Despite the weather being damp and windy I managed to get some pictures of the fireworks display at West Pinchbeck on Bonfire Night. I have to say the community had put together a good display with fantastic food and there was lots to chose from. It all looked delicious. There was mulled wine, cups of tea and coffee and juice ...

As a long term local campaigner and member of the South Holland and The Deepings Constituency Labour Party (CLP), I would like to give full credit to one of our young members, Mark Popple for standing as our PPC for South Holland and The Deepings. Of course Sir John Hayes will be expecting to retain his comfortable seat with a ...

I read with interest, Nigel Pepper’s letter on the trial at the A16 Radar Junction with James Road. It seems that local people are now to be penalised with journeys that will take longer to reach Crowland and return, while people from outside the area will still be able to reach Peterborough and return without any inconvenience at all. As ...

I am writing to thank three kind strangers who came to my aid in Spalding on Sunday lunchtime (November 3). I suffered a blackout on Love Lane and fell to the pavement banging my head and smashing my specs. I came round to find two men and a lady rushing to my assistance and putting me into the recovery position ...

A former Spalding Grammar School student has received a top academic award following his first year at university. Sam Nickels’ outstanding achievement in chemistry at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh has been recognised with a Deputy Principal’s Award. The award, from Professor John Sawkins, is given to students who achieve Grade A, or equivalent, in six or more courses studied as ...

A school has been told it ‘requires improvement’ for a second time since becoming an academy. Gosberton Academy has been told it needs to improve in all areas of effectiveness, apart from in ‘behaviour and attitudes’ for which it was rated Good following the Ofsted inspection on October 1 and 2. Now part of the Boston Witham Academies Foundation, it ...

Seven vans were broken into overnight on Sunday across the county, including three in South Holland villages Moulton and Pinchbeck. Police said a Renault van was broken into in West Cobgate, Moulton, and a quantity of power tools were stolen. Two Vauxhall Vivaro vans were broken into in Benner Road, Pinchbeck, but they were empty so nothing was taken. Other ...

The outsourcing of pain relief treatment in Lincolnshire has led to thousands being behind the treatment they need, it’s been claimed. One South Holland woman was told she was among 40,000 people in the county behind on pain relief treatment, though those who run the service say the number is “significantly less” than that. It follows the outsourcing of the ...

A charity bookshop in Holbeach has celebrated its first birthday and poet Benjamin Zephaniah, who opened the shop last year, was back to sign books, recite poetry and give a speech in praise of books and learning. Benjamin said he was on stage at Warwick the night before and a boy asked what he read as a child. “I had ...

Fire crews were called to a blaze inside a Gosberton Risegate property on Tuesday (October 29). Crews based at Donington and Spalding fire stations were called to the blaze on Chesboule Lane shortly after 3.30pm. The crews used two breathing apparatus and a positive pressure fan to put out the fire before dampening down hot spots. No casualties were reported ...

Could I through your letters page say a huge thank you to all my family, friends and supporters who have helped me over the past year, either by donating quality items for me to sell on my car boot sales in aid of Springhill Hospice, or by buying the said items. I am really pleased to say my total is ...

Yet again we have the stock Conservative answer to everything. If only we could bring back flogging and hanging we could have royal parades and spectacles every month, life could be even better than that promised by our duplicitous fantasising Prime Minister and his vision of life outside the EU. Harsh uncaring political policies have caused upheaval and strife in ...

Here we go again, Lincolnshire Highways, Richard Davies pleading there’s no money available to make proper, safer improvements to the A16/B1166 (Radar Station) Junction. While they are prepared to spend millions on a new local road. The Lincolnshire Highways Department employees are paid very good money to solve these problems, if they are unable to come up with the answers, ...

I am, and I’m sure others will be, incensed after reading your report of the huge rises in car parking soon to be imposed in Spalding. Percentage rises of the scale proposed are disgusting and allied to the imposition of unwanted, technically advanced meters. The recent thoughts of Parliament’s Transport Committee have recently realised that car parking charges are major ...

As an ex chairperson of a parish council I cannot understand why wind farm grants that have building up for years due lack of usage request from residents can’t be used for projects rather than inflicting increased costs to residents for new buildings and street lighting (which when asked many people don’t want additional lighting) which make this an ineffective ...

The A16 “Radar Corner” junction is back in the news. This time because of an impending trial to put a central barrier the length of the junction and introduce a 40mph speed limit. As I have said many times before we, locally, are not highway engineers but we do have local knowledge and common sense suggests this idea is ridiculous. ...

A Spalding barber is turning Movember on its head and getting rid of the beard he’s grown for years. Steve Jackson has had the around-nine-inch beard for nearly seven years. The 28-year-old, who works at Stuart’s Barber Shop in Spalding, is doing so particularly to raise awareness of mental health issues. “I’ve wanted to take part in Movember for a ...

A Spalding woman has released her debut single with an eye on chart domination and is building up her profile on the livestreamer network, Twitch. Tune into 18-year-old Kyra Jinx’s Twitch channel online most days between lunchtime and around 10pm, and you’ll find her broadcasting from her bedroom, either just chatting to her followers or playing the online video game, ...

A shoplifter smashed a bottle over the head of a security guard who attempted to stop him fleeing from a Spalding supermarket, Lincoln Crown Court was told today (Mon).Adam Isham (33) ran towards the exit of Sainsbury’s when the security officer intervened.Isham then struck him with such force that the guard was knocked to the ground.Isham then ran from the ...

A new dentist for Spalding with extended opening hours is again set to open next March, but hopes of a second new practice for the town have been dashed again. As reported last year, amid a huge demand, NHS England awarded contracts to two companies to open dentist practices in the town in 2019, only for both to pull out ...