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A new group set up to improve Spalding town centre is set to have its first meeting this week. The Spalding Town Centre Steering Group has been set up by South Holland District Council to oversee the £500,000 it’s pledged to improve both Spalding and Holbeach town centres. In Spalding the town’s steering group will be led by Coun Gary ...

A song and dance based on frogs and crocodiles was the highlight as talented schoolchildren worked on a special arts project. Key stage two pupils from Weston Hills CofE Primary School enjoyed visits from artists as part of the START project they undertook in conjunction with the South Holland Centre last year. As a result they received Arts Award certificates ...

A new diabetes peer group has celebrated its successful first sessions and is looking forward to welcoming more people to its next meeting. The new peer support groups for Diabetes UK sessions take place in Spalding and Long Sutton on a monthly basis and have been set up in the hope of diabetic community coming together to offer advice and ...

Litter bins that alert authorities when they’re nearly full are among technology measures being considered for introduction. South Holland District Council is also looking at making it so you could ask your voice activated speakers at home as to what bin a specific piece of rubbish goes into, it’s been claimed. The authority’s Environmental Services and Asset manager Charlotte Paine ...

A councillor has raised concerns over council homes potentially not having enough loft insulation. Coun David Wilkinson, the independent member for Long Sutton, raised the issue at a recent meeting of South Holland District Council’s Performance Monitoring Panel after inspecting a constituent’s property himself. Following the meeting, Coun Wilkinson said: “They’d told me they were getting black mould in their ...

A dog walker has expressed his concern and dismay after someone took all the dog poo out of a bin and left it on the street. Anthony Grunwell regularly walks down Fen End Lane, south of Spalding, where a bin has ear-marked by local residents for people to leave their dog poo in. On Tuesday, February 3 though he found ...

Staff at Johnson Community Hospital in Spalding have been recognised for drastically reduce waiting times for blood tests. The blood clinic run by Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) sees an average of 60 more patients per day, compared to 2018. In 2018 35,198 blood tests were performed and in 2019 this number increased to 44,799. Three main improvements ...

A Spalding family are hoping you can hold a funeral, party or play in their home after having already hosted weddings. Oliver and Dorota Sneath bought the former Spalding Magistrates’ Court known as The Sessions House in Sheep Market in 2016. The couple, who have two young children, were granted permission to hold weddings in the Grade II listed building ...

A man who died after a four-vehicle collision on the A16 at Newborough last week has been named. Officers were called to the collision involving a Honda motorcycle, Peugeot Boxer, Vauxhall Insignia and a Fiat Punto just before 6am on Friday (February 7). Emergency services attended and the rider of the motorcycle – Simon Rayner (51) of St Thomas’s Road, ...

Lincolnshire Police are investigating an alleged sexual assault in Spalding. A police spokesman said the alleged assault was reported on Saturday and took place “in area of the Castle Sports Complex in Spalding”. The spokesman added: “Investigations are ongoing.” Police tape surrounded the area yesterday.

A Long Sutton Church has a packed series of events this coming year in celebration of turning 850 years old. Long Sutton St Mary’s Church’s history dates back to 1080, when the first chapel was built by Cluniac monks by the port at Manor House, near what is now the A17. The monks erected a temporary wooden chapel in the ...

Alternative ways are being considered to modify public toilets in South Holland, it’s been claimed after negative feedback was gathered from a council that implemented the same measures six years ago. As reported last week, Fenland District Council says the self-lock toilets it included in Wisbech had “made no noticeable impact on the reduction of anti-social behaviour” as well as ...

Lincolnshire Police have stepped up efforts to kerb rising violent crime. Violent crime in Lincolnshire accounts for 36 per cent of all recorded crime. The latest crime statistics released by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) have shown a 12 per cent national rise in offences of this type. In Lincolnshire the numbers of recorded violent crime have increased by ...

Some district council industrial units have been described as ‘neglected’ as the authority introduces a charge to businesses in an attempt to improve them. South Holland District Council lets 50 units at sites in Holbeach, Spalding, Crowland and Sutton Bridge. The latter, off Railway Lane, is the largest with 14 units and its state was particularly criticised when a report ...

An arrest warrant has been issued for a prolific shoplifter convicted of ten thefts in Spalding in just over a fortnight. Aron Findley John Duff failed to appear appear as scheduled at Boston Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday (Feb 5). He was convicted on January 6 of thefts from Iceland (January 4, meat, value unknown), Gap (December 18, jumpers, £60), Gap ...

A development of new affordable homes in Spalding is nearing completion. The Willow Walk development is being built by Burmor Construction on the former Law’s Yard site off Commercial Road and will provide a mix of one, two and three-bedroom homes. Set for completion in the summer it is part of a partnership between South Holland District Council, Cross Keys ...

One of Spalding’s top police officers has warned of the misuse of inhaling laughing gas amid claims it’s on the increase. South Holland Police have warned of a sharp increase in the inhaling of nitrous oxide or NOS as it’s also known. Neighbourhood Police Sergeant Rick Mosley says many people don’t know the danger inhaling it can cause. “There seems ...

A Holbeach Hurn businesses that specialises in potatoes has pleaded guilty to failing to ensure the health, safety and welfare of its workforce after three people were injured in an incident. QV Foods Ltd, which is part of the AH Worth group of businesses that are based at Manor Farm in the village, admitted breaching the act at Boston Magistrates’ ...

This bike that has been locked to West Elloe Bridge since mid-December. I wonder if someone might recognise it before it gets vandalised … David Jones Spalding

A former Methodist chapel in Spalding could be turned into a new centre for the community. The St Thomas’s Road chapel was bought by the next-door St Norbert’s Roman Catholic Church following a donation by a parishioner. The Methodist Church itself had already moved to Broad Street. In what they’re calling Project St Thomas those at St Norbert’s had initially ...