A planned new diagnostic service could have a branch in Spalding, but there’s concern stroke and orthopaedic services are moving further away. Lincolnshire Clinical Commissioning Group is looking at creating a second Diagnostic Centre in the county in addition to the one currently in Grantham. The idea behind them is that people could get a quicker diagnosis from tests done ...

A historic vehicle pulled from the Crowland mud will get its second public outing this weekend at a special event to mark flooding in the area. The Buffalo 47 landing craft was put in the earth as part of a dam to halt the 1947 flood. But in 2021 it was pulled out of the field by Crowland farmer Daniel ...

With more than 100 resident birds staying, a Holbeach charity is having a very busy time of it. Waddles only opened its doors in May of last year, but word has spread and currently the charity is working hard to ensure as many birds as possible can be returned to the wild. Along with 16 ducklings, who arrived from a ...

The door has opened to a new era at South Holland charity Tonic Health. With bases in Spalding and Long Sutton and Cafe 44 in Surfleet, it had been providing help and services across the district. Lord Taylor of Holbeach cuts the ribbon (above) with Michael Morris. A new hub has now opened in Holbeach, on Boston Road South, and ...

Roll up, roll up, make haste and delay ye not, for the Holbeach Medieval Festival is close at hand. On July 2 and 3 the town is going back in time as part of a host of free fun for the family. Living encampments are set to bring the period to life with events held throughout the church grounds and ...

Scottish duo James ‘n’ Wood are heading down to Gedney Dyke for this Sunday’s helping of country music. Steve James and Martin Coulson are from Glasgow but appeared at festivals throughout the country. The pair will be backed by Ed Cox. Doors open at 1.30pm for a 2.30pm start. To book a seat ring Mary 01406 362782.

Over 30 albums, well over 4,000 gigs and 20+ singles and EPs later, The Blues Band train is finally pulling into the sidings, but not until after their final tour steams into Spalding. It is now 42 years since five experienced musicians, no strangers to the pop charts of the 60s and 70s, decided they’d ignore the cultural slurry of ...

There’s a film for everyone at the South Holland Centre this week. If you’re looking for a Norse action packed epic, The Northman (15) is showing tonight (Thursday) from 7.30pm. The film with an all-star cast including Alexander Skarsgard, Nicole Kidman and Willem Dafoe follows a Viking prince’s quest to avenge his father’s murder. Want something a bit more twisted? ...

Parkinson’s UK Spalding and District Branch’s latest meeting was a right royal celebration. The group put on a jubilee party to celebrate the Queen’s 70 years on the throne. Entertainment was by the Dream Belles who sang a set of 50s classics following by ABBA hits and couple of patriotic songs too. There was an afternoon tea provided by Beverley’s ...

Spalding’s Armed Forces Day parade returned for the first time since 2019 on Tuesday. Led by standard bearers and bikers and including veterans and dignitaries, the parade marched through Hall Place into Market Place in a show of support for those serving the country. Among those involved also were the Police Mini Cadets from Spalding Primary School and members of ...

A “car-mad” father of two was killed when a vehicle he was working under fell off jacks and crushedhim. James McKenna, 47, was in the rear garden of his home in Hospital Drove, Long Sutton. It’s believed the Ford Ka shifted sideways when he used force with a spanner. An inquest hearing in Boston on Tuesday (June 21) was held ...

An elderly man was assaulted and had his walking stick stolen on his doorstep, Lincolnshire Police have said. The force has released an image of a man they would like to question in relation to the incident which happened around 1.25pm on The Parkway in Spalding on Saturday, June 18. A spokesman for Lincolnshire Police, said: “Around 1:25pm on Saturday ...

A 60-year-old man from Sutton Bridge is the first to be prosecuted for fly-tipping in South Holland in two-years following a public tip off. Martin Salter of Wright’s Lane is £3,038 out of pocket after dumping seven used vehicle tyres in Centenary Way on November 25, 2021. South Holland District Council carried out the prosecution after the fly-tipping was spotted ...

Fire crews were called out to a blaze at a Spalding home today (Saturday, June 18). Fire fighters from Holbeach and Spalding attended the incident on Roman Bank reported around 2.20pm this afternoon. A spokesman for Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue said the fire had damaged a kitchen and its contents, but that nobody had been reported injured. The fire was ...

A wide range of groups have been left looking for a new meeting place as a popular Spalding venue is taken under county council control. For almost 40 years, the Ivo Day Centre on Albion Street has been a safe haven for groups ranging from addiction support to mental health services. Now building owner Lincolnshire County Council has given the ...

Officers have highlighted actions it’s proposed to improve Spalding, including ‘positive steps’ having been made towards the possible creation of a Business Improvement District. The Spalding Town Centre Improvement Group and South Holland District Council work was outlined to the town’s forum last week. Other work included encouraging a clean up of the outside of the Bet Fred building and ...

A Holbeach St Marks woman is in Ukraine to witness the effect of the ‘community miracle’ that is South Holland’s help for the country. Mandy Baxter stopped working as a reablement carer in March after her Boxes of Hope got bigger. It’s become a huge operation at the Anglia Motel in Fleet helping collect, sort and organise delivery of much ...

New benches have been put in place outside Spalding station to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. South Holland District Council leader Gary Porter and councillors Gary Taylor and Glynis Scalese used their allocated ward budgets to purchase the specially crafted designs that replace old, worn benches. The new benches were installed by Coun Jack Tyrrell and Ivan Thompson with Jan ...

A village could look at installing CCTV cameras after several recent vandalism incidents, including graffiti on gravestones and the ruining of a junior football team’s goals. The only recently installed new play area in Pinchbeck was also graffitied on in recent days. And the parish council chairman Coun James Avery said it would look at options including CCTV. “It is ...

There are calls for two hours’ free parking to be introduced amid the setting up of a group to look at ‘public space use’ in Spalding town centre. Councillor Christine Lawton argued that would help stop people breaching the Traffic Regulation Order (TRO) which is meant to ban vehicles from Market Place and Hall Place from 10am to 4pm Monday ...