A fitness instructor is to hold a two-hour charity exercise session helping animals in Ukraine. Helen Lea, who lives in Whaplode Drove, is looking to raise money for Animals of Ukraine at the event at the WI Hall on Park Road in Holbeach from 2pm on Saturday, May 14. She says she’s already raised over £11,000 for a number of ...

A charity concert is being held to celebrate the lives of two Pinchbeck men. Let’s Celebrate will be held at Pinchbeck St Mary’s Church on Thursday, April 28 as part of the village’s returning Flower Festival. The concern is being held in memory of choir master John Bland and Rev Paul Hardingham. The John Bland Memorial Choir is organising the ...

There’s delight for local bird watchers as common cranes at a South Holland nature reserve have new chicks. The birds bred for the first time in the Lincolnshire Fens in around 400 years in 2020. They returned to Willow Tree Fen near Tongue End in 2021, but the chicks died that year following a spell of bad weather. This year ...

A wanted man climbed on a roof and threw bricks at police officers during a stand off yesterday. Several roads around Gosberton Risegate were closed by Lincolnshire Police after they attempted to arrest the 19-year-old around 3.30pm yesterday (Tuesday, April 12). He was wanted in connection with an alleged assault that took place on April 9. Nearby roads were closed. ...

A man who got into a car drunk and then nearly collided with a police car has been banned from driving for more than three years. Officers were patrolling Wellington Street, Peterborough, in a marked police car at 9pm on 17 December last year, when a Ford Fiesta being driven by Daniel Taylor pulled out at a junction in front ...

A motorcyclist has sustained serious injuries in an incident involving a car on the A17 at Saracen’s Head this afternoon. The road is currently closed between Peppermint Roundabout and the junction of Washway Road following the collision between a motorcycle and a Vauxhall Astra reported at 3.07pm today (Monday, April 11). A spokesman for Lincolnshire Police, said: “The A17 at ...

A Holbeach woman has appeared in court on charges including four assaults on police officers. Rebecca Duggan (27) is also accused of failing to provide a breath sample in the same incident at King’s Lynn on March 11. She entered not guilty pleas to those five charges. Duggan, of Market Rasen Way, admitted to two further offences – possession of ...

Traffic controls around the Cross Keys Bridge will be eased at Easter ahead of overnight closures in May, Lincolnshire County Council say in an update on the works being carried out. Temporary traffic lights are currently in place at the Sutton Bridge crossing over the River Nene which acts as the main route between Lincolnshire and Norfolk. Lincolnshire County Council ...

A teenager has appeared in Boston Youth Court on an allegation of rape on a boy of seven. The teenager, who was 13 at the time of the alleged offence in June last year, cannot be named for legal reasons. He pleaded not guilty to the charge alleged to have taken place in the South Holland area. District Judge Peter ...

A Spalding family who are travelling to America every three-months for life enhancing treatment for their five-year-old are looking to raise awareness of the condition he suffers with. Swaley Webb was diagnosed with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, a debilitating disease which means a genetic condition which means his muscles are weakening as he gets older. His mum and dad Ben and ...

A single theme and updated furniture for three areas of Spalding is being drawn up in a bid to ‘future-proof’ the town. The junctions of Bridge Street and Double Street, Swan Street and New Road as well as Hall Place have been ear-marked as potential places to invest by the Town Centre Improvement Steering Group. South Holland District Council is ...

Problems with export red tape after Brexit has seen one South Holland company stop exporting daffodil blooms to Dutch markets. Lord Taylor of Holbeach told the House of Lords that shipping the flowers out in time for the next day’s markets was ‘now totally impossible,’ as a result of red tape . “Through plant health regulations and customs requirements we ...

Moulton has been given a spring clean by a group of volunteers. Residents from Moulton, Moulton Seas End and Moulton Chapel turned out to support a The Big Spring Clean-up which was organised by the parish council on Saturday, April 2. Moulton Parish Council chair Coun Andrew Woolf said: “This was the first litter pick of the year. It was ...

The Big Climate Fightback is coming to Deeping St Nicholas as part of a community group’s revamped open space to mark The Queen’s Jubilee. Deeping St Nicholas Gardening Club is in the process of improving the area of land off St Nicholas Way known as The Triangle. A sensory garden, designed in association with the charity Sense, and a wildflower ...

Holbeach Co-Op has been named the Gold Pharmacy Branch of the Year. It was named as a joint winner alongside Heckington and Birchwood in Lincoln as part of Lincolnshire Co-Op’s Awards Week. The award is “for the incredible standard of services provided and persevering through the challenges faced through COVID-19,” a spokesman for the company said. Imran Datoo, manager at ...

Jules Verne’s character, Phileas Fogg managed to circumnavigate the world in 80 days, however Students at Spalding Grammar School have managed to do the same distance in just under 31 days. Throughout the month of March, students, parents, staff and friends of the school were encouraged to walk, run, cycle and row around the world in the new virtual challenge ...

A Pinchbeck family are among 170 in Lincolnshire set to take in families fleeing the war in Ukraine. The Ruddle family are set to welcome a mum and her two children aged 11 and five to stay with them as part of the Homes for Ukraine scheme after they fled their home in the south of the country following the ...

Another planning application has been submitted for a 5G telephone mast in Spalding. Initial proposals to construct a 20m and then a 15m pole on the junction of Wygate Park and Claudette Avenue were refused. After two refusals, the company is now submitting plans for a ‘super slimline monopole’ of 15m. The applicant, CK Hutchinson for the Three network said ...

It’s a cafe with a difference and it’s making a big one to people’s mental health in Spalding. The Night Light Cafe is a brilliant collection of individuals, all with their own inspiring stories who are helping each other. It’s bring run by Tonic Health from their Westlode Street base from 4pm to 7pm on Mondays and Thursdays with the ...

A new group of the Rotary Network has been started and it met for the first time recently. Holbeach and The Suttons (pictured above) combines business networking and community service and it received the congratulations of district governor David Morris. The founding members voted on options for meeting frequency and structure and selected to meet online once a month with ...