A hospital trust has been given an award for the way it treats the staff it brings in from overseas. United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) has achieved the NHS Pastoral Care Quality Award. Over the last three years, in excess of 780 internationally educated nurses have joined ULHT across 42 cohorts, ranging in size from five to 65 from ...

Lincolnshire councillors are outraged by the government’s decision to redirect £235 million from the scrapped northern leg of HS2 to repair roads in London. In October, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak unveiled a £36 billion plan to revamp British transport, allocating £8.3 billion for road improvements, in the wake of the HS2 line cancellation between Birmingham and Manchester.Yet, the decision to ...

A woman who started volunteering at Johnson Hospital is the first in the county to use a scheme to make it into a proper career. Elena Orlova joined the Volunteer to Career programme after volunteering for fourth months with the Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust.She’s now employed as a health care support worker.The Volunteer to Career programme is a ...

South Holland and the Deepings MP Sir John Hayes says he has outlined to boss at Halifax his alarm it’s to close its Spalding branch later this year. It was announced last month that the bank on Bridge Road was to close by April.“In a meeting I insisted upon with Halifax Building Society staff in Westminster, I expressed my constituents’ ...

Do you enjoy singing and are looking for a New Year challenge? South Holland Singers are looking for new members and are inviting anyone who enjoys singing to give the choir a try at an informal rehearsal on Saturday, January 13.The event, a first for the long-established group, will be led by musical director Sam Graper and aims to demonstrate ...

Rooke’s has unveiled its face for 2024. The pet supply company on High Street, Spalding, launched their 11th annual Face of Rooke’s competition in August.The first competition in 2012 was open to puppies and kittens only before including pets of all shapes and sizes in 2014.It’s grown in popularity too with the number of entries received in 2023 surpass previous ...

An application has been submitted to turn farm buildings into a museum and permanent home for a rescued armoured vehicle. Kennulph’s Farm on Wright’s Drive, Crowland, has applied for the change of use permission which would house the Buffalo 47 pulled from the ground in 2021.Documents submitted with the application states that the museum initially intends to be by appointment ...

A Spalding district councillor has made a bid to literally put the town on a map. Coun Jan Whitbourn has launched a petition to get the area’s local news programme on the BBC to mark Spalding on it weather map. She said she’s doing so after speaking to local residents. “It’s been a long year and I get all kinds ...

Lincolnshire Police are appealing for witnesses after a ram raid on a shop in Crowland. Police say they believe a vehicle was taken from a nearby farm and used to smash in to the Spar in North Street during the early hours of this morning (December 27). The store’s ATM machine was taken. A spokesman said: ”We are appealing for ...

A man in his 80s involved in a collision on the A17 on Wednesday has died. His black Vauxhall Zafira collided with a black Ford Ranger at 3.40pm at the junction with Churchgate at Gedney. Police have issued an appeal for anyone who may have information to come forward. A spokesman for Lincolnshire Police said: “ We are saddened to ...

South Holland Police says its found thousands of illegal cigarettes at shops in Spalding. Enforcement visits were carried out at Baltic, Warsaw and Spalding European Foodstore on the morning of Wednesday, December 20. A spokesman for South Holland Police said: “Thousands of suspected illegal cigarettes and vapes have been seized after joint enforcement visits were carried out at three shops ...

Lincolnshire councillors are outraged by the government’s decision to redirect £235 million from the scrapped northern leg of HS2 to repair roads in London. In October, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak unveiled a £36 billion plan to revamp British transport, allocating £8.3 billion for road improvements, in the wake of the HS2 line cancellation between Birmingham and Manchester, writes Local Democracy ...

There was a beautiful and unusual site in the sky above South Holland yesterday (Thursday, December 21). Thankfully a number of you caught sight of the ‘rainbow clouds’ also known as ‘mother of pearl’ and ‘polar stratospheric clouds’, or by their scientific name nacreous. Many readers commented on how beautiful they looked and how they hadn’t been seen before. The ...

A bid to build a bypass around Whaplode won’t be progressed after council officers claimed it would cost £87m to buy. Lincolnshire County Council said the benefits of the project does not justify the spend.It found that the cost would be between £45.2m and £139.7 with £87.4m ‘the most likely’.Officers also said it would cause disruption to ‘over 40 private ...

A rare form of cloud that shimmers with rainbow colours was spotted over the district this evening (Thursday December 12). Nacreous clouds, ‘mother of pearl’ or Polar Stratospheric clouds need special cold conditions to form, usually those in areas around the poles. Occasionally, cold polar air which is locked in place by strong winds high up in the atmosphere – ...

A family have paid tribute to a man who died in a collision involving three vehicles in Tongue End. The car Sean Burlton (28) was travelling in overturned in a dyke following the incident on November 24. Two police officers went into the water to try and save a trapped man, but their efforts were in vain and he died ...

A number of families in South Holland will be in new homes in time for Christmas thanks to the district council’s £1m purchase of them. It’s bought eight affordable homes in Surfleet, a mixture of one, two, and three –bedroomed properties.  They have been allocated to households on the South Holland District Council Housing Register in accordance with the council’s Allocations ...

A man has been seriously injured in one of three collisions that closed the A17 for 13 hours last night (Wednesday, December 20). The most serious incident saw a black Vauxhall Zafira and black Ford Ranger collide at 3.40pm at the junction with Churchgate at Gedney. A man in his 80s travelling in the Zafira suffered serious injuries. A spokesman ...

Spalding United received a big boost ahead of the festive fixtures as they saw off League Two side Grimsby Town in the Lincolnshire County Cup on Tuesday. After a thrilling 3-3 draw the Tulips despatched five perfect penalties and keeper Tony Breedon made the decisive save to take them through to the next round of the competition.Grimsby brought a strong ...

Ahead of the Christmas period, Pinchbeck United will be hoping for a better 2024. The Knights fell to a 3-0 defeat at home to Skegness Town last Saturday after playing a man down for all but ten minutes of the match and remain rooted to the foot of the table with just one win to their name.Their Christmas schedule includes ...