A 27-year-old man has appeared in court in Boston on allegations of sexual activity with a 15-year-old girl in Spalding. Andrew Geeson, of St Margarets, Quadring, entered no pleas to charges alleging penetrative and nonpenetrative sexual activity with the girl between October 2018 and September 2019, as well sexualactivity with a child aged 15-17 whilst in a position of trust ...

For the next three lunch times a Spalding food bank is collecting donations of clothes, nappies or wet wipes to be delivered to Ukrainian refugees. The Agape Food Bank, which is based at The Lighthouse church on Haverfield Road, is opening its doors from 12pm to 2pm today (Tuesday March 8), tomorrow and Thursday. A volunteer from the food bank ...

A Pinchbeck man who attempted to engage in sexual conversations with three people he thought were under-age girls was today (Monday) jailed for 16 months. Jason Hildred, 48, of Walpole Close in Pinchbeck, was also ordered to register as a sex offender for ten years and made the subject of a sexual harm prevention order. Lincoln Crown Court heard Hildred ...

A Spalding man strapped a folding chair to the roof of his van and drove people around on top of the vehicle, a court has heard Jordan Ford, 22, of Everard Road in Spalding, has been given a suspended prison sentence and banned from driving for 18 months following a charge of dangerous driving for an incident which took place ...

A drop in COVID-19 vaccination session is in Spalding this Saturday while the main centre in Boston is being repaired after storm damage. Jabs will be available to those eligible at Broad Street Methodist Church from 10am to 4pm. Storm Eunice caused considerable damage across the entire country, including at PRSA Mass Vaccination Centre, Boston, where it damaged the roof ...

A mum says her teenaged son’s life was saved by a Spalding surgery after a hospital missed his cancer diagnosis. Sam Clark was just 17 when, on leave from Army training, he discovered a lump in his neck which turned out to be stage four Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. But that was only diagnosed after intervention from concerned doctors at the Spalding ...

Bus services in the county are set to be radically shaken-up with plans for electric or hydrogen cell vehicles carrying passengers. And the popular Call Connect service could be used to transport non-emergency patients on behalf of the NHS. The Local Bus Strategy outlines plans for a ‘green bus revolution’ designed to reduce emissions and encourage passengers. “Zero-emission buses are ...

The Spalding Festival organising committee in 2019.

Blood donor Terry Day has made his 100th donation more than 50 years after his first. Terry was ‘encouraged’ to donate while serving with the Royal Navy at HMS Drake in October 1971. He still has the original certificate issued at the time. Now a member of the Spalding Royal Naval Association Branch, he travelled to Bourne Corn Exchange to ...

South Holland is bottom of the pile when it comes to recycling rates in the county. A survey using figures from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has revealed that of 338 local authorities in the country, South Holland comes in 318th. With a recycling rate of 27.3 per cent, South Holland is way behind its local authority ...

A 75-year-old woman has said she was left disgusted after saying someone stole her walking stick. The woman, who does not wish to be named, says she was ordering food in Curtis’s in Market Place, Spalding around 10.30am on Wednesday, February 2, when someone took the fold-up stick. The woman, who was in town to volunteer at a nearby charity ...

Vicar Jane Sivers proved to be the queen of the cakes as hundreds was raised for charity at The Great Lizzie Bake Off on Saturday. The baking competition at The Elizabethan Centre in Whaplode Drove proved a success with 18 people taking part. Four independent judges took on the tough task of tasting all of the delicious entries on Saturday, ...

Lincolnshire County Council has backed what is now a five per cent increase in its share of the council tax, something opposition councillors branded ‘morally wrong’. As part of its budget, the authority initially announced a three per cent increase, the proceeds of which would go on adult care. But after its calls for central government to reinstate a £12m ...

A programme about Spalding and the town’s 1961 flower parade is being broadcast on a TV channel this evening (Wednesday, February 23). The Talking Pictures TV channel (Sky channel 328 | Freeview 82 | Freesat 306 | Virgin 445) is showing Look At Life at 6.30pm. The 20 minute long programme is described by the broadcaster as “A look into ...

Free skills training for high street businesses and retailers in South Holland is being offered by the district council. The project is open until March 31 with the first 45 applications receiving one-to-one business support from a team of industry specialists. Support covers a range of topics from identifying customers to designing window displays and product sourcing. It has been ...

Work on repainting a bridge on the busy A17 is due to start on Monday and last for four months. The swing bridge at Sutton Bridge is the main route between Lincolnshire and Norfolk and drivers are being warned of potential delays as a result of the project. The bridge hasn’t been painted for almost 20 years and the combination ...

Looking to stop unleashed dogs attacking others in Holbeach Bank and evicting allotment holders whose bonfire smoke effects visibility on the A17 are measures Holbeach Parish Council are considering. The authority heard both were issues that needed addressing at its most recent meeting last week. The council is looking to put up a sign at Holbeach Bank Playing Fields after ...

This week’s featured nominee for the Selfless Superstar competition is Callum Hawley, who was put forward by his mum Veronica. She said: “After an unexplained medical event I was diagnosed with a neurological condition that causes muscle rigidity, weakness, robs me of my mobility and can render me unable to speak. “I nominate Callum because he has had to mature ...

One of Long Sutton’s biggest success stories is continuing to grow. The Men’s Shed, a scheme started to help alleviate male loneliness, continues to go from strength to strength. There’s now even more for attendees to enjoy including a new iron forge installed. And members are keen to pass on the skills they’re learning to the next generation with a ...

A new Rotary group and business network is in the process of being set up for Long Sutton, Holbeach and the surrounding area. The Holbeach and The Suttons Rotary Network is the idea of Mervyn Lawrie. He wants to combine the community work the Rotary has been renowned for across the globe over the last 117 years and a business ...