Spalding romped to a five-wicket win over bottom club Nettleham to pull well away from the foot of the Lincolnshire Board Premier League. Ollie Dring was the home hero with 106 runs to move his team from 13/1 to 200/4 on their way to a winning 210/5 in 43 overs. A partnership of 105 with Mitch Freeman (36) provided the ...

Long Sutton are heading for Division One of the Rutland Sunday League After just missing out on a step up last season, when they finished third, Sutton made no mistake this time, finishing top of the table.With just one game left to play (at relegation-battling Uffington on September 3) Sutton are 48 points clear of second-placed Ufford Park after beating Werrington ...

A friendship first established in 1948 continues to blossom and 75 years on Spalding Golf Club took on their Woodhall Spa counterparts in their annual Harold Ireland Trophy encounter. Mr Ireland was a pre-Second World War member at Spalding but left to join Woodhall Spa.However, he wished to maintain his long-standing friendship with his former club so, with another Spalding ...

Despite it being a sunny day with perfect wind strength, only five boats made the start for the first race in the Sunday Morning Points Series Welland Yacht Club. A certain football game being played in Australia obviously diluted interest, while floating cut weed coming down the river made for tricky conditions.With the wind blowing straight down the river the ...

Lorraine Gallie and Maria Taylor-Vassall shared the honours at the Tydd St Giles Golf Club Ladies Championship, Taylor-Vassall was crowned club champion by winning the net title with two rounds of 74.Gallie was close on her heels with rounds of 76 and 79.Gallie was first on gross scores with rounds of 87 and 90, with Taylor-Vassall second with equal scores ...

Opposition councillors at Lincolnshire County Council have promised to closely monitor a renewed £17m contract with Serco after a mixed history with the authority. The contract includes all aspects of the council’s customer services, including for highways, education, transport, libraries, heritage, adult and children’s services and road safety, writes Local Democracy Reporter Daniel Jaines.It will also support the council in ...

Gosberton race ace Abbi Pulling is in the running for a prestigious prize that could open the door to a glittering motor sport career. The F1 Academy driver is one of 10 drivers nominated for the Aston Martin Autosport BRDC Young Driver of the Year Award and, if successful, will win £200,000 and a Formula 1 test drive with the ...

Lincolnshire County Council is actively seeking new foster carers as the national demand for these roles surges. Recent national reports have spotlighted a significant shortage of foster carers. The urgency for a “rocket boost” in fostering, to address the nationwide carer deficit, has been emphasised by national media, writes Local Democracy Reporter Daniel Jaines.Dame Rachel de Souza, the Children’s Commissioner ...

A man who allowed a Holbeach farm to be used for growing cannabis has been ordered to hand over £6,500 in assets by a judge. Daniel Magner, 34, was given a suspended jail sentence in February this year after police found over 240 cannabis plants worth up to £200,000 during a raid on Millbank Farm. Following the sentence hearing a ...

There were 92 per cent of students who earned at least one A* to C grade at University Academy Holbeach. The school has also hailed that all students that wanted to go to University have been able to do so.A spokesman for the school said: “University Academy Holbeach would like to congratulate all our learners on their results for A-Level, ...

Spalding Grammar School has hailed it successes among some of the toughest conditions to sit A Levels. A spokesman for the Grammar School said: “For a cohort that didn’t experience GCSE examinations and also weren’t given the additional preparation help for A Levels that last year’s cohort were given, there have been a great many pleasing performances by students this ...

Spalding High School is celebrating itss A* and A*-B grades after an excellent set of results. Students had nine per cent of all grades awarded A* and 60 per cent at least a B depsite government mark downs.Many subjects achieved above 60% A-B grades, including Art and Design (87%), Criminology (78%), Drama and Theatre Studies (60%), English Language (63%), French ...

Things went from bad to worse for a Spalding resident who tried to distance himself from a heated row at home. Bryan Holland got into a vehicle while over the alcohol limit and immediately collided with a neighbour’s parked Audi A6 car.Holland’s solicitor, Stuart Wild, told Boston Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday: “Mr Holland’s intention was to drive a relatively short ...

A Holbeach man who cut his former partner’s neck with a piece of broken mirror will be sentenced after a judge decides if he is dangerous. Kristian Butcher, 31, admitted a charge of Section 18 wounding after injuring the woman during a protracted assault on June 3 this year. Butcher, of Spalding Road, Holbeach, had gone back to the victim’s ...

A South Holland man will contest a charge that he supplied cocaine and cannabis to a youth. Daniel Bailey (46) indicated that he will admit possession of the class A and B drugs on October 13last year.But when the case goes to crown court next month he will deny supplying cannabis to the girl fromthe age of 14 and cocaine ...

Spalding students at Bourne Academy Sixth Form have produced some fantastic results. They include Jakub Baranowski who studied four subjects (Distinction* – Applied Science / A – Maths / A – Physics / B – Chemistry) and will be studying Physics at University of York. Jakub Baranowski  Roxana Coltatu meanwhile studied three A-levels (A* – Biology / A – Maths / A ...

Act II’s regular summer holiday workshops have proven big successes once again. Around 60 children took part in either the week long programmes and then production of Frozen or The Addam’s Family.The group’s members took over The South Holland Centre for two weeks.The first saw the younger members Let It Go and put on a production of Frozen.The elder ones ...

A new way to prosecute more businesses for selling illegal cigarettes and vapes is already having an effect in Spalding and is set to be rolled out across the county. Lincolnshire County Council says part of the process being taken on by police is allowing more of a crackdown on those flouting the law.It comes after two properties were served ...

A major new project is under way looking at the salt water threat to prime agricultural land in South Lincolnshire. With around 12 per cent of the UK’s food being grown or processed in the county, the importance of its agricultural role can’t be understated.Project Groundwater is joining with the University of Lincoln to help protect the land of the ...

A two-phase programme of expansion will see a South Holland primary school increase by more than 100 pupils. And an ‘exceptionally fine’ example of a Maidenhair tree is to be spared after initial design plans were amended.The original plan at the William Stukeley Primary School in Holbeach, had seen the tree, a ginko bilboa, earmarked for removal, but it is ...