Here are the latest entries for this year’s Festive Pets competition. Sponsored by Rooke’s Pet Products, the winner will be the pet that judges think shows the most Christmas spirit. The winner will receive a £100 voucher to spend at Rooke’s Pet Products in Spalding. We will be featuring all this year’s entries in the paper throughout December and the ...

Dance and drama groups with a disability or inclusive focus are wanted by Transported and artsNK who are putting on a show in March at the South Holland Centre. The free performance on Friday, March 9, will be the second of the organisation’s Inclusive Dance Platform events. The night will be headlined with a performance by professional dance group Casson ...

Christmas is a time for family and friends and for everyone to enjoy this time of the year. Your home will be buzzing with people coming and going, but let’s not forget what your dog’s needs are. Keep to your normal routine, go for your walks on time, feed your dogs on time, and don’t give them food that they ...

Holbeach Red Hatters took some festive spirit to St John’s Care Home, Spalding. The Fen Fatales (pictured), in their trademark clashing colours of purple with a red hat, sang for all residents – even those who were in their rooms. The Red Hatters is a group aimed at women over the age of 50 looking to “grow old disgracefully”.

With reference to Springwell’s consultation meeting at the High School in Spalding (December 7) we feel the Academy would have gained invaluable insight had they openly engaged the local community at the very beginning, not the end, of the consultation process and it would have been helpful if Lincolnshire County Council had sent a representative. We thank Phil Willott for ...

A cyclist has been hospitalised following a collision with a car in Spalding. Police said around 10am on Sunday morning, a Ford Mondeo collided with a cyclist at the junction of Station Street and Sheep Market. A spokesman for the Lincs and Notts Air Ambulance said: “Our critical care crew treated one patient suffering from a leg injury and accompanied ...

A new home made entirely out of shipping containers is set to be built in Sutton St James. The owners of storage business Lift and Shift Limited, Simon and Dee Reed, say the state of the art eco-friendly home to be built next to their business on Broadgate will be the first of its kind in the area. Despite officers ...

Friends of Johnson Community Hospital brought the sound of Christmas to patients at the weekend. South Holland and the Deepings MP John Hayes, South Holland District Council leader Rodney Grocock and Coun Elizabeth Sneath read the lessons. The St Mary and St Nicholas Singers sung carols while Rodney Britten played the organ for the party. Father Christmas also arrived with ...

Members of the county council have voted in support of a 3.95 per cent increase in council tax from April. The proposal, which will need further approval in February, will see an increase of around £45 a year on the bill of Band D properties. That figure excludes what South Holland District Council, the parish precept and police ask for ...

A Spalding man who “head-butted” another man during an argument in a bar has been given a suspended jail sentence and a curfew imposed to keep him from drinking in public at Christmas.   Aleks Szerafin (20) had been drinking when the incident occurred in Bentley’s Bar on September 3 last year, Lincoln Crown Court heard.   Passing sentence Judge ...

Ahead of their gig on Friday night (December 15), we pinned down Spalding punk-rock band I Got Spiders who explained their new genre of music – grapple punk. We find I Got Spiders rehearsing in their Spalding lair in preparation for the gig at The Black Swan with Peterborough Polish punk group The Moonshiners and Peterborough alt-rockers The Deadites. Local ...

Sunday’s snowfall wasn’t enough to dampen spirits at the Long Sutton Christmas Fayre. The event at St Mary’s Church featured a return of Santa’s grotto, which hundreds of children visited for free. Long Sutton Parish Council Chairman Charles Moore said after the event: “Well we did it! Another year completed with just shy of 300 children in to meet Father ...

With another year nearly over most of us will be thinking where did 2017 go and what will 2018 bring us? Just to think we had the EU referendum 18 months ago with Cameron and Osborne thinking it would be a piece of cake. Only they got it all wrong, just like the snap election that wasted months of precious ...

I’m pleased to see that the Holbeach Peppermint Junction is now open at last and hope it will reduce heavy traffic through the town. Part of the price for this work was the development of a huge new housing estate and industrial area nearby. There is the possibility the commercial aspect of the site will attract new jobs and if ...

A big thank you to John Hayes MP. I am writing to thank you and your office staff for your concern and help in my hour of need due to my wife’s illness. It is reassuring to know that with your busy workload on many issues in Parliament and your constituency, you can find time for small issues as well. ...

I never cease to be humbled by the attitude, reaction, care and compassion exhibited by the people of Spalding and district during the annual remembrance tide. Not just the donation of money, which is obviously welcome, but time, skill, enthusiasm and dedication are all invaluable commodities given freely and in abundance in the support of the poppy appeal. My thanks ...

Holbeach developer Ashwood Homes is set to build nearly 150 new homes in the area after planners gave the go-ahead to separate developments in Cowbit and Donington. South Holland District Council’s committee granted permission to the building of 73 dwellings in Town Dam Lane in Donington and 72 homes off Backgate in Cowbit at its latest meeting on Wednesday, December ...

A 31-year-old man was arrested on Friday after air support were called to an incident at Holbeach St Marks. Officers from East Midlands Operational Support Service were involved in the arrest, which came after a vehicle ended-up in the river at Pode Hole. The arrest was part of Operation Galileo which is targeting hare coursers visiting Lincolnshire to commit offences. ...

Spalding-based Bridge Farm Nurseries is hoping to build 75-acres of glasshouse as part of continued expansion. The company, which employs up to 400 seasonal workers a year, will complete the first phase in 2019 if approval is granted. Bridge Farm Group specialises in growing and producing ornamental plants, flowers and herbs for retailers around the country. “Our new site represents ...

Holbeach Town Band will re-open its Music Cafe for a Christmas concert. On Sunday, December 10, leader Mel Hopkin will strike up the band to fill Holbeach WI Hall with a selection of Christmas classics. Music Cafe started in April 2015, said Mel, who celebrates his 20th year as band leader. “We run the café two or three times a ...