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A paedophile caught by a police sting operation was today (Tuesday) jailed for two years and nine months. Peter Worthington, 63, became involved in conversations with the two officers after they entered a chatroom called “true nudist.” Julia King, prosecuting, said the two officers were posing as a father and son, with the boy said to be aged just 11-years-old, ...

Reports of a man with a handgun sparked a police search which included their helicopter in Spalding last night. It was reported at 8.17pm yesterday (Sunday, January 15) following an incident in Hall Place. The police helicopter was seen and heard circling around Spalding town centre and Woolram Wygate area. A police spokesman said: “We were called at 8.17pm last ...

The police helicopter has been circling around Spalding tonight (Sunday, January 15). Residents have reported it circling around the town centre before heading towards Woolram Wygate way. A police presence has also been reported in St Thomas’s Road, though it’s not clear if it’s related to the helicopter. UPDATE – Lincolnshire Police say it followed reports of a man with ...

Two COVID-19 vaccination clinics for five to 15-year-olds are at Spalding’s Johnson Hospital on Monday and Tuesday next week. On both January 16 and 17 the session is available for 5 to 11-year-olds and 12 to 15-year-olds from 4pm to 7pm. You don’t have to book an appointment and walk in.

A historic former pub and hotel by the River Glen is to be turned into flats. The Mermaid in Surfleet, which was granted Grade II Listed Building Status last May, will be made into five homes. Three two-storey and one-single storey dwellings are also set to be built in the former beer garden and car park. Parts of the building ...

Plans to build 35 homes in Pinchbeck have been passed despite local opposition. Postland Developments was given outline permission to build on the land off Milestone Lane back in 2017 even though it’s outside the boundaries of the village because, at the time, South Holland District Council did not have a five year supply of housing. It currently does and ...

An imprisoned Spalding man faces another court appearance upon his release. Aron Duff (38) is charged with possession of heroin in the town on November 22. He failed to appear at Boston Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday as scheduled. It was then established that he had been jailed for 18 weeks before Christmas for another matter. The possession case against Duff, ...

Police who found cocaine on a Holbeach resident were told he’d spotted it outside a Tesco branch. Officers had pulled over a BMW vehicle just after 1am on December 23. Driver Vadims Sobolevs (36) was searched and a small bag of white powder, later confirmed to bethe class A drug, was found in his pocket. Lottie Tyler, prosecuting at Boston ...

A cyclist has been taken to hospital with serious injuries after being involved in a collision in Spalding town centre this morning. The incident also involving a car happened shortly after 6am this morning in Albion Street near the Castle Sports Complex. The road is currently closed and police have urged the public to avoid the area. A spokesman for ...

Renewed calls have been made for more government cash for South Holland as local drainage boards look set to ask for “well over £3m” of council tax. Leader of South Holland District Council Coun Gary Porter says the area should be compensated for dealing with the water that flows into it He’s calling for the 17 councils in the UK ...

South Holland District Council’s share of the council tax is proposed to go up by three per cent and the authority will look to use reserves to reduce the bills. The tax increase will equate to £5.76 for a Band D property and generate £300,000, the authority’s Cabinet was told on Tuesday. But that won’t be enough to cover proposed ...

No prosecutions are currently planned after a nursery was closed by inspectors for being unsafe. Little Treasures Spalding, in Haverfield Road was shut down following Ofsted rating it inadequate. “Children are not safe, and we have therefore suspended the provider’s registration during the inspection,” said the report by Lora Teague carried out in November. “Children are handled physically in an ...

An anonymous donation has allowed a GP surgery in Pinchbeck to reopen. As reported last week, Church Walk Surgery is set to be reopened next month as a branch of the Munro Medical Centre. It had served Pinchbeck for more than a 100 years, but never reopened after closing for the first COVID-19 lockdown. Manager at the Munro Medical Centre, ...

South Holland residents are being urged to report criminal behaviour as well as sharing it to social media. Police are continuing to prioritise drug use and supply within The Suttons area after positive feedback. “Thank you to everybody who has let us know about drugs within our community,” says a recent newsletter from the neighbourhood policing team. “Please don’t expect ...

New CCTV cameras are being installed in a Holbeach park after more than 20 incidents were reported to police over a year. A previous CCTV system covering Carter’s Park was removed after a camera was stolen and a complaint was made about access to the data being stored. “These are professional-grade CCTV cameras and one of our councillors trains CCTV ...

I hear the Scottish Nutters’ Party has taken wokery to its utmost ridiculous limits by legally allowing a male human being, after attempting to live as a female human being for three months, to then call itself female, presumably vice-versa. To me it is as daft as it sounds and I currently fail to find any justification whatsoever for such ...

Lincolnshire residents affected by cancer have access to more than 1,000 types of support via the county council’s website. The Connect to Support website now includes an area dedicated to a multitude of topics relating to cancer. “While it’s been a huge task for the team to research and gather all of this information, we are absolutely delighted that anyone ...

A grant of £353,614 has been awarded to help protect people from homelessness in South Holland. The government has presented the Homelessness Prevention Grant to South Holland District Council to cover work in the next two years. The authority has faced rising costs associated with its role of providing shelter for the homeless. When asked what the funding will be ...

A woman who admitted smacking a child with a spatula so hard that it broke was today (Tuesday) given a suspended jail sentence at Lincoln Crown Court. Carrie Lawrence, 62, formerly of Dozens Bank, West Pinchbeck, pleaded guilty to a single charge of child cruelty between October 2016 and March 2017. Lawrence, who now lives in Spain, was sentenced to ...

Work costing £250,000 is to be spent on improvements to two Spalding town centre junctions. Upgraded traffic lights and bus priority measures are among the works set to be carried out on Winfrey Avenue’s junctions with Swan Street and Kings Road. Work is due to start at the Kings Road junction from January 30 to March 3 and at Swan ...