Christmas officially arrives in Long Sutton this weekend. The town’s Lighting Up events are being held Friday and Saturday (December 15 and 16) from 5pm to 9pm. There will be a host attractions in the town centre including entertainment from local performers and the West Norfolk Rock Choir. There will be games for children including a photography competition. Earlier in ...

There was confusion after Spalding Rugby Club’s match with Peterborough Lions was abandoned halfway through the first period on Saturday. The club’s players and officials were left surprised when the referee ended proceedings in the Counties One Midlands East (South) around the 20-minute mark.It followed a flash point between the sides.It has been reported elsewhere that all of the players ...

Their team’s game against Rugby Town may have been postponed due to a water-logged pitch on Saturday, but Spalding United fans were still on form to help a local charity. The club launched a Tulips Against Hunger, Christmas foodbank appeal.For their scheduled ‘Pitching In’ Northern Premier Midlands Division game on Saturday, supporters were asked to bring in food to be ...

Most of the games in the GCE Peterborough and District Football League were called off, but there was some action. Crowland Town were at home to league leaders and reigning champions Uppingham Town. Despite an Archie Rickards double, they succumbed to a 3-2 defeat.Sutton Bridge United lost by the same score at home to Oakham United Reserves in Division Two.Mark ...

The wet weather put paid to the vast majority of the sports fixtures last weekend, including the senior football clubs’ games.In the United Counties League, Premier Division North Pinchbeck United were due at Heanor Town but it was among the many rained off.They’re due to back in action on Saturday in the league when Skegness Town are the visitors to ...

Six members of Spalding Indoor Bowls Club received call ups to play for England this week. It was a special moment especially for Dominic McVittie (pictured) who has been selected to play for the men’s senior team for the first time, whilst Stephen Harris and Graham Smith retain their places.McVittie will play number three to current world indoor singles champion ...

A 6-0 win for Consti E has pushed them up into second place in Division One of the Spalding and District Snooker League. They whitewashed Holbeach D to move up from fifth to second, within four points of leaders Services C.Consti’s winners on the night were Sean Jeynes (O14), Jack Chilvers (O7), George Neary-Phillips (O21), Simon Law (O7) and Martin ...

Professional billiards player Rob Hall wowed at an exhibition knocking in breaks of 178, 148 and 121. During the exhibition match at Spalding’s Consti Club, three-time World Billiards Championship finalist Rob squared off against Spalding Billiards League players Jason Rose, Neil Harvey and John Bellerby.He gave them 700 points start and ended up with a total score of 1,248 against ...

Spalding Ladies’ 1st 1City of Peterborough 3rd 3Goals: Erin McMurraySpalding Ladies 1st had a strong start, putting pressure on Peterborough early.Some great work by Lauren Spenceley and McMurray up front kept forcing mistakes from the opposition’s defence, allowing Spalding some good chances on goal.Unfortunately, Spalding went 1-0 down after a good goal from Peterborough but were able to quickly even ...

A former town centre department store could become a soft play, café and community centre if an application by a Spalding church is approved. Converting Coney’s three-storey building to include a play area, foodbank and an area for worship, would see an unused building brought back to life.The Lighthouse Church wants to move into the building and offer a range ...

South Holland District Council has moved £300,000 from its reserves to offset a budget shortfall. An emergency meeting of its Cabinet was held on Tuesday to vote through the measure.Leader Coun Nick Worth said he’d called the meeting to be transparent after errors had been identified in the previous budgets including some government funding given that had been ‘duplicated’ in ...

A man has died while working on an agricultural site near Donington. The incident happened on Monday afternoon when the man was working for Lincolnshire Field Products.A spokesman for the company, which has its main office just outside of Spalding, said: “It is with deep sadness that one of our agricultural employees became unresponsive during the afternoon of December 11 ...

Santa linked up with Spalding Fire Crews last week to meet children in the town. He also helped raise over £1,000 for the Firefighters Charity at Spalding Fire Station.Along with helpers and elves he was able to speak with several hundred young visitors.Santa told fire staff that Lego and headphones were amongst the most popular requests with iPads and phones ...

South Lincolnshire Academies Trust has once again thrown its support behind our Give A Gift appeal. Staff at Spalding Academy and the Giles Academy in Old Leake have been collecting gifts for the campaign to give to children who would otherwise not have a present to open on Christmas Day.Mark Le Sage, founder of Ella’s Project and partner in Give ...

The whole community involved in a Crowland primary school has been praised by Ofsted. South View Community Primary School has been awarded Good across the board by inspectors.“Pupils, staff, governors and parents and carers work as one to make this school such a lovely place to work and to learn,” says the report.“Pupils behave well. They are polite and cheerful. ...

A Whaplode woman has raised hundreds for research into strokes by taking on 8,000 squats in 30 days. Mariola Pisarkiewicz has become an instructor for ARNI (Action for Rehabilitation from Neurological Injury) and raised over £500 for the charity.It’s linked with Stroke Solutions which aims to provide one-to-one rehabilitation.“I feel that South Holland is lacking of knowledge of the support ...

The company set to build a solar farm on the edge of South Holland, which was granted on appeal, has now asked for it to be operational for another five years. King’s Lynn and West Norfolk Borough Council had initially refused permission after South Holland District Council delegated the decision to it for the site just across the River Nene ...

There will be a very special tractor run at the weekend. Holbeach Marsh Vintage Tractor Events is holding a special illuminated road run on Sunday.Meeting at Fleet Road Industrial Estate, Holbeach, money raised from the event will be donated to Prostate Cancer Research.Any vehicle decorated for Christmas can take part. The entry fee is £10 plus £5 per passenger.The vehicles ...

Benjamin Zephaniah said he loved living in South Holland and following the tributes after his death last week, it’s clear the district loved him back. The 65-year-old poet, activist, actor and TV presenter who had a home in Moulton Chapel died on December 7 last week.A statement from his family said he had been diagnosed with a brain tumour just ...

Two elves caused trouble across Spalding last week, raising £200 for Alzheimer’s UK. Debbie Grogan and Leigh Hayward, who both work at Lincolnshire Home Care used their Wednesday, December 6 afternoon off to run around the town and collecting money.“We do it every year,” Debbie said. “We look after a lot of clients with Alzheimer’s so we ran around a ...