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The first two winners in South Holland Open Arts 2017 have been announced. The best newcomer prize, sponsored by Riverbank Studios, went to Jenny Wood for her seascape painting View to Isle of Arran. The best photography award, sponsored by Shutter Hub, went to Seamus Bryans. Coun Gary Taylor, South Holland District Council’s portfolio holder for arts development, said: “I would like ...

Several roadsides in Spalding are looking much tidier thanks to a spring clean by Spotless Spalding and friends last Saturday. The group started near The Robin Hood pub in Bourne Road and covered Winsover Road, Green Lane and St Thomas’s Road, including behind a wall which is becoming known as a litter hotspot. Spotless Spalding founder Jack McLean, a South Holland ...

Customers at Springfields Home and Garden Centre in Spalding who bought carrier bags have supported Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance. The £912 proceeds, which garden centre manager Joe Garland is pictured presenting to Anne Palmer, a volunteer at the charity’s Spalding shop, includes donations to collection boxes.

People living with dementia and their carers can meet others, get active and join in a range of activities at a short course of free sessions in Moulton. The ‘Keep Healthy, Keep Active’ sessions, offered by Lincolnshire Community and Voluntary Service (LCVS), may include activities such as quizzes, cooking, gardening, laughter yoga and seated exercise as appropriate. There will be ...

Spalding and District Young Farmers’ Club have new logoed clothing thanks to a donation by Spalding Beerfest and Music Festival. Spalding YFC gave volunteer help at last year’s first annual beerfest, organised by Spalding and District Round Table and Spalding and District Ladies’ Circle. The beerfest committee gave a £1,000 donation to Spalding YFC by way of appreciation and this ...

The Rotary Club of South Holland has formally thanked the many clubs and  organisations which helped with the 2016 Christmas Sleigh Collection. Representatives attended the Rotary Club’s meeting at The Woodlands Hotel last week and were presented with cheques in recognition of their groups’ help. Club president Steve Colby said: “Since we first began the sleigh collection in 1986 there ...

Holbeach Hospital resident Annie Limming celebrated her 101st Birthday on Thursday (Feb 23). Annie was a familiar face to shoppers at JW Limming pet and garden supplies in Fleet Street, Holbeach, from the day it was opened by her late husband Jack in 1960 until her retirement 25 years later. Jack and Annie were married for almost 40 years until his ...

Villagers have rallied to support the owner of their local shop after a break-in – launching a fundraising bid for beefed-up security and quickly topping £500. So many people turned up to help in the clear-up of Cowbit Village Store after up to £1,000 of cigarettes and alcohol was stolen that owner Colin Foxwell had to turn some away. Shop ...

Donations by members of the public wowed by Jack Turner’s well-known annual Christmas lights display raised £1,058 for Holbeach and East Elloe Hospital Trust last year. Each year the Fleet Road homeowner puts on a spectacle which attracts visitors from miles around. Hospital manager Maxine Winch said: “On behalf of Holbeach and East Elloe Hospital Trust, I would like to ...

A singing extravaganza with a Welsh theme will be held in Pinchbeck on Wednesday (March 1) to mark St David’s Day. Anyone who enjoys a good old-fashioned sing is invited to the Big St David’s Day Sing (7pm start) where the church choir and soloists will be performing. Pinchbeck singer Jeff Woods (aka ‘Pavanotti), who lived in the Rhondda Valley ...

Moulton Ladies have made donations totalling £1,000 to seven good causes. Representatives from Macmillan Cancer Support, Moulton Mill, St Barnabas, Moulton Community Centre, Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn radiology department, The Salvation Army Boston and Holbeach Hospital collected cheques at this month’s meeting. The group holds various fundraising events throughout the year and then decides at its annual general meeting in ...

The popular Holbeach Horticultural Society is keen to welcome more members after celebrating its 20th anniversary. The group – which held its first meeting on January 9, 1997 – was the brainchild of Heather Beedle, aided by Betty Humphries and Ann Wellington among others. Whether a novice or experienced gardener, or just interested in seeing the beautiful efforts of others, ...

Former two-weight world champion Carl Frampton packed a punch as star guest at Spalding and District Round Table’s boxing night. The charitable organisation added to the more than £200,000 it has raised over the previous 22 annual events, with proceeds going to good causes in the area. Frampton was the talk of last Saturday’s event at Springfields Events Centre in ...

Individuals are being invited to get involved in a new project designed to create a community shed where they can get together, socialise and share skills. The new Men’s Shed South Holland project seeks to create a shared space to work on individual or group projects in a friendly environment. Heidi Haxeltine, of Lincolnshire Community and Voluntary Service, has been ...

Food manufacturer Bakkavor and Spalding health and wellbeing charity Tonic Health have teamed up again to promote healthy eating. The second educational workshop for schoolchildren aged from 5 to 12 focused on wraps and other nutritious alternatives to bread. It followed another successful workshop last month on the importance of fruit and salads for a healthy diet. These workshops are ...

A first fundraising calendar for Lincs and Notts Air Ambulance was so popular that the person who came up with the idea has made a date to do it all again. The venture by Surfleet resident Rachel Rodgers raised £4,747 for the charity, which needs £2.1m a year. Rachel set up Twitter account @LincsSkies last year, enabling photographers to share ...

A book of bygone stories from a Girl Guiding group in Spalding has been published with financial support from the ward member’s budget of six South Holland district councillors. “Memories of 2nd Spalding Guide Company 1941-1965″ has been produced by District Guiding commissioners Bridget Scase and Jane Amess in tribute to Mary Waters, who was involved with the Guiding movement for 76 years ...

Staff and volunteers are busy making final preparations for the reopening of Holbeach Library in a new location on Monday.(Feb 13) The facility, now being run by non-profit organisation Greenwich Leisure Ltd, is part of a £1.2million project by Lincolnshire Co-op to create a community hub at its Fleet Street site. An open plan area also houses a pharmacy and ...

Holbeach fundraiser Les Ward has scrapped his plans to put on a Christmas market and parade in the town this year. The 73-year-old blamed difficulties in getting approval for a road closure in High Street. Mr Ward said: “I’m finished with it. I had people willing to help me but I just felt there was no way forward with the ...

Popular Spalding covers band Zebra bid farewell to long-serving lead guitarist Phil Wright with an emotional gig at The Granary in Long Sutton last Saturday.(Jan 28) Lead singer Kev Arnold said: “It’s a sad day for us as we have all been friends for a long time but a new chapter in Zebra’s evolution.” The band will reveal the Gibson ...