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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 ...

Councillors turned down a proposed housing development in Campains Lane, Deeping St Nicholas on flood risk grounds. The plan for ten homes by R C Tinsley Ltd, which had been recommended for approval, was unanimously turned down at South Holland’s planning committee meeting on May 31. Coun Chris Brewis said: “This is actually one of the lowest points in the ...

A row has broken out over a “significant” rent rise for one of Gosberton Public Hall’s main users. Gosberton Bowls and Snooker Club now fears for its future. On the back of dwindling membership it has been asked to pay 100 per cent more to use its base than it was this time last year. The hall’s trustees insist the ...

People only have until the end of this month to enter Holbeach In Bloom’s best garden competition, run in conjunction with The Voice. Whatever your outside space – a garden, balcony or window box – Holbeach In Bloom wants to see it. Judges Terry and Jill Harrington will visit each entrant during July and decide the winners. There are three ...

Lincolnshire Trading Standards and Lincolnshire Police are warning residents about a new type of copycat website.   Trading standards officers say a “significant number” of residents have been in touch about the websites which feature cars, expensive machinery and large plant, all for sale at low prices. Designed to look like existing local businesses’ websites, they carry copied contact details, ...

A move to reduce the amount of affordable housing on a site in York Gardens, Gosberton, has been denied. Applicants D A and F N Casswell and F M Rozier also wanted to replace required open space on the site with a community orchard nearby, but that too was turned down. South Holland District Council’s planning officers had recommended approval ...

A controversial mobile home may be allowed to remain in use if it is raised six feet off the ground in the same way as 12 others already accepted nearby. Applicant Sarah Smith has been embroiled in a long-running dispute with South Holland District Council over the home in Akita Place, Clay Lake, Spalding. She told a meeting of the ...

Lack of interest from potential buyers in Spalding’s Brantano shoe store made it unviable to keep it open, administrators have said. The Holland Market store closed on Friday, May 26, and 13 staff were made redundant. Tony Barrell and Mike Jervis of PwC were appointed as joint administrators of Brantano Retail Limited, in March 2017. For weeks the Spalding store ...

A service has been held in Spalding’s Ayscoughfee Gardens to commemorate D-Day in World War Two.   Veterans and organisations’ representatives gathered at the war memorial for the Royal Naval Association D-Day Service on Tuesday (June 6).   South Holland District Council vice-chairman Coun Harry Drury said: “I was privileged and honoured to spend a couple of hours with this ...

A banned motorist caught at the wheel while three times the drink-drive limit has escaped an immediate jail sentence. Arturs Eversons (31), of Walnut View, pleaded guilty to driving in Albert Street, Spalding on May 13 with 110 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. The legal limit is 35. Appearing before magistrates in Lincoln on June 1, Eversons ...

A Gosberton Risegate man has started a prison sentence after admitting assaulting a woman. Darren Paul Matthews, of Sheppersons Avenue, was handed a six-week term seven days after beating Megan Parr on May 24. He was also ordered to pay £50 compensation. Appearing before Boston magistrates on May 31, Matthews (45) also pleaded guilty to: taking a car on May ...

A Deeping St Nicholas man accused of having 71.5 grams of cannabis with intent to supply has been remanded on unconditional bail. Luke Hugh Perry (19), of Cornfield Close, is said to have been in the possession of the class B drug  in St George’s Avenue, Stamford, on November 20, 2016. Perry appeared before Boston magistrates on May 31 and ...

A Holbeach firm’s expertise at growing daffodils earned it a place at the Champions League final last Saturday night. (June 3) Walkers@Taylors Bulbs was chosen specifically to provide the displays within the corporate areas for the showpiece event at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff. Grower Johnny Walkers explained: “We were asked last November if it would be possible to have ...

Planning permission has been granted for 188 new homes in Holbeach. After an hour-long debate by South Holland District Council’s planning committee on Wednesday (May 31), members agreed 12-2 in favour of King Bros (Butchers) Ltd’s proposal for an 8.4 hectare site off the town end of Damgate. Councillors were generally pleased with the plan in terms of layout, density and ...

The daughter of one of the many elderly burglary victims targeted in the Spalding area over the past fortnight says her mother will not feel comfortable using a key safe again. Many of those targeted have been burgled using keys kept in coded boxes on the outside of the property, which enable access for trusted people. The daughter (who we ...

University Academy Holbeach’s first Battle of the Bands was organised by some of its older students.   As part of their BTEC Level 3 Diploma in Music, Edward King and Austin Walker-Hyde had to organise and run a community music project. They decided to work with Year 7 pupils to develop the younger pupils’ knowledge of and skills in rock ...

Calls for tolerance, education and to remain united have been made after a heated social media debate over a Sikh man photographed wearing a large sheathed ceremonial sword in a supermarket. The law allows knives to be carried in public for specified good reasons – including in the case of a Sikh carrying a kirpan, a religious symbol worn by ...