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The Johnson Community Hospital in Spalding will no longer deal with walk-in minor injuries if a major review of emergency care in Lincolnshire is approved. The hospital, which operates as a non-appointment unit for minor injuries in the South Holland area, is in the firing line to be re-categoried. If the proposed reforms are approved, it will only be open ...

Thousands came to Spalding for a Remembrance Sunday made even more poignant as it marked 100 years since the end of the First World War. Crowds watched the parades as service personnel, veterans, dignitaries and youth organisations marched two and from the town centre to the gardens of Ayscoughfee Hall. There wreaths were laid at the town’s war memorial. In ...

Pupils from Cowbit Primary School are set to make Christmas extra special for those less fortunate than themselves.   For the third year the school has backed the Rotary Club of South Holland’s Showbox Appeal.   The children have filled boxes with gifts for children from poor families in parts of eastern Europe to provide some extra Christmas cheer.   ...

Food processing company Princes is set to invest in a multi-million pound project at its Long Sutton plant. Members of South Holland District Council’s planning committee are due to discuss the application at a meeting on Wednesday. The site is the company’s largest food production facility and employs 498 permanent staff. The company, which took over the property in 2011, ...

Holbeach’s Armistice Commemorations began with a walking tour around the town’s Cemetery Chapels. Around 50 people were given the stories behind the graves of the fallen from war who are buried in the town, courtesy of the research from Linden Secker and Mike Brett. At each grave a cross was laid and a short tribute read on Saturday. The town’s ...

The annual Remembrance Service and parade held at Springfields Shopping Outlet saw shoppers join a host of people from numerous organisations in paying their respects to the fallen. Wreaths were laid at the memorial in Springfield Gardens on Saturday. The gardens themselves were decorated with 100 hand-crafted poppies made by Nita Clarkson to mark the centenary of the end of ...

A sell-out charity concert by the Ukelele Orchestra of Spalding raised an astonishing £4,000 for charity. Several members of orchestra went back to the South Holland Centre venue to present the impressive amount to the East Midlands Alzheimer’s Society last week. The orchestra members covered the cost of hiring the venue and the services of the centre staff, to ensure ...

A Long Sutton woman has died following a road traffic collision that closed the A17 overnight. Police were called to the incident near Long Sutton at 6.38pm last night (Tuesday) with the road remaining closed until around 7am this morning. The woman was driving the Renault Clio when it was involved in a collision with a a white Iveco articulated lorry. ...

A Cowbit petrolhead, who has spent the last year raising awareness of his deliberating condition, is facing an emotional end of the motor-racing season as it could be the last he’s able to travel to independently. James Wilson-White (50) has Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), a nerve issues that causes pain and affects movement, which is spreading throughout his body ...

Around 50 people a year in the South Holland and the Deepings region are diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, according to Cancer Alliance, and one in four people diagnosed with the disease won’t survive a month. Today (Thursday) is Pancreatic Cancer Day, an event created to bring awareness to the quickest killing form of cancer. Pancreatic Cancer UK specialist nurse, Diana ...

Changing its unused and brand new card-only parking ticket machines to take cash could cost South Holland District Council £7,000, according to a report due to go before its cabinet next week. The authority spent £28,000 on ten new machines last year – eight of which were for card only payments. But only one has been installed. Card-only machines were ...

A mobile cancer treatment unit has received a cash boost thanks to a family of fundraisers who give in memory of their beloved father and husband. Spalding couple Diane and Ian Tilley held a coffee morning to raise money for cancer care recently. It was backed by Diane’s twin sister, Elaine, raising £465 by hosting craft days at her home. ...

Installing a loud alarm and security lights are suggestions made by Lincolnshire Police for their recent rural crime ‘day of action’. As part of the National Day of Action Against Rural Crime, the police published a list of preventative measures people in rural areas can take. “Our advice pages www.lincs.police.uk/reporting-advice/ contain a lot of tried and tested solutions to security ...

Army Cadets from Spalding and Holbeach detachments were among those who took part in a battlefield tour in northern France. The cadets, who are part of Lincolnshire Army Cadet Force (ACF), took part in the three-day trip in late October as part of a national campaign to mark 100 years since the Armistice and give the cadets a greater insight ...

Year Six pupils from Ayscoughfee Hall Primary School visited South Holland District Council’s Priory Road offices to learn about democracy. On Monday, November 12 they met councillors and officers including the authority’s vice chairman Coun Harry Drury and cabinet members Coun Christine Lawton and Coun Roger Gambba-Jones. The visit culminated in the pupils getting a chance to exercise their own ...

A society that helps the blind says it is “desperate” for new members to help people who may otherwise be trapped in their own homes. The South Lincs Blind Society says it needs more volunteers to stay open. Among their chief responsibilities is to visit those who can not see in the area and provide them some company. A number ...

A 76-year-old pensioner from the Spalding area has died following a road traffic collision on the A16 yesterday. The man, who has not been named, was driving a white Vauxhall Astra around 12.20pm at Algakirk when the vehicle was involved with a collision with a white Scania HGV. Lincolnshire Police closed the road for several hours and initially reported that one ...

A 42-year-old man and a 35-year-old woman have been arrested on suspicion of human trafficking offences. The suspects were questioned following a Lincolnshire Police operation in Gedney yesterday morning (Wednesday, November 7). Both have been released under investigation pending further enquiries. Lincolnshire Police said six people believed to have been trafficked to the county for work in the food services ...

Spalding convenience store staff held at gunpoint refused to give up the contents of the till during a robbery on Monday and the robber left empty-handed. Lincolnshire Police are appealing for information and have released photograph of the failed robber. Police said at 8.27pm on Monday, November 5, a man (pictured) entered the Fantasia store on Bourne Road. He threatened ...

Ambulance staff will not be sent to those who have suffered non emergency falls in Lincolnshire in a new pilot project that is aiming to cut waiting times. A new “model of response” to deal with falls has been announced and Lincolnshire County Council, which has pledged £300,000 to help fund it, hopes it will be up and running before ...