Current and former service personnel will be marching through Spalding on Tuesday (June 25) as part of Armed Forces Day celebrations. Schools, Cadets and Mini Police members are set to join in the celebrations of service personal which begins with a short service in Hall Place at 11am. The parade will then march through the market to St Mary and ...

The historic Crowland Show is back bigger than ever for 2019. Snowden Field will once again host the town’s top attraction on Saturday, June 29. The event has its origins in the pre-World War Two Crowland Foal Show but was reinvigorated as an annual event in 1978. It’s continued to grow since then and this year incorporates the Party in ...

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Shop staff with fire extinguishers rushed to a burning car that was parked at a Spalding petrol station on Thursday afternoon. Lincolnshire Fire & Rescue attended the scene at Applegreen Filling Station in Spalding on Thursday lunchtime. The driver of the Citroen, Steve Lumb, was on his way home near to Horncastle from Sussex with his wife when he pulled ...

With continued rainfall causing more problems, South Holland District Council has urged people to wear “adequate footwear”. The council said in an online notice that with reports of sewage rising in South Holland, people should wear adequate footwear when wading through standing water. SHDC officers are currently at Battlefields Lane in Holbeach, which has flooded. A spokesman said: “Our officers ...

A 12-year-old boy has had his bike stolen in Spalding. Police said the boy’s red/orange Carerra Hellcat junior bike was stolen from an alleyway on High Street at 3.20pm. In a statement, police said: “We’re looking for a white man, approx. 17-years-old, 5′ 10″, thin, wearing a black hoodie, joggers & maybe a puffa jacket.” Anyone with any information is ...

Flood water has reached houses along Edinburgh Walk in Holbeach and police have closed the road at both ends. The road was closed on Tuesday after flooding and a fire crew spent hours on Tuesday evening pumping water. After last night’s rainfall, which has continued today, the road is again flooded and homes are affected.  

Heavy rain caused upset and upheaval in Holbeach this week as the highest rainfall in the country was recorded in the town. On Tuesday, South Holland District Council evacuated an entire street of mostly elderly residents after homes were flooded and sewage posed health issues. On Tuesday afternoon, the council moved 24 people from Lyndis Walk after carrying out checks ...

A primary school pupil’s artwork on what her community means to her has been unveiled in a nearby store. Ella Ebbage’s work was part of a competition organised by The Original Factory Shop to celebrate 50 years of trading. Her work was officially unveiled in a special ceremony at its Holbeach branch last month. Ella, of Fleet Wood Lane Primary, ...

A Long Sutton man and woman have received suspended sentences after being found guilty of causing an animal unnecessary suffering after a court saw video evidence of fox cubs being fed to hunting dogs. Paul Oliver (40) and kennel maid Hannah Rose (30), from Sutton Crosses, were convicted at Birmingham Magistrates’ Court of causing unnecessary suffering to fox cubs. The ...

Spalding man Mark Le Sage is celebrating after being awarded a British Empire Medal in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List. Mark (52) is being recognised for the voluntary service he has done to help the community and aid the rehabilitation of offenders. He said: “It was such a wonderful surprise and a bit of a shock, however I feel very ...

Holbeach gym owner and former marine Sam Fowler completed the equivalent of 7.33 miles during a treadmill run in aid of the Royal British Legion, raising than £366 for the charity. The 75-minute feat was timed to coincide with events in the UK and France commemorating the 75th anniversary of D-Day on June 6, 1944, a turning point in the ...

A labourer from Donington has been banned from driving after crashing on the way home from a pub. Michael John Hatcher (42) had drunk four pints of San Miguel lager before he ditched a car in Main Road, Quadring, at about 11.30pm on November 23 last year. Prosecuting at Boston Magistrates’ Court today, Nick Todd said Hatcher and the defendant’s ...

A Pinchbeck school that was previously rated ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted has dropped to ‘requires improvement’. The Pinchbeck East Church of England Primary School Ofsted report from May this year has found the school ‘requires improvement’ in four areas, including effectiveness of leadership and management, and quality of teaching, learning and assessment. Two areas were rated ‘good’. In the school’s 2012 ...

Stroke and some breast cancer services are proposed to be moved from Pilgrim Hospital in Boston to new central hubs in Lincoln due to concerns over staff shortages, reports to a health committee reveal. It’s despite concerns that some stroke victims would be outside ‘the golden hour’ which refers to the time period receiving treatment would improve some patients’ chances ...

Rain didn’t keep the crowds away from Pinchbeck Carnival at the weekend. The annual event offered something for everyone from dance demonstrations to the Essex Dog Display Team. Carnival Parade Queen, Abigail Slade and her assistants, Samuel Start and Gabriella Santana led the parade around the village. Other attractions included Diamondz School of Dance, Kuk Sool Wan, the Breaston Highlanders ...

As a learner driver, I am studying the Highway Code. As a young person of 17, I also care passionately about the environment, especially air quality and its effect on human health. For a few years now I have noticed that nearly every Tuesday between 8.30am and 9.30am, the council environmental services recycling lorry parks in Grange Drive near Halmer ...

I am hoping to trace any descendants or relations of Harry Facer who may still be living in this area. Mr Facer died in 1919 whilst awaiting discharge from the Army. Whilst researching on behalf of Lincolnshire Family History Society I came across an article in the newspaper archives which detailed the death and subsequent military funeral in Spalding cemetery ...

Expenses? Pensions? I also note that in the middle of a previous general election the council awarded themselves an expenses increase. Hoping to get in under the radar? Now they have given themselves iPads. Not any old iPad but a top of the range model! The cut-backs in council spending will affect the most vulnerable members of our community. This ...

The UK and Ireland’s largest union, Unite has warned that the UK is in the grip of a manufacturing emergency after the latest economic figures showed manufacturing had shrunk 3.9 per cent with motor vehicle production plunging by a record 24 per cent. Calling for a no-deal Brexit to be taken off the table in the wake of June 10 ...