. Shane Kelk has appeared at Lincoln Magistrates Court charged with causing death by dangerous driving, causing death while driving ...

More than £3,000 has been raised after a father who recently turned 40 was killed in a road accident on Friday. Andrius Toliunas was driving to his Sutton Bridge home from work at the town’s Bakkavor factory because he’d left his lunch at home. His Vauxhall Meriva collided with a lorry at 9.22am on Centenary Way and he died. He ...

A gang of would-be shoplifters was foiled after a mum and daughter spotted what they were up to in a Holbeach supermarket. Gill Jellyman and her daughter Esther were in Tesco on Saturday when they noticed a group of three people behaving strangely. “The man in front of us had a trolley full of goods and was signalling to a ...

The generosity of the public will make Christmas a much nicer time for those in need as the Give a Gift campaign celebrates another successful year. Spearheaded by Coun Harry Drury, Give a Gift has passed on donated toys to less fortunate children for the last 11 years. This year we teamed up with Mark Le Sage, founder of Ella’s ...

A forklift truck has been donated to a South Holland charity to help its humanitarian aid for Ukraine. Boxes of Hope was formed when Russia invaded and has been working ever since to send aid to the country. Toyota Material Handling has donated a forklift to help the charity move goods around the warehouse and load the lorries with vital ...

Spalding St Paul’s choir has been busy in the run up to Christmas. The group kicked off the festivities by singing at the Spalding Town Christmas Celebrations. An amazing turn out of support heard renditions of Away in a Manager and We Wish You a Merry Christmas. They also visited Ayscoughfee Hall to sing at the chairman of South Holland ...

I have observed complaints in your letters page that the law favours cyclists, a subset of whom are not sufficiently careful on the roads. The motorists who complain thus aren’t alone in wanting a change to the law. Surely it’s time something was done to discourage the abuse suffered by cyclists from occupants of motorised vehicles as they (often inappropriately) ...

The judges of the Long Sutton Christmas window competition should have gone to Specsavers first. The first and second winners are beautifully done, as are many other shop windows. The third prize, awarded to William H. Brown, seems to have missed Christmas altogether, merely displaying a few dismal gold stars. Rather demoralising for those who tried so hard. Sue MasonStation ...

Phillip James describes the many people involved in strikes at present as ‘left wing’ – evidently an automatic condemnation for him. I have a feeling that it’s not only left-wingers that are involved, and even some Conservative MPs have been critical of the government’s lack of engagement with the nurses. Up to the early 1980s, governments of both persuasions found ...

Wow there are a large amount of cyclists on the road with no lights. This is crazy! How can the rules of the new highway code about drivers giving priority to cyclists be enforced when many cyclists will not comply with the rules themselves? Making it even worse is when the street lights are out it’s virtually impossible to see ...

A local couple have presented £1,450 to charity thanks to a Northern Soul night. Wayne and Sharon Turner, of Long Sutton, put on the night for end-of-life charity Marie Curie. The event last month was hosted free of charge by Debbie Rose, at Churchill’s Community Pub, with a donation from Alice and Ned Hoey, of Sutton Park Holiday Park, covering ...

Council tax bills across South Holland look set for sharp rises after one parish council put its share up 26 per cent citing concerns over ‘astronomical’ utility costs. Holbeach Parish Council voted through the increase which would mean a Band D property would pay £88.29 a year to the authority, up from £70 last year. Locally the council tax you ...

Entries for Festive Pets have been arriving thick and fast and are now closed for 2022. The winners of this year’s competition will win vouchers from Birchgrove Garden Centre – £50 for first, £30 for second and £20 for third place. Fluff the cat lives in Spalding with the Bell family and is believed to be around 8 years-old.Elliot the ...