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Food manufacturer Bakkavor and Spalding health and wellbeing charity Tonic Health have teamed up again to promote healthy eating. The second educational workshop for schoolchildren aged from 5 to 12 focused on wraps and other nutritious alternatives to bread. It followed another successful workshop last month on the importance of fruit and salads for a healthy diet. These workshops are ...

The sails of Moulton Mill will soon be turning again, it is hoped, with planning consent now being sought to rectify a failed element of its £2million restoration. The mill’s fantail was removed around 18 months ago after it sagged when wooden staging began to rot. The issue led the mill to be placed back on the Heritage at Risk ...

Former Spalding man Andy Hall has appealed his conviction for criminal defamation and computer crimes in Thailand. The human rights defender’s legal team lodged the paperwork last week, five months after the outcome of his case in Bangkok. The conviction related to publication of a report entitled Cheap Has A High Price in 2013 by Finnwatch, a Finnish civil society organisation. ...

South Holland and the Deepings MP John Hayes has been awarded an honorary fellowship by the Royal Chartered Institute For Further Education. In a ceremony at Apothecaries Hall in London, chairman of the institution, the Rt Hon The Lord Lingfield, described it as “an historic occasion” and praised Mr Hayes for his “outstanding work championing vocational training and raising the ...

by Dr Susan Oosthuizen Reader in medieval archaeology, University of Cambridge Twitter: @DrSueOosthuizen I am interested generally in the medieval fenland, what it looked like and what it was like to travel around it. So I have done some work on the medieval canals of the peat fens and, more recently, the management of the peat fens in the Anglo-Saxon ...

South Holland District Council has acknowledged the hard work and achievements of some staff members. The Value In People Recognition Awards acknowledge “delivery of services to the community” over the previous 12 months. Ayscoughfee Hall Museum tweeted its thanks after being named winner of the Bright Idea Award category. A council spokesman said: “The Value In People Awards brought together ...

A first fundraising calendar for Lincs and Notts Air Ambulance was so popular that the person who came up with the idea has made a date to do it all again. The venture by Surfleet resident Rachel Rodgers raised £4,747 for the charity, which needs £2.1m a year. Rachel set up Twitter account @LincsSkies last year, enabling photographers to share ...

Leading South Holland district councillors have moved to assure the public that the proposed £2.7million refurbishment of its Spalding headquarters is anything but for the benefit of its staff. Leader Gary Porter and cabinet member Roger Gambba-Jones underlined that any public perception that the aim of the project was to create a “shiny, more comfy” environment was very far wide ...

A book of bygone stories from a Girl Guiding group in Spalding has been published with financial support from the ward member’s budget of six South Holland district councillors. “Memories of 2nd Spalding Guide Company 1941-1965″ has been produced by District Guiding commissioners Bridget Scase and Jane Amess in tribute to Mary Waters, who was involved with the Guiding movement for 76 years ...

A 27-year-old man has been sentenced for five instances of flashing. Sam Thomas exposed himself in a series of incidents in September and October 2016. They were: in Lime Walk, Long Sutton on September 15 in Little London, Long Sutton on October 18 in Old Main Road, Fleet Hargate on October 21 in Windsor Crescent, Boston on October 21 at Lincolnshire ...

Seven incidents of harecoursing in South Holland were reported to Lincolnshire Police over the weekend. Police were anticipating a gathering on Saturday and had a 48-hour dispersal order put in place, allowing them to direct any people suspected of being involved in the illegal activity to leave the county. On Saturday, across the county there were 12 incidents of hare coursing reported: ...

Two people, a woman in her 70’s and a man, have died this morning in a collision between Crowland and Cowbit. The collision,  between a silver Peugeot 206 and a HGV, was reported  to police at 4.40am. Family members are being informed. Witnesses should call 101 quoting incident 30 of today (Feb 13).

Lincolnshire Police officers have been given the power to direct people to leave the county amid information received that a gathering of hare coursers is due to take place on Saturday. (Feb 11) The dispersal order can be used on people suspected of being involved in hare coursing. The force said: “Extra officers will be patrolling the county and our ...

More FreshLinc lorry trailers are on the roads across the country showing off art with links to our area. The second ‘Art on Lorries’ project – a partnership between the Pinchbeck haulage firm and Boston and South Holland arts programme Transported – celebrates people and events from the area and led to ten Fenland Folk trailers being revealed at Springfields ...

Two men who robbed a Spalding mobile phone shop at knife-point, leaving staff terrified, face longer stretches in jail.   Kurtis Lamptey and accomplice Reece Francis travelled from East London in a stolen Audi Q5 to raid Carphone Warehouse in Winfrey Retail Park.   The pair entered the shop at 6pm after waiting for customers to leave.   Lamptey put his arms around the ...

Overweight patients and smokers in south Lincolnshire could be refused certain medical procedures under moves being discussed. The clinical committee of South Lincolnshire’s Clinical Commissioning Group recently agreed to  investigate the idea as part of a package of measures being considered to improve ‘Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention (QIPP)’, though has said since there are ‘no specific plans’. Minutes of ...

A Spalding man facing three separate charges of making an indecent image of a child has had his case sent to crown court. Wayne Robert Simpson, of Albion Street, is said to have made the photographs – one each of Level A, B and C (A being the most serious) – in Spalding between May 22, 2007, and August 17 last ...

Almost half of customers at 77 South Holland food premises would snub them on their current food hygiene rating when displaying a window sticker becomes mandatory, a report claims. Commercial insurer NFU Mutual found that 44 per cent of people would turn away from even their favourite restaurants, fast food eateries, cafés and shops if they saw it was rated ...

Animal rights protesters are planning to gather outside the big top of Circus Mondao this weekend as it begins a week-long run in Weston. The circus, which uses llamas, horses and a camel, argues that they enjoy what they do and are well cared for, but Lincoln Animal Rights group believes animals should not be used in circuses – a ...

“Final test stages” of a £1million system to allow GPs and hospitals in Lincolnshire to share patient records are now being completed. The system known as Care Portal will allow health and social care professionals to access records of consenting patients rather than each compiling separate details. A spokesman for South Lincolnshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) said: “The final test ...