News

Staff at Holbeach Hospital have been recognised for the end of life care they provide. Holbeach and East Elloe Hospital Trust has achieved Gold Standards Framework Platinum status. It’s part of The National Gold Standards Framework (GSF) Centre in End of Life Care which aims to improve standards of care for all people nearing the end of life. Maxine Winch, ...

Making Ayscoughfee Hall a ‘cultural centre’ as part of government grant of nearly £2 million, will secure the building’s future, a councillor has said. The South and East Lincolnshire Councils Partnership, of which South Holland District Council is one third, has been awarded National Portfolio Organisation status by Arts Council England. As a result £1,955,799 will be shared between the ...

Bakkavor has announced it is looking to close its salad production facility at Sutton Bridge. The company says a total of 900 employees at the site and its desserts site in Leicester, which it is also set to close, are affected. A statement released by the company says the measures are needed to “protect” the business in a “challenging” climate. ...

More than 800 properties are currently without power in Long Sutton. National Grid say its a ‘high voltage’ incident affecting 839 homes, but its looking to have power restored to all home by 6pm today (November 8). A spokesman for the company said: “We are aware of this power cut incident which was raised at 4:52pm this afternoon and our engineers are ...

Four vehicles including a tractor have been involved in a road traffic collision that’s closed the A151 at Moulton. The road is currently closed between Bell Lane and Church Lane following the incident reported at 8.20am this morning (November 8). Lincolnshire Police say they hope the road will be reopen by 12.30pm. A spokesman said: “Four vehicles are involved including ...

A man who broke a window at the home of his now estranged partner, has been fined by magistrates at Boston. Steve Jackson, 28, who at the time had been living at Youngs Row, Sutton Bridge but now lives in Cambridge, admitted causing damage when he appeared before magistrates in Boston. The court was told the couple had been in ...

Menswear brand Skopes are the latest name to arrive at Springfields Shopping Outlet. Founded and run by the Cope family the brand is based on its fine tailoring tradition, the store is due to open in late November. Mike Barber, head of retail at Skopes, said: “Springfields Outlet is a key location for Skopes, and we are thrilled to be launching ...

Patients at the closing Spalding GP Surgery are to be registered with Gosberton Medical Centre, it’s been announced. However, they’re being told to continue to attend appointments at its current Johnson Hospital base for now. In a Frequently Asked Questions factsheet sent to patient it says: “Gosberton Medical Centre have made a commitment to continue providing services from Johnson Community ...

An election to replace the two council roles left by the passing of Angela Newton is set to take place on Thursday December 8. New representatives need to be elected of the Spalding Monkshouse ward on South Holland District Council and the Spalding West division on Lincolnshire County Council. It follows the death of Independent councillor Angela Newton in August ...

Volunteers are being asked to come forward to monitor speeding drivers in Spalding with the town’s first Community Speed Watch scheme set to get going. For the last four years numerous towns and villages in South Holland have used the initiative where trained volunteers register data of speeding vehicles for Lincolnshire Police. But it’s never been rolled out in Spalding ...

A derelict fire-damaged Lincolnshire hotel has sold at auction for £181,000. South Holland District Council was out-bid for the property which had been carrying a guide price of £80,000. The hammer went down at more than £100,000 over the guide at the AuctionHouse online auction last week. It was one of 73 lots from around East Anglia and the Midlands ...

A Spalding woman has raised hundreds for a hospice by holding a sale, though the there was a slight dampener on the day after some of the takings was stolen. Lisa Thomas, of West Elloe Avenue, put on the event at Broad Street Methodist Church on Saturday, October 22. She volunteers at the Sue Ryder shop in Spalding and wanted ...

New locks on toilets could be rolled out across South Holland after it was claimed they’ve been a success in Holbeach. In August new heavy duty electronically timed locks were installed in the rebuilt toilets in the town. And a meeting of South Holland District Council’s Performance Monitoring Panel recently was asked how that trial was going to toilets so ...

A Spalding convenience shop has been refused temporary licences to sell alcohol for two week-long ‘events.’ Members of the licensing panel of South Holland District Council made the decision on Monday afternoon. Three temporary event notice applications were made by Helmat Hilmi for the store Nida Express on Winsover Road. It proposed to sell alcohol for consumption off the premises ...

Plans for a new Aldi in Holbeach represent a multi-million pound investment in the town, according to documents submitted this week. Aldi is looking to build a new supermarket on Fleet Street and create 40 full-time equivalent jobs for the area. The company said the new jobs will offer training and career growth opportunities.It added that its rates of pay ...

Residents in a Holbeach street are being forced to collect their mail from the post office because of a ‘menace’ dog intimidating the postal staff. A letter from the Royal Mail has told those living in Greenfields, from numbers 1-29 says the doorstep delivery service is suspended. “You may already be aware that a Royal Mail postperson was recently chased ...

Proposals to build 36 homes in Quadring have been recommended for approval, despite a raft of objections. The proposal is going before members of South Holland District Council’s planning committee next Wednesday. The application has been made by Seagate Homes but the district council owns land which would be used for the planned access connection. The application is a revised ...

Nearly 250 people have signed a petition calling for a bus company to fully reinstate a service linking Spalding, Crowland and Peterborough. Stagecoach East has made the number 37 service every other hour rather than hourly. But Crowland resident Rodney Sadd is calling for the service to be reinstated highlighting that those living in the village looking to get into ...

A councillor says she supports a call for businesses to open more at night and on Sundays – but there would need to be more bus services. Coun Jane King was responding to Coun Gary Taylor’s calls at a recent meeting. “I totally agree with Coun Taylor and I know some businesses are opening on Sundays,” she said. “But in ...

PITCHING IN NORTHERN LEAGUEPremier Midlands (Sat): Spalding United 2 Bedworth United 2. UHLSPORT UCLPremier Division North (Sat): Anstey Nomads 2 Pinchbeck United 0, (Wed, 7.45pm): Pinchbeck Utd L Deeping Rangers L. THURLOW NUNN EASTERN COUNTIES LEAGUEDivision One North (Sat, selected, 3pm): Holbeach United 0 Harwich and Parkeston 2. PDFLSelected fixtures (Sat, 2pm): Premier Division: FC Peterborough 2 Crowland Town 1, ...