One of the UK’s most renowned singers is coming to Spalding. Soprano Lesley Garrett will be wowing audiences at the South Holland Centre on Friday, June 17. A graduate of the Royal Academy of Music and National Opera Studio, she’s performed across the world with her amazing voice leading to widespread recognition. She’ll be telling plenty of those tales in ...

The South Holland Centre is getting into the Jubilee spirit by showing two Queen related films this weekend. ‘Elizabeth: A Portrait in Parts’ will be showing from Friday June 3 to Sunday June 5. It’s a unique and inventive feature length documentary about the life of Queen Elizabeth II. A spokesman for the South Holland Centre said: “Directed by the ...

Peacocks have returned to Spalding, partly thanks to a 90-year-old resident. The birds were once a regular sight in Ayscoughfee Gardens. Now a Spalding family have picked up two from a rescue centre and are re-introducing them. Anthony Grunwell and his mum Anne have been looking after the pair named after her parents Billy and Peggy letting them out after ...

Lincolnshire Trading Standards is investigating after reports of a company touting for business by claiming to be working for the county’s highways team. Lincolnshire County Council say there’s been reports of scammers offering to carry out work on private land because they claim to have tarmac leftover from other jobs. They then send what the authority said was a large ...

The war memorabilia of a Dunkirk and Burma war veteran is being sought after it was stolen from a Spalding home. The family of John Corcoran have been devastated after his medals and service books were taken from a home on The Parkway. Between 11am and 12pm, thieves broke in by smashing the glass on the backdoor of the property, ...

A man who drunk drove his girlfriend helmetless on the back of a motorcycle stolen from a Spalding home is now living in a Pinchbeck tent as a result, a court has heard. Anthony Taylor, 28, admitted taking the vehicle, driving it with excess alcohol and without insurance or driving licence and not wearing a helmet. His partner, Sarah McCourt, ...

There’s to be overnight closures for three South Holland roundabouts on the A16 during June. Lincolnshire County Council says it’s finishing work at the junction with the A151 in Spalding started last year as well as fixing work previously carried out on the roundabouts at Cowbit and Crowland which Coun Richard Davies says ‘don’t meet the stringent quality requirements we ...

The Castle Sports Complex could be set for a multi-million pound makeover, if South Holland District Council are successful with a government bid.The authority has announced it’s bidding for £20 million as part of the government’s Levelling Up fund. An SHDC spokesman said: “The ambitious plans would seek to remodel the site to create a new and improved offer focused ...

Work on the Cross Keys crossing at Sutton Bridge is ’beyond the halfway mark’ Lincolnshire County Council has said ahead of work pausing for the Jubilee weekend. Temporary traffic lights are set to be take down on Wednesday June 1 before returning the following Monday. The council also says its finished its overnight road closures. A spokesman for Lincolnshire County ...

South Holland residents who aren’t already on the waiting list for the district’s garden waste scheme are being urged to come forward after a third truck hit the roads earlier this month. The new lorry means 5,000 more homes can be on the scheme, taking the total in the district to 15,000. South Holland District Council says it’s in the ...

A long-standing council officer was moved to tears after announcing his departure to care for his daughter, a nurse who is being treated for a rare form of cancer. Mark Stinson told a recent meeting of South Holland District Council his daughter Hannah and six-month old granddaughter Summer Rose were his priority after a tumultuous few months. The 27-year-old nurse ...

South Holland and the Deepings MP Sir John Hayes has urged others to ‘Plant a Tree for the Jubilee’ at the blessing of a canopy in her name. Around 70 trees have been planted on land off Goodison Road in Spalding as part of the Queen’s Green Canopy. Organised by Jan Whitbourn, the trees were purchased with help from a ...

South Holland has the highest level of loneliness in the county, according to government figures. More than 12 per cent of the adult population said they ‘often or always’ felt lonely, the Office for National Statistics survey has revealed. North Kesteven has the lowest rate at 1.7 per cent, West Lindsey was 12.1 per cent and Boston 4.2 per cent. ...

Holbeach is set to welcome back its community minibus as a new committee has taken up the reins. The bus was available to hire at reasonable rates for community use, but a combination of the pandemic and lack of committee members saw the service come to an end. Supporter Martin Howard was keen to see the service reinstated and approached ...

Those organising Moulton’s jubilee celebrations have been quizzing the village’s children about what they want to see. Members of the committee organising numerous events in the village recently went to the John Harrox Primary School and Moulton Preschool to discuss the jubilee celebrations in the village with the children. They talked about the painting competition that all the school and ...

The children and staff of Spalding’s Ayscoughfee Hall School have enjoyed learning about how to keep their mind and body healthy as part of their Wellbeing Week. The initiative began with a warm welcome and smiles from the Year 6 children who took on the daily role of morning greeters. Throughout the week the children took part in mindfulness and ...

A local art group’s first exhibition in a while proved a big hit. Spalding Arts and Craft Society decked out the town’s library with some of its recent creations. And the feedback was positive as the club looks to hold another one this coming September. The club’s chair Maggie Goodsell said: “It proved very popular with quite a few paintings ...

I am a council tenant living in what was once sheltered accommodation, not now but we still have to pay £5.90 per week. This is for the intensive housing management service at a higher level than supplied to our general needs tenants (their words, not mine), three weeks to fix leaking tap, over two months to see why damp ceiling ...

My recent stay in the Sheep Market car park cost me £26. £1 was the money I put in the ticket machine without receiving a ticket, the rest was for not displaying the non-issued ticket. In response to the penalty notice stuck on the car, I sent a challenge as below: “I challenge the above (penalty) notice for the following ...

Following the unwanted Persimmon and Ashwood developments on the old High Road in Weston village we are now faced with heavy loaded construction traffic delivering and removing materials to the sites. This is in reality only a B rated road for local car type vehicles. When the bypass was constructed it was designed and intended for heavy vehicles traffic to ...