Spalding artist Kerstin Lankey has been the named as the winner of the Public Vote Trophy in the 18th South Holland Open Arts Exhibition at the South Holland Centre. Her work, Squirrel, completed in pastels and pastel pencils on Pastelmat board, was selected by members of the public from the 89 pieces of work on display. Kerstin previously won the ...

Lincolnshire Police has made changes to the hours worked by its PCSOs that will see these officers work an extra 30,000 hours at weekends each year. A police spokesman said around 170,000 incidents are reported to the force each year and just under 30 per cent of these happen at weekends. Police said the extra weekend hours will help the ...

The NHS is urging South Holland residents to ensure they have enough prescription drugs to see them over the two Bank Holidays which take place this month. Not all pharmacies are open on the holiday Mondays. In Spalding, Boots is open between 10am and 4pm both Mondays, May 7 and 28. The pharmacy within Sainsbury’s will be open between 10am ...

A woman who called 999 almost 100 times on Christmas Day has been told to pay £2,000. The woman, who had no medical need to contact the ambulance service, appeared at court earlier this month and has been banned from calling the emergency services for five years, with the exception of a genuine emergency. The caller rang EMAS 97 times ...

A disqualified Gosberton Risegate driver who drove into a neighbour’s gate pillar has been given a suspended prison sentence. Darren John Goodwin (50) of Sheppersons Avenue, Gosberton Risegate, who was already on a suspended prison sentence, admitted failing to provide a breath specimen for analysis and for driving while disqualified in the incident outside his home on March 26. At ...

Police have launched an appeal to find a missing teenager. Ariyan Galil (14) is missing from Holbeach. Police ask anyone with information on her whereabouts to call 101.    

A couple affected by cancer held hands as they completed the London Marathon. Georgie Jones (41) and her husband Paul (50), who has twice beaten testicular cancer, have raised over £12,000 for the Addenbrooke’s Charitable Trust and Macmillan. The pair completed the 26.2 miles in 7hrs 29mins. “We realised pretty quickly it wasn’t going to go as expected and held ...

Phil Newton had said the London Marathon would be his first and last – but now he’s got the running bug. The 41-year-old from Sutton St James has raised over £1,750 for the World Horse Welfare charity. He’d never even considered running the event before but around Christmas time heard a place running for the charity was available. Thankfully the ...

Running the hottest London Marathon ever was described as “brutal” by Spalding mum of two Emma Wilson, but she completed it in memory of her younger sister. Emma Wilson has raised over £7,000 for the Teenage Cancer Trust as a tribute to Louise Miers who passed away in April last year aged 25 just six months after being diagnosed with ...

The Co-op shop and petrol station in Whaplode is to be demolished and rebuilt. The whole site is being redeveloped in a £1.6m investment, which will take around a year. The Whaplode Food Store and Filling Station will close at 9pm this Saturday (April 28). Lincolnshire Co-op said the site will repoen in 2019 with “extra facilities” including a Costa ...

The victim of a hit and run incident that’s written off his car has appealed for help identifying the driver. Simon Walker of Surfleet was sitting in his Renault Laguna parked outside Mace Stores in Pinchbeck on 4pm on Friday, April 20 when a silver 4×4 collided with him and drove off. To watch the video click here. Simon believes ...

Regarding the letter about the teddy bears for King’s Lynn Hospital, St Thomas Road and Broad Street Methodist Churches will be pleased to accept the bears again. Friday mornings from 10am to 12noon at St Thomas Road, when the knitting group meets, and 10am to 12noon at Broad Street on a Tuesday at the coffee morning. Yvonne Achurch St Thomas ...

Why hasn’t the finish on the road in Holbeach been completed? Last year the contractors resurfaced Fleet Road up to the Co-op but that was all. Did they forget the junction by the Co-op and the bus stops? This road is dangerous to cars and people who put their lives in their own hands crossing the most uneven part of ...

With more faltering consumer confidence, combined with the government’s aggressive approach to diesel and it’s “red lines” determining the UK trading relationship with Europe, more harm is approaching Britain’s car industry. As Jaguar Land Rover confirmed plans to lay-off 1,000 workers in the West Midlands, this news should be sending a wake up call to ministers and alarm bells ringing ...

There was no generation gap in sight when young and old joined forces for a creative session. A group of children aged from seven to 11 were invited to Holbeach Hospital for the arts afternoon with older residents. The event was organised by activities co-ordinators Jackie White and Maggie Ward. “For some time now I have been interested in the ...

Police are investigating the theft of shoes from a Holbeach shop. An image has been released of the man they think can help with their enquiries. A police spokesman said: “We are appealing for assistance to help identify this man as we believe he may be able to assist us with our investigation into a theft from Boyes on  March ...

Police are investigating the theft of perfume from a Spalding shop. An image has been released of two people who they think can help with their enquiries. A police spokesman said: “We are investigating this theft from a shop in Broad Street on 14 March. “Two sets of perfume were taken from a display and are believed to have been ...

Invariably most of us look at things from our own point of view and not that of the dogs. Perhaps we ought to stand back and look at things from the dog’s perspective. The recall – today my owner tried calling me back; he just used my name with no command. How was I to know what he wanted? Conflicting ...

JobCentre Plus has become the first to officially move in alongside South Holland District Council (SHDC) at the authority’s Priory Road base. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has moved its facility in the town from its previous offices in Westlode Street. A budget of £350,000 was set aside to alter the ground floor at Priory Road to accommodate ...

A Holbeach charity has given away more than £12,000 so far this year. In the latest donation, Chosen has presented £500 to Ellie-Mae Belokon-Dennis who is raising funds for her trip to America for the 24th World Scout Jamboree. She will be joining around 50,000 scouts from around the world in West Virginia. The charity has also donated £4,000 to ...