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UPDATE: Thursday (9am): The person killed in the accident on the A16 in Crowland on Wednesday was an 81-year-old woman from the Spalding area. Police said: “She was a passenger in a blue Ford Mondeo travelling north when it was involved in a collision with a blue BMW 730 travelling in the opposite direction around 3pm on Wednesday. Sadly, she was ...

Police have seized thousands of pounds of assets from a gang who carried out a series of ramraids, including ones in Long Sutton and Crowland. The items seized, which are believed to have been bought with the proceeds of the ramraids, included an Audi A5 S-line TDI Cabriolet, a Swift Corniche caravan, a Nissan Navara, numerous smaller quad bikes, plant ...

A pile of meat and bones have been dumped by the side of the road near Weston Hills. The pile, which consists of carcasses, bones and poultry innards, was spotted at 10am on Tuesday by a local resident on Clay Lake Bank. The meat was dumped along with butchers’ trade-style cardboard boxes. The resident said: “The blood was fresh when ...

A Holbeach vicar who told pupils that “Muslims worship the devil” has been banned from the profession indefinitely. The Rev Robert West, who stood as a British National Party (BNP) candidate for Boston and Skegness in the General Election on May 7, made the comments during history lessons at a girls’ school in Grantham where he teaches. The National College ...

Vivacious Holbeach resident Hilda Millett was one of the oldest people in the country to vote in this year’s General Election. She turned 107 on Monday and is the 154th oldest person in Great Britain. There have been five monarchs and 19 Prime Ministers in her lifetime, and she has always voted Conservative. In fact it was at a dance ...

A plaque acknowledging the long service of a Spalding signalman has been resited at the town’s railway station. The plaque in memory of John Lee (known as Jack) was on the Winsover Road signal box, where he spent much of his 51 years’ service to British Rail. It was bought by Jack’s family and put up shortly after his death ...

A flood of nominations have been coming in as the deadline nears to nominate the first Pride of South Holland heroes. You have less than a week left to get your entries in for the first-ever POSH awards and the competition is hotting up among all those amazing people and groups that make the district a better place to live ...

The Spalding homeowner who was told to put a fence back to its original line has appealed the decision. Simon Barker was shocked last November when council officers arrived to say his £1,000 new fence required planning permission. The line of it had been extended to enclose a small piece of land belonging to Mr Barker, which was often covered ...

Two students from University Academy Holbeach – Charlotte Bycroft (Year 13) and Eleanor Palmer (Year 11) – were part of a tour of World War One battlefields. As part of their follow-up work, they have taken part in Legacy 110 – an initiative which encourages students from the tour to deliver a community-based First World War project to spread the ...

UKIP’S beaten candidate for the South Holland and The Deepings parliamentary seat is to withdraw from active participation locally. David Parsons polled 10,736 votes to take a 21.7 per cent share of the turnout in the General Election on May 7. He finished second to Conservative John Hayes, who received 29,303 votes. The result tripled UKIP’s number of votes from ...

A team from Spalding’s Johnson Community Hospital has been nominated for The EBP Investors In Education Awards in recognition of its partnership with local schools and for providing high quality work experience opportunities. The team has been providing work experience opportunities for several years. Annette Goulding, administrator at Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS), said: “Our team at Johnson Community Hospital ...

A heart attack scare started the ball rolling for a defibrillator being installed at Holbeach St Johns Village Hall. Joan Joyce was so frightened at witnessing the episode during a parish church lunch in January that she set about gathering information. The device was paid for out of the designated member budgets of district councillor Malcolm Chandler and Bob Creese, ...

NHS South Lincolnshire Clinical Commissioning Group is supporting Dementia Awareness Week, which runs from Monday (May 17) to Sunday, May 23. Dementia is arguably the biggest health crisis facing the UK and there are currently around 850,000 people diagnosed with dementia in the UK, with numbers set to rise to one million by 2025. In Lincolnshire, it is estimated that 10,502 ...

Staff at Spalding’s Carphone Warehouse were robbed of cash and mobile phones at knifepoint on Thursday. The incident happened at around 6pm when two men, both described as Afro Caribbean, went in the Winfrey Retail Park store and took cash and a number of phones. Members of staff were threatened with a knife but no-one was injured. Police are urging anyone with information to call ...

A Ukrainian was fact-finding at the South Holland District Council election count in Spalding. Yuriy Mironenka had come to the district to witness British democracy in action – visiting polling booths, district and General Election counts, meeting candidates and election officials. Yuriy, who now lives in Russia, said: “I am a member of one of the electoral organisations in Russia trying ...

Helpful advice and support for people affected by dementia will be on offer at a special event in Spalding. A Dementia Support and Awareness event is being held at St Barnabas Hospice in Clover Way on Friday, May 22 from 10am until 2pm. People living with dementia, carers, friends and support networks are invited to come along. Visitors can find ...

South Holland District Council has held talks with neighbouring councils about forming a combined authority. A proposal has been put forward for six councils to join together to create a “functioning economic area”, seeking to improve local transport, increase economic development and drive regeneration. South Holland leader Gary Porter is one of the leading politicians behind the plan. Peterborough would ...

A trailer owned by Pinchbeck firm FreshLinc has been destroyed by fire following a collision on the A1. The lorry, carrying apples, collided with a Highways truck on the southbound carriageway near Grantham at about 1.30am on Thursday and caught fire. The truck ditched to the side of the road. The lorry driver is said to have been lucky to ...

A 12-year-old girl from Tydd St Mary is part of a “world class” street dance crew which wowed TV producer Simon Cowell on ITV show Britain’s Got Talent. Entity Allstars got a “golden buzzer” from judge and Strictly Come Dancing winner Alesha Dixon on last Saturday’s show, sending the youngsters straight through to the live semi-finals beginning on Monday week. ...

A Spalding salon director says her trust in people has been rocked by a hairdresser who stole money from the business. Ashleigh Hubbard used a card machine to make refunds of customers’ payments to her own bank account. She denied stealing £808.10 from Oasis Beauty Hair and Day Spa, but was found guilty during a trial at Boston Magistrates’ Court ...