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A 31-year-old man was arrested on Friday after air support were called to an incident at Holbeach St Marks. Officers from East Midlands Operational Support Service were involved in the arrest, which came after a vehicle ended-up in the river at Pode Hole. The arrest was part of Operation Galileo which is targeting hare coursers visiting Lincolnshire to commit offences. ...

The relatives of a care home resident were stunned when all visitors were banned within days of admission. Claire Ingham took her 77-year-old mother, who has dementia, to the home and was told just four days later that visitors were not welcome. Southernwood House on Matmore Gate, part of Wellbeing Residential Ltd, stopped all members of the public from going ...

Free Christmas lunches will be on offer at two locations in Spalding and Holbeach. The Holbeach Community Cafe still has tickets left for its lunch in the Reading Rooms. Organisers are stressing that tickets will be given regardless of financial need as loneliness is the key factor. The lunch will be free of charge for those who attend although donations ...

Spalding-based Bridge Farm Nurseries is hoping to build 75-acres of glasshouse as part of continued expansion. The company, which employs up to 400 seasonal workers a year, will complete the first phase in 2019 if approval is granted. Bridge Farm Group specialises in growing and producing ornamental plants, flowers and herbs for retailers around the country. “Our new site represents ...

A new revised planning application could be the latest twist in the long-running saga over the derelict Red Cow Hotel in Donington. Planning permission for Market Homes Limited to turn the former hotel into 31 apartments was approved in December 2016 however the site remains in its dilapidated state sparking concerns from residents about its appearance and the safety of ...

Police investigating the theft of Christmas lights from Sainsbury’s in Spalding have issued a CCTV image of a person they would like to speak to. The incident took place at the Holland Market store at approximately at 8.55am on Thursday, November 23. A spokesman for Lincolnshire Police said: “The Community Patrol team in Spalding are appealing for your help in ...

Gritters will be out in force over the next few days around South Holland. Lincolnshire County Council’s fleet will be on-call around the clock, so they are ready to hit the road whenever needed. The county is experiencing prolonged periods of freezing temperatures over the next few days, so the team will be making multiple runs over the next few ...

The Met Office has released a weather warning for snow in Lincolnshire on Sunday, December 10. Weather forecasters have said we could be in line for a period of heavy snow in South Holland and released a yellow warning for snow. The warning is due to be in effect from between 4am and 11.55pm on Sunday. A statement from The ...

Holbeach Town Band will re-open its Music Cafe for a Christmas concert. On Sunday, December 10, leader Mel Hopkin will strike up the band to fill Holbeach WI Hall with a selection of Christmas classics. Music Cafe started in April 2015, said Mel, who celebrates his 20th year as band leader. “We run the café two or three times a ...

A museum could be among the new arrivals at Spalding Station. Turning one of the historic building’s derelict rooms into a permanent exhibition of railway memorabilia has been mooted as an option. Spalding and Peterborough Transport Forum together with the Spalding Station Adoption Team had already announced it was looking to create spaces for community groups to use as part ...

A mother and father from West Pinchbeck witnessed their talented 27-year-old daughter die after her horse tripped and fell on her, an inquest has heard. Victoria Marie Howlett suffered ‘catastrophic’ head and neck injuries following the incident on Saturday, September 23 a hearing at Boston Coroner’s Court was told. The hearing on Wednesday, December 6 heard that she completed a ...

A homeless couple are in accommodation following a successful appeal launched by a Spalding woman and her daughter. At the end of October, Stephanie Lamont and her daughter Clementine Cousins started an appeal to help house Jason and Jane Paul by Christmas. She is now celebrating after some large cash donations allowed her to meet her goal. Donations pledged online ...

Extra trains to Lincoln Christmas Market are stopping at Spalding Station on Sunday, December 10. The Peterborough to Lincoln services will leave Spalding at 9.31am and 10.31am arriving in Lincoln at 9.11am and 10.11am respectively. There are two return journeys. The first leaves Lincoln at 2.45pm arriving at Spalding at 3.41pm. The second leaves Lincoln at 4pm and arrives at ...

Spalding Police have launched a new operation to tackle the rise in anti-social behaviour in Spalding and seasonal shoplifting. Operation Vivid was announced by Inspector Gareth Boxall, who said there will be more police patrols in Spalding during December. Insp. Boxall said shoplifting increases around Christmas but the operation’s anti-social behaviour focus isn’t related to the festive season. “The anti-social ...

A Pinchbeck man who has helped raise around £186,000 for The Poppy Appeal has thanked people for helping him after he collapsed in Spalding and was trodden on. Tony Boyer fell ill while walking down Broad Street at around 8pm on Monday, November 20. A number of members of the public looked after him, but one passer-by trod on his ...

A man has appeared in court charged with possessing more than a thousand indecent photographs of children. Russell Ian Nason (34), of Wrights Lane, entered no pleas to three allegations of making a total of 1,081 indecent photographs of children between May 2009 and September last year. He also faces a single allegation of possessing an extreme pornographic image of ...

A major road scheme in South Holland has been completed months ahead of schedule. Two new roundabouts have been created at Holbeach in the £5.4m Lincolnshire County Council project. As well as the roundabouts, the work has opened-up access to potential residential land to the east of the A151. Development land for Peppermint Park, a food enterprise village, can also ...

A Spalding family had more snow than any of us over the weekend. There was none forecast, and Thursday’s flurry just wasn’t enough so the Tangs had their own snow delivered. A white Christmas certainly came early after Liisa Tang won a competition. She spotted a hidden snow globe on the website of retailer TK Maxx and won her very ...

The family of a bubbly 10-year-old have launched an appeal to buy a special bath that could ease her nightly pain. Alice Bates, of Little Sutton, has quadriplegic cerebral palsy and epilepsy after a brain haemorrhage and stroke soon after her birth. Her left hand is the only limb she can use functionally. The pain she experiences is worse at ...

Services at Castle Sports Complex are improving a local councillor has said. Coun Gary Taylor told a meeting of the Spalding Town Forum on Wednesday, November 29 that since April, South Holland District Council had received 55 comments from users using the electronic feedback system. Of these 34 were deemed positive, 15 negative with complaints including concerns over cleanliness and ...