A Moulton Chapel pub is putting on a free music festival this weekend featuring top local acts and a Beautiful South tribute band. The Jolly Farmer is hosting the event from 4pm on Saturday (June 18). An outdoor stage is being erected to host acts including Spalding-based The Sound Injectors. The high energy band will be bringing their ska, reggae, ...

A new 3G floodlit football pitch and multi-use games area are among new facilities proposed as part of a planned revamp of Spalding’s Castle Sports Complex. South Holland District Council is bidding for £20million bid from the Government’s Levelling Up Fund to invest in the site. The bid is set to include a full remodel of the existing provision at ...

Spalding residents are being urged to get involved with helping curate a new art trail based on a museum’s many items. Transported Arts are currently working with the Spalding Gentlemen’s Society and want to take the museum into the town by incorporating some of its eclectic and international collection in to the trail. Working in partnership with artists Steven Hatton ...

Country singer/song writer Jeff Gallant is bringing his entire band to Gedney Dyke Village Hall this weekend. The Main Street venue continues its run of gigs from the genre on Sunday, June 12. Jeff Gallant is an established singer-songwriter who frequently performs either solo or as a duo. And he’s teaming up with his entire band for the Gedney gig. ...

A Fleet man accused of shoplifting failed to appear for his court hearing on Wednesday. Lee Roberts, 42, is charged with stealing meat products worth £178.81 from Aldi in Spalding onJanuary 31. He was due before Boston Magistrates’ Court. The case was adjourned to July 20 and Roberts, of Washway Road, had his bail extended. The single condition is that ...

Police followed their noses and caught a drug-driver in Spalding. Officers got the waft of cannabis as they followed Brett O’Neill’s Hyundai Kona along Pinchbeck Road. They followed the Sutton St James man turning into Westlode Street and then into a car park behind a nightclub, magistrates in Boston heard on Wednesday. It was about 2.50am on Christmas Eve last ...

Hundreds of people enjoyed Surfleet’s Jubilee celebrations last weekend. Pictures by Ben Chapman.

There was plenty of fun to be had at Holbeach St Marks’ Jubilee celebrations. Pictures by Ben Chapman.

There should be a ‘one-stop shop’ in the area for the public to refer people with mental health issues, a councillor has said. A mask-wearing person terrorising children with a toy gun and a man asking to get in people’s cars were examples given of incidents in South Holland where members of the public had tried to get the individuals ...

South Holland needs to get better at attracting and working with tourists to the area, a councillor has claimed. Coun Rodney Grocock has urged the district council to work with its partners at East Lindsey District Council and Boston Borough Council to ensure it gets better. He made the claims at a meeting of the council’s Executive. “At the Spalding ...

A Holbeach man who thought he’d never return from an invasion scheduled to happen the day World War Two ended has died aged 101. Alan Barkes didn’t believe he’d have made it through the war if the Japanese hadn’t surrendered on what became VJ Day on August 15, 1945. The leading aircraftsman, of the 2810 Parachute Squadron, was onboard a ...

The ‘money pit’ South Holland Centre is in a much better place after last year’s cuts, it’s been claimed, amid an increase in usage in recent months. The recommendations put forward by a task group set up to look at the district’s main arts venue were passed by South Holland District Council’s Executive on Tuesday. The meeting heard that cost ...

A Long Sutton dad who has been campaigning for equal parenting rights has launched a website to help parents get the correct legal advice. Simon Cobb launched PAPA (People Against Parental Alienation) before the pandemic, calling for equality between divorcing parents in terms of children. And he’s looking to help others that are in a similar situation as he was ...

More examples of street art have been appearing in Spalding town centre. One of the most striking is a representation of Tank Man, an unknown person who defiantly blocked tanks in Tiananmen Square, Beijing on June 5 1989, the day after the Chinese government violently ended a demonstration against it there. Edgars Bokans created the image to mark the 33rd ...

The patient group from a Spalding surgery is staging a health and wellbeing event in a bid to give support and advice to all. Beechfield Medical Centre Patient Participation Group (PPG) is a long standing group of patients whose aim is to help and improve services for patients across the local community. The group has been involved in several health ...

The lack of a footbridge over a soon to be expanded busy A16 junction is ‘an accident waiting to happen’, a councillor has claimed. Coun Rob Gibson says he will continue to push for such a pedestrian crossing where the road meets the A151 near Spalding. In June 2021 when Lincolnshire County Council announced it was bidding for £20m of ...

Spalding Lions celebrated their 51st Charter event at The Woodlands Hotel, Spalding. The evening, hosted by President Lion Eileen Robson, was attended by Lions, partners and friends. Invited guests included District Governor Lion David Pope and his wife Claire, past District Governor Michael Phillips and his wife Patricia, Zone Chair Lynne Roberts and Rotary Club President for Spalding and Welland ...

A local charity is set to open its new hub in Holbeach. Tonic Health has been providing much needed services for a number of years through its Spalding and Long Sutton bases and Tonic 44 cafe in Surfleet. This week it’s set to open its latest centre in Boston Road South. It will host extensions of many of the groups ...

1st Spalding Boys’ Brigade and 2nd Spalding Girls’ Brigade recently held their celebration evening and presentation of awards at Spalding Baptist Church with a jubilee theme. Relatives and church members joined in some royal-themed quizzes and games before all the members were presented with badges and awards gained during the year. These included the Queen’s Badge, the highest award in ...

Pupils at Spalding’s St John’s Primary School have been fundraising for the Lily Foundation again. A non-uniform day which saw children go to school dressed in anything you would see in the sky raised £1,054. There was music related to flying at the gates and the children were able to make a donation if they wished. The following day staff ...