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Young people from Long Sutton or Sutton Bridge who are starting higher education course in the next school year could be eligible for a special grant to help them financially. Anyone under 25 from those towns (or whose parents live there) and who is starting at university or college in the 2018/19 school year could be a recipient of the ...

A local businessman is the latest winner of an annual award to recognise those who help the UK flower bulb industry bloom. John Taylor has been awarded the Carlo Naef Trophy by the Springfields Horticultural Society trophy for his life-time career achievements in South Lincolnshire. John is currently the commercial director with OA Taylor and Sons in Holbeach, a role ...

John Steel, Elaine Mothers and the other members of Spalding Lions Club have been nominated for Pride of South Holland Award. The nominations for the 2018 award are flying in ahead of September’s big celebration at the South Holland Centre. The person who nominated the Lions, said: “I am nominating the Lions Club (Spalding) because they are great. “They were ...

Flower festivals are a firm fixture of the first fortnight of May. Here are some of the events happening in South Holland. Holbeach Flower Festival at All Saints’ Church has five days of floral fun with Musicals theme. Look out for Audrey II! Events include a school concert at 6pm on Friday, May 4, Teddy Bears from the Tower at ...

A woman who called 999 almost 100 times on Christmas Day has been told to pay £2,000. The woman, who had no medical need to contact the ambulance service, appeared at court earlier this month and has been banned from calling the emergency services for five years, with the exception of a genuine emergency. The caller rang EMAS 97 times ...

Whaplode Village Hall is £210 better off thanks to local bingo battlers. The hall hosts Phyllis Harris’s monthly quiz nights and a number of people attended the latest one held on Friday, April 20. Through their donations and amid the bingo action the patrons managed to raise the £210. Lee Morris from the hall was on hand to collect the ...

A disqualified Gosberton Risegate driver who drove into a neighbour’s gate pillar has been given a suspended prison sentence. Darren John Goodwin (50) of Sheppersons Avenue, Gosberton Risegate, who was already on a suspended prison sentence, admitted failing to provide a breath specimen for analysis and for driving while disqualified in the incident outside his home on March 26. At ...

A bogus Help for Heroes collector who posed in military uniform claiming to be a serving soldier today (Monday, April 30) had his assets confiscated by a judge.   David Santini (56) of North Drove, Quadring, claimed he was “just back from Afghanistan” when challenged while collecting from unsuspecting peple at Newark Antiques Fair.   But he was revealed to ...

A decision on whether to close the children’s ward at Pilgrim Hospital in Boston has been delayed. At today’s (Friday April 27) meeting of the United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust, it was agreed that more information needs to be gathered before a final decision is made on which option should be taken going forward. A decision is now due to ...

Lincolnshire Police are appealing for information over a 21-year-old Spalding man who hasn’t been seen in a week. Szymon Janczewski was last seen on Friday, April 20. He is described as white, tall and with blonde hair, and may have a blue cycling bike with him. A spokesman for Lincolnshire Police, said: “We are appealing for information that may help us ...

Notification procedures at a council planning department are being overhauled after a landowner was wrongly-told he had permission to build new homes. Plans were submitted to South Holland District Council to build the homes on Battlefields Lane North, Holbeach. Landowner John Swepstone planned his retirement from business and was looking for permission to build seven homes on the site after ...

A police sergeant was head-butted and spat at while arresting a man suspected of robbing a Donington store with a knife. The incident on Sunday, April 22 was one of nine assaults reported on officers across Lincolnshire over last weekend. The assault came hours after a man brandished a knife to steal two packets of cigarettes from Bargain Booze at ...

The children’s ward at Pilgrim Hospital could close in June. A staffing crisis has spurred crunch talks, set to take place on Friday. The number of beds available on the ward has already been reduced from 12 to eight, a United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust report said. Options will be considered on Friday, two of which involve temporarily ceasing children’s services ...

The A151 Bourne Road is closed at Pode Hole after an accident that’s left one person in hospital. A collision between a car and a van occurred just after 10.30am this morning (April 25). One man has been taken to hospital as a result of the incident but his condition is not yet known. The road remains closed as of ...

Police have launched an appeal to find a missing teenager. Ariyan Galil (14) is missing from Holbeach. Police ask anyone with information on her whereabouts to call 101.    

A Donington man says he was so inspired by a local charity that he was able to stand up unaided for the first time in around a decade. Now Mark Davis (62) is targeting walking again thanks to the Safe Places group when previously he thought his days of being on his own two feet were over. He has a number ...

South Holland communities which want street lights on all night may well have to pay for the benefit. A report into the county’s part-night lighting initiative is due to go before the overview and scrutiny management board today (Thurs). There are a total of five recommendations for members to discuss following a review. A range of topics were covered by ...

A couple affected by cancer held hands as they completed the London Marathon. Georgie Jones (41) and her husband Paul (50), who has twice beaten testicular cancer, have raised over £12,000 for the Addenbrooke’s Charitable Trust and Macmillan. The pair completed the 26.2 miles in 7hrs 29mins. “We realised pretty quickly it wasn’t going to go as expected and held ...

Phil Newton had said the London Marathon would be his first and last – but now he’s got the running bug. The 41-year-old from Sutton St James has raised over £1,750 for the World Horse Welfare charity. He’d never even considered running the event before but around Christmas time heard a place running for the charity was available. Thankfully the ...

Running the hottest London Marathon ever was described as “brutal” by Spalding mum of two Emma Wilson, but she completed it in memory of her younger sister. Emma Wilson has raised over £7,000 for the Teenage Cancer Trust as a tribute to Louise Miers who passed away in April last year aged 25 just six months after being diagnosed with ...