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Detectives in Spalding have launched an appeal for information related to a reported GBH incident which took place in the town centre during the early hours of Tuesday, January 16.  A man reported that he received injuries to his face and suffered heavy bleeding, after reportedly suffering serious injuries caused by multiple people. The victim then took a taxi from Spalding to ...

South Holland District Council spent almost £60,000 last year cleaning up dumped items. The figures released by the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) reveal the council spent £59,418 attending to 671 incidents. In 2016, DEFRA reported 599 incidents in South Holland. Nationally, the council with the largest bill was Northampton, which spent £886,562 clearing up 18,128 ...

A housing development in Quadring that was previously refused planning permission due to worries over flooding, has now been passed due to what has been called “a different way of reading the data.” The outline application for up to 34 homes off St Margaret’s was initially turned down in June on flood grounds on the advice of the Environment Agency. ...

Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue were called out to a fire in Park Road, Holbeach in the early hours of Wednesday, January 10. Holbeach fire crew attended at 12.35am to the fire described by the service as being “in the open”. A quantity of waste materials were severely damaged in the blaze. The fire was extinguished using a water backpack and ...

The Spalding Gentlemen’s Society museum will open its doors to the public on Sunday, January 21. The open day at Broad Street, Spalding, will allow access to the artworks and antiques that the society has collected over the last 300 years. Heather Violett from the society said visitors can expect a “step back in time” into the “Edwardian building crammed ...

A family from the travelling community have been given permission to leave their caravan permanently alongside a former landfill site between Whaplode and Holbeach St James. At its meeting on Wednesday, January 10, South Holland District Council’s planning committee granted retrospective permission for the site at the junction of Hurdletree Bank and Cranesgate North. The decision had been deferred from ...

A Spalding singer-songwriter has started the year on a musical note with the release of a three-track EP. Matthew James Aylett (31) released his rootsy, country-inflected Factory Blues EP online on Friday. Matthew, who has lived in Spalding all his life, said his music reflects the area and his experience working here, best summed up in the opening track, Ain’t ...

A road traffic incident that left one person with serious injuries led to the closure of a Spalding Common junction for nearly five hours on Tuesday evening (January 16). Two vans and a car were involved in the incident which occurred around 4.30pm on the A1175’s junction with Littleworth Drove. One person was taken to hospital with what the Lincolnshire ...

The 13-year-old boy who took an air rifle, axe and screwdriver into a south Lincolnshire school was planning a Columbine style massacre, it has been revealed. The youth, who can not be identified for legal reasons, had a hit list of targets and even went as so far as to wear the same clothes  bearing the phrase “Natural Selection” worn ...

A care home company was today fined £70,000 after a court heard how confused and elderly residents were able to leave the premises without being noticed putting their lives at risk.   Apex Care Ltd, which runs a 28-room unit at The Bungalow on Park Road, Spalding, had admitted breaching health and safety regulations following an investigation in to incidents at ...

A 13-year-old boy has today (Friday, January 12) pleaded guilty to possessing an air weapon with intent to cause fear of violence and having an axe at a Lincolnshire school. Police were called to the school in the south of the county just after 9am on Monday, November 13 after staff dealt with an incident involving a teenage pupil. Lincolnshire Police ...

A photo of a cow chewing on a plastic beer can ring in Lincolnshire is the latest incident of fly-tipping that demonstrates the seriousness of the crime and the risk it can pose to cattle, the Country Land and Business Association (CLA) said. The incident took place near a picnic area at East Lighthouse, Sutton Bridge on land where cattle ...

The state of Holbeach’s public toilets has been slammed as unclean by a businesswoman who uses them everyday with needles among the items she has found there. Michelle Manley owns and runs Retro Vintage Modern gift shop on Park Road, but as the shops there have no toilet facilities, she must use the South Holland District Council ran public conveniences ...

Two Gin and Prosecco Evenings in Spalding are set to provide local charities with some extra fizz. Spalding Lions are putting on the special nights on Friday, February 2 and 16. The event on February 16 is to raise funds for the Mia and Me appeal. Cowbit’s Mia Clucas is the only person in the world with her particular genetic ...

A damaged pipe in Moulton has left some residents of a street without water today (Wednesday, January 10). Anglian Water say another contractor has caused the damage and that properties in the area, including on Harrox Road are affected. The water company says repair works are currently being carried out. A spokesman for Anglian Water, said: “Another contractor working on ...

South Holland and the Deepings MP John Hayes has resigned from his post as Minister of State at the Department for Transport. Amid a two-day Tory cabinet reshuffle, Mr Hayes gave a handwritten resignation letter to prime minister Theresa May on Tuesday. Mr Hayes held ministerial roles across six government departments since 1999. “It’s unusual to be in six government ...

Long Sutton residents have been given a chance to air their views on plans to build more than 200 homes in the village. The parish council has called a planning meeting for Thursday, January 11 to discuss the outline application to build  approximately 215 homes between Seagate Road and Wisbech Road. All residents in the village are invited to the ...

Officers in South Holland gave 360 motorists drink-driving breath tests over the Christmas period, Lincolnshire Police said. The stops were made as part of the force’s Operation BlackWater through December. Inspector Gareth Boxall said: “South Holland officers conducted 360 breath tests throughout that period and made 20 arrests. “Those caught were from a mixture of us responding to reports from ...

A couple who aptly live on Love Lane in Spalding have celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary. Ena Turner (87) and husband Les (92) were wed at Whaplode Church on December 27, 1947. They celebrated their platinum anniversary together at home. The pair had met in the Odeon Cinema in Spalding, though neither can remember when and what they were there ...

Spalding Police inspector Gareth Boxall is urging members of the public to be hot on reporting potential incidents of heating oil theft. A quantity of fuel was stolen from a property in Chesboule Lane, Gosberton Risegate between January 1 and 7. In the incident a person broke in to the property’s garden where they drained the oil from the owner’s ...