Pupils at Stamford High School were given a grilling recently to help them prepare for their university applications. The Rotary Club of Spalding and Welland held their annual mock interviews for 20 sixth form students looking to go to university. Rotary Club president John Ralph, said: “Our objective is to boost the interviewees’ self-confidence.” Mrs Dawn Bushell, head of sixth ...

A museum could be among the new arrivals at Spalding Station. Turning one of the historic building’s derelict rooms into a permanent exhibition of railway memorabilia has been mooted as an option. Spalding and Peterborough Transport Forum together with the Spalding Station Adoption Team had already announced it was looking to create spaces for community groups to use as part ...

A homeless couple are in accommodation following a successful appeal launched by a Spalding woman and her daughter. At the end of October, Stephanie Lamont and her daughter Clementine Cousins started an appeal to help house Jason and Jane Paul by Christmas. She is now celebrating after some large cash donations allowed her to meet her goal. Donations pledged online ...

Extra trains to Lincoln Christmas Market are stopping at Spalding Station on Sunday, December 10. The Peterborough to Lincoln services will leave Spalding at 9.31am and 10.31am arriving in Lincoln at 9.11am and 10.11am respectively. There are two return journeys. The first leaves Lincoln at 2.45pm arriving at Spalding at 3.41pm. The second leaves Lincoln at 4pm and arrives at ...

Spalding Police have launched a new operation to tackle the rise in anti-social behaviour in Spalding and seasonal shoplifting. Operation Vivid was announced by Inspector Gareth Boxall, who said there will be more police patrols in Spalding during December. Insp. Boxall said shoplifting increases around Christmas but the operation’s anti-social behaviour focus isn’t related to the festive season. “The anti-social ...

A Pinchbeck man who has helped raise around £186,000 for The Poppy Appeal has thanked people for helping him after he collapsed in Spalding and was trodden on. Tony Boyer fell ill while walking down Broad Street at around 8pm on Monday, November 20. A number of members of the public looked after him, but one passer-by trod on his ...

A man has appeared in court charged with possessing more than a thousand indecent photographs of children. Russell Ian Nason (34), of Wrights Lane, entered no pleas to three allegations of making a total of 1,081 indecent photographs of children between May 2009 and September last year. He also faces a single allegation of possessing an extreme pornographic image of ...

Two local businesses have come together to help provide some festive cheer for unwell youngsters. Swinton Insurance Brokers and Delivery Driver Service UK are collecting gifts to deliver to the Children’s Ward at Boston’s Pilgrim Hospital this Christmas. Anyone with spare toys or gifts can take them in to Swinton’s New Road premises in Spalding. Dominic Calitri of Delivery Driver ...

A major road scheme in South Holland has been completed months ahead of schedule. Two new roundabouts have been created at Holbeach in the £5.4m Lincolnshire County Council project. As well as the roundabouts, the work has opened-up access to potential residential land to the east of the A151. Development land for Peppermint Park, a food enterprise village, can also ...

A Spalding family had more snow than any of us over the weekend. There was none forecast, and Thursday’s flurry just wasn’t enough so the Tangs had their own snow delivered. A white Christmas certainly came early after Liisa Tang won a competition. She spotted a hidden snow globe on the website of retailer TK Maxx and won her very ...

Do you have a festive feline or maybe a horse that’s in the holiday spirit? If the answer’s yes, then why not enter them into our Festive Pets Competition? Sponsored by Rooke’s Pet Products, the winner will be the pet that judges think shows the most Christmas spirit. Whether you have a Christmassy cat, a merry mutt, a festive fish ...

Two paramedics from Spalding Ambulance Station are avoiding razors for a month to take part in Movember. Movember is the annual charity event in which men are sponsored to sport a moustache and raise money and awareness for men’s health issues, such as prostate cancer, testicular cancer and suicide. Spalding paramedics Trevor Wain and Tomas Picha have both signed up ...

Lincolnshire Police has appealed for more members to join its Police Independent Advisory Group (IAG). South Holland currently has no representative on the IAG, said Sergeant Jon Putnam of Lincolnshire Police. “We try and populate the IAG from all over the county to ensure that every area gets represented, but currently we don’t have anyone from South Holland on the ...

A South Holland charity has donated £7,000 to three good causes in the area. The Chosen charity, of Holbeach, has given £2,000 to the town’s scouts and guides who are looking to raise £8,500 for a new roof and guttering on their meeting hut. A further £2,000 was donated to the Holbeach United U11 (Black) FC who needed warm tracksuits ...

A successful scheme to compost garden waste in a two-year trial looks likely to double in size. There are currently 1,555 households registered on the waiting list for brown bins in South Holland. During the trial, 3,404 subscriptions have been secured with 324 buying additional bins. There were also 222 paper sacks bought. “The success of the pilot scheme and ...

A public meeting is to be held in town on plans to turn Spalding’s Post 16 Centre into an academy for youngsters who may have been excluded from other schools or have problems. Springwell Alternative Academy’s proposal to convert the Matmore Gate building has met some opposition with a petition having been launched opposing the move. The meeting will run ...

A Spalding couple have met a child they sponsor during a trip to Uganda. Rachel and Paul Wilson met five-year-old Blessing for the first-time while on a trip to visit their daughter Emily who is currently volunteering in Africa with charities Mission Direct and Chilli Children. Rachel and Paul sponsor Blessing through the Compassion UK charity and took the opportunity ...

A Holbeach hero has been awarded a long service medal to commemorate 20 years in the fire service. Crew Manager Simon Smith joined the fire service in 1992, based out of Holbeach. He served until 1997 and rejoined the service in 2001 after a short break. At an awards ceremony in Lincoln last week, Her Majesty’s Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire, ...

The chairman of Lincolnshire Police Federation has blasted the “absurdly lenient sentence” given to a man who avoided jail after leaving a Spalding officer disfigured. Jon Hassall says the victim’s young children were initially frightened by their dad’s appearance as a result of the attack and is calling for increased sentences for assaults on emergency service personnel. The incident happened ...

Lincolnshire Police are appealing for people to hand over any unwanted guns as part of a national two-week surrender of firearms and ammunition. Superintendent Kieran English said: “Keeping a firearm is a huge responsibility. This is an opportunity to ask if it is a responsibility that you really want and if so, do you have the legal right to hold ...