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A man who suffered serious injuries in Spalding last Sunday has died. Emergency services were called to the 34-year-old – thought to be a Lithuanian national – in Winsover Road at just after 7.15pm. Police said on Thursday (Oct 20): “We regret to update that the injured man died in hospital. His family have been informed and we are working with the Coroner ...

The post of Lincolnshire Police chief constable is to be readvertised on Monday (Oct 24) after the first attempt failed to find a suitable candidate. Two applications were considered by the appointments panel on Tuesday (Oct 18). One UK-based application had “considerable merit but provided insufficient evidence against the sifting criteria for appointment”. The panel recommended that it should not ...

Human rights and workers’ rights campaigner Andy Hall says he will continue despite being handed a three-year suspended jail sentence in Thailand. Mr Hall (36) was convicted last month on a criminal charge of defamation after carrying out research for a report critical of pay and conditions in a Thai fruit factory. He maintains his innocence and his legal team, ...

A renewed bid is being made to gain planning permission for a care home on the former Goodfellows School site in Spalding. Country Court Care homes says around 80 jobs will be created if it is allowed to redevelop the site with a 60-bedroom care home. A document supporting the application said: “The business will create new full time and ...

Support for people with mental health issues while they are out and about in Spalding is now available. The local Safe Places Scheme launched on World Mental Health Awareness Day. The Safe Places Network aims to train representatives from local businesses and organisations to support people with mental health. Businesses get free promotion as a local safe place and free ...

Baytree Garden Centre is ensuring that Spalding town centre will have a Christmas tree after all. The Weston business has offered to donate a tree, despite saying last month that it would not be able to this year due to a shortage of larger trees. Last week Coun Jack McLean, chairman of Spalding Town Forum, was invited by Baytree’s managing director Reinhard ...

A 28-stone plus-size model has denied she is putting her career before health and maintained she is trying to lose weight. Sarah Rout (30) has grabbed headlines in national newspapers and magazines over the website she runs with husband Anthony featuring photos of her and other large women. Mum-of-three Sarah, of Park Lane, Long Sutton, said: “I’ve had a lot ...

Holbeach is due to be alive with festive attractions on the first weekend in December as two Christmas events get under way. Charity fundraiser Les Ward has formed a new committee to see the return of a Christmas street parade, market and fairground on Sunday, December 4. Meanwhile, organisers of Holbeach St Nicholas Fayre, which sees stalls and entertainment in ...

Paul Easey is approaching retirement in two years’ time with a little trepidation. After 46 years cycling to work at what is now Bakkavor Meals Spalding, he accepts that the change is going to hit him quite hard. But he will look back on a career based in West Marsh Road with pride and fondness. It was a career determined by ...

The lead detective in the investigation, Det Ch Insp Martin Holvey, of East Midlands Special Operations Unit (major crime), issued the following statement after the jury’s verdict to convict a 15-year-old girl of the murders of Liz and Katie Edwards: “Between 13th April and  the 15th April this year, a tragic event happened in Spalding, Lincolnshire, whereby a mother, Elizabeth Edwards ...

A bid to establish a new off-licence in Spalding has been thwarted after the applicant was found to have links with a shop involved in criminality. Zarid Limalia (19) wanted to turn Global Image unisex hair salon in Winsover Road into VIP Alcohol. However, a panel of members of South Holland District Council’s licensing authority comprising Angela Harrison, Harry Drury and ...

A 15-year-old girl has been convicted of the murder of Spalding mum and daughter Liz and Katie Edwards. The jury at Nottingham Crown Court decided that, even though the girl did not carry out the killings, she was just as culpable as a 15-year-old boy who last week admitted to two counts of murder. The prosecution said the girl was ...

Spalding pub The Punch Bowl has scooped £1,500 after being voted top in a field of 14 finalists for Enterprise Inns’ 2016 Pubs in Bloom competition for East Anglia. After winning £500 for being a regional winner, the New Road pub bagged an extra £1,000 as divisional champion. Judges were impressed with the pub’s colourful and unique flower displays including inside ...

Witnesses are urgently being sought to help police establish how a 34-year-old man suffered “serious injuries” in Spalding on Sunday. (Oct 16) Police were called at about 7.15pm. The footway outside two shops near the junction of Winsover Road and St Thomas’s Road was taped off and a police scene guard was in place until mid-morning on Monday. A spokesman for Lincolnshire Police ...

South Holland District Council has brought another successful prosecution after tracing a fly-tipper. Crowland resident Brandon Campbell has landed a court bill of more than £1,000. He paid to have a number of items taken from his home in Thorney Road, in October 2015. However, he didn’t get any details of the person who took them or check whether they had ...

The new £900,000 marina at Sutton Bridge is ready to be showcased to people wanting a mooring. Cross Keys Marina – due to open early next year – has both leisure and commercial moorings. Up to 20 leisure boats will be catered for alongside commercial moorings which will be used by the Nene navigation pilot boat and Eastern IFCA (a ...

More than 1,700 households are waiting to join South Holland District Council’s garden waste collection service. The two-year trial began in April this year and capacity was reached within three months, with all 2,670 of the 25-litre brown bins issued. Councillors will shortly be asked to consider a business case for extending the scheme, which currently operates with just one ...

Two South Holland people well known for their respective experience in the produce industry and retail are launching a supply chain fair. The UK Produce Industry Fair will cover everyone from growers to grocers. By bringing all areas of this industry together in one place, the fair aims to demonstrate how and where businesses can be more efficient through new ideas, ...

Brenda Carrott celebrated her 100th birthday with 100 friends at a party in the village where she has lived all her life in the home in which she was born. Brenda, of Roman Road, Moulton Chapel, still gets out and about often and has a vast network of friends and family. For her, the secret to long life is to ...

Plans to transform Spalding’s former courthouse into a home have been put forward. Oliver Sneath, of Glenside North, Pinchbeck, and girlfriend Dorota Szafalowicz hope to buy the landmark building and live there. Mr Sneath said: “It’s an iconic landmark building and more than anything we thought it would be a shame for it to be misused, demolished in any way ...