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Holbeach Parish Council has put together a walking trail with 15 stops around the town in a bid to encourage people to get out and about this summer. The trail has been created by members of the Holbeach Action Group to encourage members of the public to walk around the town centre and discover more about the town. The route ...

Local Brownies were on a hunt around Spalding recently as they learned about some of the history of the town. Clues were placed around the centre based on the Portrait of a Town bronze sculptures dotted around. A total of 46 Brownies took part in the event from the 3rd and 5th Spalding and 1st Pinchbeck packs. Organiser Kerry Weetman ...

Around 3,000 people descended on Carter’s Park last weekend as Holbeach’s Food Festival returned bigger and stronger than ever. For the first time the event was held over two days and Sunday also incorporated a hugely popular South Lincolnshire Strongest competition that produced entrants from as far afield as Newcastle and Nottingham. That was alongside food merchants, a host of ...

A group who were at Spalding Grammar School together 40 years ago recently got together for a special reunion. Stuart Gilks and Steve Lane tracked down around 90 or so peers with 25 attending the champagne reception at the school on Saturday, June 22. Also in attendance were former teacher Brian Sleight BEM along with Mark and Michael Fordham, son ...

A woman who was given the middle name Peace as she was born on the day the Treaty of Versailles was signed has been celebrating her 100th birthday in style. Vera Peace Clarke (nee Coulson) reached her century on Friday, June 28. Born in Delgate Bank in Weston Hills, she’s lived in South Holland her whole life and had her ...

Two boys aged just nine and seven got on their bike to thank and raise money for the hospital that saved their little brother’s life. Lincoln (9) and Swaley (7) Douglas cycled the 21 miles from their Tydd St Giles home to The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King’s Lynn where sibling Chase (3) spent the first few weeks of his ...

A Spalding couple have won the Community Leadership category in Lincolnshire County Council’s annual Good Citizens Awards. Andrew and Heather Inkley lead the Spalding PHAB (physical disabled and able bodied) group for around 70 people with and without disabilities, “to make more of life together”. It meets twice a month and organises outings and holidays for its members. “So many ...

Spalding Academy Year 11s ended their GCSE year in style last week at a glitzy prom at Springfields. Last Thursday’s event saw crowds gather around the Marquee Suite for the annual tradition. And the students didn’t disappoint with their grand entrances and fantastic attire for the end of the school year celebration. A spokesman for Spalding Academy, said: “Spalding Academy ...

A couple celebrated their golden wedding anniversary by raising nearly £2,000 for charities by holding a special ball. Brenda and Chris Wells put the event on at the South Holland Centre in May, the day after they celebrated 50 years as a married couple. A number of local businesses helped out with auction and raffle prizes. Also among the prizes ...

The annual Holbeach Food Festival is back bigger and stronger than ever this weekend and even includes an inaugural strongman competition to be refereed by Geoff Capes. For the first time the Carter’s Park festival, which is free to attend, will be held over two days, this Saturday and Sunday from 10am to 4pm. As ever there will be a ...

A nine-foot-long python enjoyed itself in a Spalding retirement home last week. Thankfully Basil is the pet of Kathryn Degg who took him to The Bungalow in Park Road for the residents to experience. The four-year-old snake, who could grow to be more than 20 foot long, enjoyed sliding around the elderly who mostly also took a shine to him. ...

Volunteers associated with local charity The Meadows have knitted over 22,000 bottle tops to help the local charity. The day centre it runs helps provide a hub for the more elderly in the town and it was previously part of Age UK. It has continued its participation in The Big Knit where every knitted bottle top is purchased for 25p ...

Holbeach could have been momentarily mistaken for Hollywood last week as pupils arrived in style to their school prom. The Year 11 pupils from University Academy Holbeach showed plenty off plenty of glitz and glamour on Friday, June 21 as they arrived at the school year-ending bash in a whole host of incredible vehicles and clothes. A large crowd of ...

A disabled 29-year-old special needs teacher who was seriously injured in a car collision has said the response so far to an appeal to get her a new wheelchair has ‘restored her faith in human kindness’ but more still needs to be raised. Nicole Amott, who has muscular dystrophy, was left in intensive care after the car she was driving ...

Three teenagers from Long Sutton raced to help a man who had collapsed on the pavement and been found semi-conscious. Rachel Stevens, 15, Michael Ireland, 16, and Samuel Collett, 16, were walking home from training night at Long Sutton Army Cadet Force Detachment on Thursday June 12 when the drama unfolded on Bull Lane. Using the first aid skills they ...

A Long Sutton woman has set up a food bank from her home after gratefully receiving donations herself during a time of need. Julieann Ward set up Helping Hands as somewhere to go once people had exhausted their allocations with other local food banks, with which she’s not affiliated. She said: “I got stuck a few months ago and couldn’t ...

Two sisters from Spalding have won the Great Daffodil Award from Marie Curie charity. Elizabeth and Victoria Hammond have been awarded Mini Superstar Collectors 2019 for the Lincolnshire Region awards for their tireless fundraising. Lauren Alexander, Community Fundraiser for Lincolnshire, said: “These young ladies are by far the cutest collectors we have supporting our Great Daffodil Appeal. “Their endless array ...

A community space is in blossom after volunteers spruced it up together with Holbeach in Bloom. Lincolnshire Co-op colleagues and members re-planted the borders and tubs around All Saints’ Church in the town as part of the Big Co-op Clean, on Thursday, June 6. Colleagues from its Swineshead Food Store, Gosberton and Holbeach post offices, Holbeach and Spalding funeral homes, ...

The emergency first responders charity LIVES has had a boost from a councillor who has helped fund the purchase of three new suits – one for each LIVES responder in the district. Coun Tracey Carter said: “I approached other councillors to see if they were also able to assist, of which a number of other councillors from across South Holland ...

A charity that organises sessions for parents and their disabled children is opening a new session in Holbeach. The South Holland branch of Little Miracles was re-established last year by Elizabeth Kilbon whose 10-year-old son Jayden Batterham has ADHD. The first sessions held every Friday at Tonic Health in Spalding are coming up to celebrating their first birthday with around ...