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Plans for a new 48MW solar farm in Holbeach Bank have been submitted to South Holland District Council. AUK PE12 Ltd wants to build the 65.5 hectare facility on land north of Roman Bank and East of Middle Marsh Road at Red House Farm. The rest of the 80 acre site would be retrained for agricultural use, writes Local Democracy ...

A suspected drink-driver didn’t stop after colliding with a lorry on an A16 roundabout, a court heard. And when police pulled over the vehicle, driver Harry Dye (34) assaulted an officer as he was beingarrested. A member of the public had dialled 999 as she followed Dye from Spalding to Sutterton on January23, witnessing near misses with oncoming traffic and ...

A repeat Holbeach drink-driver has been banned for three years after crashing in Gedney Dyke last month. A Land Rover left Roman Bank and careered through two fences before coming to rest on the driveway of a house. Prosecutor Shelley Wilson told Boston Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday that driver Joshua Swepstone (26) told police at the scene that he was ...

Lincolnshire Police is set to lose almost half its PCSOs to keep its budget balanced. Chief Constable Chris Haward outlined the changes which included ‘difficult decisions’ being taken. The force’s current cohort of 91 PCSOs will be cut to 50 and its Council Tax precept rises by £14.94. “We had planned our budget around a number of possible options, and ...

Parking restrictions on a South Holland industrial estate look set to be approved almost a year after the plan was postponed. Members of Lincolnshire County Council’s planning and regulation committee are discussing the move on Edison Court, Pinchbeck, at a meeting on Monday. The plan was first mooted in October 2021 and consultation letters were sent out in May last ...

A Holbeach residential home is putting people at risk due to poor management, unsafe medicine practices and a lack of infection prevention and control. An inspector from the Care Quality Commission returned to the Nutten Stoven Residential Home in November after concerns were outlined in a report published in September. The home can cater for up to 30 older people ...

Tributes have been paid to three members of a Gedney family who died in a road traffic collision last month. Inquests into the deaths of Paul James Carter (41), Lisa Jayne Carter (49), and Jade Channelle Mace (25), of Gedney, were opened last week by Norfolk Coroner’s Court. Norfolk Police said all three died in a collision between a white ...

Spalding bus station was branded ‘disgraceful and shameful’ as calls were made to improve it. Resident David Jones argued the least the facility off Winfrey Avenue should have was complete and up to date time tables of buses at last week’s meeting of Spalding Town Forum. “I was thinking what it’s like if you arrive in Spalding on a bus ...

A Spalding man who played a huge role in the horticulture industry locally has died aged 90. Keith Butters, who set up Butters Factory Shop on Kellett Gate, first started as a young boy grading bulbs at Van Geest Nurseries and ended up spending 27 years working with them. At the age of 21 he helped with the new banana ...

A councillor has called on everyone using Spalding’s council-owned facilities to be careful with energy usage as the share of council tax town residents pay has increased. The Spalding Special Expense is to go up for a band D property by 90p a year from £24.57 to £25.47. The rise, with more households, is projected to bring in £240,279 for ...

A Spalding group is to look at creating a permanent way to mark the coronation of King Charles III. The town forum wants to green light the release of money from South Holland District Council towards a lasting monument to the event on Saturday, May 6. And members are open to suggestions as to what it should be. At its ...

A sex offender who failed to attend court on the last day of his trial was today (Thursday) jailed for three years. James Wray, 43, was convicted in his absence of two charge of sexual assault against a child by the jury at Lincoln Crown Court. Wray, formerly of Quadring Road, Donington, was later remanded in to custody to await ...

A grieving family say the tide of help and compassion from the community is comforting them as a man was jailed last week for the death of their 20-year-old daughter. Following the death of Amy Cooper, her mum Mandy has also reiterated her call for road users to be more sympathetic to each other. It comes after Shane Kelk (28) ...

A Holbeach man who admitted possessing indecent images of children after police seized three devices from his home was today (Wednesday) given a suspended jail sentence. Officers seized two laptop computers and an iPad after going to the home of Paul Williamson, 46, in Hall Hill Road during 2021. Lincoln Crown Court heard Williamson was arrested and initially made no ...

Police are appealing for more information following two incidents last week on women in their 40s, one of which was punched in the face three times. It follows an attempted robbery at 6pm on Friday, February 3 in Maple Grove, Spalding. A man pushed a women in her 40s to the ground and punched her three times after she refused ...

The Original Factory Shop is set to open a new Spalding store in the former Beales premises. The company says its 185th shop will create 11 jobs in the local community.  The firm currently has a branch in Holbeach. A spokesman for The Old Factory Shop said: “The new look discount department store will be situated at 7 Market Place ...

An appeal has been launched to rejuvenate a vital Spalding service – and you can play a part either financially or even with your camera. The Tulip Suite provides end of life care at the Johnson Hospital. But the four rooms that have been an oasis for families in the last 12 years haven’t been refurbished since the hospital opened. ...

Two men who were caught after police found over 240 cannabis plants worth up to £200,000 at a Holbeach farm were today (Friday) given suspended jail sentences by a judge. Officers raided Millbank Farm on May 22, 2020 after removing a yale lock, Lincoln Crown Court heard. David Eager, prosecuting, said Harvey Tyler (23), whose role was to water the ...

A disqualified driver who fled the scene after causing the death of a 20-year-old motorcyclist was today (Friday) jailed for eight years and three months. Shane Kelk, 28, left Amy Cooper lying in the road after ringing up his girlfriend and asking her to pick him up, Lincoln Crown Court heard. Kelk, of no fixed address, admitted a string of driving ...

A woman who thought she’d spotted potential burglars checking out her street ended up in court for harassment. Sophie Collins (37) called 999, believing she was doing police and her Deeping St Nicholas neighbourhood a favour asthere had been recent thefts from homes. But her threatening behaviour towards the two occupants of a van – standing in the middle of ...