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The Pupil School Council at Spalding’s Ayscoughfee Hall School recently raised £150 for charity. Headteacher Clare Odgen said: “With their usual care and compassion, the children have overwhelmingly chosen to support the RSPCA on this occasion, as they feel more animals than usual have been neglected due to the COVID situation and the RSPCA will have been unable to fundraise ...

Pupils at Gosberton Academy went more than the extra mile to raise money for the school. All the children walked more than 5km on a route around the village to add up to 800km. They teamed-up with Gosberton House Care Home and during their lap of the village, children delivered flowers, letters and poems to residents. “It’s been a tough ...

A fundraiser has donated over £3,000 to the family of a veteran who passed away recently. Harold Payne’s DUKW armoured vehicle carried George Wing of Bourne’s coffin to his funeral at South Lincolnshire Cemetery. And Harold has been busy raising funds to pay for the service. He presented a total of £3,287 to George’s widow Lynne Wing. “She was over ...

A Spalding woman has launched a Facebook group in a bid to help others struggling with their mental health. Emily Faulkner has launched Doorway to Acceptance after her own fight with depression. The mum to Archie (2) and Sophia (5) wanted to pass on everything she’s gone through in a bid to help others. “It’s just to show people they ...

An opera singer has raised over a thousand pounds by singing more than 100 songs from his Pinchbeck home. Jeff Woods, aka Pavanotti, had the idea to raise the money for Dementia UK and for the appeal recently been set up to raise funds for the village’s parks. He particularly wanted to do something in memory of wife Jacqui’s mum ...

A laundry keeper has completed her goal to run for over 100 miles in the month of May for Breast Cancer Now. Nichola Baxter was inspired to take on the challenge due to her mum Diane Turner’s battle with the condition and having seen residents at the Cedar Falls care home she works at with the disease. She finished her ...

A 96-year-old veteran who learned to drive a Buffalo armoured vehicle of the kind pulled from out the Crowland earth recently was lifted on to the vehicle by current serving personnel while watched on by comedian and historian Al Murray today (Friday, June 4). The Crowland Bufallo LVT Association, who recovered the vehicle from the mud, held a special media ...

A Lincolnshire domestic abuse charity has seen demand for its help rocket over the last year. The revelation comes after an inquest heard that a man with a history of domestic violence murdered his partner before killing himself. The charity EDAN (Ending Domestic Abuse Now in Lincolnshire) says referrals have shot up by 28 per cent since the start of ...

Many hands make light work and even the smallest helpers can bring a town to blooming perfection. When the Holbeach In Bloom team was out and about this week making sure planters were bursting, a group of young supporters were on hand. Young pupils at Small Saints pre-school were delighted to get their hands dirty for a good cause and ...

Live music returned to a Spalding record shop recently for a nationwide festival. Boston band Kings and Bears played an impromptu show at Uptown Vinyl in Baytree Garden Centre, Weston, as part of the BBC’s Airwaves festival. A host of local radio stations, including BBC Lincolnshire, put on the shows and broadcasted them over the Bank Holiday weekend. Due to ...

A Holbeach family’s lockdown hobby of looking after ducks has now turned in to a full time operation. Cheryl Potts and her daughters Willow (12) and Rowan Ravenscroft (11) first helped a duck called Waddles their pet cat brought to their Hallgate home last year. But it’s grown incredibly since then and at the time of writing they are looking ...

Spalding’s ‘Knitting Nanas’ have provided a public thank you to the army of volunteers cleaning up the town that’s even received the approval of the man who created the Wombles TV show. Jan Neal and Carol Usher were so inspired by the work of the Wombles of Spalding Common, they decided to knit a womble along with a message of ...

The volunteers behind Holbeach Bookshop were able to get together for the first time in more than a year recently as part of the shop’s reopening. The shop is now open 10am to 4pm every day except Wednesdays and Sundays. COVID safe measures are in place and only two people are allowed in the shop at one time. It’s also ...

A group is appealing for any memories South Holland residents may have of a World War Two Prisoner of War (POW) camp. The Friends of Chain Bridge Forge museum are looking to find out more information about Camp 153 or Fulney Park Camp which was situated off Kellet Gate in Low Fulney to the east of Spalding. Geoff Taylor of ...

A Pinchbeck opera singer is to sing 100 songs on his doorstep in memory of both his mother-in-law and Captain Sir Tom Moore. Jeff Woods, also known as Pavanotti, will on Sunday stand outside his Mountbatten Avenue home and belt out the songs to raise money for both Dementia UK and the bid to raise money to improve Pinchbeck’s parks. ...

Dog lovers came from across the country to Whaplode Drove on Saturday. The East Anglian Staffordshire Bull Terrier Club held its first dog show since restrictions were lifted at the Elizabethan Centre in the village. And competitors came from as far afield as Wales for the event which boasted 83 entrants. Show manager Martin Johnson said: “It went absolutely to ...

Residents and staff at Beech Lodge Care and Nursing Home in Holbeach have swapped their uniforms and regular clothing for a day of denim wearing in support of Alzheimer’s Society. As part of Denim for Dementia day on Friday May 21, everyone was encouraged to wear denim in exchange for a donation to Alzheimer’s Society. Denim for Dementia day takes ...

Tanks paraded through South Holland last week as part of the send off for a 100-year-old World War Two veteran. The coffin containing George Wing was on one of two armoured DUKW vehicles that were part of the procession to his funeral at South Lincolnshire Crematorium in Surfleet. George, who lived in Bourne, was one of those evacuated from the ...

The Long Sutton Men’s Shed is now back in business opening its doors again for the first time since March 2020. The group set up to help alleviate loneliness meet at Silverwood Tea Rooms near Long Sutton. The club has also had a literal boost thanks to Western Power Development providing them with a brand new power source for the ...

The family of a young boy who was left brain damaged after suffering two strokes before he’d even been born are looking to help improve his life and possibly the lives of others with disabilities. Roman Wilson is now three years old and despite being left brain damaged is defying all doctors’ expectations for his development. He is paralysed on ...