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Fire crews were called out to a blaze at a Spalding home today (Saturday, June 18). Fire fighters from Holbeach and Spalding attended the incident on Roman Bank reported around 2.20pm this afternoon. A spokesman for Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue said the fire had damaged a kitchen and its contents, but that nobody had been reported injured. The fire was ...

A wide range of groups have been left looking for a new meeting place as a popular Spalding venue is taken under county council control. For almost 40 years, the Ivo Day Centre on Albion Street has been a safe haven for groups ranging from addiction support to mental health services. Now building owner Lincolnshire County Council has given the ...

Officers have highlighted actions it’s proposed to improve Spalding, including ‘positive steps’ having been made towards the possible creation of a Business Improvement District. The Spalding Town Centre Improvement Group and South Holland District Council work was outlined to the town’s forum last week. Other work included encouraging a clean up of the outside of the Bet Fred building and ...

A Holbeach St Marks woman is in Ukraine to witness the effect of the ‘community miracle’ that is South Holland’s help for the country. Mandy Baxter stopped working as a reablement carer in March after her Boxes of Hope got bigger. It’s become a huge operation at the Anglia Motel in Fleet helping collect, sort and organise delivery of much ...

New benches have been put in place outside Spalding station to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. South Holland District Council leader Gary Porter and councillors Gary Taylor and Glynis Scalese used their allocated ward budgets to purchase the specially crafted designs that replace old, worn benches. The new benches were installed by Coun Jack Tyrrell and Ivan Thompson with Jan ...

A village could look at installing CCTV cameras after several recent vandalism incidents, including graffiti on gravestones and the ruining of a junior football team’s goals. The only recently installed new play area in Pinchbeck was also graffitied on in recent days. And the parish council chairman Coun James Avery said it would look at options including CCTV. “It is ...

There are calls for two hours’ free parking to be introduced amid the setting up of a group to look at ‘public space use’ in Spalding town centre. Councillor Christine Lawton argued that would help stop people breaching the Traffic Regulation Order (TRO) which is meant to ban vehicles from Market Place and Hall Place from 10am to 4pm Monday ...

A meeting is to be held next week to discuss a proposal to bring Spalding’s Flower Parade back next year. As reported last week, Steve Timewell has launched a campaign to return a popular event to the town.He’s now set to hold an open public meeting at 7pm on Thursday, June 23 at the Constitutional Club in Broad Street, Spalding. ...

Residents are being asked not to feed pigeons in Spalding Town Centre amid a claim bringing in birds of pray to scare them away isn’t working. For the past few weeks a pest control company has been bringing in a peregrine falcon in a bid to move the birds on, the Spalding Town Forum was told last week. But Coun ...

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 ...