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Spalding’s fire crews are among those allegedly breaching traffic regulations and driving through Spalding Town Centre, a meeting has been told. Members of Spalding Town Forum heard last week that CCTV could not be used to prosecute drivers flouting the ban on driving through Market Place and Hall Place between 10am and 4pm, Monday to Saturday. Lincolnshire Police are meant ...

The proposed locations for Spalding’s new street art walls have been announced along with the initial ideas on their designs. A design promoting the environment is being readied for six to eight panels on the Castle Sports Complex over-looking the car park in Westlode Street, a meeting of Spalding Town Forum has been told. The former toilets behind the bowling ...

Staff and pupils at The Priory School have been able to collect six boxes of goods to donate to Ukrainian refugees. The school presented what it was able to round up to Ella’s Project on behalf of the St Norbert’s Ukrainian Appeal, which helped deliver a host of goods to the Red Cross through the Boxes of Hope appeal set ...

Spalding residents should think about how they’re represented politically, including the potential for creating a town council, ahead of local government reorganisation, the chair of its town forum says. Unusually for a town of its size, there’s no elected parish or town council. The Spalding Town Forum is overseen by South Holland District Council, largely using its councillors and members ...

Spalding looks likely to have its own Mental Health Support Team from later this year due to a new funding partnership. The teams are a new model to offer mental health support in schools and colleges. “Half of all life-long mental health problems in the UK start before the age of 14 and three-quarters start before the age of 25. ...

Award-winning comedy is heading to South Holland when four comedians take to the stage. The Imaginarium in Spalding will be hosting the Comedy Night on Friday, April 15 with a top line-up. Sharing the bill will be Joe Rowntree, Peter Brush, Karen Bayley and Rory O’Hanlon. The show is very much for the over-18s and tickets are on sale at ...

A motorcyclist who crashed and died on a rural South Holland road was almost twice the drink-drive limit. Jacob Williams (26) came off the Honda on Station Road, part of which runs alongside the River Nene between Sutton Bridge and Tydd St Mary. The crash location was close to the junction with Front Road, which leads to Foul Anchor. Mr ...

Fire fighters have attended a blaze at a commercial warehouse in Quadring. Crews from Spalding and Donington attended the blaze in Town Drove around 7.15am this morning (Monday, March 28) A spokesman for Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue, said: “Crews used one hose reel jet and two breathing apparatus to extinguish. “The incident resulted in severe damage by fire to a ...

Around 10,000 illegal cigarettes have been seized from a shop in Spalding town centre after a tip-off from a member of the public. Lincolnshire Trading Standards is not revealing the name and exact location of the store pending future investigations. It and Lincolnshire Police visited the shop in the centre of Spalding last Thursday (March 24). Footage captured by Trading ...

Just days after saying dips were inevitable, Lincolnshire County Council has again had to close a Holbeach road after a sinkhole reopened. A small part of Boston Road South, Holbeach – between Tesco and Holbeach Primary School – has opened up, leaving a hole in the road surface. That’s despite extensive works having been carried out on the road in ...

Roads around the BP petrol station in Little London area of Spalding were closed this morning (Saturday, March 26) amid reports a person climbed on its roof. Lincolnshire Police urged people to avoid the area this morning after being alerted to a ’concern of safety’ for a man at 3.32am. Reports on social media said a man had been seen ...

Teenagers are being urged to get their next COVID-19 jabs ahead of the Easter holidays and with Springfields hosting a drop-in vaccination session tomorrow (Saturday, March 26). The pop-up centre is open at the conference centre between 10am and 5pm including boosters and first and second doses for anyone eligible including 12–15-year-olds provided a parent/guardian is present to consent.  Lincolnshire ...

A Holbeach man has become one of the first patients to undergo a new procedure at Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, which uses diamonds to help correct abnormal heart rhythms (arrhythmia). An ablation is a procedure which uses either heat (radiofrequency ablation) or freezing (cryoablation) on the problematic area of the heart that is triggering the dangerously fast rhythm. This ...

A drink driver was seen driving erratically without lights in the centre of Spalding. Florin Stan, 27, of 7 Franklin Drive, Spalding admitted driving with excess alcohol when he appeared at Boston Magistrates Court. Paul Wood, prosecuting, said officers saw Stan in a Peugeot in Westlode Street at 3.45am on March 6 where the car was seen driving without lights ...

A new viewing area has been opened to allow more people a chance to see the rwildlife at a South Holland nature reserve including a pair of birds whose species was extinct in the UK for 400 years. Willow Tree Fen near Tongue End has been closed in recent years after a pair of cranes became the first to breed ...

A Ukrainian woman living in Spalding has thanked residents for signs of support around town as she contemplates helping her family escape Russia’s invasion of her homeland. Lesia Ward is talking everyday to her parents mum Tamara (83) and dad Vasyl Fedyna (87) and in the city of Zaporizhzhia where she grew up and which hit the headlines recently after ...

A 42-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of drug driving after a collision in Pinchbeck at the weekend. A red Suzuki Vitara, driven by the man, released under investigation, from the Spalding area, was in collision with a black Vauxhall Corsa. Emergency services were called to the Northgate junction with Money Bridge Lane and Cross Lane around 8.15am. The ...

Long Sutton Parish Council is looking to install CCTV at its allotments following the latest break in. The council’s chairman John Clarey said that the lock on the gate was broken at some point last week and thieves stole a trailer. “It’s very sad this is happening with the majority of our tenants are retired and keep the allotments very ...

Two Spalding students were among those who received awards from Boston College this week. Apprentices and their employers attended the Sam Newsom Centre in Boston to celebrate their hard work. After two years living through a pandemic, the awards night marked the success of apprentices, their employers and the college. The evening was hosted by the college’s executive director of ...

A popular shop selling refurbished cycles and helping a South Holland charity is closing its doors for good. Despite managing to stay trading during the height of the pandemic, the economic situation means PaulJo Bikes will be shutting for business later this spring. Having started more than ten years ago as a workshop hobby, the business moved into its Winsover ...