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Twelve employees who between them have clocked up more than 170 years’ service with Bakkavor Meals have been rewarded. The company, based in Spalding and Sutton Bridge, held a celebration event at Moulton Mill on Monday. The dozen staff members have all completed at least ten years’ service and were presented with gift vouchers and certificates by Martin Husselbee, head ...

Residents could be living in a new £5.8million supported housing scheme in Spalding town centre within two years. South Holland District Council wants to see 39 ‘dementia-friendly’ homes built on a disused plot of land which it owns in King’s Road. The three-storey complex of 39 apartments (26 two-bedroom and 13 one-bedroom) would also include a shop, restaurant, hairdresser’s, games ...

A mum who left her 12-year-old son home alone living in squalor has been jailed for 12 months. Social workers found appalling conditions at the property in Spalding when they arrived to find the boy inside on his own. Richard Sheldon, prosecuting, told Lincoln Crown Court on Monday that there had been no electricity in the flat for 48 hours and no ...

Work to build a new £900,000 marina “gateway” to south Lincolnshire begins next week. Engineering work starts on Monday on the commercial and leisure marina in Sutton Bridge. The first visible signs will be the installation of power and water supplies, involving trenching works along the riverbank. It will be followed by the driving of piles into the riverbed and the ...

Police are still appealing for anyone with information regarding the murders of Liz and Katie Edwards in Dawson Avenue, Spalding, to come forward. Officers want to speak to anyone who saw or heard anything suspicious in the area between noon on Wednesday, April 13 and noon on Friday. DCI Martin Holvey, of EMSOU Major Crime, who is leading the enquiry, said: ...

The owner of a Crowland wine bar who set fire to his own premises has been jailed for six months. John Carr piled up wooden chairs and a wooden clothes horse inside the bar before starting the fire at the Trinity Wine Bar in West Street, Crowland. Phil Howes, prosecuting at Lincoln Crown Court, said that Carr, who had been ...

Community leaders have urged people to pull together and “keep talking” to find a way through the tragedy of a double murder on their doorsteps. Ward councillor for St Paul’s Pete Williams said residents were closing ranks against the spotlight of the national media, which they believe are trying to paint the area as the nation’s capital for murders by ...

Friends and family have paid tribute to murdered mum and daughter Liz and Katie Edwards. Elizabeth’s partner Graham Green posted a picture on Facebook at the weekend, saying: “The lady meant the world to me. She was my rock and I was her ‘grumpy Graham’ And Katie, so young, lots of good times in front of us. RIP Liz, you ...

South Holland District Council is struggling to fill one key role within its new management team. The post of planning and building control manager was created when the restructure began last year. However, the council says recruitment to it is proving difficult due to a national shortage of people with the requisite qualifications. Four officers – including head of economic ...

A unit providing specialist language and speech therapy to young children in Spalding could close. The unit at Monkshouse Primary School is one of three across the county which may be lost in a review of the best way to support youngsters with language and speech problems. The three units – including one in Mablethorpe and another in Lincoln – ...

No-one knows exactly what happened to Trudy before she was rescued by the RSPCA but her injuries left her unable to walk. She is being looked after at Greenpeace Kennels in Whaplode St Catherine, where staff are slowly but surely nursing her back to health. Tony Dominy, from the kennels, said: “Trudy had an accident or suffered some sort of ...

Among the first-time competitors in this Sunday’s Virgin London Marathon will be cancer survivor Sharon Brooks and special schools headteacher Daran Bland. Sharon (47), , of West Pinchbeck, is the auntie of Faith Robinson, who suffers from Type 1 diabetes, and is fundraising for JDRF (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation). About £1,000 from last Saturday’s 90s disco at the South Holland ...

The headteacher at the school attended by murdered teenager Katie Edwards has paid tribute to the “lovely, bright and well-liked student”. Will Scott, headteacher at Spalding’s Sir John Gleed School, said the school community had been “shocked and saddened” by the death of the teenager, whose body was found at her home in Dawson Avenue on Friday alongside her mother ...

A woman who “lost” four hours during a night out in Spalding fears her drink may have been spiked. The 33-year-old, who has asked not to be named, is warning people to keep an extra eye on their drinks. She said: “One minute I was fine and the next my friends were saying they’d never seen me in such a ...

Schools in South Holland will not be included in a pilot scheme to introduce CCTV cameras outside their gates to improve road safety. Eight schools in other areas of Lincolnshire, including Bourne, Boston, Grantham, Sleaford and Lincoln, will see the mobile enforcement cameras set up to help enforce parking restrictions. It is hoped the scheme would act as a deterrent ...

Two 14-year-olds accused of the murders of a school dinner lady and her 13-year-old daughter were on Monday (April 18) remanded into secure youth accommodation following a hearing at Lincoln Crown Court. The girl and boy are accused of the murders of Elizabeth Edwards (49), and her youngest daughter Katie Edwards (13), whose bodies were found on Friday at a semi-detached ...

Two 14-year-olds have been charged with murder following the deaths of a mum and daughter in Spalding. The youths have been charged after the discovery of the bodies of a woman and girl at a house on Dawson Avenue, off Royce Road, on Friday afternoon. They have both been remanded to appear before Lincoln Magistrates Court tomorrow (Monday April 18). Police have still not formally ...

Friends and neighbours have left floral tributes and teddy bears on the lawn of a home where a mother and daughter were killed. Two teenagers, both 14, were due in court this morning charged with murder, following the discovery of two bodies in a house in Dawson Avenue, off Royce Road, Spalding, on Friday. The two victims have not yet ...

Police have confirmed they are treating two deaths in Spalding yesterday as murder. The bodies of two people were discovered at a house in Dawson Avenue, off Royce Road, just after 12.15pm. Forensic investigations continue at the scene. The names of the two victims have not yet been released as family members are still being made aware. Two people have been arrested ...

Police are treating the deaths of two people at a Spalding house as suspicious. An investigation has been launched after two bodies were discovered at a property in Dawson Avenue, early this afternoon (Friday). Next of kin are being informed and no further details about the victims have been released. Two people have been arrested in connection with the investigation ...