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A group from Spalding’s Polish community is looking to create a multi-cultural centre in the town offering services including counselling from those fleeing the war in Ukraine. The White Eagle Community Centre was set up last October by Justyna Lukaszuk plus friends Grzegorz Komorowski and Monika Szymanska and has already put on several events at different venues around the town. ...

Spalding’s historic water fountain is being proposed to be on the site of the former paddling pool in Ayscoughfee Gardens. South Holland District Council is in a couple of weeks set to submit a planning application to site the Johnson Memorial Drinking Fountain there after rejecting calls for it to be erected in the town centre. The Voice revealed in ...

Street art could soon be coming to South Holland with the blessing of the district council. A new policy around the whole issue of graffiti and art is being drawn-up with plans to allow artists to work with permission on council-owned property. Hundreds of people signed a petition last year supporting the move after artists Karl Barfoot and Adam Sadd ...

South Holland has been ear-marked as a ‘focus site’ for part of £5m of funding towards new nature habitats. The National Lottery Heritage Fund has announced the funding UK wide as part of the Nextdoor Nature project. It’s not clear how much will be spent in Lincolnshire, but the county’s Wildlife Trust says it will go to 15 projects with ...

Three roads are closed this morning after what Lincolnshire Police described as a ’serious RTC’. Cross Lane, Money Bridge Lane and Northgate will all be closed ‘for a while’ the force said this morning, Saturday March 19. Details of of the incident are yet to be published. A spokesman for Lincolnshire Police said: ”The following roads are closed in the ...

A bus company has said it’s not recruited enough staff to return Saturday bus services that stopped running this year. In December Brylaine announced from January to March 31 it would not run Saturday services such as the Spalding Town IT1/IT2, the B13 Boston – Spalding and K59 Boston – Spalding, due to a lack of drivers. But they’re now ...

A man who fled the scene after a ‘high impact’ collision with a car that then hit the wall of a Tydd St Mary home has been disqualified for nine months. Charlie Layde, 45, dumped his Mercedes E320 about a mile away and did not report the collision. His car hit a Mini Cooper, driven by Sorcha Whitecross, on the ...

A trust that runs local hospitals including Boston’s Pilgrim Hospital says it has been taken out of special measures for the first time in five years. It follows the Care Quality Commission report into all United Lincolnshires Hospitals NHS Trust services which was published last month. While that report gave it the same overall rating of ‘requires improvement’, improvements were ...

Local volunteers who have been collecting goods for Ukrainian refugees say they’ve been ‘overwhelmed’ by the generosity and support shown in the area. Both the St Thomas Project in St Thomas’s Road, Spalding, and The Anglia Motel in Fleet have been turned into drop off points for collections.Boxes of Hope, based at the motel, is working with the United Nations ...

Around 50 people locally have already signed up to accommodate Ukrainian refugees and more South Holland residents are being urged to come forward. The government announced its ‘Homes for Ukraine’ scheme on Monday, with people asked to provide homes or a spare room rent-free for as a long as they can.The South and East Lincolnshire Local Councils Partnership, which includes ...

A South Holland band of brothers are appealing for help after their van was stolen.The distinctive black Transit also contained equipment belonging to The Houndogs when it was taken from Weston Hills in the early hours of Monday.The van has sliding doors on both sides, which is unusual, and has the registration AY10 EVP.“We couldn’t believe it,” said Dave Wilson.Along ...

Members of the Spalding Wombles group will be meeting on Sunday to hold a special litter pick. The team will be meeting to remember Graham Walmsley, known as Brian, who died at the end of January at the age of 64.One of the first members when the group started during the first lockdown, Graham became well-known for his lengthy posts ...

Staff at a Spalding school will be jumping from planes and running marathons to raise money for a charity that is helping a pupil and her family. The new head teacher at St John The Baptist Primary School, Clare Robinson, will be skydiving in May as part of the campaign to help the Lily Foundation.The charity has been providing help ...

Fenland close to West Pinchbeck is to be restored as a wildlife habitat. Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust has purchased Bourne North Fen thanks to a £750,000 grant from Biffa.The 50-hectare (128-acre) site, that’s currently agricultural land, will link up with Willow Tree Fen near Tongue End. A spokesman for the Trust said it will help meet “30 per cent of the ...

A ‘Business Bubble’ is to be created at Spalding Library through government funding. Lincolnshire County Council has been awarded £211,200 to provide confidential workspaces equipped with modern technologies that small and start up businesses can utilise. Thanks to the funding by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sports, delivered by Arts Council England, one will be in Lincoln and ...

Noise monitoring is to take place at a Whaplode dog kennel after an application came before planners last week. Mundicao Kennels in Dowsdale Bank had applied for permanent permission for its canine accommodation and dog training service after a 12-month trial. But last week South Holland District Council’s Planning Committee voted to pass another year long trial after a councillor ...

Keep a look out around Spalding for packages of books left by book fairies from Spalding’s Ayscoughfee Hall School. Tied with green ribbon they will be hidden in plain sight around town. Headteacher Theresa Wright said: “The book fairy initiative started in 2020 but just as we collected donations we entered lockdown. “The books have been supplemented by donations from ...

Residents in Sutton Bridge are being urged to have their say on how £15,000 of police money will be spent on local groups. As part of Lincolnshire Police’s Mutual Gains and Building Better Bridges projects the town is one of four areas being allocated cash. Organisations in Sutton Bridge can apply for up to £10,000 to spend on their project ...

A charity that helps over 300 families with children who have special needs in South Holland is set to open a new base. Little Miracles has been granted planning permission to turn a former gym on Church Street, Holbeach, into a new play and support centre. The South Holland branch of the initially Peterborough based charity has been meeting in ...

A plan to build four homes in Holbeach has been rejected over concerns of the impact it would have on a neighbour. Adam Rulewski is looking to demolish 47 Low Road and replace it with four detached dwellings, permission for which was granted last year. The latest application for a new layout came before South Holland District Council’s Planning Committee ...