‘A range of options’ are being looked at as to where to site Spalding’s historic drinking fountain, a meeting has heard. It was introduced into Hall Place in 1874 as a bid by wealthy benefactor Mrs Johnson to provide the town’s people with fresh water, but was then moved to Ayscoughfee Gardens in 1956 and has been in storage since ...

A Holbeach business has been rocked by the theft of a van packed with equipment. The white Ford Transit van was parked outside the town’s police station when it was taken last Tuesday night. Nick Parrish started his new business Bounce House Party just before the pandemic and specially made inflatables costing £7,500 were inside the van. But a week ...

Pinchbeck is set to get a boost in the form of new play equipment. The village’s parish council is to use money provided as part of the planning permission for Spalding Power Station on the new equipment for playing fields at Rotten Row and Leaveslake Drove while adding more on Glebe Field. New seating and litter bins is also set ...

Spalding Fire Crews experienced a middle of the night crawl through mud to rescue a pet dog last week. The crew joined colleagues from Boston after a Jack Russell named George become stuck in a rabbit warren. The call came in at 11.35pm on Friday, October 8 from the owner at West Fen Drainside near Frithville, north of Boston. The ...

A telephone box that’s planned to be a free mini-museum exhibition in Spalding could be moved a short way. Coun Elizabeth Sneath is adopting the box opposite Ayscoughfee Hall for £1 and working with the museum’s Julia Knight and South Holland District Council’s conservation officer Greg Watkinson on the project to fill the box with images of Spalding’s past. But ...

A South Holland director and actor is back on our screens with a trailer for a serial killer themed series set in Holbeach. Steph Genovese and his Holbeach Film Company have released the trailer for 15 and Killing It. The company’s follow up to the also-South Holland set Dishonoured is to be filmed in 2022. Set in and around Holbeach ...

A group of Oddfellows were full of hot air recently, and all in aid of charity. The Nene and Welland branch of the Oddfellows Friendly Society Nene hosted the Oddfellows Brass Band concert at St John’s Church, Spalding, on October 2. There were 74 people who enjoyed the evening of music from show tunes and hit songs from the past ...

More than 60 per cent of patients in Lincolnshire were able to have a face-to-face medical appointment in July. Of those, 47 per cent were able to see a health professional on the same day. Using the Total Triage model, GP practices send patients to the most appropriate professional for their condition. Patients may see a paramedic practitioner, clinical pharmacist, ...

A 31-year-old from Whaplode Drove is due to appear in court today (Friday) after a police car chase through South Holland on Wednesday night (October 6). Nathan Lake is set to appear before Boston Magistrates Court charged with dangerous driving and failing to stop for police. Another 31-year-old man from Holbeach has been released under investigation. It follows the police ...

A man was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries following an incident that closed the A16 yesterday evening. The incident involving a lorry and a car happened at Surfleet shortly after 4.30pm on Thursday, October 7. The road remained closed until 10pm at night. A Lincolnshire Police spokesman, said: “We attended a collision between a lorry and a car ...

A development of 55 affordable homes in Fleet has been given full planning permission despite objections from nearby residents. The site to be accessed off Fleet Road already had outline permission for the homes, though only 33 per cent were due to be affordable. Now developer Kaplan Property Group has been given permission for 33 homes to be rented and ...

A 44-year-old man who drunkenly assaulted a lone female police officer in Spalding in the early hours of the morning, had just that day returned from his home in Romania. Stefan Ion of High Street, Spalding, who admitted assault by beating, was seen by PC Sharon Walsh near a taxi rank in New Road at 1am on September 6. Prosecuting, ...

Children at Monkshouse Primary School in Spalding have been given The Indian Experience ahead of Diwali. The school was visited by Sunita Patel who helped children create traditional Rangoli artwork as shown, as well as speaking about some of the stories surrounding the festival that gets under way next month. The sessions have been run by Lincolnshire-based The Indian Experience ...

Pumpkin celebrations are coming to South Holland this weekend with a family-centred event in Spalding. The celebration of horticulture and harvest will be in the town centre from 10am to 3pm on Saturday with a variety of entertainment alongside the usual weekend market. Local businesses in the town centre are taking part in the annual window dressing competition and there ...

A tracker placed into a refrigerator on a building site led police to the home of a 43-year-old man, a court has heard. Jamie Bunn, now of no fixed address but then living at the Foreman’s Bridge Caravan Park at Sutton St James, admitted handling the stolen refrigerator when he appeared before magistrates at Boston after a charge of burglary ...

Bond is back, and he’s coming to the South Holland Centre! For the audience’s eyes only, the critically acclaimed No Time to Die, the 25th instalment of the James Bond franchise, will be showing at the centre at 2pm and 7pm from Friday, October 15 to Thursday, October 21, plus a 2pm screening on Sunday, October 24. We’ve teamed up ...

A gang targeting properties in South Lincolnshire and Peterborough is thought to be behind an incident in Pinchbeck where the occupants of a home were held at knifepoint while their property was ransacked. What police described as ‘a terrifying ordeal’ saw a group raid a home on Bear Lane after climbing though a window. While one threatened the occupants with ...

A new incentive scheme to encourage people to shop in Spalding is to launch next month in time for the town’s Christmas celebrations. The bid to encourage people to buy from local independent businesses and potentially win a cash prize is the latest in ideas being worked up as part of the Town Centre Steering Group. Other new ideas being ...

Most people would not be looking to take on extra tasks at the age of 87. But sprightly Audrey Forman did just that for ten years to benefit fellow residents in sheltered housing in Lyndis Walk and other areas of Holbeach. Mrs Forman organised events and acted as committee treasurer. Along with monthly coach trips through the summer to places ...

A fantastic reaction to an appeal for help after a blaze destroyed a family home has been applauded. The family, including young three children, were left with nothing as the fire ripped through their Holbeach home after a chip pan overheated. Fire crews from Holbeach, Long Sutton and Spalding were called out to the Station Road property on Sunday night ...