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Long Sutton charity champion Geoff Palmer (67) powered through his first ever half marathon this weekend. Taking part in the Ely Monster Half Marathon, Geoff finished in impressive time. “I completed the run in two hours and nine minutes. I was pleased as I had thought around two hours 15 mins.” Geoff said he enjoyed the day and the views ...

Almost 40 affordable homes could be built alongside a new superstore on the site of a former Spalding hospital. An application has been submitted for the former Welland Hospital. The central area is already the subject of proposals for a new Lidl superstore. Two areas of residential development are being suggested by the United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust. Plans submitted ...

Three heritage sites in South Holland have gained funding support from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), which will enable access to National Trust expertise. Moulton Mill, Pinchbeck Pumping Museum and Chain Bridge Forge are part of the project looking at how they can help each other and improve the visitor experience that each provides and their long term sustainability. The ...

Amid cannon fire and musket bangs, Crowland Abbey felt the return of Oliver Cromwell’s puritan troops, almost 400 years after they first attacked. Battle reinactment group The Sealed Knot recreated the Siege of Crowland Abbey during the weekend activites. The Rev Mike Ongyerth said: “Large crowds lined the streets of Crowland to see members of the Sealed Knot march through ...

Hard work in South Holland has been rewarded with a raft of medals from East Midlands in Bloom this year. Spalding and Holbeach were both awarded gold medals in the large town and small town categories. There was also a Judge’s Award for the work carried out at Spalding railway station. Long Sutton took a silver gilt, also in the ...

LIVES, a Lincolnshire based charity attending 999 medical emergencies, has reported a dramatic increase in the number of serious road traffic collisions (RTC) it has been called to attend across Lincolnshire this year. This is the charity’s busiest year on record, with LIVES volunteers helping nearly 800 people involved in RTCs across Lincolnshire between January and August. This is compared ...

South Holland District Council members will be creating a policy to deal with ‘vexatious’ requests. Up until now the council has had no formal procedure for dealing with “unreasonably persistent complaints” along with “customer behaviour” and “vexatious requests.” But that is set to change as members of the Policy Development Panel are due to discuss the issue on Tuesday. “The ...

At 17-years-old, a Gosberton sixth-former has become the youngest person in her group to pass the intensive IAM RoadSmart advanced driver course. Billi Jackson, who is studying at Spalding High School, is the first 17-year-old to pass the advanced motorist course at the Boston IAM Roadsmart group. Billi said she was really happy when she passed and took the test ...

An arrested man who vaulted an eight foot high gate to escape from Boston Police Station has been jailed for 16 months. Aurimas Butkys, pictured right, was being led in handcuffs from a police car into the station when he made a run for it. Even though he was still handcuffed he managed to get over the gate and evaded ...

Safety concerns have arisen after a damaged crash barrier in Crowland has been struck again and in Pinchbeck a bridge barrier damaged in April is yet to be repaired. Concerned Crowland resident Justyn Stanley said the barrier at the sharp bend on the corner of Hull’s Drove and Martins Road was first struck in May. “The first car hit it ...

The majority of people at a Surfleet public meeting voted to add £12 a year to their Council Tax bill to support Glen Park. More than 100 people attended the meeting and now the charity SPARC which owns the facility says it expects the parish council to abide by the vote taken. A spokesman for SPARC said the parish precept ...

A Spalding superstore is due to re-open its tomorrow (Thursday, September 28) after a refurbishment and extension. Children from St John the Baptist Primary will be part of the celebrations at Aldi on St Thomas Road when they help to officially cut the ribbon. The green-fingered pupils will receive a donation of gardening materials from the store to help maintain ...

A South Holland school has been put into special measures after Ofsted inspectors declared it inadequate. Weston St Mary Church of England Primary School has had six head teachers since 2014 and according to the report, fails its pupils. The school, which has 46 children on the roll, was inspected in July this year. “Leadership of the school is inadequate. ...

Police spent more than two years investigating a ‘truly awful’ South Lincolnshire paedophile who groomed under-age girls online.   Michael Roseberry, 44, who lived in the Sutton Bridge area, lied about his age and targeted seven girls under 16.   He was jailed today (Friday) for five-and-a-half years at Lincoln Crown Court for the offences.   Speaking after the case, ...

A grass cutting tractor has been damaged after running over and taking up discarded metal canisters of nitrous oxide – also known as laughing gas. At the recent Holbeach Parish Council meeting, Coun Paul Foyster raised the issue of gang mowers cutting the grass in Carters Park being damaged by the small metal containers. A solution discussed at the meeting ...

An intensive programme of work to help 120 of the most vulnerable homeless people across Lincolnshire has been launched. The county-wide partnership ACTion Lincs has been set up to provide “life-changing support and tackle some of the most complex homelessness cases in Lincolnshire”, says a South Holland County Council spokesperson. ACTion Lincs pools nine district councils, Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation ...

Boy racers causing a nuisance in South Holland have been given a stark warning from Spalding police. Those causing trouble in the main hotspots – Spalding, Holbeach and Tydd St Mary – are under the watchful eye of the East Midlands Operational Support Service and they will be prosecuted if caught. The Support Service has traffic officers with specialist knowledge ...

A parade to remember the 1st Parachute Squadron Royal Engineers takes place in Donington on Sunday. The 1st Parachute Squadron Royal Engineers were billeted in Donington for nine months before departing for The Battle of Arnhem, known as Operation Market Garden and made famous by the film A Bridge Too Far. The parade will set off from the Market Place ...

Surfleet residents are being asked to foot a £12 rise in their Council Tax bill in an attempt to keep Glen Park running. The park committee has sent out letters asking villagers to attend a public meeting tonight (Thursday), where they will be able to vote on a proposed rise in the parish precept – the parish council’s part of ...

A Spalding schoolgirl has won a cash prize by taking top place in a county-wide poetry competition. Molly Hallissey (11) was in year six at St Norbert’s Primrary School when she wrote the poem for the Lincolnshire Chalk Streams Festival competition. She has since started at Spalding High School. Molly’s mum Liz, said when Molly found out she’d won the ...