A host of local organisations and groups came together to talk about health and wellbeing. Gabfest, a special event held by Tonic Health, comprised of speakers from several local organisations, alongside an information marketplace. Participants included Rachel Booth, of Carers First Lincolnshire; Katy Gale, of Lincolnshire Community and Voluntary Service; health and wellbeing coaches from Munro and Beechfield medical centres, ...

Fleet Art and Gift Fayre is returning this month thanks to two stall holders. The event has been running at St Mary Magdelene Church for 15 years but due to the youngest volunteer being 70 and eldest being 92, discussions were held not to run it again. However Julie Turner of Pandora’s Box has teamed up with Caroline Sullivan who ...

A councillor has urged more Spalding businesses to open later and on Sundays. Coun Gary Taylor has urged more businesses to extend their opening hours so the town can compete with others. “People can go to religious events as well as going shopping,” he told the Spalding Town Forum last week about Sunday opening. “I believe there’s an opportunity to ...

This week’s featured person bidding to be the Ambassador for the Spalding Flower Parade is 22-year-old practice nurse Imogen Woolf. Imogen has lived in Moulton her entire life and after previously being a district nurse in Spalding now works in Market Deeping. She’s involved with groups such as Bounce Spalding, Polka Dot Dance Academy and Spalding Young Farmers’ Club. She’s ...

A councillor says her family history is helping inspire her involvement with the Pride of South Holland Awards. Coun Elizabeth Sneath has been a long-time supporter of the even which returns on Sunday, March 5, 2023. This year she’s sponsoring the Service With A Smile award which is something close to her heart.Elizabeth said: “I am looking forward to sponsoring ...

An exhibition of work by Spalding Arts and Crafts Society has been hailed a success ahead of the next meeting for members. The group has been displaying work in Spalding Library recently and it provided plenty of interest. A spokesman said: “Once again it was very successful. “Many thanks to the people who bought paintings.” Malcolm Cudmore is the guest ...

One of the best Elton John tribute bands around is rocketing into Spalding on Friday, October 28 to raise money for a local charity. Elton and the Rocket Band get the legendary singer-songwriter’s approval having even performed at his mum’s 80th birthday. The visit to the South Holland Centre is a fundraiser for the Tulip Suite Hospice that provides end ...

A man has been left with serious head injuries after an assault in Spalding town centre in the early hours of this morning (Tuesday, October 25). A 36-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of GBH following the incident in Holland Market shortly after 3am. A spokesman for Lincolnshire Police said: “We are appealing for information after a man was ...

Two people from Crowland have been arrested following a hit and run that killed a man in his 30s. The man was walking along a footpath when hit by a vehicle on Paston Ridings in Peterborough at 8.30am yesterday (Thursday, October 20). Today Cambridgeshire Police said two people had been arrested. A 45-year-old man from Crowland has been arrested on ...

The St Nicolas Players really took on a challenge this year! After Covid forced a last minute reschedule of their previous play, Spirit Level, from January to August, St Nics had only seven weeks to cast and rehearse this ‘monster’ of a play by Norman Robbins. With a cast of 10, A Tomb with a View takes you into the ...

A terminally ill woman has turned to crowd funding after having no heating for 18 months at her South Holland home. Lisa Hartley (45), has clinically died 11 times amid a series of health scares, but her oil boiler broke 18 months ago and she can’t afford to repair it. She and her carer Rob Flatters also had no hot ...

A Holbeach care home is offering free coffee to emergency workers. The Blue Light Coffee Stop has been set up at Holbeach Meadows on Daisy Road which itself only opened in August. Home manager Debbie Holman says staff from blue light services can call in for a coffee whenever they pass by, day or night. “We all highly value the ...

Spalding town’s Christmas tree is guaranteed some extra sparkle this year thanks to help from the local Lithuanian community. Around 450 people are associated with the community around Spalding and members have offered to brighten-up the town’s Christmas tree when it goes up in Hall Place. Spalding town’s forum received a letter from the Linden Community offering to hand-make decorations. ...

Local charities are coming together to collect goods over the next two weeks to help the district’s homeless. Ella’s Project has joined with St Barnabas Hospice shop and St Thomas Project for two weeks from Saturday. Donations of duvets, blankets, sleeping bags and warm winter coats for teenagers and adults can be left at two venues over the next fortnight. ...

A Holbeach man reported by his employer for driving to work when banned told a court he did so as he lived ‘in the middle of nowhere’. Samuel Wheeler, 21, of Station Road, who admitted driving while disqualified and without insurance, told police that he had driven to work on August 22 because he had no-one who could drive him ...

A 31-year-old Sutton Bridge man found drunk in the driver’s seat of his stationery car while banned from driving has been fined. Ernestas Montvydas of Granville Terrace, who admitted the offence, was found by police in RavensBank, Holbeach on October 2. It was said he was slumped in the driving seat of his Ford S Max with the exterior and ...

A Spalding man drunkenly assaulted two police offers after recently completing an alcohol abstinence monitoring order, a court has heard. Tiberiu-Lucian Grozav, 34, of Lancelot Way, admitted the assault when he appeared atBoston Magistrates Court. The magistrates heard that at 2am on October 2, two officers were sent to investigate the report of a manassaulted in the town centre and ...

Saturday, May 13, 2023 is the new date for the Spalding Flower Parade. King Charles III’s Coronation on the original date of May 5 left chief organiser Steve Timewell with little option but to move the date after he’d contacted key stakeholders. The potential for a celebration alongside the crowning had been mooted but he told a meeting of the ...

A consultation has been launched over a potential new wind farm which could be connected to current infrastructure in South Holland. Outer Dowsing Offshore Wind Farm is consulting with the public over its plans. The wind turbines themselves will be 54km off the coast north east of Skegness, though the underground cables could connect to the existing overhead line circuits ...

Around 500 staff at the Spalding site of Bakkavor are expected to go out on strike from November 1 for a week. A ballot by union Unite saw an ‘overwhelming’ vote to take strike action after a pay deal could not be agreed. Negotiations over pay broke down and the conciliation service ACAS called in. Members of Unite were balloted ...