A Virtual Jobs Fair is to be put on by South Holland District Council. Following cancellation of the South Holland Jobs Fair in April due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the event will take place on the council’s Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn pages on Friday (August 21) from 11am till 2pm . Job vacancies and current opportunities will be posted using ...

Work has begun to turn the former Welland Hospital site into a development of affordable homes. Longhurst is building 36 homes to be accessible from Roman Bank and Holbeach Road, half of whch will be available for shared ownership and half for rent. The group’s director of land and new business, Charlotte Smith, said: “We’re delighted to have started work ...

The head of Spalding Grammar School has praised his A Level pupils, 60 per cent of which have at least one B grade. With COVID-19 having affected the year and leading to the cancellation of exams Mr Steven Wilkinson said he found the results “hugely pleasing”. He said: “For students and staff alike, this has been a year without precedent. ...

A Spalding man entered a Long Sutton home in the middle of the night and threatened to stab the inhabitants and their pet dog, months after being released from jail for another knife offence. Robert Barnes of Double Street was jailed for 12 months after he pleaded guilty to using threatening or unlawful violence and of being in posession of ...

Spalding High School students have been hailed for “an excellent set of results” including an increase in A grades. Over 57 per cent of pupils achieved A or B grades, the school said, “We are very proud of our Year 13 students. Despite the current circumstances, this is an excellent set of results and we arethrilled that the High School ...

A family are urging those struggling with mental health to speak out as they come to terms with the loss of 20-year-old Blaine Sheppard. His body was found at around 6am on Saturday morning in a Whaplode park close to his home. Blaine’s death, which is believed to have been suicide, has come as a complete shock to his family ...

A 58-year-old man has been jailed for at least eight months after exchanging sexual messages online with undercover policemen and a member of a paedophile hunters group who he thought to be 13 and 14-year-old girls. Roger Hicks was told he would serve at least half of the total 16-month sentence for six counts of sexual communications with girls aged ...

A housing developer has been told it can’t get away with building no affordable homes whatsoever on a development of 60 homes in Weston. Seagate Homes was granted planning permission in 2016 to build the homes of which 20 was due to be affordable off Dean Close and Small Drove. The developer successfully lobbied South Holland District Council in March ...

A Fleet Hargate man is putting on an event this weekend to mark Victory in Japan Day and buy Holbeach Hospital staff a Christmas dinner Harold Payne is welcoming visitors to the Anglia Motel on Saturday and Sunday where a host of vintage vehicles will be on show, including his own tanks such as the 432. Entrance is free on ...

Both of the Brownhill brothers are returning to Spalding United for next season. Midfielder Lewis Brownhill was last season’s captain and returns to the club following a spell at Newark Flowserve towards the end of the 19/20 season. He was previously an FA Vase winner in 2018 with Thatcham Town. Striker Joel Brownhill was the club’s top scorer last term ...

The cost of parking in the Sheep Market and Westlode Street district council car parks is set to go up. South Holland District Council has advertised the measures are coming into place and charges are being introduced on the gym side of the Castle Sports Complex. The authority says it won’t be introducing charges to park at the Gore Lane ...

Police have appealed to motorists parking in Long Sutton Market Place not to do so on a Friday. PC Freeman, of Holbeach Police, has written a letter to business owners in the town saying the police are regularly receiving calls about illegal parking in the Market Place. Following a disagreement between South Holland District Council and Long Sutton Parish Council ...

A 32-year-old father of two suffocated after blocking his nostrils trying to stem a nosebleed while impaired by alcohol, an inquest has heard. Antanas Kukuris, of Sutton Bridge, was found dead by wife Inga Kukuriene on November 18, 2019 having put gauzes into his nose to stem the blood flow. The inquest into his death at Lincoln Coroner’s Court heard ...

A 15-year-old planning application for a pub, restaurant and a new hotel on the A16 McDonald’s roundabout in Spalding has been allowed to stand. A condition of planning permission being granted was that work be carried out on the site within five years, and the current owner of the land has successfully argued that they worked on it the day ...

Pinchbeck Baptist Church reopens to the community on Sunday (August 16). The church on Knight Street has had renovation work carried out during lockdown. The church will be open to the public on Sundays between 10.30am-11.30am, when people can view renovations/refurbishment of the church and use the church for private prayer or as a quiet place to escape from the ...

This Saturday marks the 75th anniversary of the surrender of Japan which ended World War Two. VJ Day celebrations may have largely been cancelled, two 99-year-old veterans from Holbeach will be among those holding their commemorations of events. Both Alan Barkes and Jack Mills were readying themselves for incredibly dangerous missions when the news the war was over broke on ...

Joseph Timms is celebrating after topping the leaderboard at Gedney Hill Golf Club’s President’s Day event. His score of 43 points pushed Stuart Turnell (also 43 points) into second place on countback, with Stewart Shinkin (41 points) back in third. Also victorious was Lynn Exley (38pts), who landed the Shirley Vase ahead of Marilyn Sayer (35 points) and Maggie Bingham ...

The Tydd Gote Angling Club Sunday match at Main Road was fished in mostly overcast conditions with a brisk upstream wind offering the chance of a bream or two for those pegged in the higher number hot spots. John Taylor was on peg 33 and just took the win with a bream and silvers all on the 6m line for ...

The battle for top spot could not have been closer at round three of Spalding Cycling Club’s ten-mile time trial league. Chris Ward, showing that serious training pays off, tied with the younger Josh Wallis as both clocked 22.23mins to top the 27-strong field. Neil Palmer, taking part in his first ride since racing recommenced, showed he has not lost ...

It was a good weekend for Long Sutton as both their Saturday and Sunday sides recorded wins. In the South Lincs and Border League East One, the 1st XI’s bowlers did the job as they successfully defended 166-7 against Woodhall Spa having been put in by the visitors. Rajan Sangha did well opening the batting scoring a fine 53 that ...