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A South Holland teacher has told how Prince Philip was instrumental in helping to save his daughter’s life. Jason Martindale learned vital first aid skills while on a Duke of Edinburgh Awards Scheme and he later used them to save his own daughter. “The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award has been the best thing that I have been involved in,” he ...

South Holland’s towns are beginning to look more like themselves as the majority of businesses reopened on Monday when more COVID-19 restrictions were lifted. Non-essential businesses are now open, alongside pubs with beer gardens. Many shops opened their doors for the first time, gyms welcomed people back into their properties and queues emerged outside hairdressers in the area’s towns and ...

South Holland Police are to conduct a ‘lessons learned’ review after what they say were false reports of people entering properties in Holbeach. Reports, videos and pictures were placed on the Spotted Holbeach Facebook group of individuals in and around people’s properties on Cecil Pywell Avenue and Chestnut Avenue on Wednesday, April 7. Following enquiries, police say the people were ...

A Holbeach woman has been given a suspended prison sentence after magistrates viewed CCTV images of her knocking another woman to the ground and kicking her, in a totally unprovoked attack in a Skegness car park. Donna Maria Pleasance, 38, of St Matthews Drive but who was living in Weston, Spalding at the time, admitted affray when she appeared at ...

A woman who looked after a stash of cocaine for a drug dealer was today (Monday) spared an immediate jail sentence at Lincoln Crown Court. Leah Hurlock, who was described as being addicted to drink and drugs at the time, was arrested after police raided her Holbeach home in May 2019. Jonathon Dee, prosecuting, told the court “During the course ...

Vandals have caused a bridge between Spalding and Pinchbeck to be closed. Two Plank Footbridge had a handrail broken off and thrown into Vernatt’s Drain earlier this week. Now Lincolnshire County Council, which oversees the bridge, has closed it ahead of a temporary repair. The bridge is due to be fully dissembled and replaced with a more substantial structure as ...

Lincolnshire Police have issued a statement ahead of the latest easing of lockdown measures that come into force from Monday (April 12). Lincolnshire Police’s Assistant Chief Constable, Kerrin Wilson, said: “Lockdown has hit practically every aspect of life as we know it, and perhaps the hardest part has been not being able to connect with family and friends in person. ...

The Queen’s representative in Lincolnshire and council leaders are among those to have paid tribute to the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip who has died aged 99. Buckingham Palace announced the death of The Queen’s consort this morning. Toby Dennis, Lord-Lieutenant of Lincolnshire, and Her Majesty’s representative in the county said: “Since 6 February 1952, HRH The Duke of Edinburgh ...

The candidates for the 2021 elections to Lincolnshire County Council and for the county’s Police and Crime Commissioner position have been announced. The election takes place on Thursday May 6. The candidates for the nine Lincolnshire County Council wards in South Holland are: Crowland – Richard Geoffrey Fairman (Ind), Nigel Harry Pepper (Con). Donington Rural – Martin Colman (Green), Rodney ...

Holbeach Parish Council’s chairman Graham Rudkin is to step down from the position saying he’s become ‘disillusioned’. But he says he will continue to be on the council which South Holland District Council recently stepped in to offer mediation to following a number of complaints, controversies and reports of infighting. “I’ve just been getting disillusioned with everything.” he told The ...

Spalding Fire Crew has been called out to two blazes in the town this afternoon (Thursday, April 8). A garage and its contents, two sheds and a fence suffered severe damage in a fire on St Andrews Road reported around midday. Deeping Fire and Rescue crew also attended the incident that also led to severe smoke damage to an adjoining ...

Plans for a 5G phone mast in one part of Spalding are likely to be refused, while a similar scheme for a different part of the town is set to be accepted. Siting a proposed 20m mast in the Spalding Wygate ward has been recommended for rejection. But a similar mast in the Spalding St Paul’s area has the thumbs-up. ...

A five-year-old Womble’s egg-cellent initiative has helped raise smiles across the Easter weekend. Chance Savic told his parents he wanted to do something to make children happy over Easter. So he and his family have been painting Wombles on rocks and hiding them around Spalding to be found. Children who discovered them could trade them in for an Easter egg ...

A total of 885 letters have been sent out to South Holland residents in the past 12 months for putting their rubbish out too early, it’s been revealed. Emily Holmes, South Holland District Council’s communities manager, told a meeting of the Spalding Town Forum last week that prosecution action had been started against one individual identified as a repeat offender ...

Three graffiti artists have helped brighten up another Spalding grot spot. Adam Sadd, Karl Barfoot and Edgars Bokans have each created a display on the riverside wall of Westons Farm Supplies off Roman Bank. The project follows up on the work they did earlier this year at Dead Man’s Drop off Mitchell Drive. The trio spent most of Easter Sunday ...

A war of words over litter has erupted on social media between a district councillor and members of the town’s Wombles organisation. Coun Roger Gambba-Jones has been asked to stand down following exchanges after online discussions over the Spalding Town Form meeting he chairs. As reported, he raised litter-picking at the meeting, urging those doing it to work with the ...

Heritage Lincolnshire volunteer Dave Hagen, from Lutton, has received a commendation from Heritage Alliance, the Heritage governing body, for his outstanding contribution to maintenance of the ex- Royal Observer Corp underground monitoring post situated on the old Washway Road at Holbeach. Dave (74), an ex-Chief Observer, volunteered with Heritage Lincolnshire so that he could help to maintain and preserve the ...

People are being asked to be considerate when parking at a town park and cemetery. The cemetery drive and Cinder Ash Park, both in Long Sutton, have suffered damage due to motorists driving and parking on the grass there. Long Sutton Parish Council has received a grant of £3,500 from the Grange Wind Farm Fund and the money will be ...

A Holbeach man stole money from a friend’s bank account after he had been entrusted with his debit car and PIN number, a court has been told. Andrew Mason, 60, of Balmoral Way admitted committing fraud by false representation when he appeared before magistrates in Boston. Prosecuting, Emma Cornell said the victim, Philip Smith, and Mason had been friends for ...

A man who admitted carrying out a violent attack on a person found lying in a Spalding street was today (Wednesday) jailed for eight and half years. Aldis Blumbergs was also sentenced to four years extended licence on his release from jail when he will also face deportation to his native Latvia. Lincoln Crown Court heard police and paramedics were ...