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Five Spalding social care workers are celebrating after being recognised for improving the lives of others.   Zoe Ayliff and Caroline James both won in their categories at the Making Space Employee Awards, held to recognise the national heath and social care charity’s 35th anniversary.   Caroline, a support worker at learning disability respite service Cedar House, received the award ...

A new NHS dental practice is to open in Spalding by the end of this year. It will offer routine and urgent care to patients from 8am to 8pm, 365 days a year. NHS England Central Midlands has commissioned Rodericks Dental Ltd, a Northampton-based business with 70 dental practices across England and Wales. Rodericks declined to give any further information ...

Interview tapes in which Kim Edwards describes the murders of her mother and sister have been released by Lincolnshire Police. Edwards and boyfriend Lucas Markham were both 14 when they murdered Liz (49) and Katie Edwards (13) as they slept in their beds at their home in Dawson Avenue, Spalding, in April 2016. Kim says in the tapes: “Erm, I ...

One of the two 14-year-olds who murdered Spalding dinner lady Liz Edwards and daughter Katie (13) last year was Kim Edwards, Liz’s second-eldest daughter. Reporting restrictions have been lifted by judges at the Court of Appeal so the identities of Kim and boyfriend Lucas Markham – both 14 at the time of the killings in April 2016 – can be ...

A yoga teacher from Whaplode St Catherine has joined an elite band of instructors after an impulsive decision to jet off to America for specialist training.     Lynn Exley, who runs Wellbeing for Living, decided to join the Foundation Training scheme after struggling with a bad back.   Despite the intensive training being held in Florida, Lynn decided to ...

John Hayes was elected for his sixth term as MP for South Holland and The Deepings with almost 70 per cent of the vote. The Conservative candidate polled almost 25,000 more votes than second-placed Voyteck Kowalewski (Labour Party). UKIP’s Nicola Jane Smith was third with 2,185 votes but, along with Independent candidate Rick Stringer who finished last on 342, did ...

A former South Holland District Council employee and his wife died in an apparent suicide pact, probably prompted by her poorly condition. The bodies of Sean and Mary Lawson, who both died from asphyxiation, were found at their home in Rugby, Warwickshire. An inquest heard that an email which Mr Lawson (50) had sent to police with a time delay ...

The Spalding Gentlemen’s Society has received a £20,100 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) to help develop a strategy for its future.   HLF is supporting a thorough options appraisal to include a review of the existing building and its future viability for the collection and better public access. The grant will fund professional inputs from experts in the ...

Three further homes could be created in the former clubhouse at Gedney Hill Golf Club. Owner Charlie Britton has applied to South Holland District Council for a change of use for commercial premises in West Drove North. The building was originally a bungalow that was extended and altered to become the clubhouse to the golf club incorporating offices, function rooms, ...

There was an emotional farewell on Friday (June 2) as The Fitness Company owner Tracey Vowels took her final class at its current base. A developer has bought the distinctive building – the former Geest Club – in Spring Gardens, Spalding. Tracey said: “The building has been brilliant for our use over the last 23 years. However, I am fully ...

Founders of Pennygate Foundation health and wellbeing centre have taken a step to secure its long-term future and extend opening hours. A planning application has been submitted by Dr Azmeena Nathu to allow the centre, beside her surgery, in Pennygate, Spalding, to become permanent, extend opening hours to 7.30am to 10pm Monday to Saturday and 10am to 5pm Sundays and ...

McDonald’s wants to revamp its Long Sutton restaurant and drive thru.   The fast good giant has applied to South Holland District Council for planning permission to give the premises alongside the A17 a “fresher, more contemporary façade”.    The plans include a new roof design and an extra drive thru lane to ease congestion at busy times.   A ...

A Moulton Seas End couple want planning consent for five new homes adjacent to their house. Mr and Mrs P Whiting have applied to South Holland District Council for outline permission for an indicative five properties on land linked to 58 Seas End Road.  

Police are appealing for information about the theft of a yellow Yamaha R125 motorbike, registration GJ58 FCL. It was stolen from a garden in Danube Square, Spalding, overnight on Tuesday, May 23. Anyone with information is asked to contact PC Ben Harrington by calling 101 and quoting incident number 81 of May 24. Or call Crimestoppers on 0800 555111 or ...

South Holland residents unhappy with tatty-looking towns and villages due to verges being cut fewer times are being urged to make their feelings known. The call comes from South Holland District Council vice-chairman Coun Harry Drury, who shares people’s frustrations with the situation. In a money-saving move, Lincolnshire County Council ended routine cutting of verges in built-up areas from April ...

Flowers can be laid in The Peace Garden at Spalding’s Ayscoughfee Gardens from Saturday (June 10) in tribute to those who lost their lives in the recent terror attacks in Manchester and London. The memorial was the personal idea of Rachel Thompson, who works in Ayscoughfee Hall Museum. She said: “I think this sort of incident affects everyone. You just ...

Police are appealing for information on the attempted theft of a car on Tuesday (June 6).   It happened in Acacia Avenue, Spalding between between 3am and 4am. The white Ford Fiesta had a door forced open and there was a failed attempt to drive it away. The offenders left pushed it a short distance before leaving it.   Anyone ...

Two people arrested in connection with a string of burglaries at homes of the elderly in South Holland have been released pending further investigation. The 25-year-old man and a 17-year-old girl were held on Friday (June 2). Police investigating the offences involving key safes being entered said property believed to be stolen had been recovered following the pair’s arrest. A ...

Pinchbeck United Football Club secured planning permission to upgrade its ground in Knight Street, but the parish council will not allow it. Owner of the site, Pinchbeck Parish Council objected to the plan. It wants to keep Glebe Field accessible to all. At a meeting on May 31, South Holland District Council’s planning committee chairman Coun Roger Gambba-Jones said: “It ...

A pensioner has been accused of criminal damage after he removed panels from a fence he says blocks a legal right of way to his back garden. Alwyn Chilvers (70) and his mother Audrey (92) say it is stated in their deeds they can access their garden  behind the next door end-of-terrace house in High Road, Whaplode, but a 7ft ...