Things to do

TODAY South Holland Healthy Walks, 10.30am, Holbeach Services Club. Holbeach and Spalding Explorers: Spalding, 7pm-9pm; Holbeach 7.15pm-9.15pm, (14-18 years), www.handsscouts.com Tots and Carers, 9am-11.30am, Moulton Village Hall. Vitality classes, Broad Street Methodist Church Hall, Spalding, 11.30am-12.30pm and 1.45pm-2.45pm; Weston Village Hall, 2pm-3pm, £1.50, 01529 411941. Vibe Contemporary Youth Choir, 5.30pm-7pm, South Holland Centre, Spalding, £3.50. 1st Holbeach Brownies, 5.30pm-6.45pm, 01406 ...

Funhouse Comedy Club South Holland Centre, Spalding Friday (November 27), doors 7.30pm, show 8.30pm Tickets £10 Box office: 01775 764777 www.funhousecomedy.co.uk Funhouse Comedy Club is back at the South Holland Centre tomorrow for more fun and laughter. Headlining is comedian and script writer Sean Percival (top left). His brand of comedy steers clear of the surreal and confronts realism in ...

Spalding Christmas Market takes place on Sunday, running from 10am to 4pm. There will be a fun fair in the Sheep Market car park and a contingent from the Salvation Army Band will be playing carols in Hall Place. There will be around 35 stalls selling items such as dream catchers and jewellery, Lincolnshire Poacher cheese, Victorian antiques, spirits and ...

Against all of the odds, The Hunger Games films have been consistently awesome action spectacles over the past few years. In the crowded young adult (YA) genre that contains quite a few stinkers (Twilight, I’m looking at you), the quadrilogy based on the Suzanne Collins books have always impressed. With the always-impressive Jennifer Lawrence an inspired choice as lead Katniss ...

It’s a safe bet that pretty much everybody reading this review has used a Steve Jobs product. The former Apple CEO – and all-round tech genius – had a sizeable role to play in bringing the iMac, iPhone, iPod and iPad (to name but a few) into the world. It’s actually hard to imagine a world (as sad as it ...

Spalding Amateur Dramatic and Operatic Society (SADOS) stages its latest production Family Planning by Frank Vickery this week. Set in Wales, the play introduces us to the Roberts family, their raunchy neighbour Mrs Millard, her son Jeffrey, and Bobby, Tracy Roberts’ nice but dim boyfriend. Experience an evening of misunderstandings, fortune telling and surprises as Tracy tries to tell her ...

St Norbert’s Church holds it Christmas bazaar on Saturday in the Church Hall, St Thomas’s Road, Spalding. The event, which is free to attend, starts at 1pm. With many stalls on offer selling preserves, jams, jewellery, crafts, cards and more, you’re bound to pick up some Christmas gifts. There’s a draw with the chance to win cash prizes of £100, ...

Get in the festive spirit by going along to the Yule Festival in Holbeach on Sunday. Organised by Rainbow Festivals, the event runs from 12pm to 5pm at Holbeach Community Centre. There will be live music from Whisky Before Breakfast, art and craft stalls, festive fun for little ones, hot roasted chestnuts, magical wares, home cooked food and a licensed ...

Of Mice and Men National Theatre Live South Holland Centre, Spalding Monday, 10.30am & 7pm £13.50, £12 concessions, £10 under 26s, schools & groups 8+ Box Office 01775 764777 www.southhollandcentre.co.uk South Holland audiences have the rare chance to see a piece of Broadway theatre with a screening of the hit production Of Mice and Men at the South Holland Centre ...

I’ve never really understood the hype when it comes to celebrity chefs. Sure, I love good food as much as the next person – and I’ll admit to enjoying a bit of Man v Food and Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives on TV. The likes of Gordon Ramsay, however, have always rubbed me up the wrong way. Adam Jones (Bradley Cooper ...

On Friday Tonic Health is hosting a Health and Wellbeing evening put on by Spalding Health and Wellbeing (SHAW). There will be a range of holistic therapies, stalls and workshops including reflexology and Reiki tasters, handmade soaps, personal training, Tarot card readings, a Clairvoyant medium, psychic readings, traditional Chinese medicine, honey-based, natural skincare products, Forever Living products, homeopathy and Bowen therapy ...

Pavanotti, alter-ego of Pinchbeck singer Jeff Woods, is holding a fundraising concert in Long Sutton on Saturday. The evening of “Great Singing and Great Fun” takes place at St Mary’s Church at 7.30pm. Admission is £5. Pavanotti has presented several fundraising concerts at local churches – most recently at Crowland Abbey and Mouton Chapel. He has sung for some of ...

There will be a chance to try out a mobile skate park in Crowland on Sunday. The event runs from 9.30am to 3.30pm at the Snowden car park on Thorney Road. It has been funded by Crowland Parish Council meaning it’s free to attend. Refreshments will be served at the Snowden Pavilion and equipment can be borrowed.

Spalding’s Christmas lights will be switched on by the newly-crowned Tulip Queen on Saturday. The event, which has been organised by Tulip Radio, takes place In Hall Place from 10am. It includes the 2016 Tulip Queen competition, the School Choir Competition and a fun dog show. Entries are still being taken for the Tulip Queen competition, with the winner and ...

TODAY South Holland Healthy Walks, 10.30am, Holbeach Services Club. Meet your local Health Trainer, 9am-4pm, Sutton Bridge Community Centre, 07532 236616. Holbeach and Spalding Explorers: Spalding, 7pm-9pm; Holbeach 7.15pm-9.15pm, 14-18 year olds, www.handsscouts.com Tots and Carers, 9am-11.30am, Moulton Village Hall. Vitality classes, Broad Street Methodist Church Hall, Spalding, 11.30am-12.30pm and 1.45pm-2.45pm; Weston Village Hall, 2pm-3pm. £1.50, 01529 411941. Vibe Contemporary ...

South Holland Centre, Spalding Wednesday, November 11, 8pm £15, £13 concession Box Office 01775 764777 www.southhollandcentre.co.uk Festival of the Spoken Nerd: Just for Graphs is a riotously funny show about science on a big national tour with a date at Spalding’s South Holland Centre on Wednesday, November 11 at 8pm. With live experiments, a few explosions, silly songs, fire juggling ...

It is sometimes difficult to believe that only 75 years ago Britain was not only facing the prospect of invasion, but was also under threat of real hunger from the blocking of the seaways. This is the subject that Jonathan Dimbleby takes as his subject when he appears at the South Holland Centre in Spalding on Thursday, November 12 at ...

There’s a night of music in aid of charity on Saturday. Dave & Jan’s Charity Evening takes place at the Elizabethan Centre, Parson Lane, Whaplode Drove, from 8pm till late. There will be music, karaoke, a quiz, a raffle and an auction. All proceeds to will go to Prostate Cancer UK.

Spalding Amateur Dramatic and Operatic Society (SADOS) are just two weeks away from their next production Family Planning. One of Spalding’s oldest amateur theatre companies is going back to its roots to put on the hilarious farce by playwright Frank Vickery. Set in Wales, the play introduces the Roberts family, their raunchy neighbour Mrs Millard, her son Jeffrey, and Bobby, ...

TODAY South Holland Healthy Walks, 10.30am, Holbeach Services Club. Meet your local Health Trainer, 9am-4pm, Sutton Bridge Community Centre, 07532 236616. Holbeach and Spalding Explorers: Spalding, 7pm-9pm; Holbeach 7.15pm-9.15pm, open to 14-18 year olds., www.handsscouts.com Tots and Carers, 9am-11.30am, Moulton Village Hall. Vitality classes, Broad Street Methodist Church Hall, Spalding, 11.30am-12.30pm and 1.45pm-2.45pm; Weston Village Hall, 2pm-3pm, £1.50, 01529 411941. ...