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A new, weekly school has been opened up at a Spalding church to teach children Lithuania. Jolanta Kensminiene, a teacher from Peterborough, has launched the initiative at St Norbert’s Catholic Church after noticing the number of people from the district heading elsewhere for lessons. The sessions will take place every Wednesday from 4.30pm to 7pm and are for four to ...

A man looking to run a new shop in Spalding has been denied an operating licence. Bakhtiar Mohamed Amin applied for the premises licence at 13 Winsover Road, which most recently was a Portuguese themed cafe but has since reopened as a shop. He appeared before South Holland District Council’s Licensing Panel last week, who rejected his application. It follows ...

The 20-year-old owner of a dog which attacked and seriously injured a building surveyor carrying out an energy assessment at a Spalding house, has been given a suspended prison sentence. Lasma Sepetovska, formerly of Queens Road but now living at Mountstevens Avenue in Peterborough,admitted being the owner of the dog, which was dangerously out of control. Prosecuting at Boston Magistrates ...

A charity is putting on special breakfasts for male carers in the district. Carers First has been awarded a grant by Lincolnshire’s Community Asset Development Fund to provide multiple events and activities, specifically for male carers in the South Holland and Bourne areas during the next six months. To start the events off Carers First are inviting local male carers ...

There’s big plans for Holbeach with a decision to purchase a town centre eyesore made this week while Aldi has launched a consultation on bringing a new store to the town. Deputy leader at South Holland District Council, Nick Worth, agreed to a move of the ‘strategic purchase’ of a disused and run down building in Park Road. Meanwhile discount ...

Amid concerns patients locally are struggling to get a referral from GPs to another NHS service, a group is looking to hear their experiences. Healthwatch Lincolnshire want to speak to people so it can ‘help the NHS better understand your challenges’. And a concern it says it hears regularly is with regards to GP referrals. A spokesman for the group, ...

A band is set to celebrate its 135th anniversary in style. Stamford Town Band, of which half the current members are from the Spalding area, is putting on a special gala concert on Saturday, October 1. The band, which is the current Midland Champion, will also be joined by special guests The Northampton Male Voice Choir for the special event. ...

A Holbeach man has died after a single vehicle road traffic collision. Cambridgeshire Police say a red Vauxuall Vivario containing Costel Burdulea, 43, of John Street was found on Sixteen Foot Bank near Stonea at 12pm, Monday, September 19, but it’s not known when the collision occurred. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Sergeant Stephen Andrews said: “We are ...

A four week £100,000 scheme to improve Spalding’s bus station is due to start on Monday. The project will include resurfacing across the station, replacing kerbing, deep cleaning of shelters and repairs to fencing around the site. There will be two phases of the refurbishment and the bus station will remain open and operating as normal throughout. There will be ...

New high-tech CCTV cameras in are due to installed in Spalding in 18 key spots this week. It follows South Holland District Council’s successful bid for Central Government’s Safer Streets Funding earlier this year. With the whole project due to cost £400,000, the pre-existing CCTV cameras will be replaced by new high-tech versions which use innovative artificial intelligence (AI) technology. ...

A Spalding man who was caught out selling stolen goods online told a friend: “I’m in sh**, big time.” Tools worth £4,000 were stolen in a raid on Norfolk Timber Frames in King’s Lynn in November 2020and soon offered for sale on Facebook. Some of them were rare and carried the business’s name – which was clearly showing in the ...

A Spalding artist will be taking his talent elsewhere after being told his latest piece is ‘against policy.’ Graffiti art specialist Karl Barfoot said he was welcome in other places, including Peterborough, and would be producing his art elsewhere. Having spent around £100 on paint and a good many hours on the piece at the back of the Castle Sports ...

A Spalding GP practice is to open a second site to fill the gap created when Johnson Hospital closes its surgery at the end of this month. There was an outcry when the hospital-based surgery caring for around 3,000 patients, announced its closure in July. Spalding Surgery was opened at the Johnson site when the town’s Pennygate Surgery closed in ...

Charges have been brought against a motorist – more than four months after a hit and run incident injured two pedestrians in Spalding. A car collided with Spalding man Jordan Blackbourn (22) and a female friend, also in her 20s, onSunday, May 1. It happened as they crossed New Road at 4.41am. Lincolnshire Police immediately appealed for information and later ...

Spalding Power Station could be set to home a Battery Energy Storage System, claimed to be the largest in the world. South Holland District Council’s Planning Committee unanimously passed the outline planning application by Spalding Energy Park Ltd last week for the batteries and associated infrastructure. The unmanned system would have a capacity of up to 550megawatts, would connect to ...

A developer faces prosecution for building a number of homes in the wrong place, but it has been allowed to keep them there. Seven dwellings have been built different to the plans Ashwood Homes had passed for its Parish Mews site in Crowland. One bungalow, South Holland District Council planning officers claim, was built “very close” to a protected ash ...

A pub owner has been given the green light to down the establishment and replace it with homes. The outline permission to demolish the Duke Of York in Gosberton Risegate came back before South Holland District Council’s Planning Committee after its owners were asked to provide more evidence it was not viable to keep running. Lucy Stevens, the daughter of ...

A 24-year-old man who was stopped by police after he was seen to be swerving over the road, was found to be more than twice the legal limit for alcohol. Thomas Taylor of Harrow Road, Deeping St Nicholas, who admitted the offence, was seen by police driving his Citroen Berlingo on Littleworth Drove, Spalding on August 21 and was arrested ...

A bid to build a three bedroom house on garages in a small Holbeach road has been passed despite objections. Residents had expressed concerns that Chancery Lane was already the scene of traffic problems due to parking on the road and argued that and the additional home along with the loss of garages would make it significantly worse. However South ...

A Donington farmer has been granted permission to build a huge chicken farm to house hundreds of thousands of birds. Northorpe Farm, off Gibbet Fen Road, is to build six poultry buildings housing a total of up to 330,000 birds at any one time. While previously the farm had specialised in crop farming, documents submitted with the planning application states ...