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There were mixed emotions as Spalding’s historic market returned on Tuesday. Many were delighted to be back, but one trader told The Voice he was considering never coming back to Spalding Market and going to Stamford Market instead after 21 years in town. South Holland District Council has re-designed the market and listened to concerns over an initial idea to ...

Long Sutton Parish Council wants to know why its town market is being forced to move while a decision to relocate Spalding’s has been rescinded. South Holland District Council wants to move the market from its current location in Market Place to the car park behind the Co-op Funeral Directors in West Street. The parish council is angry over the ...

I have just read the article about proposed moving of both Spalding and Long Sutton markets away from their street positions to car parks away from town centres. Will SHDC not learn by their mistakes? Holbeach town centre used to have a vibrant footfall on a Thursday market day when its market was both on High Street and Church Street. ...

A prison service worker who was admitted to hospital with coronavirus three days after his dad’s funeral is finally home after 10 weeks fighting for his life. Gary Graves (54) had experienced odd days with a sore throat, headache and cough, but had put all of his symptoms down to the stress of losing his dad and planning the funeral. ...

A development consisting of 41 affordable homes outside Crowland has been given final planning permission. Longhurst Group Ltd has been given full planning permission for the mix of two storey, and two-bed semi-detached and terraced properties on greenfield land east of Crease Drove. The original outline application for the development was refused by South Holland District Council back in 2016 ...

There have been 140 deaths in Lincolnshire hospitals from COVID-19 while 14 people remain in hospital in the county with the disease, it’s been revealed. John Turner, the chief executive of the Lincolnshire Care Commissioning Group provided stats up to date as of yesterday to a meeting of Lincolnshire County Council’s Health Scrutiny Committee today (Wednesday). Mr Turner said that ...

Spalding’s COVID Kindness Team are now officially among the Pride of Britain. The group of volunteers set up to help the vulnerable in and around the town during the recent lockdown have been nominated for a Pride of Britain Award. The awards are run by The Daily Mirror newspaper and the group are to be featured in the national newspaper ...

It’s two in and two out for Spalding United as the plans for the 20-21 season continue to develop as much as they can. Manager Lewis Thorogood is hopeful that the club will be able to begin pre-season next month ahead of the 20-21 Evo-Stik Division One South East season. The Tulips have brought in two players from Lincoln United ...

The owner of a Spalding takeaway found to be employing an illegal worker as well as other licence breaches has been allowed to keep his licence with certain conditions. Lincolnshire Police requested that a Licencing Panel of South Holland District Council seriously consider revoking the licence for Hot and Spice in New Road held by Mr Rais Abbas. The panel ...

Police have released an image of a man they wish to speak to who may be able to help them with a sexual assault investigation. The assault occurred last Friday, June 12 at around 4.20pm on Spalding Road in Spalding. A spokesman for Lincolnshire Police, said: It’s reported a man rode by a woman on a bike and grabbed her ...

Three fire crews were called to a fire in a property in Holbeach this morning (Monday, June 15). They were called to Foxes Low Road shortly before 10am. A fuse box was damaged as a result of the fire which also caused smoke damage to the remainder of the property. Crews from Holbeach, Spalding and Long Sutton attended and put ...

Street marshals currently trying to patrol the one-way systems introduced in Spalding, Holbeach and Long Sutton are receiving threats, South Holland District Council has said. The authority has issued the statement after a picture of two marshals not socially distancing while patroling Holbeach was published online. However the district council says the two marshals are from the same household. In ...

A woman in her 70s was injured after the car she was driving overturned near Spalding this morning (Monday). Lincolnshire Police were called to the single vehicle road traffic collision on the A16 near to West Marsh Road, Surfleet, at 8.09am this morning (Monday). The force says the incident involved a white Audi TT “which hit the central reservation before ...

A worker at Aldi in Spalding had their shopping stolen at the end of a shift last week, police have said. Lincolnshire Police have released three pictures of men they would like to speak to in relation to the incident which took place at 10pm on Sunday, June 7. Anyone with information is asked to call 101 or force.control@lincs.pnn.police.uk

Everyone visiting an NHS service, including patients, will now have to wear a mask. The NHS in Lincolnshire has today (Friday) issued a statement following advice from health professionals. The guidance covers all NHS patients including GP surgeries. A spokesman for the NHS in Lincolnshire, said: “The health and wellbeing of patients and staff remains the top priority for the ...

Spalding, Holbeach and Crowland markets will return next week as the finalised details for opening town centres were announced, but Long Sutton’s market will have to wait One-way systems are being implemented in Spalding, Holbeach and Long Sutton with signage and road markings being put up. Coun Gary Taylor South Holland District Council has also said that free car parking ...

A warning has been issued over scammers posing as people chasing up TV Licence payments. An alert has gone out over Lincolnshire Police’s Neighbourhood Watch services after an increase in reports of emails that wrongly state the recipient needs to renew their licence or their direct debit has faile. “We have seen an increase in the reports of fake TV ...

South Holland District Council housing officers’ way of staying in contact with their residents has been a waving success. With regular meet and greet sessions unavailable, instead the council has started the ‘Wave from your Window initiative. In the sessions a council housing officer will walk slowly along the length of the estate on a pre-arranged day and time. Tenants ...

A new group has been set up to work on the response of the “very significant consequences” of mental health issues due to the COVID-19 outbreak in Lincolnshire. John Turner, the chairman of the Lincolnshire Clinical Commissioning Group says there are huge concerns over mental health in the county due to lockdown, the number of people grieving and conerns overs ...

One way systems for pedestrians are being put in place for Spalding, Long Sutton and Holbeach. Non-essential shops can re-open from Monday, June 15 with markets in the district set to return this week too. And South Holland District Council has unveiled new one-way systems for Spalding, Holbeach and Long Sutton which can be viewed below. A spokesman said: “Our ...