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Fleet fundraiser Harold Payne took his military vehicles to the coast for day of fundraising in Hunstanton. Mr Payne raised £2,500 for the Royal Anglian Regiment Benevolent Fund and released 1,000 roses to the sea in honour of the 1,000 Norfolk soldiers captured and killed by the SS at Dunkirk behind enemy lines. A memorial is planned and 100 people ...

Almost 150 dance school pupils took to the stage for a thrilling end of year show at the South Holland Centre. Talented young dancers from the Spalding, Holbeach and Long Sutton classes of Polka Dot Dance Academy wowed audiences with two performances of their show, Fierce, which featured street dance, cheerleading, jazz, contemporary and commercial dance. A Polka Dot spokesman ...

An around £1.5 million project to get two Holbeach High Street landmarks back in working use is moving along apace. Rob Bridgewater and Jamie Sandford of API Limited have bought both former hotels The Chequers and The Bell. The pair hope that their bid to turn The Bell into five apartments with a retail outlet downstairs will be ready to ...

Residents of Lyndis Walk in Holbeach are returning to normality after the dramatic floods that meant they had to evacuate their homes. The likes of 95-year-old Audrey Forman and 82-year-old Marian Johnson were among those who woke up on Tuesday, June 24 to find water levels rising inside their homes after days of rain. It led to a huge clean ...

A daughter is using her dad’s battle against leukaemia as inspiration as she looks to land the Miss England title. Former Spalding High School pupil Domenique Fragale is among the finalists for the prestigious competition which takes place on July 31 and August 1 in Newcastle. Now living in London, the 24-year-old is no stranger to the spotlight being a ...

A host of Deeping St Nicholas Primary School students have been celebrating winning top awards in a variety of areas. Year Six pupils Georgina Jones and Benjamin Reynolds have picked up the Lincolnshire Young Environment Award for the school. They travelled to Lincoln to make a presentation on what the school does for the environment to a judging panel recently. ...

Holbeach Parish Council has put together a walking trail with 15 stops around the town in a bid to encourage people to get out and about this summer. The trail has been created by members of the Holbeach Action Group to encourage members of the public to walk around the town centre and discover more about the town. The route ...

A man has been sentenced to 12 years and four months after being found guilty of slashing his victim’s face in Spalding. James Ellis (23) has been sentenced at Lincoln Crown Court to 12 years and four months in prison after being found guilty of unlawfully and maliciously causing grievous bodily harm.  The unprovoked attack took place in Spalding, in ...

What turned out to be a dummy grenade led to Spalding Police Station being cornered off and homes evacuated today (Sunday). Lincolnshire Police said that a member of the public brought what they thought may be a real grenade to the Westlode Street station at 11.20am this morning. The road and all properties within 100 metres of the police station ...

A 21-year-old man has been given a suspended prison sentence following an armed police raid on a flat in Short Street in May, after the man was twice seen on the streets of Spalding with what appeared to be a hand gun. Kacper Malkiewicz of Cross Street had admitted at a previous court appearance to possession of the air weapon ...

A new bi-weekly collection of paper and card refuse is set to be trialled in South Holland for the first time. From September residents in selected areas will need to put paper and card into a blue sack which will be collected once every two weeks. Collections will alternate with the current green recycling bags which will be for all ...

Police have uncovered a cannabis farm in the centre of Spalding but no arrests have been made. Houses off Winsover Road were still being cleared on Tuesday, a week after police seized “a large quantity of items” on July 2, at a house where cannabis was being grown. A van stuffed with sacks of insulation and related items from properties ...

A Spalding veterinary surgery has faced investigation after a dog died in its care just hours after surgery. Two members of staff at Riverside Veterinary Practice at Cradge Bank have been investigated by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) after the owners of Kiwi, an 11-year-old German Shepherd / wolfhound cross, complained after they were led to believe the ...

A pair of secured caravans belonging to Whaplode siblings have been stolen from a barn and towed away across a field. The 2007 caravans, which were alarmed, had wheel and hitch locks broken off during the thefts sometime between 6pm last Thursday and Friday evening. Owners Jake and Julie Buckley are devastated. For Mr Buckley, who had the Abbey Vogue ...

Another ‘drive-thru’ coffee shop could be on the cards for the region after Costa Coffee has put in a planning application for a Spalding site. An application has recently been submitted for a drive-thru Costa shop at Long Sutton. Now RPA:Group has submitted plans for a Costa Coffee drive-thru with 21 car parking spaces off the A16 in Spalding, near ...

Around 3,000 people descended on Carter’s Park last weekend as Holbeach’s Food Festival returned bigger and stronger than ever. For the first time the event was held over two days and Sunday also incorporated a hugely popular South Lincolnshire Strongest competition that produced entrants from as far afield as Newcastle and Nottingham. That was alongside food merchants, a host of ...

A man who responded to a Facebook request for the disposal of household waste despite not having a licence was fined last month, after the items were found fly-tipped in Holbeach. Liam Scott was identified following investigations by South Holland District Council, and appeared before Boston Magistrates Court on June 24 for failing to comply with the duty of care ...

Carers looking after loved ones with dementia are often “on the brink of collapse” because they don’t know where or how to access support. The claim comes from the co-founder of Here-4-U in Holbeach and Long Sutton Outreach, two community groups which support those at risk of social isolation, especially carers of people with dementia. Former Holbeach Parish and Fleet ...

Former and current pupils and teachers at St Bartholomew’s Primary School in West Pinchbeck came together to celebrate its 50th anniversary on Friday, July 5. Its annual Summer Fair doubled up as the celebration marking the opening of the current building. The event was opened by 91-year-old former teacher Mollie Gay and the school’s 108 students singing songs from The ...

Five people believed to have entered the country illegally have been found in a lorry in Spalding. Police say they were alerted after the driver of the Spanish lorry asked a member of the public for directions on Clay Lake. Three police vehicles and an ambulance were sent to the scene with police seen talking to men in the back ...