Don your kilts for a special celebration of Burns Night later this month in Whaplode Drove. The Elizabethan Social Club is putting on a special night for the celebration of the Scottish poet Robbie Burns. Doors open at 7pm for a 7.30pm start for the evening of entertainment. It will include a three-course meal and of course there will be ...

The police helicopter was involved in a search for a missing person around Gosberton in the early hours of this morning (Monday, January 10). Lincolnshire Police said the search was successful. A spokesman for the police said: “The police helicopter assisted us in a search for a missing person who we were very concerned for. “They were thankfully found safe ...

The fraud case of a Spalding man involved in an investment scheme worth about £4milllion has today (Monday January 10) been before crown court for the first time. Christopher Toynton – a former longtime chairman of Spalding United Football Club – is jointly charged with two co-defendants in relation to the Lottery Syndicate Club Ltd, which operated in Spalding. Toynton, ...

Work has officially begun on the first section of the Spalding Western Relief Road with an aimed completion date of Autumn 2023 having been revealed. What is intended to be the first of five sections to be accessed from a new five-way roundabout off Pinchbeck Road is being created in the north of the town. Lincolnshire County Council, which is ...

Pop-in COVID-19 vaccination centres will be at Springfields tomorrow (Tuesday, January 11) and in Long Sutton on Thursday. Those eligible for the jab, be they first, second or booster injections, can attend the sessions. The event at Springfields takes place between 10am and 7pm on Tuesday. Thursday’s session in Long Sutton is being held at St Mary’s Church Hall from 1pm ...

A driver who crashed into a house in South Holland, causing £12,000 worth of damage, has been disqualified for nine months. Aleshia Francis, 34, may have fallen asleep at the wheel, Lincoln Magistrates’ Court was told on Friday. She was also sentenced for colliding with a parked car while uninsured eight months later. The crash at the property in Vicarage ...

Those visiting patients in the Johnson Hospital in Spalding will now have to provide proof of a negative test of COVID-19. Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) has announced visitors will need to have taken a lateral flow test before arriving at the hospital and those it also runs in Lincoln, Grantham and Skegness. Visitors currently have to book ...

It’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for – we can finally reveal the winners of our Festive Pets competition. Four-year-old Yorkshire Terrier Gary, who is owned by Abbi Turner, of Seagate Road, Long Sutton, was picked out as the most festive pet, the judges loved his Santa Claus outfit. Thanks to sponsorship from Rooke’s Pet Products, Abbi wins a ...

An appeal has been made after burglars raided a property in Whaplode St Catherine yesterday (Tuesday, January 4). Designer watches, jewellery, personal documents and a whole Yale safe were stolen in the raid on a Millgate property between 3.55pm and 5pm. A Lincolnshire Police statement said: “We have now launched an investigation and would like to hear from anyone who ...

Creating a Business or new Community Improvement District is the latest idea being looked into to help town centres such as Spalding. As the ‘closing down sale’ signs went up on another shop in the town, M&Co in Bridge Street, South Holland District Council officers are looking into whether to create a new group town centre businesses can get involved ...

A Spalding dentist is facing enforcement action after an inspection found failings in a number of areas. The Crescent Dental Surgery, run by Roopesh Singh, is a private practice on which the Care Quality Commission is imposing enforcement action in safety, effectiveness and leadership. The report, which was recently published, said the inspection ‘found this practice not providing safe care ...

A woman in her 80s who has worked at Holbeach Hospital for the last 20 years has been thanked for her service on her retirement. Hardworking Janet Nicholls has finally hung up her rubber gloves after two decades working as a kitchen assistant, doing 40 hour weeks. A spokesman for Holbeach and East Elloe Hospital Trust said: “Janet is sorely ...

Poultry keepers across Lincolnshire are being urged to step up their efforts in a bid to halt the spread of avian flu. The UK’s chief veterinary officer Christine Middlemiss is warning people not to be complacent as the country faces its largest ever outbreak of the disease with more than 60 cases confirmed nationally since the start of November. In ...

Staff at Spalding care homes have been recognised for their work during 2021. Country Court held awards at each of its three homes in the town. At Ashwood Care and Nursing Home care assistant Matthew Evans won the Care Hero Award, care assistant Jill Green won the Our Values Award and Team Member of the Year was RGN Nurse Anne ...

A nature group’s pledge to restore peatland to parts of South Holland is a step closer thanks to it being granted over £800,000. The Fens East Peat Partnership (FEPP) has been awarded a Discovery Grant by central government as part of their progressive Nature for Climate Peatland Grant Scheme. The £815,877 is to explore the feasibility of restoring peatlands in ...

A food bank received a boost just before Christmas thanks to local customers of Weight Watchers. Spalding-based coach for the company Helen Webster urged members of her groups to give food items to be donated on to the Trussell Trust at Bourne. The charity helps provide emergency food and help when and where it’s needed. Helen said: “We had so ...

Plans for an energy storage plant on land near Spalding power station have been submitted. The array of battery banks could provide enough power for 277,000 homes a year if approved. Submitted on behalf of InterGen, the proposals for the Battery Energy Storage Site (BESS) is adjacent to the open-cycle gas turbine power station which was commissioned in 2019. The ...

Plans for 81 new homes in Holbeach have been recommended for approval, providing around £450,000 is provided for infrastructure. The application for the site east of Chaffinch Way by Ashwood Homes has received numerous objections including from MP Sir John Hayes and Holbeach Parish Council Concerns included the access to the homes and lack of facilities in the town, but ...

Plans have been submitted for a zero-carbon home complete with insect hotel and bat boxes to be built on land in West Pinchbeck. The new property, on Glenside North, is a self-build and the design stems from the desire to have minimal impact and for the owners to become ‘more self-sufficient’ and grow food and flowers while generating their own ...

BBC Radio 4 will be broadcasting ‘Any Questions?’ live from Gedney Hill & District Memorial Hall on Friday, January 21. The broadcast starts at 8pm, all attendees must be seated by 7.15pm. The event will be over by 9pm. Free tickets are available but to help monitor numbers and to assist with Covid-19 precautions all attendees must register at the ...