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A group of Sutton Bridge friends who cycled from Wales to the town on Saturday to raise money for a boy recovering from brain cancer was welcomed with a sign that read “my heroes”. Riley Watts (11) is in remission and the riders wanted to raise money to send him and his family on holiday following their 18-month ordeal. The ...

Gutsy grandad Alan Clucas helped raise more than £8,000 for his Cowbit-based family by completing the gruelling Yorkshire Three Peaks challenge on Saturday. Alan, along with daughter Victoria Darby and her husband Paul, successfully scaled Pen-y-Ghent (694m), Whernside (736m) and Ingleborough (723m) – with the ordeal taking 13-and-a-half hours. The trio were helping raise money for Victoria’s Mia, Charlie and ...

A consultation has been launched into the future of council tax support in South Holland. A total of £4,110,223 discount on council tax is provided to 5,363 cases in the district, the majority of which (57.8 per cent) are the elderly. Lincolnshire County Council picks up 76.1 per cent of the costs, the Police and Crime Commissioner 13.4 per cent ...

A man who stepped in to referee a football game at the last minute was left out of pocket after his wallet and £350 phone was stolen during the game. Paul Sellars took charge of the game between Spalding Athletic and Netherton Reserves at the Castle Sports Complex as a favour so the Saturday, September 8 game wouldn’t be postponed. ...

Nearly one in 10 revellers in Spalding last Saturday night were found to have taken drugs as a campaign to kerb increasing town centre violence was launched. On Saturday night (September 15), Spalding police launched Operation Hammersmith with a night at two establishments, testing for drugs. In partnership with the landlords of Spalding pub The Punchbowl and night club Loaded, ...

The finishing touches are being put to Spalding’s newest lodge and restaurant. Around 60 new jobs have been created at the £4m Tulip Queen on the Lincs Gateway site alongside the A16. Two former Tulip Queens will officially cut the ribbon at the Marston’s venue which opens to the public on September 24. Janet Bray was the winner of the ...

Two former firefighters have been thanked for their services to the community. Dave Ginnety and Gordon Scott had been part of the retained Holbeach Fire Crew for 20 and 16 years respectively before their recent  retirements. They both returned to the station on September 11 to be promoted with axes by station manager Mark Housam. Dave, a former Junior Officer at ...

Volunteers have the chance to forge a new path for themselves thanks to a number of vacancies at Chain Bridge Forge blacksmiths and museum. Last week, manager Martin Bawden left the Forge to relocate and a replacement is being sought. Director Geoff Taylor said: “Martin’s been a fantastic asset to us, he’s really done a wonderful job. “The volunteers he’s ...

Three young men who carried out a “terrifying robbery” at a Holbeach newsagents, after arming themselves with two knives and wearing Halloween masks have each been sentenced to over two years youth custody.    Manager Paula Shaw was working alone at McColls in Holbeach at around 7.30pm when she was confronted by the two 17-year-olds and a 16-year-old.    Lincoln ...

A Heritage Lincolnshire open day at Spalding Cemetery was so successful it has set the ball rolling on the potential for a whole new organisation. As part of the county-wide open days, which let the public in on usually closed historic areas over two weekends in September, Spalding Cemetery’s Johnson Mausoleum was open and organisers Coun Elizabeth Sneath and Julia ...

Spalding Round Table and Spalding 41 Club (a club made up of ex Round Table members) played host to the their opposite numbers from Spalding’s twin town Speyer, Germany, as part of a partnership going back many years. The clubs meet up each year in Spalding and Speyer in alternate years. More than 80 people of all ages took part ...

A Gosberton and Quadring community scheme is in with the chance of a cash grant thanks to making an awards shortlist. The  Good Neighbour Scheme has been shortlisted in the Skipton Building Society Grassroots Giving 2018 awards and is in with the chance of winning £500. Voting closes on October 12 and this year Skipton said it has 165 pots ...

Lincolnshire Police are hoping neighbours of hare coursers become good friends. As part of Operation Galileo, the fight against hare coursing, letters have been sent out to ten people known to have taken part in the last season. And they’ve also sent 143 letters out to those ten people’s neighbours. Lincolnshire Police’s lead for rural crime, Superintendent Phil Vickers has ...

Two weather warnings have been issued for the South Holland area with two storms due to hit in the next few days. It’s already fairly windy outside today (Wednesday) but The Met Office has issued Yellow Warnings for wind for tomorrow (Thursday) night from 6pm to 9am on Friday and for from 9am on Sunday to 9am on Monday. On ...

Improving Holbeach’s five way Market Hill junction is among the issues to be looked at as part of a new travel strategy for the town. A direction on the future of transport in the town is to be unveiled in early 2019 with its stated aims to include prioritising walking and cycling in the town as well as promoting public ...

Fire crews were called to Pinchbeck last night (Thursday, September 13) to put out a skip fire. The incident at Goddard’s Yard off Pudding Lane was reported at 7.15pm. Crews from Spalding and Kirton Fire Station attended and extinguished the blaze using one hose reel. A spokesman for Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue said that there was “severe damage to one ...

A re-launch event will mark the completion of works to restore an iconic building which has been serving the Spalding community since 1937. Regent Bingo in Spalding will showcase its makeover at its re-launch event on Friday October 12. The £200,000 investment includes a refurbished main hall with new carpet and reupholstered seating, a new disabled toilet along with restoration ...

A driver who left a motorcyclist with a life-changing injury after attempting to overtake three vehicles has been given a suspended prison sentence. Denas Sudeikas, 24, was driving on the A16 between Peterborough and Crowland on October 27 last year when the crash took place. Shortly before 5pm Sudeikas attempted to overtake three other vehicles in his car, an Audi A4, ...

A hospital used by a number of patients in South Holland has been put into special measures for a second time in five years after being rated inadequate in a number of areas, including in safety. The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King’s Lynn has been rated “inadequate” by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) in its latest report published today (Thursday, ...

A Sutton Bridge boy who is recovering from brain cancer treatment will get a well-deserved holiday with funds raised by a country-spanning bike ride this Saturday. Family and friends of 11-year-old Riley Watts will set off from Wales in the early hours of Saturday morning and arrive back at Sutton Bridge on Saturday evening. The welcoming committee will be at ...