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Calls for a town council for Spalding have been renewed amid criticisms of the ‘talking shop’ town forum and lack of Jubilee celebrations in the town. Forum chair Coun Roger Gambba-Jones has long advocated for the town to have its own level of authority. Instead the Spalding Town Forum acts for discussions and is meant to be made up of ...

A Donington man who suffers with motor neurone disease has been given a special award for his years volunteering in a hospital. Nigel Brasier was one of 32 volunteers recognised by United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) as part of National Volunteers’ Week for his work in Boston’s Pilgrim Hospital. Nigel said: “I have made many friends over the five ...

Creating more homes above shops in Spalding town centre is something that’s being looked into, but councillors have warned it might not be possible. South Holland District Council is looking at other authorities’ attempts to see if it might work in the district. The council’s assistant director for strategic growth and development Matthew Hogan told last week’s Spalding Town Forum ...

A group for pre-school children is hoping that it can help families in South Holland by opening up its excellent facilities for them. Mini Magpies is a specialist play and communication group for children aged up to five years old who have multi -sensory (vision and/or hearing) impairments. A range of play and communication activities are offered based on the ...

A new 3G floodlit football pitch and multi-use games area are among new facilities proposed as part of a planned revamp of Spalding’s Castle Sports Complex. South Holland District Council is bidding for £20million bid from the Government’s Levelling Up Fund to invest in the site. The bid is set to include a full remodel of the existing provision at ...

Spalding residents are being urged to get involved with helping curate a new art trail based on a museum’s many items. Transported Arts are currently working with the Spalding Gentlemen’s Society and want to take the museum into the town by incorporating some of its eclectic and international collection in to the trail. Working in partnership with artists Steven Hatton ...

A Fleet man accused of shoplifting failed to appear for his court hearing on Wednesday. Lee Roberts, 42, is charged with stealing meat products worth £178.81 from Aldi in Spalding onJanuary 31. He was due before Boston Magistrates’ Court. The case was adjourned to July 20 and Roberts, of Washway Road, had his bail extended. The single condition is that ...

Police followed their noses and caught a drug-driver in Spalding. Officers got the waft of cannabis as they followed Brett O’Neill’s Hyundai Kona along Pinchbeck Road. They followed the Sutton St James man turning into Westlode Street and then into a car park behind a nightclub, magistrates in Boston heard on Wednesday. It was about 2.50am on Christmas Eve last ...

There was plenty of fun to be had at Holbeach St Marks’ Jubilee celebrations. Pictures by Ben Chapman.

There should be a ‘one-stop shop’ in the area for the public to refer people with mental health issues, a councillor has said. A mask-wearing person terrorising children with a toy gun and a man asking to get in people’s cars were examples given of incidents in South Holland where members of the public had tried to get the individuals ...

South Holland needs to get better at attracting and working with tourists to the area, a councillor has claimed. Coun Rodney Grocock has urged the district council to work with its partners at East Lindsey District Council and Boston Borough Council to ensure it gets better. He made the claims at a meeting of the council’s Executive. “At the Spalding ...

A Holbeach man who thought he’d never return from an invasion scheduled to happen the day World War Two ended has died aged 101. Alan Barkes didn’t believe he’d have made it through the war if the Japanese hadn’t surrendered on what became VJ Day on August 15, 1945. The leading aircraftsman, of the 2810 Parachute Squadron, was onboard a ...

The ‘money pit’ South Holland Centre is in a much better place after last year’s cuts, it’s been claimed, amid an increase in usage in recent months. The recommendations put forward by a task group set up to look at the district’s main arts venue were passed by South Holland District Council’s Executive on Tuesday. The meeting heard that cost ...

A Long Sutton dad who has been campaigning for equal parenting rights has launched a website to help parents get the correct legal advice. Simon Cobb launched PAPA (People Against Parental Alienation) before the pandemic, calling for equality between divorcing parents in terms of children. And he’s looking to help others that are in a similar situation as he was ...

More examples of street art have been appearing in Spalding town centre. One of the most striking is a representation of Tank Man, an unknown person who defiantly blocked tanks in Tiananmen Square, Beijing on June 5 1989, the day after the Chinese government violently ended a demonstration against it there. Edgars Bokans created the image to mark the 33rd ...

The patient group from a Spalding surgery is staging a health and wellbeing event in a bid to give support and advice to all. Beechfield Medical Centre Patient Participation Group (PPG) is a long standing group of patients whose aim is to help and improve services for patients across the local community. The group has been involved in several health ...

The lack of a footbridge over a soon to be expanded busy A16 junction is ‘an accident waiting to happen’, a councillor has claimed. Coun Rob Gibson says he will continue to push for such a pedestrian crossing where the road meets the A151 near Spalding. In June 2021 when Lincolnshire County Council announced it was bidding for £20m of ...

A Spalding man says he has been inundated with offers of help after pledging to bring back an event similar to the town’s former Flower Parade. Steve Timewell has already had conversations with the likes of South Holland District Council after a social media post at the weekend about a lack of celebrations in the town received hundreds of comments ...

A road just outside Spalding was blocked this morning after a lorry became stuck. Part of Clay Lake Bank just off the A16 near Bridge Farm Nurseries was impassable following this morning’s (Tuesday, June 7) incident. A spokesman for Lincolnshire Police said: “We received a call at 8.42am today that a lorry had left the roadside. “This was a non ...

A proposed £20m plus new leisure facility is proposed to have three pools its been revealed. The South Lincolnshire Swimming Club have also given their backing to the project to rebuild Spalding’s Castle Sports Complex. The building’s owner South Holland District Council announced last week it is to bid for £20m of Levelling Up funding from the government to revitalise ...