Children and staff at John Harrox Primary School in Moulton said “Hello Yellow!” in style last Thursday in support of children’s and young people‘s mental health on World Mental Health Day. A spokesman for the school said everyone enjoyed taking part in the fundraising event in aid of the Young Minds charity paying £1 to wear something yellow for the ...

South Holland villages have been hit by a spate of post box thefts – with six stolen this month. Post boxes and their contents were stolen overnight last week. Lincolnshire Police have confirmed that post boxes have gone missing from these locations: Eaugate Road, Moulton Chapel; Cornfield Close, Deeping St Nicholas; Money Bridge, West Pinchbeck; Station Road, Deeping St James; ...

A Spalding group has negotiated a three-night “alternative to Halloween” at a town pub. The three-strong Spalding leg of The Light Collective will take over decorations at The Ivy Wall pub between October 28-31 for “light project evenings”, according to group member Joseph Edwards. Mr Edwards said the evenings will carry a Christian message but still have pumpkins and sweets ...

Shops in Spalding have embraced a new guide to assistance dogs, produced by Guide Dogs UK and distributed to them last week by hand. Volunteer Thelma Warren spent three hours on Friday hand-delivering leaflets to shops and establishments in town to explain the different types of dog jackets and offer window stickers. “I’ve had an absolutely brilliant response from the ...

A vet is taking her passion for pets to new heights by jumping out of a plane at 13,000ft in aid of a cat charity. Ashley Horne will bravely take to the air for a tandem skydive on Saturday and is hoping people will sponsor her to support the Spalding branch of Cats Protection. Ashley, who is a vet at ...

The South Holland branch of the Macular Society were in Spalding recently raising awareness of the condition. In association with Molsom and Associates Opticians, the charity’s members were on Spalding Market, handing out information on the condition. They included Leonard Sharpe, the chair of the group, who has suffered macular degeneration in both eyes for the last 30 years. “We’re ...

The group that oversees hospitals in south Lincolnshire, including the Pilgrim Hospital, is £88.2m in the red and has been branded ‘inadequate’ over how it uses its resources. United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) has also been told it still “requires improvement” by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and will remain in special measures following an inspection from June 11 ...

Do we have the most incompetent local and county councils in the land? They have received massive grants for the so-called Spalding Western Relief Road. How can any right minded person claim that two cul-de-sacs, approximately three miles apart can be classed as a relief road? They claim to have held public consultations. Surely a consultation should consist of discussions ...

It was truly wonderful to read the news that Matthew Flinders is coming home! When I first read about the campaign, I must admit that I thought we didn’t stand a chance. Bodies are almost never relocated for reburial and initial responses did not seem optimistic. But I can think of few more impressive examples of successful campaigning. Our MP ...

Unfortunately the owner of Shear Shak has still not seen anyone from the Lincolnshire Police regarding the break-in or crime prevention nearly three weeks after the event. I have noticed police presence on Pinchbeck Road opposite, obviously dealing with more pressing matters on the waste land with drugged or drunken individuals, also individuals threatening to jump into the Welland River. ...

My understanding of the Benn Act is that Boris Johnson will be obliged to ask for an extension in the event of there being No Deal, to prevent the UK leaving the EU with No Deal. Now that Boris has negotiated a deal with the EU, it means that the Benn Act is now redundant. If – as expected –Parliament ...

In a recent Sunday Times article it was reported that in Britain areas that have been stripped of bank branches are typically poorer, have older populations and suffer from slow broadband. It goes without saying that South Holland and the Deepings has been hugely affected by the closing of many bank branches – since 2015 a staggering 44 per cent ...

Could someone tell me if the pedestrian precinct in Spalding town centre has been done away with because I notice when in the town centre there is traffic traveling through at all times of day. I’ve even seen council vehicles travel through and park outside of Greggs bakery to get their lunch. Unfortunately the PCSOs just turn a blind eye ...

A new project is set to help young people in and around Spalding is holding its A Future Spalding session at the South Holland Centre on Friday. This Is Not London, a group formed by two artists, are exploring the idea of ‘Does living somewhere isolated make you feel it?’, with a series of sessions and art projects. On Friday ...

Parish councils could fund new projects by borrowing money from the district council and paying it back by increasing council tax under a proposed new scheme. South Holland District Council is looking to create a new £500,000 Community Reserve. Parish and town councils in the area would be able to borrow money for projects including new buildings, play facilities, turning ...

An annual Christmas toy appeal has been launched and it’s first fundraising event of the season is a quizzical one on Friday night. Jelly’s & Jolly’s Community Association, Sutton Bridge Christmas Toy Appeal was officially launched last Saturday. This is its sixth year and once again, it hopes to provide young people a Christmas gift who for various reasons may ...

Staff at Hills again swapped the sales floor for the catwalk as they held a fashion show that helped raise around £400 for charity. Last week’s autumn and winter show is the third put on by the Spalding store.Over 70 guests snapped up bargains and raised money for Macmillan Cancer Research thanks to a raffle.Organiser and the fashion floor manager ...

A Weston comic shop is gearing up to give away 1,000 free Halloween comics this weekend and will reveal for sale a whole host of collectable horror items. Strange Apparitions at Baytree Garden Centre is one of the thousands of local comic shops around the world celebrating the second largest event in the comic book industry on Saturday, October 26: ...

This week, John Tippler talks about the waterways of Spalding. Spalding’s main river is, of course, the Welland, whose town section we now know as a pleasant, but passive, feature of the town.It was not always so passive. In the 1930s and earlier 40s it was still connected directly to the sea and was a salt-water river.Its personality was demonstrated ...

Sir John Hayes MP has spoken ahead of tomorrow’s big Brexit vote on a new withdrawal agreement. “Anybody who votes against the deal will face a lot of questions from their constituents who feel this has got to be brought to a conclusion,” Sir John said today (Friday). Tomorrow MPs will vote on the new deal, which is hoped by ...