A parish council met with Highways representatives to discuss village road safety the day before a fatal crash took the life of a teenager. On Thursday, January 23, members of the Pinchbeck Parish Council Highways-Lighting Committee met with Lincolnshire County Councillors Elizabeth Sneath and Nick Worth to express a lost of concerns relating to the village’s roads. The next night, ...

An initiative to help clothe young people in the area has had a great start to its latest campaign but needs more donations. Ella’s Projects is looking for donations of good quality, undamaged, clean children’s clothes for those aged five and below and any unopened bags of nappies of any size. Project founder Mark Le Sage, who began the charity ...

Two companies and two of their employees have appeared in court charged with health and safety breaches following the death of an 18-year-old from Holbeach. Josh Disdel died following injuries sustained while working at the Whitebridges site, off St Thomas Drive in Boston, on July 13, 2018. At the time Lincolnshire Police said the Serious Collisions Investigations Unit and Health ...

A Spalding dad’s abstract art is set to go on display at Ayscoughfee Hall next month. Joey Lowe’s exhibition ‘100% Juice – No Seed’ is set to run at the venue’s Geest Gallery from March 4 to 28. After having success touring exhibits in the local area, Joey said the initial idea was for an exhibition for several abstract artists. ...

One man has died and another has been arrested following this morning’s four-vehicle collision on the A16. A section of the A16 remains closed both ways after an early-morning collision in which a motorcyclist died. The collision, involving a Honda motorcycle, a Peugeot Boxer, a Vauxhall Insignia and a Fiat Punto, was reported to police today at 5.58am. Cambridgeshire Police ...

A Holbeach man who claimed he didn’t know he was disqualified from driving was caught behind the wheel by a speed camera. Jack Matthew Earnshaw (28) was five months into a six-month ban when he was clocked doing 60mph in a Ford Transit on the A17 between King’s Lynn and Sutton Bridge. The legal limit for that class of goods ...

A Gosberton Risegate drug dealer jailed today in the latest round of sentencing for a huge drugs bust was also convicted this week of two charges of sexual assault on a child. Following the first round of sentencing at Lincoln Crown court yesterday, today more South Holland drug dealers have been sent to jail. Matthew Creese (35) of Clough Road, ...

Drug dealers who brought huge quantities of cocaine into Lincolnshire were today (Thurs) given jail sentences totalling more than 130 years. Organised crime groups couriered in more than £1m worth of Class A drugs from Sheffield and Essex for sale on the streets of Boston, Spalding and Skegness with up to a kilo of cocaine a time being brought in.Lincoln Crown Court heard today ...

Friends of Spalding Cemetery will hold an ‘informal meeting’ next month in the hope of forming a dedicated group to assist with a host of duties. The meeting, which runs from 1pm to 4pm on Saturday, February 8, is for anyone interested in learning more about the heritage site and learn about how they can help, with research, photography, litter-picking ...

Last week Dennis Ottaway wrote about a blackbird singing at dusk in Hall Place, Spalding. I too was recently stopped in my tracks by the joyful, exuberant song of a blackbird in a tree. It echoed around the square and was almost unearthly in its intensity, making me yearn for the countryside. So pleased I was not the only one ...

The firefighters and cadets at Spalding Fire Station would like to say thank you to the people of Spalding who gave so generously to The Firefighters’ Charity when we accompanied Santa with his visit to the town just before Christmas. We made six collections between December 12 and December 23 and raised a total of £1,509.87. Phil Marriott Spalding Fire ...

This coming Friday, along with millions of other British people, I will be stripped of my EU citizenship against my will, despite having done nothing wrong. This situation has come about as a result of breaches of electoral law and data protection laws by the Leave Campaign together with their unprecedented industrial scale deceit and dishonesty. Nothing demonstrates this dishonesty ...

Spalding Lions would like to say a big thank you to everyone and to the residents of the villages that we recently visited with Santa. We have had one of the most successful years of raising money and it would not be so without your kind donations. We would also like to say thank you to Morrison’s and Sainsbury’s supermarkets ...

A department at Pilgrim Hospital has been given a donation by a Holbeach charity. Chosen Charity, which runs two shops in Holbeach, donated the money to the Pilgrim Hospital endoscopy unit, which is run by the United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust. Mary Cooper, the founder of Chosen Charity, said: “On January 19 we presented a cheque for £1,000 to the Endoscopy ...

Three teenagers have appeared in court over a string of robbery offences in Spalding in March last year. Ethan Nicholas Brown (19), of Matmore Gate, Spalding, and a boy and girl both aged 17, who cannot be named due to their age, appeared before District Judge Peter Veits at Boston Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday. All three are accused of two ...

A West Pinchbeck driver who “took umbrage” at Community Speed Watch volunteers taking down his vehicle details ended up in court. Thomas Mark Warburton (32) grabbed the clipboard of a man in the group after challenging them over what they were doing. Prosecutor Nick Todd told Boston Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday: “Mr Warburton was driving at Barrier Bank, Cowbit, past ...

A few days ago, it was late afternoon, I was walking through Hall Place in Spalding towards WH Smith, when I heard the unmistakable sound of a blackbird singing. It was perched in the small tree that is by the circle of raised flowerbeds and the benches. There in the gathering dusk of a winter’s afternoon, with people going about ...

In last week’s issue I was taken to task over an earlier letter of mine wherein I asked for justification for the continuing use of food banks. One correspondent in particular completely missed the point of part of my letter, not by whom or when or where were food banks created but what is the current administration doing to eradicate ...

What’s happening to the once prosperous, thriving, busy market town of Spalding? I worked in the town for over 40 years, I loved working there, especially doing my shopping when my working day finished. Over the years there have been a lot of changes, some for the good, some not so good. New shops come and go. There was always ...

President Jon Martin and members of the Rotary Club of South Holland would like to put on record our sincere thanks to the people of Spalding who contributed so generously to our Christmas Sleigh Collection in December helping achieve a grand total of just over £11,400 the vast majority of which will be used for the benefit of the local ...