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A little over two years from leaving a council with a “significant bullying problem” a former boss is in his third role working with South Holland District Council. It first appointed Nathan Elvery as Head of Interim Paid Services in October 2020 officially to oversee its break up with Breckland Council. It followed him leaving as chief executive of West ...

Business owners in South Holland worried about their future energy bills can rent the power station at Sutton Bridge. Along with its sister plant in South Wales, the station could produce enough power for two million homes but both of them are mothballed. The owners of both plants went into receivership during the first Covid lockdown when demand for energy ...

Public consultation on climate change strategy for South Holland has been launched by the district council. Residents are invited to share views on plans to work towards the country’s net zero by 2050 target set by national government. Emissions in South Holland have dropped 25.8 per cent between 2005 and 2019, though that’s less than Boston (35.3 per cent) and ...

Spalding could be one of the first places in Lincolnshire to have a biodiesel filling station in a bid to cut carbon. The new facility would be one of two, with the other in Grantham, according to a county council report. Members of the Environment and Economy Scrutiny Committee are due to meet on Tuesday when they will be told ...

South Holland District Council is putting its share of the council tax up by 2.83 per cent – but says that will all go to the area’s drainage boards while it is still looking to save half a million pounds. The increase will amount to £4.95 a year for a Band D property but the authority’s portfolio holder for finance, ...

KFC says it’s hoping to have a Spalding branch open by the summer as work started this week on a new site for the company and a proposed Taco Bell. Planning permission for the single unit to be shared by the restaurants on the Lincs Gateway Business Park, near to the A16 Applegreen Service Station was granted last July. The ...

Holbeach Parish Council is to run a ‘chat to a councillor session’ this weekend. Members of the public are invited to attend the council’s offices in West End between 10am and 12pm on Saturday, January 15 to ask questions and find out what’s happening in their local communities. Holbeach Parish Council vice chairman Sophie Hutchinson will be joined by councillors ...

The police helicopter was involved in a search for a missing person around Gosberton in the early hours of this morning (Monday, January 10). Lincolnshire Police said the search was successful. A spokesman for the police said: “The police helicopter assisted us in a search for a missing person who we were very concerned for. “They were thankfully found safe ...

The fraud case of a Spalding man involved in an investment scheme worth about £4milllion has today (Monday January 10) been before crown court for the first time. Christopher Toynton – a former longtime chairman of Spalding United Football Club – is jointly charged with two co-defendants in relation to the Lottery Syndicate Club Ltd, which operated in Spalding. Toynton, ...

Work has officially begun on the first section of the Spalding Western Relief Road with an aimed completion date of Autumn 2023 having been revealed. What is intended to be the first of five sections to be accessed from a new five-way roundabout off Pinchbeck Road is being created in the north of the town. Lincolnshire County Council, which is ...

Pop-in COVID-19 vaccination centres will be at Springfields tomorrow (Tuesday, January 11) and in Long Sutton on Thursday. Those eligible for the jab, be they first, second or booster injections, can attend the sessions. The event at Springfields takes place between 10am and 7pm on Tuesday. Thursday’s session in Long Sutton is being held at St Mary’s Church Hall from 1pm ...

A driver who crashed into a house in South Holland, causing £12,000 worth of damage, has been disqualified for nine months. Aleshia Francis, 34, may have fallen asleep at the wheel, Lincoln Magistrates’ Court was told on Friday. She was also sentenced for colliding with a parked car while uninsured eight months later. The crash at the property in Vicarage ...

Those visiting patients in the Johnson Hospital in Spalding will now have to provide proof of a negative test of COVID-19. Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) has announced visitors will need to have taken a lateral flow test before arriving at the hospital and those it also runs in Lincoln, Grantham and Skegness. Visitors currently have to book ...

It’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for – we can finally reveal the winners of our Festive Pets competition. Four-year-old Yorkshire Terrier Gary, who is owned by Abbi Turner, of Seagate Road, Long Sutton, was picked out as the most festive pet, the judges loved his Santa Claus outfit. Thanks to sponsorship from Rooke’s Pet Products, Abbi wins a ...

An appeal has been made after burglars raided a property in Whaplode St Catherine yesterday (Tuesday, January 4). Designer watches, jewellery, personal documents and a whole Yale safe were stolen in the raid on a Millgate property between 3.55pm and 5pm. A Lincolnshire Police statement said: “We have now launched an investigation and would like to hear from anyone who ...

Creating a Business or new Community Improvement District is the latest idea being looked into to help town centres such as Spalding. As the ‘closing down sale’ signs went up on another shop in the town, M&Co in Bridge Street, South Holland District Council officers are looking into whether to create a new group town centre businesses can get involved ...

A Spalding dentist is facing enforcement action after an inspection found failings in a number of areas. The Crescent Dental Surgery, run by Roopesh Singh, is a private practice on which the Care Quality Commission is imposing enforcement action in safety, effectiveness and leadership. The report, which was recently published, said the inspection ‘found this practice not providing safe care ...

Poultry keepers across Lincolnshire are being urged to step up their efforts in a bid to halt the spread of avian flu. The UK’s chief veterinary officer Christine Middlemiss is warning people not to be complacent as the country faces its largest ever outbreak of the disease with more than 60 cases confirmed nationally since the start of November. In ...

Plans for an energy storage plant on land near Spalding power station have been submitted. The array of battery banks could provide enough power for 277,000 homes a year if approved. Submitted on behalf of InterGen, the proposals for the Battery Energy Storage Site (BESS) is adjacent to the open-cycle gas turbine power station which was commissioned in 2019. The ...

Plans for 81 new homes in Holbeach have been recommended for approval, providing around £450,000 is provided for infrastructure. The application for the site east of Chaffinch Way by Ashwood Homes has received numerous objections including from MP Sir John Hayes and Holbeach Parish Council Concerns included the access to the homes and lack of facilities in the town, but ...