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There’s been reports of rivers bursting their banks in South Holland. The River Welland has overflowed on to Cowbit Wash flood plains while near Quadring the Footy Foot Drain has spilled in to fields. The Environment Agency has issued a ‘flooding expected’ warning over the drain saying it could affect some homes. The warning is for isolated properties and villages ...

Spalding’s Argos is to move out of its Holland Market branch and into the nearby Sainsbury’s store. The shops now have the same owner and its part of a nationwide initiative to bring them under the same roof.Sainsbury’s has applied for planning permission to change the signage on the front of its own store on Holland Park to include the ...

A woman has been taken to hospital with potentially serious injuries after her car entered a ditch off A151 between West Pinchbeck and Twenty this morning (Thursday, January 4). The road is currently blocked and those looking to use the Bourne/Spalding Road have reported stationary traffic and cars having to do u-turns. Lincolnshire Police say the incident was reported at ...

A bid to open Moulton Park up to the public looks set to get the green light from planners. South Holland District Council is in the process of selling the majority of the site to the charity the John and Maureen Biggadike Foundation who are to open the space up for people to enjoy. The authority’s planning officers have recommended ...

People can now drop off letters to missed loved ones at Spalding Cemetery thanks to a family mourning a loss. The Woolsey family have paid out of their own pockets for the erection of a Letters to Heaven postbox in memory of Ray Woolsey who passed away on September 1 after a four and a half year battle with leukaemia. ...

A South Holland family are looking to create a new wood in memory of their friend Benjamin Zephaniah. The poet, activist and actor, who lived in Moulton Chapel, was laid to rest last week in a private ceremony after his death aged 65 last month.The Birkett family have been working on creating a wood for the public for several years ...

A Gedney Drove End man has been awarded an OBE for public service in the King’s New Year’s honours list. Nicholas Leader worked in the prison service for 40 years.After joining the prison service as an officer at HMP Birmingham in 1985, Nicholas moved to South Holland to work with HMP Whitemoor in Cambridgeshire in 1993, before retiring last September.He’s ...

A dog walker has urged anglers to be more careful after his Siberian Husky was injured by hooks left on a footpath. Kevin Kibble (62) was walking Rambo along the Coronation Channel in Spalding around 11am on Saturday, December 23 when he got one four-pronged hook in his paw and another in his back leg.Thankfully Rambo is set to be ...

Residents at a Spalding home for assisted living held a special surprise party for their departing development manager. Amanda Johnson has retired after 21 years working at Georgian Court.The grandmother of three is looking forward to spending more time with her family.Amanda, who previous to the role was a manager at Safeway said: “It’s been a wonderful two decades and ...

A public event to discuss the proposed ‘devolution’ which includes having an elected mayor for Greater Lincolnshire will be held in Spalding later this month. It comes amid criticisms of the devolution itself.Lincolnshire County Council, which is pushing for the link up with North and North East Lincolnshire County Councils, is putting on 22 consultation events, though only one is ...

A hospital trust has been given an award for the way it treats the staff it brings in from overseas. United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) has achieved the NHS Pastoral Care Quality Award. Over the last three years, in excess of 780 internationally educated nurses have joined ULHT across 42 cohorts, ranging in size from five to 65 from ...

Lincolnshire councillors are outraged by the government’s decision to redirect £235 million from the scrapped northern leg of HS2 to repair roads in London. In October, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak unveiled a £36 billion plan to revamp British transport, allocating £8.3 billion for road improvements, in the wake of the HS2 line cancellation between Birmingham and Manchester.Yet, the decision to ...

A woman who started volunteering at Johnson Hospital is the first in the county to use a scheme to make it into a proper career. Elena Orlova joined the Volunteer to Career programme after volunteering for fourth months with the Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust.She’s now employed as a health care support worker.The Volunteer to Career programme is a ...

South Holland and the Deepings MP Sir John Hayes says he has outlined to boss at Halifax his alarm it’s to close its Spalding branch later this year. It was announced last month that the bank on Bridge Road was to close by April.“In a meeting I insisted upon with Halifax Building Society staff in Westminster, I expressed my constituents’ ...

Rooke’s has unveiled its face for 2024. The pet supply company on High Street, Spalding, launched their 11th annual Face of Rooke’s competition in August.The first competition in 2012 was open to puppies and kittens only before including pets of all shapes and sizes in 2014.It’s grown in popularity too with the number of entries received in 2023 surpass previous ...

An application has been submitted to turn farm buildings into a museum and permanent home for a rescued armoured vehicle. Kennulph’s Farm on Wright’s Drive, Crowland, has applied for the change of use permission which would house the Buffalo 47 pulled from the ground in 2021.Documents submitted with the application states that the museum initially intends to be by appointment ...

A Spalding district councillor has made a bid to literally put the town on a map. Coun Jan Whitbourn has launched a petition to get the area’s local news programme on the BBC to mark Spalding on it weather map. She said she’s doing so after speaking to local residents. “It’s been a long year and I get all kinds ...

Lincolnshire Police are appealing for witnesses after a ram raid on a shop in Crowland. Police say they believe a vehicle was taken from a nearby farm and used to smash in to the Spar in North Street during the early hours of this morning (December 27). The store’s ATM machine was taken. A spokesman said: ”We are appealing for ...

A man in his 80s involved in a collision on the A17 on Wednesday has died. His black Vauxhall Zafira collided with a black Ford Ranger at 3.40pm at the junction with Churchgate at Gedney. Police have issued an appeal for anyone who may have information to come forward. A spokesman for Lincolnshire Police said: “ We are saddened to ...

South Holland Police says its found thousands of illegal cigarettes at shops in Spalding. Enforcement visits were carried out at Baltic, Warsaw and Spalding European Foodstore on the morning of Wednesday, December 20. A spokesman for South Holland Police said: “Thousands of suspected illegal cigarettes and vapes have been seized after joint enforcement visits were carried out at three shops ...