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A Spalding gym is supporting the community throughout the coronavirus crisis by offering live online workouts and a meal delivery service. Since the announcement was made that gyms would be forced to close, Definitions Health and Fitness instantly adapted to support its members and the wider community by offering free online workouts via Facebook Live. Definitions’ Jack Smith, believes it’s ...

A family have been left ‘devastated’ after a fire destroyed their home in Gedney Hill in the early hours of the morning. In under an hour this morning a Just Giving page has raised over £600 to help fund items like clothes for the mother and four boys aged eight, 10, 13 and 19 following the blaze on West Drove ...

A school has helped spread a little happiness by delivering bouquets of flowers. The Lidl Neighbourly Team donated six pallets of flowers to Spalding Parish C of E Day School. They were delivered by local man Dave Leworthy and his son, just in time for all of the Year Six pupils to take a bucket of flowers home for Mother’s ...

A group of volunteers who for 30 years have been offering low-cost travel for those that need it most in the district are currently looking to pick up prescriptions and essentials for those self-isolating. On a normal week The South Holland Parish Voluntary Car Service would help around 100 people get to locations like the shops or hospitals from nine ...

Lincolnshire Road Safety Partnership popped into St Paul’s Community Primary School in Spalding last month to discuss safety. Year Four and Five pupils took part in workshops on the importance of staying safe in a car and wearing cycle helmets when on a bicycle. Seatbelts were the focus for Year Four and their session ended working out whether they were ...

A Spalding-based business has come up with a novel way of explaining COVID-19 to a child. GiftsOnline4U has developed a free personalised eBook. Designed especially for three and four-year-olds the ebook explains why children are unable to go to school, nursery, the park or play with friends during the coronavirus outbreak. Asgar Dungarwalla, founder of GiftsOnline4U, said: “Just as the ...

The community health trust that manages the supply of specialist equipment that helps people stay in their own homes, has appealed to the public to return any unused equipment. Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) has today asked for anyone with community support equipment to return it as soon as possible. Among the items that are needed the most ...

Three more people have been confirmed to have died as a result of Covid-19 in Lincolnshire’s hospitals. It takes the total up to four in the county after the first death reported on Friday, that of a woman in her 80s. The latest confirmed deaths were aged between 65 and 80 and all had underlying health problems, said the United ...

A women who was aged in her 80s is the first person to die in Lincolnshire after testing positive for Covid-19. The United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust said the women died yesterday (Thursday), though they’ve not said where she was being treated. A spokesperson for ULHT said: “Sadly we can confirm that a woman who was being cared for at one ...

Lincolnshire firefighters are set to help in the battle against the Covid-19 virus outbreak. A national agreement has been made so firefighters can deliver food and medicines, drive ambulances, and retrieve dead bodies during the coronavirus outbreak. Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue already work closely with partners to help in communities, with many firefighters carrying out extended duties, assisting ambulance service ...

A Cowbit father of two who has a weakened immune system and suspected Covid-19 has praised the staff of Peterborough City Hospital. James Wilson-White (45) was taken to hospital yesterday, but is now back home with wife Emma, who is looking after the family. Despite the family having self-isolated, James who has Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), started developing symptoms ...

Peterborough City Hospital has recorded three deaths of confirmed Covid-19 cases to date, while the trust that runs Pilgrim Hospital in Boston says it won’t be making public how many cases are in their hospitals. The trust that runs the hospital said that all three Covid-19 cases and one in Hichingbrooke Hospital in Huntingdon that had passed away after testing ...

The proposed closure of the Marks and Spencer Food Hall in Spalding town centre has been put on hold. The store was due to close next in April, but will continue to operate for the moment. Gibbard, M&S head of region for South East Midlands, said: “Supporting communities and our customers during the current unprecedented health crisis is our absolute ...

A plea to help pay for food for the animals has been made by a hugely popular owl and wildlife centre that was due to open for the summer next week. The Easter holidays is traditionally one of the busiest times for the Baytree Owl and Wildlife Centre and it’s just completed some renovations ahead of the annual post winter ...

A Spalding school that caters for those with specialist needs has been rated ‘outstanding’ in every category by Ofsted inspectors. The Priory School, which caters for pupils aged 11 to 16, who have a range of needs including Moderate Learning Difficulties, Autism, SEMH and communication issues, has been upgraded from ‘good’ in March 2019. Ofsted were full of praise for ...

The head teacher of St Bartholomew’s C of E Primary School in West Pinchbeck has been charged with three counts of online sexual offences against a child. Lincolnshire Police said James Shawley (43), of Hereward Street in Bourne, has been charged with the following online offences: Attempting sexual communication with a child, attempt to cause or incite a child to ...

A senior citizen has condemned people who allegedly barged past supermarket security last week during shops’ ‘Elderly Hour’ events. Iris Boland (84), from Holbeach, said: “I lived through World War II and I assure you, nothing like this ever happened.” Amid panic buying last week, supermarkets piloted ‘Elderly Hour’ on Friday, which the government suggested would help elderly people – ...

Spalding has a new defibrillator in the town centre. The emergency medical device was put on the wall of Hughes Electrical at Sheep Market on Friday, March 20. Jan Whitbourn, from Tulip Events, helped raise money for a previous defibrillator and this new one with the help of district councillors. Jan wrote about the event in her weekly Tulip Talk ...

Businesses across South Holland are temporary closing or adapting after the government ordered the entire country to stay at home on Monday night. Many shops and businesses had already temporary closed ahead of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s announcement in which he ordered all “non-essential” shops to shut. Supermarkets, newsagents and chemists are to remain open. It followed Friday night’s ordered ...

A Spalding businessman has demanded South Holland and The Deepings John Hayes MP push for the government to support NHS workers with tax relief during the coronavirus crisis. Matt Clark, who runs the Activ group, said in an open letter to Sir John: “One of the things that I can’t fail to see is that the NHS are working harder ...