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Preliminary work on a potential new footbridge at Blue Gowt Bridge between Spalding and Pinchbeck is to commence on Monday. The work is being carried out as part of the first section of the Spalding Western Relief Road and will require the closing of Blue Gowt Lane from July 20. The ground investigation works are expected to take a maximum ...

A comet is set to be visible in the skies above South Holland for the next few weeks. Comet Neowise (or C/2020 F3 Neowise to give it its scientific name) is a ball of ice on a 6,000 year orbit around the sun. After it’s closest approach to the sun on July 3, it’s brightened considerably and is now visible ...

A meeting is to be held next week amid concerns over the future of Spalding market. Councillors Angela Newton, Manzur Hasan and Rob Gibson have ‘called-in’ South Holland District Council’s decisions relating to the re-opening of the markets after the COVID-19 outbreak. Market traders have expressed anger at several of the measures including the introduction of a book and pay ...

Images from South Holland District Council’s CCTV system contributed to 49 arrests being made in a year, though it failed to lead to a conviction after a man in his 70s was spat at. The system was used to support 65 packages of evidence between April 2019 and March this year. Operators were also able to alert police about an ...

The chair of the Lincolnshire Care Association has thanked the “amazing” staff at care providers in the county. Melanie Weatherley has written to Lincolnshire MPs to outline the tremendous efforts of care providers, Lincolnshire County Council and health partners in supporting vulnerable people through the pandemic. It follows the fall out after Prime Minister Boris Johnson criticised some care homes ...

A Lutton health care worker was among those that met the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge as they greeted staff at a nearby hospital. Amanda-Jane Weir was among those in attendance at Queen Elizabeth II Hospital in King’s Lynn as Prince William and wife Catherine popped in. The pair praised staff at the hospital, which serves the Long Sutton area, ...

A Donington man died after going through a necessary operation, an inquest has head. Neville Pitts died aged 84 on August 11, 2019, at Boston’s Pilgrim Hospital while daughter Susan Coles was by his side. The inquest into his death, held remotely at Lincoln Coroner’s Court, heard that the medical cause of death was acute respiratory symptoms as a result ...

An eight-month old who underwent a rare brain operation to disconnect half his brain is doing “better than ever imagined”. And coincidently Oscar Wright came back home to Crowland and was reunited with his mum Bethany Rollings on Sturge-Weber Syndrome Awareness Day (June 27). Due to COVID-19 restrictions, only dad Tim Wright was allowed into Great Ormond Street Hospital in ...

Surfleet Primary School has been rated inadequate by inspectors. It follows an Ofsted inspection held back in February, the report of which was released last week. The school was rated good at its previous inspection in April 2016 but has been told it’s inadequate in the quality of education, leadership and management and in early years provision. It was rated ...

Many of us have taken up a hobby or new interest in lockdown – and for one seven-year-old it’s picking up litter. Robert Page spent his daily exercise with mum Annette walking the family’s four dogs around Monkshouse Playing Field, but became alarmed at the amount of litter others were leaving. Inspired by seeing South Holland District Council workers picking ...

Libraries in Long Sutton and Spalding are among those that will be reopening from July 13. The South Holland sites are two of 14 across Lincolnshire that will open in line with government guidance, and will have a number of safety measures in place, including entry on a one-in-one-out system, more frequent cleaning, stock quarantining and hand sanitising stations. A ...

Lincolnshire’s first ever drive through vaccination centre will open its doors in Spalding on Friday (July 10) to 50 12-13 year olds to receive the first dose of their Human Papillomavirus Virus (HPV) vaccination. The drive in vaccination centre will be open at Johnson Community Hospital in Spalding from 10am for appointment only HPV vaccinations. Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS ...

One person was treated by ambulance staff after a two car collision in Low Fulney this morning. The incident occurred at around 11.40am this morning (Monday) on Rangell Gate. Fire fighters from Spalding were in attendance. A spokesman for Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue, said: “Crews used small tools and absorbent granules for scene safety.”

A proposed trial to reduce accidents on Crowland’s Radar Junction has been thrown out by councillors. Instead, Lincolnshire County Council will look at altering the speed limit along that stretch of the A16, a meeting of its Planning and Regulation Committee has decided today (Monday, July 6). The authority had looked to spend £78,000 on implementing a barrier system for ...

A man who posted ‘revenge porn’ pictures of his girlfriend as a way of threatening her to pick up her phone has been jailed. Shane Boyton, of College Close, Holbeach, Spalding, Lincolnshire, even used a winch from a recovery truck in a bid to get the woman to open her front door. The 41-year-old moved in with the woman earlier ...

Fire crews helped rescue a dog from water in Long Sutton yesterday (Saturday, July 2). Fire crews from Spalding, Holbeach and Boston together with Swift Water Rescue Teams attended the incident at around 1.30pm just off London Road. Crews used a four metre boat to rescue the dog.

South Holland has had the eighth highest COVID-19 infection rate in England new figures have revealed, though the district council leader has said the spread has now slowed. According to the latest government’s statistics the district has had 695 confirmed cases of the coronavirus. That works out at 739.5 cases per 100,000 people, the level which the govenment is measuring ...

Concerns motorists are flouting Spalding’s day time pedestrian areas have been expressed as a bid to encourage cycling and walking in the town and Holbeach has been announced. Since COVID-19 lockdown, more cars have been driving through Spalding’s Market Place and Sheep Market when it should be a pedestrian area, even now shops have re-opened. One member of the public, ...

The off-field preparations for next season are coming together at Holbeach United with a new signing identified and four of the club’s top talents signed on for the new campaign. Captain Spencer Tinkler, vice captain Jonno Fairweather, keeper Ricky Drury and striker Jonny Lockie have all committed to return to the Tigers for the 20/21 season. The Tigers do look ...

You’ll have to pay to use South Holland District Council car parks from Monday (July 6) with the authority saying they will be enforced. Charges to park at the car parks in Spalding, Holbeach and Long Sutton were officially waived when the COVID-19 lockdown was brought in, though previous to that the parking hadn’t been enforced for a lengthy period. ...