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Three acts from the legendary 1967 Bar-b-que event have been booked to play at next year’s Spalding Beerfest and Music Festival. Soul act Geno Washington and The Ram Jam Band, rock act Sounds Force 5 and rhythm and blues and soul group Zoot Money will all feature – almost 50 years to the day since they appeared on the same ...

Do you recognise these people?   Lincolnshire police has just released the images in a bid to trace the individuals in connection with an enquiry into shoplifting at B&M, in Winsover Road, Spalding.     The incident happened at around 3.50pm on 31st October.   If you are the people in the images, or you know their identity, please contact ...

Staff at late night convenience stores have been urged to be vigilant after a member of staff at Pinchbeck’s Spar store was sprayed in the face in a raid by four masked men.   At around 9.40pm last night, four men went into the shop, in Knight Street, and sprayed an unknown liquid in a member of staff’s face before ...

South Holland and the Deepings MP John Hayes has hailed the continuing fall of the number of people unemployed in the area. The latest job figures released on Thursday showed that locally the unemployment rate is now down to just 1.4 per cent. Mr Hayes revealed that the number of people relying on out-of-work benefits has fallen by 59 per cent ...

Police are hoping the revocation of a premises licence at a Spalding business will act as a deterrent to others. A panel of South Holland District Council’s committee of the licensing authority made the decision about Super Sam, of Commercial Road, last Thursday. A five-hour long hearing saw CCTV footage of staff at the off licence make numerous sales of ...

Police are appealing for witnesses to an incident which saw a teenager allegedly struck by a bus in Spalding.   The circumstances are that a 14-year-old schoolboy was walking at the junction of Halmer Gardens and Halmer Gate on Friday, November 11, at 3.20pm when he was struck from behind by a vehicle.   The impact caused him to fall ...

McDonalds has sought confirmation that its Spalding restaurant and drive-thru can open 24 hours a day. The restaurant, which reopened at the beginning of the month following a refurbishment, is currently closed from midnight to 5am. An application submitted to South Holland District Council requests confirmation that 24-hour opening would be lawful at the Holbeach Road site. It states no ...

Pupils across the local area are set to benefit after Spalding Academy became a Beacon School for Holocaust Education. The school has joined the University College London (UCL) Centre for Holocaust Education programme. It will see the school armed with top quality learning materials and methods to deepen teaching about the historic event and highlight the need for modern day ...

Holbeach Hub has stepped in to offer a lifeline to one of the town’s Christmas fayres. Fundraiser Les Ward was forced to cancel his plans for a street parade and market stalls fayre scheduled for Sunday, December 4, because of an administration error. The organising committee missed the deadline for submitting the street closure request and event plan. Trustees at ...

The winner of a competition which involved suggesting play areas to be signed up to South Holland District Council’s smokefree code has been presented with her prize. Diane Voss, of Holbeach St Marks, won the Medion tablet, supplied by the Spalding branch of Hughes. The competition, run in The Voice, invited readers to spot the council’s Big Cig mascot in ...

The detective who led the investigation into Britain’s youngest double murderers has praised the Spalding community for their support. Det Ch Insp Martin Holvey said at first he found it hard to believe that two 14-year-olds had carried out the murders of school dinner lady Liz Edwards (49) and her 13-year-old daughter Katie. The boy and girl, now 15, were each ...

Two 15-year-olds who murdered Spalding dinner lady Liz Edwards and her youngest daughter Katie have been given life sentences and serve at least 20 years. The boy and girl were 14 when they carried out the murders at Mrs Edwards’ home in Dawson Avenue in April. Passing sentence at Nottingham Crown Court on Thursday (Nov 10), Mr Justice Haddon-Cave described the case ...

The judge in the Spalding double murders case has paid tribute to police officers and staff for the way they carried out the investigation and to reporters for their “difficult task”. The defendants, who were 14 at the time and are now 15, murdered school dinner lady Liz Edwards (49) and her daughter Katie (13) in their beds at their home in ...

Thousands of people could see a reduction in the amount of support they get to pay their council tax. Proposals put before South Holland District Council’s cabinet on Tuesday would generate a total of £203,777. A report said of 3,511 people currently eligible for reductions in their bill, the vast majority are likely to see a reduction in support of ...

Ella Berry’s body cannot cope with gravity – what she calls “Spaceman Syndrome” has devastated her life and destroyed her nursing career. Yet she is determined to make the most of every day and use her experiences to raise awareness of ‘invisible illnesses’ like hers. Ella had only been out of university a year and was on the path to ...

A group campaigning against a farm’s wish to build an anaerobic digester plant remains unhappy despite amended plans designed to reduce its visual impact. Keep Tongue End Clean is opposed to Deeping St Nicholas firm WD Branton’s planning application for the land south of Counter Drain Drove in Tongue End. The plant uses feedstock – in this case 43,250 tonnes ...

More powers to fine people for spitting, dropping litter or cycling on the pavement in Spalding town centre could soon be in place. The move was discussed as part of a proposal to replace and extend existing powers to deal with anti-social street drinking. South Holland’s cabinet agreed on Tuesday to replace the current Designated Public Place Order (DPPO) with ...

Part of the Holbeach Christmas weekend next month has had to be pulled. A parade and market stalls organised by Les Ward will not go ahead on Sunday, December 4 as the event committee was too late submitting a road closure request and event plan. Mr Ward said: “I’d just like to say sorry to everyone for letting them down. ...

Just over a week remains for Spalding good causes to attract enough online votes to be in with a chance of netting up to £25,000. Spalding Hockey Club, Spalding Rugby Club, Spalding Parish School and The Garth Special School are among those vying to win funding from The Aviva Community Fund. People get ten votes simply by registering on the ...

Improvements to the running of Spalding swimming pool are already evident, South Holland District Council’s cabinet was told on Tuesday.(Nov 8) A task group of councillors which looked into complaints from the public on hygiene and the pools’ water temperature being too cold was reporting its findings and recommendations. The council contracts 1Life to run the Castle Sports Complex. Task group ...