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Spalding’s White Horse Writers group is hosting its second open mic night on Thursday, May 30. Serge’s Tapas on Francis Street is again hosting the eclectic mixture of poetry, prose and music, all by local performers. It follows on from the success of the first such event at the end of March. The event starts at 7.30pm and all new ...

Spalding rock group Zebra played to a full house at the Castle Sports Cafe and Bar last weekend a charity event organised by John Phoenix to raise funds for two charities close to his heart, Guide Dogs for the blind and Dementia UK. John said: “This is the best event I have put on here, everyone has had so much ...

A 42-year-old is being spurred back into the boxing ring to support a family who lost a loved one to a brain tumour. Chris Miller from Holbeach is raising money for Cancer Research and The Brain Tumour Charity by taking part in the Ultra White Collar Boxing Event at the Peterborough Arena on June 29. After taking part once previously ...

Spalding Festival is set to be even bigger and better as it returns for 2019 this weekend. This year’s Spalding Round Table event is both an indoor and outdoor spectacle promising even more fun for all the family than before at the Castle Sports Complex. Not only is there set to be the usual fantastic array of beer and cider ...

The date has been set for this year’s Lincolnshire Co-op Big Clean. The event is set up to spruce up the town to help prepare for Holbeach in Bloom and takes place on Thursday, June 6. Meeting at All Saints’ Church at 9.30am, from 10am-4pm, volunteers can get together and get the town looking good. Lunch will be provided. A ...

A Spalding choir made up almost entirely of newcomers hit the stage in Peterborough last week for a good cause. Never having sung before or with little experience, several men from Spalding got out of their comfort zone, took up the gauntlet and after auditioning, joined with others from all over the region, as part of the Men United in ...

Hundreds of people visited Ayscoughfee Hall across two days for two Happy Healthy Minds events. South Holland District Council’s Community Development team put the events on as part of Mental Health Awareness Week. Around 350 people attended the classes, craft and information stalls on Saturday, May 11 followed by another 150 on Wednesday, May 15. A spokesman for the Community ...

A charity that helps victims of domestic abuse has been given a cash boost by the charitable efforts of the Spalding Inner Wheel. An Inner Wheel spokesman said: “Following a very interesting and informative talk given by Sarah Smith regarding her work with SoLDAS / Boston Women’s Aid Charity, Inner Wheel President Carole Cooke presented her with a cheque for ...

Talented young artists from University Academy Holbeach showed off their creations in a final show of their work on Monday. The B-Tec and A Level students marked their final time at the academy with the impressive show. The works they displayed included creations they’d made as part of their exams. One exam involved creating something on the subject of ‘Duality’ ...

A Spalding gymnastics coach is to dramatically cut her hair for charity.   Lexi Coote is having 12 inches cut off to be donated to the Little Princess Trust Charity that creates wigs for children who suffer hair loss due to illness.   “I am the worst person for not getting my hair cut,” said Lexi who as well as ...

National disability charity Sense has thanked Spalding toddler Mia Clucas after she helped them raise an amazing £172,300 as the face of its 2018 Christmas appeal. Mia, who is three in August, was born with two extremely rare genetic conditions – Coffin-Siris Syndrome and PCDH12 – which have left her with a malformed brain and rendered her severely disabled. But ...

  A flight attendant who jumped out of a plane at the weekend in memory of her husband says it was “the best feeling ever”.   Diane Virden (51), of Spalding, took the plunge at Sibson airfield to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support, the charity which helped husband Simon when he was diagnosed with oesophageal cancer which had spread ...

A group that aims to keep Spalding clean is looking for businesses to help support its litter picking. Spotless Spalding, organised by Coun Jack McLean, is looking to hear from anyone who could sponsor litter picking equipment. He set the group up four years ago to improve the area. “We have branched out into community gardening a few times and ...

Twelve months after saying last year’s London Marathon was going to be his “first and last”, Phil Newton was back at the event this year. The 42-year-old from Sutton St James once again raised over £1,500 for the charity World Horse Welfare by completing the 26.2 mile course. He hadn’t even taken on a run until Christmas 2017 but smashed ...

A Holbeach activity group for adults with learning disabilities now holds sessions two days a week. Following its open day taster day session in February, the Goldhay Arts club now runs weekly at Holbeach Hub and will next month hold a coffee morning for people to go along and see what members have been up to so far. The regular ...

The chance to try your hand at woodturning will take place at a Weston garden centre this weekend. Members of the Fenland Woodturners Club will be on-hand all day at Baytree Garden Centre on Saturday, May 18, to show their skills with demonstrations, as well as the chance for people to try and make their own objects. The club this ...

A South Holland woman who spends her working life flying is about to leap from a perfectly good plane. But it’s not one of the Easy Jet passenger jets she crews, and she will be raising money in memory of her husband who died from cancer at the age of 42. Diane Virden will be heading to an airfield this ...

A statue that celebrates a historic Spalding event has been unveiled. The Hiring, by Laury Dizengremel, was unveiled during a ceremony in Hall Place during Bank Holiday Monday, in front of around 80 people. Representatives from the Spalding and District Civic Society were joined by a number of guests+. The sculpture depicts the traditional hiring of staff by the local ...

A cool Bank Holiday weekend failed to deter visitors from pouring into Moulton Chapel for the annual village parade. Decorated bicycles joined floats and vintage vehicles in the village on Sunday. The 39th annual event took months of planning and organisers were delighted that the chilly weather wasn’t an issue. “It is a good job it wasn’t the day before ...