Residents will be able to take general and garden waste on any day a Household Waste Recycling Centre is open from March 8, Lincolnshire County Council has announced. Since the tips were reopened after lockdown one, certain categories of rubbish could only be taken on certain days. Now the county council says the tips, including the Spalding site on West ...

Plans to build KFC and Taco Bell restaurants and drive thrus just off the A16 in Spalding have been submitted. The application is for a single unit to be shared by the restaurants on the Lincs Gateway Business Park, near to the Applegreen Service Station. Applicant Erindale Ltd said it hopes to create up to 60 jobs. There’s long been ...

The first round of vaccinations for over 70s in Lincolnshire has been completed with the over 65s and those with underlying health conditions now being called for them. Lincolnshire Care Commissioning Group say they’re making “excellent progress” after offering the first dose of a vaccine to everyone in the first four identified groups. A CCG spokesperson said: “We are making ...

A driver who appeared “unnerved” by police on patrol on the A17 at Sutton Bridge was found to be banned. Nicholas Horne was pulled over and initially tried to offer his brother’s details. But officers’ suspicions were raised when he stumbled over giving the address. King’s Lynn Magistrates’ Court was told on Thursday that 37-year-old Horne was “extremely nervous” and ...

Three crews were called to put out a fire at a business south of Long Sutton in the early hours of this morning. Crews from the town, Holbeach and Spalding were called to a commercial premises on Winters Lane shortly after 1am. No-one is believed to have been injured in the incident which Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue say was started ...

A Spalding motorist caught almost four times the drink-drive limit last Sunday has been given a suspended sentence. It was the second time in a year that Andis Bergs had given a high reading and he was on bail for the first offence. The 35-year-old was held in custody before appearing at Lincoln Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday to plead guilty ...

Holbeach High Street is currently closed following a burst water main. Anglian Water are set to visit the site this morning (Friday). Lincolnshire Police say they’ve closed the road ‘in the vicinity of Boots’. As of 9.30am Anglian Water said it would be on site soon in inspect the situation and have initially said the work will be completed by ...

A Holbeach man was found to have more than five times the permitted level of cannabis in his bloodstream after he was stopped by police. Joshua Cross, 23, of East Elloe Avenue, admitted driving his Suzuki car under the influence of drugs when he appeared before magistrates in Boston. Prosecuting, Jim Clare said Cross was stopped by police in Double ...

A Spalding man who was testing a car he was being offered to buy, crashed into a wall, a court has heard. Kamil Walasiewicz, 34, of Juniper Crescent, admitted driving with excess alcohol, when he appeared at Boston Magistrates Court. Jim Clare, prosecuting, said that on November 24, Walasiewicz crashed the Skoda car into a wall and after providing a ...

A Pinchbeck man has told magistrates that he refused to give a blood sample for analysis because he was afraid of needles. Keiran Worth, 24, of Cherry Holt Lane had admitted failing to provide the sample after he was arrested for driving under the influence of drugs, following a positive drugs wipe for cannabis and cocaine. Sukhdev Bisla had told ...

The government has cut the funding for the upkeep of Lincolnshire’s roads by a quarter in a move branded “disappointing” by those responsible locally for their maintenance. The money allocated to Lincolnshire County Council, who maintain the roads in the area, has been reduced by more than £12m from £51m in this financial year to £38.7m. Just this week The ...

The Surfleet Good Neighbour Scheme is now offering a food larder and take away service. The Bishop Grosseteste University and the Lincolnshire Food Partnership have provided funding for the venture which started last week. Both services are based at the Tonic 44 Cafe, Station Road, and are aimed at residents in and around Surfleet plus who have a genuine need ...

Calls have been made for more funding to improve South Holland’s roads amid a number of reports of potholes and sinking roads. Particularly badly hit seems to be Moulton with Station Road, Broad Lane and Long Lane all being affected. Coun Anthony Casson, called the condition of Broad Lane “about the worst and the most dangerous bit of road I ...

A 43-year-old Whaplode man died after accidentally hitting his head while drunk, an inquest into his death has concluded. James Le Sage was found dead by a porter at The Woodlands Hotel in Spalding on September 14, 2020, Lincoln Coroner’s Court was told recently. The inquest heard Mr Le Sage was staying at the hotel while his parents, who he ...

A grandma who has just completed chemotherapy is saying thanks and getting fit by raising money for charity alongside her daughter. Teresa Thorpe was diagnosed with colon cancer in November after her condition had previously been mis-diagnosed since March. Now the 54-year-old, daughter Kimberley Waite and occasionally grandson Evan (3) are running and walking a total of 56 miles through ...

A planning application for 185 new homes in Holbeach has been submitted to the district council. The site, off Battlefields Lane, is currently in agricultural use but has been allocated for residential development. Cicero Estates is applying to renew the outline planning permission for the site. “The council should be well aware of the site and its planning history and ...

A man in his 60s was left injured and one of his pet dogs died after an attack by a group of teens in Spalding on Monday. The incident occurred along the Coronation Channel near to Pecks Drove shortly after 11am. A spokesman for South Holland Police said: “An investigation has began after a group of young men 13 to ...

A bid to buy three homes to house nine currently homeless people in Spalding has been thrown into doubt after councillors voted one as unsuitable amid concerns it’s being rushed through. South Holland District Council currently has until March 31 to purchase the nine units or it could miss out on £400,000 of government funding. The purchase of two properties, ...

There’s been more accusations of money wastage at Holbeach Parish Council after it was revealed that it is paying over £600 a month to HR companies. This year alone the authority is set to pay two firms £7,440 to oversee its five current staff as well as having been told to re-establish its own HR committee which it got rid ...

Police special constables in South Holland are set to be given a 25 per cent discount on their council tax. The Lincolnshire Police and Crime Commissioner Marc Jones has written to all district councils requesting the discount for the officers who aren’t paid for their work. Of the 118 special officers in Lincolnshire, 12 are currently based in South Holland. ...