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A Whaplode quartet of brothers will all be wearing their green berets with pride later this month. But a special fundraiser they had planned for today has been postponed because of Coronavirus. Today will see Joe Fowler (20), complete the final test of his Royal Marine training with a 30-mile commando run. He was to have been joined by his ...

The NHS team behind an initiative to offer screening for latent tuberculosis, general health checks, information and advice to factory workers in south Lincolnshire have been shortlisted for a national award. Staff from Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) impressed judges in the Team of the Year category of the Nursing Times Awards 2020 with their efforts to improve ...

Banning shops from selling single cans and high alcohol volume beer and cider are measures being called for by police. They were part of steps Lincolnshire Police requested be taken as part of South Holland District Council’s revised Licensing Act Statement of Principles. The document needs to be renewed by January and police have asked the council to include further ...

A person had to be cut out of a car after a collision with a HGV on the A17 at Fleet Hargate last night (Tuesday, November 10). Lincolnshire Police said the driver of the car, a blue Chevrolet, escaped with minor injuries following the incident at around 5.40pm. They were cut out by fire crews from Holbeach, Spalding and Long ...

A Weston man has been jailed for three years after admitting the manslaughter of his son, whom he shook as a baby nearly 20 years ago. Jack Mitchell was born a healthy child in January 2001 and responded well following his birth. However, between March and May of the same year there were four occasions where he stopped breathing. He ...

The next set of preparatory works for the northerly section of the Spalding Western Relief Road is due to start tomorrow (Tuesday). Vegetation clearance along the B1356 Spalding Road near Pinchbeck will begin on Tuesday, November 10. The works, which are for section five of the project, are expected to last for up to three weeks, Monday to Friday from ...

Moulton Mill has been given financial help from the government. The historic windmill is again closed due to the lockdown. But it’s been given £34,500 as part of the Culture Recovery Fund to help it with maintenance costs and to buy a new flour sieve to expand its homemade flours it sell to the public. Janet Prescott, the Mill manager, said: “This ...

A Weston dad has admitted causing injuries to his baby son which led to the son’s death years later. Jack Mitchell died, aged 15 in 2016 and a forensic post-mortem examination found he had died from a pulmonary infection and pneumonia as a result of injuries sustained as a baby in Laindon in Basildon. His biological father, John Doak, was ...

Your views are being sought on the state of Lincolnshire’s roads. It’s part of the County View panel launched earlier this year to gather residents’ views on Lincolnshire County Council services and help shape how those services are delivered. Anyone living in Greater Lincolnshire can join the panel. Members are invited to complete a short survey of just five questions, ...

A number of local libraries are to stay open during the latest ‘lockdown’ with new measures in place. Services at both Spalding and Long Sutton libraries will be available though run slightly deliberately, Lincolnshire County Council which runs them as said. And a number of Community Hub libraries ran by volunteers will also remain open with restrictions including Pinchbeck, Sutton ...

The future of walk-in services at Spalding’s Johnson Hospital remains uncertain with staff at its Minor Injury Unit having been moved elsewhere and a proposed upgrade looking set to fail. As part of the NHS Healthy Conversation, the hospital was being considered to be upgraded to an Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC) alongside Gainsborough. Last week it was announced that town’s ...

The children at a Spalding special school will be able to move into their new classrooms after a public appeal for help. The head teacher at the Garth School asked for help after the price of new blinds was cut from the budget of a new extension project. The Spalding Voice carried the appeal just before half term and South ...

A Spalding woman emptied a bag of weeds over a neighbour during an argument that had been triggered by her partner going into the neighbour’s garden to clear it of weeds. Tracey Mills, 48, of Severn Road, admitted assaulting Elaine Mayfield by beating as well as threatening to damage her windows, when she appeared before magistrates in Boston. Prosecuting, Marie ...

Donington’s High Street could be set for two big boosts with sale of The Red Cow and a new shop with Post Office announced for the village. The dilapidated 200-year-old former hotel has been an eye-sore for a number of years, but has now been purchased by API Limited which has recently completed refurbishments of The Chequers and The Bell, ...

The wait for a new store on a derelict piece of land that’s turned into an eyesore will go on. Blakemore Retail owns the land on the corner of Bourne Road and Carrington Road in Spalding which received planning permission for a Spar back in 2009. Despite Spar pledging to start work back in 2015, the site remains vacant. This ...

A council that’s been subject to a number of complaints has adopted a new transparency code and complaints procedure as it looks to bounce back from internal conflict. There’s been 13 complaints made about Holbeach Parish Council and its councillors to the Standards Panel of South Holland District Council in recent months. To put that in context only five were ...

A group that aims to beat loneliness for ladies in and around Holbeach has received two donations to help it get going again when it can. Clicked-In usually holds social sessions for ladies though with the current pandemic they’ve not been able to since March. Two groups though have donated money to ensure the group’s return when it’s safe. Chosen ...

A councillor has launched a new awards ceremony to recognise the people at the heart of Holbeach. Tracey Carter has launched the Hearts of Holbeach awards to recognise those in and around the town who’ve made a difference during a difficult year. Nominations are now open and a public vote will decide the winners who will be announced in an ...

A former Spalding Grammar School pupil who grew up in Long Sutton has had his second novel published which is set in The Fens. Mark Fitch has released The Treasury which he describes as ‘Lock Stock meets The Sixth Sense’. It involves two groups, one of students and one of gangsters, looking for treasure left by King John. Mark, who ...

It was a super end to the half term for Year One pupils at Spalding’s Monkshouse Primary School. Superheroes have been the topic for the children since they returned to school in September. And to mark the end of the first part of the school year back in class, they all dressed as their favourite superhero. A spokesman for the ...