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Direct descendants of Matthew Flinders and the Agent General for the Government of South Australia area are among those backing the bid to bringing the former explorer’s remains back to Donington. Around 50 people attended the Ruby Hunt Centre for the Matthew Flinders Bring Him Home group meeting which is looking to have his remains brought back to the village ...

Sutton Bridge PowerFund has given Long Sutton Men’s Shed a cash boost. The fund donated £1,868 to the social group set up in 2017 for men to get together and work on projects, as well as spend time together. Men’s Shed meetings take place at Silverwood Nursery in Long Sutton and run from 9.30am to 1pm every Tuesday, Thursday and ...

The Peele Community College secondary school in Long Sutton is planning to start the new school year with a new name. At a meeting for parents on May 20, the school welcomed anyone with questions about the renaming, with University Academy Long Sutton set as the proposed new title for the school. In her school blog, headteacher Jane Moody said: ...

Budget cutting Lincolnshire Police has received a big boost with additional funding of £1.8m allowing it to recruit 30 more officers. Lincolnshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner Marc Jones successfully applied to the Home Office for the additional cash and will make it available to the Chief Constable to spend this year and next. Back in February Lincolnshire Police announced that ...

A teenager has been arrested at a Holbeach school on suspicion of having a knife. Inspector Gareth Boxall said: “At 10.35am yesterday (Tuesday, June 4) we were called to the University Academy Holbeach following a report of a pupil with a knife. “We arrested a 13-year-old boy on suspicion of possessing a bladed article. “I’m grateful to staff at the ...

Junction improvements, reduced speed limits, traffic calming, ‘Park and Walk’ sites, a community cycle hub and more benches are among the ideas to alleviate traffic issues in Holbeach in the next 17 years. The draft Holbeach Transport Strategy sets out how the town will deal with traffic, including that generated from an extra planned 2,000 homes and the Food Enterprise ...

The trial of a Spalding man accused of failing to supply memorial headstones to his customers has been delayed for four months.   Julian Karl Gaunt, 50, was due to go on trial at Lincoln Crown Court today (Tues).   But the hearing was told Gaunt’s trial could not go ahead as both his legal representatives and Lincolnshire County Council ...

Police are appealing to identify the man in the image to assist with a burglary investigation in Weston. On Monday, May 20, a man described as wearing dark trousers and a dark hooded jacket entered the rear yard of The Chequers Inn pub on High Road, at 3am before taking meat. Anyone with information can contact police via 101 or ...

An arrested man who staged a spectacular escape from police custody was caught after just 45 minutes, Lincoln Crown Court was told today (Monday). Jason Fovargue was detained by officer on the Sunday of the May Bank Holiday weekend and was taken by van to Boston Police Station.   Hal Ewing, prosecuting, said that Fovargue was not handcuffed and after arriving in the police station’s ...

The 37 district councillors elected this month have been provided top-spec iPad Pros – along with hundreds of pounds worth of accessories and data plans. South Holland District Council members chose to buy the highest-powered tablets at a cost of £863.16, along with Apple Smart Keyboard Folio flip-cases, costing an extra £160.94, and a second generation Apple Pencil for each ...

A campaigner trying to get bollards repaired and lighting at a site of recent crashes said the county council Highways department should be “ashamed” of its approach. Rodney Sadd, of Carrington Road, Spalding, started the campaign to improve lighting at the B1172 junction to Spalding Common more than 20 years ago. Mr Sadd revived the campaign after two bollards were ...

A series of anti-social behaviour incidents were reported in Crowland on Thursday, May 23. A group of youths were seen throwing stones and pulling down banners outside the Royal British Legion at 7.26pm in Broadway. Youths were then seen kicking a property door in Reform Street at 8.25pm. There was also a report of a man being abused in North ...

Police have appealed for information after a woman reported a balaclava clad man coming towards her after the van he was driving pulled out in front of her. The woman was driving along Glenside, Pinchbeck, at around 11pm on Friday, May 24. A spokesman for Lincolnshire Police, said: “A silver coloured van pulled sharply in front of her and she ...

Five fire crews and an emergency response unit descended on a Donington cul-de-sac to a flat on fire on Monday evening. They were called to Arnhem Way at around 6.45pm to the fire that was mainly confined to a living-room cupboard. The flat is being rented by a 28-year-old man who wasn’t in at the time and whose mum was ...

Taylors Bulbs have won their 26th consecutive Gold medal at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show for their stunning display of British grown daffodils from its Holbeach farm. The display is made up of over 70 varieties of daffodils and 2000 flowers of all colours, shapes and sizes. The stand is truly a magnificent sight, regularly stopping visitors in their tracks ...

Lincolnshire County Council’s health visiting and children and young people nursing services have been rated ‘good’ by Ofsted. Following the February inspection services were rated good in effective, caring, responsive and well-led criteria. The county council has though been told that it ‘requires improvement’ in the category of being safe following concerns over hand hygiene, the cleaning of toys and ...

More than £1,500 was roped in for charity in memory of a friend at Spalding’s Elizabethan Centre recently. A country and western afternoon was held by the centre’s social club in memory of Alex Ford who passed away aged 73 after suffering with Motor Neurone Disease. Acts Tennessee Stud and Dale Diamond entertained the 150 people at the event organised ...

A Thai Appeals Court has ordered a Spalding migrant rights defender to pay 10m baht (£250,000) in damages to Thai pineapple company Natural Fruit. The Prakanong Court in Bangkok last week read an Appeals Court’s verdict on Andy Hall’s appeal against a 2018 10m baht civil defamation conviction, maintaining the lower court’s ruling and conviction. Mr Hall (pictured) said he ...

A group of women have helped raise more than £1,600 for the Alzheimer’s Society by holding a Cupcake/Fun Day. Kelly Greengrass-Smith, Kelly Scotney, Kodie Greengrass-Munton, Liz Greengrass, Lucy Waite, Sarah Barlow, Sandy Daniels and Zoe Dawson put on the private event in Spalding on Saturday, May which included a host of games and stalls as well as entertainment from The ...

South Holland and the Deepings MP Sir John Hayes says he’s fully behind a proposal to upgrade the Johnson Hospital in Spalding to an Urgent Treatment Centre. As previously reported in The Voice, as part of the Healthy Conversation 2019 consultation that’s ongoing, the NHS is looking to improve the services at the hospital which is currently designated as a ...