A Holbeach residential home is putting people at risk due to poor management, unsafe medicine practices and a lack of infection prevention and control. An inspector from the Care Quality Commission returned to the Nutten Stoven Residential Home in November after concerns were outlined in a report published in September. The home can cater for up to 30 older people ...

Tributes have been paid to three members of a Gedney family who died in a road traffic collision last month. Inquests into the deaths of Paul James Carter (41), Lisa Jayne Carter (49), and Jade Channelle Mace (25), of Gedney, were opened last week by Norfolk Coroner’s Court. Norfolk Police said all three died in a collision between a white ...

Spalding bus station was branded ‘disgraceful and shameful’ as calls were made to improve it. Resident David Jones argued the least the facility off Winfrey Avenue should have was complete and up to date time tables of buses at last week’s meeting of Spalding Town Forum. “I was thinking what it’s like if you arrive in Spalding on a bus ...

A Spalding man who played a huge role in the horticulture industry locally has died aged 90. Keith Butters, who set up Butters Factory Shop on Kellett Gate, first started as a young boy grading bulbs at Van Geest Nurseries and ended up spending 27 years working with them. At the age of 21 he helped with the new banana ...

A councillor has called on everyone using Spalding’s council-owned facilities to be careful with energy usage as the share of council tax town residents pay has increased. The Spalding Special Expense is to go up for a band D property by 90p a year from £24.57 to £25.47. The rise, with more households, is projected to bring in £240,279 for ...

Recently Tesco Holbeach have removed the recycle points for various items. The next option for glass is in the public car park near Carter’s Park, ironically opposite the electric car charging points! This has become overflown, see photo above, and is now hazardous and likely to encourage vermin. It will be very challenging for the glass containers to be safely ...

The state pension age is currently 66, with plans already in place to increase this to 67 between 2026-2028, and to 68 between 2044-2046. However, recent reports suggest that the government is looking to bring in the rise much sooner. The National Pensioners Convention is fundamentally opposed to further rises in the state pension age. It is claimed that the ...

I wanted to say a huge thank you to the man who helped me after I slipped over and could not get back up again while walking on the path along Vernatt’s Drain two weeks ago. I’ve recently had to have a new left hip and right knee and I’m struggling with my balance at the moment. I love dog ...

Spalding Lions Club recently paid thanks to all the organisations which had helped on their Christmas sleigh runs in the villages around Spalding during December. The Cley Hall Hotel hosted Lion president Michele Elvin and Lion activities chairman Stuart East, thanked and presented cheques to representatives from Spalding Flower Parade, Pinchbeck Guides, SENSE, Donington Community Fire Station (Firefighters Charity), Flinders ...

A Spalding group is to look at creating a permanent way to mark the coronation of King Charles III. The town forum wants to green light the release of money from South Holland District Council towards a lasting monument to the event on Saturday, May 6. And members are open to suggestions as to what it should be. At its ...

Moulton has unveiled its plans for coronation celebrations. On Saturday, May 6 it will hold a Lantern Parade. Those looking to take part should meet at Moulton Mill before the parade heads down the High Street at 7.30pm heading along to the Community Centre. After a pause for hot dogs, the procession will leave at 8.45pm and head to the ...

The RSPB is celebrating after Britain’s tallest bird bred at a South Holland Nature reserve for the third successive year. The Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust owned Willow Tree Fen, near Tongue End, has been remodelled in the last few years after a pair of cranes bred there for the first time in four centuries in the county. They birds have kept ...

A sex offender who failed to attend court on the last day of his trial was today (Thursday) jailed for three years. James Wray, 43, was convicted in his absence of two charge of sexual assault against a child by the jury at Lincoln Crown Court. Wray, formerly of Quadring Road, Donington, was later remanded in to custody to await ...

A grieving family say the tide of help and compassion from the community is comforting them as a man was jailed last week for the death of their 20-year-old daughter. Following the death of Amy Cooper, her mum Mandy has also reiterated her call for road users to be more sympathetic to each other. It comes after Shane Kelk (28) ...

A Brownie group has been given a boost by a new district councillor. South Holland councillor Steve Timewell met the Spalding 3rd Brownie group to present them with a new projector and a laminator. The Brownies needed the projector to enable them to organise movie nights and a laminator to protect all their certificates Coun Timewell donated £200 from his ...

The public have been snappy in getting their entries in to decorate the walls at vital hospital suite. The Tulip Suite at Spalding’s Johnson Hospital is set for a revamp with fundraising under way to improve all four of its palliative care rooms. One idea behind the refresh is to have a feature wall in each room showing a picture ...

Cinderella at the South Holland Centre is the most successful pantomime ever to be staged in Spalding – oh yes it was! Cinderella was staged at the popular South Holland Centre for three weeks in December and is the 18th time that Polka Dot Pantomimes have produced a pantomime in the town. A spokesman for the South Holland Centre, said: ...

The latest Spalding Gentlemen’s Society lecture on February 10 is set to get people buzzing. It’s entitled A Detectorists Utopia – Archaeology and Metal Detecting in England and Wales and will be presented by Professor Michael Lewis, Head of Portable Antiquities and Treasure at the British Museum and Visiting Professor in Archaeology at the University of Reading. He has an ...

South Holland District Council have organised a Wonderland Week of fantastic activities and performances for all the family to enjoy in Spalding over the February half-term holiday. Kicking off at Spalding Market on Saturday, February 11, there will be various outdoor activities available between 10am and 2pm, including free face painting, balloon modelling and a special visit from the Mad ...

A Spalding dance school is celebrating its 15th anniversary with the help of some friends at special shows this weekend. Diamondz School of Dance is putting on Unify Through Creativity at Havan High Academy in Marian Road, Boston, on Saturday and Sunday. As well as showing off some brilliant routines pupils have been working on, it’s set to include the ...