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A bus service that serves many South Holland towns and villages is to to become hourly from Sunday, January 24. The 505 Spalding to Kings Lynn service currently runs roughly every half hour. The route also serves Weston, Moulton, Whaplode, Holbeach, Fleet Hargate, Gedney, Long Sutton and Sutton Bridge. Stagecoach East has said that the revised timetable is “due to ...

A 73 year old Spalding man has been sent for trial at Lincoln Crown Court on a range of historic allegations of sexual assaults on children aged between three and 15 years old. David Walker of Coronation Close entered no pleas at Boston Magistrates Court to the five allegations of sexual assault and three of attempted rape, all of which ...

South Holland is set for yet more wet weather with an amber warning for rain having been issued by the Met Office. It covers the period from 6am tomorrow (Tuesday) until 12pm on Thursday, January 21. It includes what has been named Storm Christoph with the rain due to start falling tonight (Monday). It comes days after flooding was reported ...

The leader of South Holland District Council says no elderly or vulnerable residents should have to go outside of the district for the COVID-19 vaccine after reports people were being asked to go as far as Bedford for the jabs. Lord Gary Porter and other local politicians including Angela Newton say they’ve spoken to NHS Lincolnshire Care Commissioning Group (CCG) ...

Fire crews helped pump water out of gardens last night (Friday) as the River Glen burst its banks at Surfleet Reservoir. The Environment Agency had yesterday put a flood warning ‘expecting’ flooding in the area around high tide. Another warning was put out for this morning following the rain that’s fallen in the last 48 hours. Last night at shortly ...

A flood warning has been placed on the River Glen following the more than 24 hours of rain and snowfall experienced yesterday. The Environment Agency say properties at Surfleet Reservoir are most at risk, particular ahead of this evening’s (Friday) high tide. The warning from the Environment Agency states: “Heavy rain has been falling on the River Glen catchment over ...

A company building two new retail units on the A52 at Donington has been allowed to change conditions placed on the application just six weeks after they were granted permission. The application for a retail unit on the corner of the A52 Bicker Road and Church Street was back before South Holland District Council’s Planning Committee last week after being ...

Images of the COVID-19 vaccination site at Springfields Events Centre have been published alongside details of how it will be operated. The hub is one of the main vaccine sites for south Lincolnshire and is due to go live in the next two days. The images inside have been published on social media by the Bourne Gatley Medical Practice. The ...

The father of a 42-year-old ambulance driver who nearly died after contracting COVID-19 has urged others to wear a facemask where possible after the ‘worst weeks’ of his and his daughter’s life. On Christmas Eve the family of Emilie Sanderson, from Moulton Chapel, including partner Simon, were told to prepare for the worst after the keen equestrian was hospitalised with ...

An appeal has been set up to help a Crowland 12-year-old regain some of his independence after he was left unable to stand or walk just before Christmas. McKenzie Goldsmith, known as Kenzie, was diagnosed with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy seven years ago, a genetic condition which means his muscles are weakening as he gets older. But in the run up ...

Long Sutton-based Freemasons have donated thousands of pounds to a hospital breast cancer unit. The Alexandra Lodge (985) have donated £2,800 to The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King’s Lynn. The donation will go toward QEH’s Breast Cancer Unit development charitable fund following the fantastic care given to a close friend of Brother Dean Bowd, The Most Worshipful Master at Alexandra ...

South Holland District Council is cancelling a planned two per cent pay increase for its staff alongside the raising of council tax to offset an estimated £1.52m loss for the next financial year. A Special Cabinet meeting on Tuesday heard that £759,000 of saving measures had been identified but £761,000 more savings needed to be found. Not providing the pay ...

A Donington photographer has beaten off tens of thousands of other entrants to be shortlisted for a prestigious national award. Joanna Banks’ image ‘Dominic’ is one of ten up for the Guild of Photographers’ Image of the Year Competition out of 16,000 entries.It shows friend of a friend Dominic Hitchings. ‘Dominic’ by Joanna Banks Joanna said: “I’m particularly interested in ...

Millions of pounds of extra funding has been sourced to help fund new facilities at specialist schools in Lincolnshire, including at The Garth and Priory schools, as well as Gosberton Academy. A further £30m has been sourced for the five-year projet to improve 13 schools taking the total to £86m. The newly pledged £30m includes half new funding from Lincolnshire ...

A Spalding engineer for British Gas has outlined why he and thousands others across the country have been on strike in the past few days. Stuart Wilton erected a sign outside his home stating #StopTheBritishGasFire and stopped working from Thursday, January 7 to Monday, January 11. The 46-year-old father of two has been an engineer for nearly 20 years after ...

There’s been a call for councils to work together on funding from developers amid concerns proposed changes to the planning system will leave Lincolnshire with ‘much lower’ contributions. In South Holland, larger developments can only be given planning permission when an agreement between the developer and district council to mitigate negative impacts of developments is signed, known as a Section ...

A teenager from Holbeach St Marks has admitted making hundreds of indecent images of children. Joseph Orbell, 18, of Strawberry Fields Drive, admitted making a total of 782 still and 16 moving images of children between January 2015 and March 2019. Prosecuting at Boston Magistrates Court, Michael Little said police executed a search warrant at Orbell’s home on March 5, ...

The body of a woman has been found near Quadring following a police search this morning. The body was found at North Drove, police said. It followed South Holland Police putting out a missing persons appeal for Shirley Jones who went missing overnight from last night (January 12 to 13). A Lincolnshire Police, spokesman, said: “While formal identification is yet ...

Springfields has been confirmed as a new COVID-19 vaccine site as a number of local GP surgeries have also detailed they’re set to start vaccinating. Springfields has been confirmed alongside five new centres to provide the vaccine ‘by the end of this week’. It is the first venue in South Holland to be announced. An NHS spokesman said: “The launch ...

Five people have been arrested after reports of a spate of catalytic converters from vehicles in South Holland. The five men have been arrested on suspicion of theft from motor vehicles and one for going equipped to commit crime. Police say the arrests follow a spate of theft and attempted thefts of catalytic convertors in the Holbeach and Spalding areas ...