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Spalding’s Nigel Brasier lasted longer at the World Snooker Championships than Ronnie O’Sullivan as the Motor Neurone Disease sufferer starred in his own way at The Crucible in Sheffield. Nigel was a special guest at the sport’s showpiece event with the MND Association having been named as its official charity for its Disability Day. The 49-year-old father of three has ...

After several months of worry, one of Spalding’s top cops and an RAF veteran has been officially told he can stay in the country. Sgt Rick Mosley (51), the Neighbourhood Sergeant for Spalding, spoke to The Voice in April about his concerns over his citizenship given he’s originally from Canada. He moved to the UK aged five in 1972 and ...

Calls have been made for changes to an A16 junction south of Crowland that campaigners say has led to motorists speeding in Crowland itself. The campaigners, including Angela Harrison, say that drivers are using James Road in the town “to race the slower moving vehicles on the A16 and gain priority at the next roundabout.” “At peak times it is ...

Fewer than one in five people think alcohol is a bigger problem than illegal drugs – despite the fact that South Holland is the UK’s drink-drive capital. A new study by alcohol and addiction advice service Port of Call exposes the fact that most people downplay the danger of alcohol addiction. While recent figures showed South Holland to have relatively ...

Upgraded new digital speed cameras, which can record in both directions, are heading to three locations in South Holland. They will replace the existing speed cameras on Holbeach Road in Spalding, the A151 at Whaplode and the A1073 in Cowbit. The new cameras, that cost between £50,000 and £30,000, use 4G connectivity to relay images of those found breaking the ...

Community Lincs has been awarded over £300,000 from The National Lottery Community Fund, the largest funder of community activity in the UK, to further develop its successful Good Neighbour Schemes throughout Lincolnshire. Community Lincs’ Good Neighbour Schemes have been running across the county since 2017, thanks to the generous support of the Lincolnshire Co-op. There are currently seven schemes already ...

Two people have been arrested after a report a man was stabbed in the leg in Spalding last night (Monday). Police were called to the incident in the Matmore Gate area at 7.42pm last night. One person was taken to hospital with what police described as “non-life threatening injuries”. A spokesman for Lincolnshire Police, said: ” We have arrested a 19-year-old ...

A man has been charged with two counts of possessing an imitation firearm after someone was reported as having what looked like a gun in their back pocket in Spalding town centre yesterday (Monday) morning. Kacper Malkiewicz, 21, of Cross Street, Spalding, has been bailed to appear at Boston Magistrates Court on June 19. It follows police raiding a property ...

Neighbours were told to stay indoors and town centre streets were closed as police arrested four men after a man was reported to have been seen with a gun this morning (Monday). At around 11am a number of police cars descended on Winsover Road and Short Street. The police helicopter and dog unit were also in attendance. Their activity centred ...

Spalding town centre has been closed after reports of a person carrying a gun in town. Lincolnshire Police just before 11.30am tweeted: “We are in #Spalding after a report of a man who had what looked like a gun. “It’s unconfirmed what type of weapon, or if it is a replica. No reports of threats made or injuries. “As part ...

Police are looking for help in identifying the body of a man found near RAF Holbeach. The man’s body was found on New Year’s Eve last year in a tidal salt marsh. It’s been estimated by police that he’d died two weeks earlier, around December 16 2018. The man is described as being aged between 20 and 40, of medium ...

Lincolnshire Police are investigating a report of a public order offence at McDonalds, Holbeach Road, Spalding. The incident was reported to have occurred at around midday on Friday, May 3. Police are looking for witnesses to the incident which involved verbal and threatening abuse. Both parties were in their vehicles at the time of the incident. Anyone who saw anything ...

A teacher was fatally injured in a traffic collision on her way home from school in Boston last November, an inquest has heard. Gemma Elizabeth Ashling (40) of Old Leake but originally from Spalding, a teacher at Boston High School, was described immediately following her death, as “dedicated, enthusiastic, kind and a wonderfully warm-hearted teacher, colleague and friend”. She had ...

A teenager who hanged himself had been preoccupied with the death of his aunt who had killed herself 10 months earlier, an inquest has heard. Boston Coroner’s Court heard that Lee Smalley, 19, of Spalding had told his father on the evening of October 31 last year, that he was going to drive two girls to Leicester and expected to ...

The public have given a pensioner a birthday to remember by pledging to reimburse the £500 she had stolen in a mugging in Spalding just a few days before. Mum and daughter Tracy Wolfe and Millie Gent launched the public appeal after their mum and ‘nan’ Carmen (67) had £500 snatched from her in Market Place shortly after 10.30am on ...

A South Holland woman who spends her working life flying is about to leap from a perfectly good plane. But it’s not one of the Easy Jet passenger jets she crews, and she will be raising money in memory of her husband who died from cancer at the age of 42. Diane Virden will be heading to an airfield this ...

A statue that celebrates a historic Spalding event has been unveiled. The Hiring, by Laury Dizengremel, was unveiled during a ceremony in Hall Place during Bank Holiday Monday, in front of around 80 people. Representatives from the Spalding and District Civic Society were joined by a number of guests+. The sculpture depicts the traditional hiring of staff by the local ...

A Crowland man was handed a Criminal Behaviour Order last week after being found guilty of numerous breaches of a Community Protection Notice in the town. South Holland District Council applied for the Order against Peter Woods following a string of reports about him causing harassment, alarm and distress to members of the public in Crowland, ignoring several formal warnings from ...

The Green Party enjoyed a better showing in South Holland than previously but they fell narrowly short in a bid to land a first councillor in the area. Alistair Crisp caused plenty of concern for Conservative Gary Taylor but he took the result with 289 votes to 233. Alistair was one of three members of the Crisp family who stood ...

There will be four more independent candidates including South Holland’s first councillor from an Asian background. Manzur Hasan, the owner of Indus restaurant in town, polled first in the Spalding St John’s Ward, edging Jack McLean into second place for the two seats. He said: “First off I’m not really a political person. I’ve been running a business in town ...