Planners have unanimously rejected a bid to build a large solar farm at Holbeach Bank. Officers had recommended South Holland District Council Planning Committee pass AUK Energy’s application for 80 hectares (197 acres) of ground-mounted solar panels and related infrastructure. But there were 55 objections from members of the public. Ward councillor and leader of the council Nick Worth criticised ...

The hunt is on for a Spalding United league and cup double. The Tulips made short work of Boston United on Tuesday night in the semi final of the Lincolnshire County Cup, beating their higher level opponents 3-0 to reach the final for the second successive time.They will face either Cleethorpes or Scunthorpe in the final.“It was a great win,” ...

The Peterborough and District Football League Premier Division title race is set to be an interesting one with Crowland Town ensuring they’re in the conversation with a 2-1 win at ten-man Moulton Harrox. Goals from Danny Firth and Lawrence Stewart earned Crowland the home win against a Moulton side who were reduced to ten men after just half an hour ...

Holbeach United were held to a 1-1 draw at home by Diss Town on Saturday in the Thurlow Nunn First Division North. The second consecutive draw meant it’s now no win in three for the play-off chasing Tigers.They did though have to come back from a goal down and hang on for a spell with ten-men towards the end after ...

Pinchbeck United slumped to a 6-1 defeat at Heanor Town in the United Counties League Premier Division North. The home side were dominant and led 4-1 at the break.Heanor had already gone close on a couple of occasions before Max Thornberry gave the lead in the seventh minute after the Knights failed to deal with a corner.After hitting both the ...

Spalding 14 Long Buckby 14 Spalding came agonisingly close to a victory despite a poor performance against Long Buckby on Saturday. Earlier in the season Spalding first team had won 33-17 in the corresponding fixture in Northamptonshire.The visitors are now firmly rooted to the bottom of Counties 1 Midlands East (South) table with just the one win, whilst Spalding are ...

Donington have done the double over Holbeach B in the Spalding Billiards League, beating them 7-0 both times they have met. They whitewashed them back in October when they first met this season, and then did the same again on Monday night in the reverse fixture.Winners were Nigel Brasier (R60), Ben Wrigglesworth (R10), who got a 42 break in his ...

Spalding Hockey Club hosted the Primary Schools Hockey Tournament Three, the third of five tournaments planned for this school year, at Glen Park, Surfleet. Nineteen teams from 13 local primary schools participated in the tournament giving over 150 youngsters the chance to represent their schools and play competitive hockey.The games were once again excellently controlled by teenage umpires from Spalding ...

Spalding Ladies’ 1st 1Cambridge South 2nd 2Spalding were eager to attack hard from the start and this worked in their favour as Amy Naylor took the ball into the D and passed it to Honor Moore who slotted home.The opposition were awarded a penalty stroke following an initial save from Jemima which then bobbled from a Cams player to a ...

LSHC Mens’ 1st 5Cambridge City 3rd 3Sutton started fast but posed little threat early doors.Josh Baker scored after a call from Joshua Fyson found Dominic Ibrahim who put it on a plate for Baker to finish.City clawed one back with an excellent finish.Sutton responded, winning their first short of the day. It was duly dispatched by Fyson.Once again City fought ...

Donington C are leading Division One of the Spalding and District Snooker League by just one point. They whitewashed Services A 6-0 thanks to wins from Neil Reynolds (O63), Mat Turner (O14), Shaun Pickering (R21), Neil Favell (O7) and Lee Hempsall (O14).The win puts them one point ahead of Consti G who beat Pyramid C 5-1.Their winners were Joe Garland ...

Over the weekend, Spalding Lightning were well represented at the champion of champions national finals at Dolphin Indoor Bowls Club in Dorset. Although Chelsea Spencer lost in the last 16 of the ladies’ event, Dominic McVittie came through a strong field to win the men’s event.On Saturday, McVittie beat Dex Weyand from Thanet 21-8 in the last 16 before overcoming ...

Tydd St Giles Golf Club has announced its newly elected men’s club captain for 2024, Tydd Golf member Neil John. Neil, who is a partner in Fraser Dawbarns solicitors based at Wisbech, held the position of men’s club captain in years 2015-2016 and with the knowledge of club captain decided he would give it another go.He announced his charities for ...

It’s been claimed problems over missed waste collections are due to South Holland District Council’s use of a new computer system. The authority has said it continually monitors the refuse collection routes and will implement further changes if required. It made the first changes to collections in ten years back in October.Since then there’s been a host of complaints that ...

There are fears that the home of the flower parade won’t be a riot of blooms this year as the town’s budget was set with no provision for floral displays. Coun Rob Gibson told a meeting of Spalding Town Forum it might miss out on funding for this year, but he said work was going on to ensure a future ...

A woman who has helped people with a disability take part in horse riding for over 40 years has stepped off the saddle for the last time. Jane Carter was a founder of the Fenland Riding for the Disabled Association (RDA) 43 years ago.Group members use their homes, horses and equipment to provide riding lessons to those would otherwise miss ...

Spalding town centre suffered a blow this week when another high street store closed its doors for good. Posters appeared in the window of Hughes electrical announcing that it was remaining open online, but the physical store in the town’s Sheep Market is now closed to customers.South Holland District Council leader Nick Worth said the closure came ‘completely out of ...

A councillor has branded the closure of the Crowland Police Hub as a ‘sad state of affairs’. Lincolnshire Police are closing 17 unmanned hubs in the county, saying it will save £250,000 a year. It defended its decision, saying research found the buildings were “barely being used” by police staff or members of the public Coun Bryan Alcock, who represents ...

CCTV coverage in Spalding is value for money, a local councillor has said ahead of plans to roll it out to more areas of South Holland. Coun Gary Taylor (pictured) was asked about the £400,000 camera system by Coun Ingrid Sheard at a meeting of Spalding Town Forum last week.He responded: “I do think it’s value for money.“It leads to ...

A celebration of Burns Night has raised a huge amount of money for charity. The Spalding Lions put on the special evening last month at the South Holland Centre.A spokesman said: “We would like to thank everyone who supported the evening making it a fabulous event.“Thanks also must go to Rachael and her team at Clark Catering from Morton for ...