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A fundraising page has been launched after thieves twice stole over 100-year-old lead from a church roof within 24 hours. About six tonnes of lead from St Peter and St Paul’s Parish Church in Gosberton was taken on both occasions in the early hours of Friday and Saturday mornings. Reverend Ian Walters said: “It was Friday morning we got a ...

Hundreds of people visited Ayscoughfee Hall across two days for two Happy Healthy Minds events. South Holland District Council’s Community Development team put the events on as part of Mental Health Awareness Week. Around 350 people attended the classes, craft and information stalls on Saturday, May 11 followed by another 150 on Wednesday, May 15. A spokesman for the Community ...

A new school for pupils who have may have been excluded or deemed challenging is finally up and running, but its wait to move into its Spalding premises goes on. Springwell Alternative Academy Spalding was due to open at the former Post 16 Centre on Matmore Gate in September 2018. The school officially became up and running on April 1 ...

Lincolnshire residents are being asked to share their views about the county’s hospitals to help with future improvements and to make them the best they can be. All are invited to have their say on the reputation of United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) through an online survey. A spokesman for The Trust said: “You don’t have to be a ...

The Lincs and Notts Air Ambulance is celebrating two huge landmarks. The life-saving service has this month turned 25 years old and embarked on its 20,000th mission. Since airlifting its very first patient on May 13, 1994, the Lincs & Notts Air Ambulance service has provided a life-saving Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS) for the local community. To mark the ...

Talented young artists from University Academy Holbeach showed off their creations in a final show of their work on Monday. The B-Tec and A Level students marked their final time at the academy with the impressive show. The works they displayed included creations they’d made as part of their exams. One exam involved creating something on the subject of ‘Duality’ ...

A fundraising page has been launched after thieves twice stole over 100-year-old lead from a church roof within 24 hours. About six tonnes of lead from St Peter and St Paul’s Parish Church in Gosberton was taken on both occasions in the early hours of Friday and Saturday mornings. Reverend Ian Walters said: “It was Friday morning we got a ...

Two men have been arrested on suspicion to steal after a police chase from Spalding to Bourne. Lincolnshire Police says it spotted a grey Fiesta on the A16 just after 5pm yesterday (Sunday) believed to have involved in ‘bilking’ offences in several occasions, including in Spalding and Whaplode. Bilking means to obtain or withhold money from (someone) unfairly or by ...

A Cowbit man who caused a collision which killed three members of one family, including a young mother and father, has been sentenced to eight years and four months in prison. Tommy Whitmore (26) pleaded guilty to three counts of causing death by dangerous driving at Peterborough Crown Court today (May 20). The judge also banned him from driving for ...

The “popular and charismatic” founder of a Lincolnshire choir was this afternoon (Friday) jailed for eight years at Lincoln Crown Court after being convicted earlier this month of sex attacks on a teenage boy.   Andrew Clingo (43), who was musical director of the Handful of Harmonies Choir and is a former primary school teacher, was also placed on the sex offenders’ register ...

The Archbishop of Canterbury has suspended the Bishop of Lincoln, Christopher Lowson. Lincolnshire Police this afternoon (Thursday) released a statement regarding the suspension. “We are aware of the decision today of the Archbishop of Canterbury to suspend the Bishop of Lincoln from office and it would not be appropriate for us to comment on that decision. “The first phase of ...

A man was nearly double the drink drive limit when he collided with a taxi, injuring the five occupants, a court has heard. Alexandru Radu (30) of Rookery Farm, Holbeach St Johns, admitted driving with excess alcohol when he appeared before magistrates in Boston. The court was told that he collided with the taxi at 10.30pm on Saturday, April 13 ...

Spalding’s Johnson Hospital could be upgraded to an Urgent Treatment Centre and South Holland residents are being urged to back the idea. The hospital is currently designated a Minor Injury Unit but, along with sites at Gainsborough and Stamford, is “being proposed or considered as an Urgent Treatment Centre” according to a report to Lincolnshire County Council’s Health Scrutiny Committee ...

Holbeach Medical Centre has been threatened with closure unless it improves after being rated ‘inadequate’ for a second time this year. The Park Road healthcare provider with 8,179 registered patients was served two warning notices for breaching the Health and Social Care Act 2008 when inspected by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) in January. An announced inspection on April 18 ...

The transfer of licensed premises for a Spalding shop has been granted, despite Lincolnshire Police chief constable’s concerns of criminal involvement. South Holland District Council’s Licensing Committee decided to allow Mohammad Salih Attuf to be named the premises licensee of Delicja in Westlode Street following a hearing on May 1. It follows two previously unsuccessful attempts to transfer the licence ...

National disability charity Sense has thanked Spalding toddler Mia Clucas after she helped them raise an amazing £172,300 as the face of its 2018 Christmas appeal. Mia, who is three in August, was born with two extremely rare genetic conditions – Coffin-Siris Syndrome and PCDH12 – which have left her with a malformed brain and rendered her severely disabled. But ...

Holbeach Hospital is not taking on any new patients for its Day Care Centre as it looks to wind down the service. The community-run hospital says it is prioritising its reablement services going forward. The Holbeach and East Elloe Hospital Trust, which oversees the running, say those who currently use the service will continue to do so. However those wishing ...

The current planning applications for the first two sections of the Spalding Western Relief Road could be decided by central government after South Holland and the Deepings MP Sir John Hayes urged they be ‘called in’. He’s written to Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Michael Gove, asking his government department decides on whether the two sections ...

Lincolnshire County Council has spent nearly £5,000 on a letter written by Queen Victoria to Lincolnshire poet Alfred Tennyson. The letter was auctioned in New York last month by Swann Auction Galleries. The Swann Auction website details the sale, stating that the final price paid for the letter with buyer’s premium was $5,750 (£4,368). The letter was estimated to sell ...

Dental charges are increasing but recruiting staff for dentists continues to be a problem in South Holland, according to a local councillor. Coun Chris Brewis in his report to South Holland District Council’s meeting last night (Wednesday) on health issues in the county states that “recruitment and retention of dentists and dental nurses was putting increased pressure on the services.” ...