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Children and staff at John Harrox Primary School in Moulton said “Hello Yellow!” in style last Thursday in support of children’s and young people‘s mental health on World Mental Health Day. A spokesman for the school said everyone enjoyed taking part in the fundraising event in aid of the Young Minds charity paying £1 to wear something yellow for the ...

South Holland villages have been hit by a spate of post box thefts – with six stolen this month. Post boxes and their contents were stolen overnight last week. Lincolnshire Police have confirmed that post boxes have gone missing from these locations: Eaugate Road, Moulton Chapel; Cornfield Close, Deeping St Nicholas; Money Bridge, West Pinchbeck; Station Road, Deeping St James; ...

A Spalding group has negotiated a three-night “alternative to Halloween” at a town pub. The three-strong Spalding leg of The Light Collective will take over decorations at The Ivy Wall pub between October 28-31 for “light project evenings”, according to group member Joseph Edwards. Mr Edwards said the evenings will carry a Christian message but still have pumpkins and sweets ...

Shops in Spalding have embraced a new guide to assistance dogs, produced by Guide Dogs UK and distributed to them last week by hand. Volunteer Thelma Warren spent three hours on Friday hand-delivering leaflets to shops and establishments in town to explain the different types of dog jackets and offer window stickers. “I’ve had an absolutely brilliant response from the ...

A vet is taking her passion for pets to new heights by jumping out of a plane at 13,000ft in aid of a cat charity. Ashley Horne will bravely take to the air for a tandem skydive on Saturday and is hoping people will sponsor her to support the Spalding branch of Cats Protection. Ashley, who is a vet at ...

The South Holland branch of the Macular Society were in Spalding recently raising awareness of the condition. In association with Molsom and Associates Opticians, the charity’s members were on Spalding Market, handing out information on the condition. They included Leonard Sharpe, the chair of the group, who has suffered macular degeneration in both eyes for the last 30 years. “We’re ...

The group that oversees hospitals in south Lincolnshire, including the Pilgrim Hospital, is £88.2m in the red and has been branded ‘inadequate’ over how it uses its resources. United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) has also been told it still “requires improvement” by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and will remain in special measures following an inspection from June 11 ...

A new project is set to help young people in and around Spalding is holding its A Future Spalding session at the South Holland Centre on Friday. This Is Not London, a group formed by two artists, are exploring the idea of ‘Does living somewhere isolated make you feel it?’, with a series of sessions and art projects. On Friday ...

Parish councils could fund new projects by borrowing money from the district council and paying it back by increasing council tax under a proposed new scheme. South Holland District Council is looking to create a new £500,000 Community Reserve. Parish and town councils in the area would be able to borrow money for projects including new buildings, play facilities, turning ...

Staff at Hills again swapped the sales floor for the catwalk as they held a fashion show that helped raise around £400 for charity. Last week’s autumn and winter show is the third put on by the Spalding store.Over 70 guests snapped up bargains and raised money for Macmillan Cancer Research thanks to a raffle.Organiser and the fashion floor manager ...

A Weston comic shop is gearing up to give away 1,000 free Halloween comics this weekend and will reveal for sale a whole host of collectable horror items. Strange Apparitions at Baytree Garden Centre is one of the thousands of local comic shops around the world celebrating the second largest event in the comic book industry on Saturday, October 26: ...

This week, John Tippler talks about the waterways of Spalding. Spalding’s main river is, of course, the Welland, whose town section we now know as a pleasant, but passive, feature of the town.It was not always so passive. In the 1930s and earlier 40s it was still connected directly to the sea and was a salt-water river.Its personality was demonstrated ...

A council has said it’s ear marked £500,000 to improve Spalding and Holbeach town centres. South Holland District Council says it is looking to use money from its growth and investment reserve for the improvements over the next three years. It says these would include: •    Refurbishment and modernisation of town centre toilet facilities•    Free Wi-Fi provision along the high ...

The cost of car parking in South Holland is set to go up – but it’s unclear yet by how much. South Holland District Council issued a statement this afternoon saying the authority is looking into increasing car parking charges as well as introduce tariffs for the Castle Sports Centre and Castle Pool in Spalding for those not using the ...

Sir John Hayes MP has spoken ahead of tomorrow’s big Brexit vote on a new withdrawal agreement. “Anybody who votes against the deal will face a lot of questions from their constituents who feel this has got to be brought to a conclusion,” Sir John said today (Friday). Tomorrow MPs will vote on the new deal, which is hoped by ...

A Spalding eBay trader who was caught with two unworked sections of elephant tusk after police raided his home has been jailed for nine months.Slawomir Kazmierczak (55) of Redthorne Close was also found to have illegal items of ivory jewellery made from elephants which were killed after the 1947 legal deadline.A judge told Kazmierczak that the illegal trade in ivory ...

A Holbeach lorry driver has been sent for sentence at Lincoln Crown Court after he admitted causing the deaths of two women in a traffic collision on the A17 at Swineshead in August last year by driving without due care and attention. Appearing at Boston Magistrates Court, Kelvin Mason (51) of The Brambles was said to have been driving a ...

A teenager was taken to hospital yesterday evening after being hit by a car on Halmer Gate. A police spokesman said: “We received the report at 3.40pm. “He was taken to hospital for treatment. “His injuries are believed to be minor.”

Police are very concerned about missing 14-year-old girl, Summer Grimes and are appealing for information about her whereabouts.Summer, who lives in the Spalding area, has not been seen since around 7.30pm on Tuesday, October 15.She is believed to be somewhere in the Sutton Bridge/King’s Lynn area.Summer is described as white, with shoulder-length auburn hair, around 5ft 2ins tall and wearing ...

Lincolnshire County Council has apologised after sending the wrong letter to a family whose newly built home they moved into two years ago is in the proposed path of the Spalding Western Relief Road. Darren and Sarah Long received a letter to their Bourne Road property saying they would be affected by the route of the road, but were later ...