Things to do

This year’s fireworks spectacular at Springfields Outlet Shopping and Festival Gardens will be in honour of the service men and women from WWI and WWII. The annual event will combine iconic military themed music, fantastic fireworks and dynamic lighting to create a unique, unforgettable evening for all the family. To be held on November 6, from 6pm, it will be ...

Children can share in the celebrations at Crowland library as it celebrates 40 years in its current purpose-built premises. The actual anniversary is Saturday, but the library has been holding events all week, including family history sessions. But today is the turn of Bookstart Bear, who is inviting pre-school children to join him between 2.15pm and 2.45pm. The library has ...

Halloween is almost upon us and under 18s are being invited to celebrate with a YOYO – You’re Only Young Once – night at Spalding nightclub Loaded. YOYO events are back at the club by popular demand after a gap of several months, but other “special occasion” events are already in the pipeline, including Christmas, Valentine’s Day and April Fools. ...

Holbeach Town band is looking forward to its Autumn Concert at All Saints Church, Holbeach on Saturday. Tickets are on sale at £5 (£3 for under 12s) and the concert will start at 7.30pm. The concert will include nostalgic war-time pieces, including sing-a-longs, together with a variety of music from the band’s repertoire.

The high-flyers and the bad guys descend on Holbeach Community Centre, Fishpond Lane, on Saturday (October 11) for another night of international professional wrestling action. The show which is family friendly will feature championship and tag team tournament matches. Wrestlers scheduled to appear include “Dangerous” Danny Steel, Captain Rick Wildfire, Burchill, Luscious Lucas Black and many more. Tickets for the ...

Barbed Wire for Kisses A Village at War – A new production inspired by Lincolnshire lives. Wednesday, November 5, 7.30pm South Holland Centre, Spalding Tickets £10, £9 over 60s, disabled & companion, £5* under 26s Box office 01775 764777 www.southhollandcentre.co.uk With the passing of the last survivors, the events of the Great War are slipping beyond human memory. In a ...

A unique art exhibition centred on the history and culture of Lincolnshire windmills opens at Ayscoughfee Hall in Spalding this month. Since Sliced Bread, by artist Fi Burke, binds social history with food heritage and contemporary art, integrating the voices of millers, rural communities and the land itself. The exhibition stems from an immersive year of artistic research into the ...

Bolshoi Ballet – The Legend Of Love Live satellite screening from Moscow Sunday, October 26, 3pm Tickets £13 / £11.50 Box office 01775 764777 www.southhollandcentre.co.uk This splendid tale of forbidden love, self-sacrifice, jealousy and suffering returns to the Bolshoi stage after a ten-year absence. The Legend of Love is one of Russian master Yuri Grigorovich’s earliest choreographic works, and its ...

Rehearsals are well underway for the first big production at Spalding Grammar School for a number of years. Students have been busy perfecting their lines as well as preparing scenery, lighting and costumes for their performances of Joseph on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, November 6, 7 and 8. Primary schools will be invited to attend a free matinee performance the ...

Lady Like, with comedian Susan Calman Saturday, October 18, 8pm South Holland Centre, Spalding Tickets £14* / £12* concessions / £7.50* Under 26s Box office 01775 764777 www.southhollandcentre.co.uk Award-winning comedian Susan Calman comes to the South Holland Centre on her first ever UK tour. If you’ve seen her before, Lady Like will be a reassuring couple of hours spent with ...

Bookings are now being taken for Leisure Connection’s children’s fun activity camps in this month’s school holiday. Sessions are being held at Spalding’s Castle Sports Complex and Long Sutton’s Peele Leisure Centre. A spokesman said: “Our much anticipated children’s activity camp is back this October and it’s now cheaper than ever! “It was our first summer this year and we’re ...

Guide Dogs for the Blind is calling on dog owners in Spalding and surrounding villages to make their pet pooch a hero for the day by taking part in Dogs Unite! The Dogs Unite event on Saturday promises fantastic fun for all the family and their pets, who can dress up in a special hero cape! Dogs Unite is a ...

Gone Girl (18) review I’ve written plenty of film reviews over the past six months – but Gone Girl is perhaps the one I’ve spent the most time wracking my brain over. That’s because it would be very easy to give the game away – and I certainly don’t want to be the one to ruin David Fincher’s masterpiece for ...

As Spalding branch of the Western Front Association celebrates it’s 20th anniversary, Spalding and South Holland Voice finds out more about the group which aims to keep alive the memories of World War One. Each month around 20 like-minded people get together to listen, learn and share their knowledge of one of the darkest periods in British History. In the ...

Billed as “the original and best” – the Spalding Model Tractor Show will return for its 27th year this weekend. The event at Spalding’s Springfields Events Centre was first held in 1987 and since then has become something of an institution – a meeting place for toy tractor collectors and dealers from across the world. But whatever your tractor-related interest: ...

Tomorrow (Friday) Spalding will be awash with orange as the annual Pumpkin Parade comes to town. This is the 14th year the celebration of local horticulture and harvest has been held and promises to be as much fun as ever. Throughout the day there will be a festival market with a mix of stalls from local charities and local producers. ...

Sing-a-long-a Frozen Wednesday, October 29, 11.30am and 3.30pm Key Theatre, Peterborough Box office 01733 207239 www.vivacity-peterborough.com/   Singalonga Productions are delighted to announce that Disney’s Frozen is the new Singalonga must see! All the usual suspects of lyrics on screen to sing along with together with a live host and a magic moments fun pack so that you can interact ...

The People’s Theatre Company presents Old MacDonald Had A Farm Kings Lynn Corn Exchange Friday, October 31 Tickets £10.50/£9.50 Box office 01553 764864 www.kingslynncornexchange.co.uk Old MacDonald had a farm E-I-E-I-O. But Old MacDonald’s animals have gone missing! Can you help a friendly scientist and his amazing time machine get them back for him? Presented by the team behind There Was ...

South Holland Concerts presents The Fujitas Saturday, October 4, 7.30pm South Holland Centre, Spalding Tickets £13.50, £12 over 60s, disabled and companion, FREE for under 16s & full time students Box office 01775 764777 www.southhollandcentre.co.uk South Holland Concerts opens its season with a second visit from this world-renowned piano trio. The three sisters, who have played chamber music together since ...

Simon Callow in The Man Jesus Friday, October 17, 7.30pm South Holland Centre, Spalding Tickets £22.50 Box office: 01775 764777 www.southhollandcentre.co.uk This extraordinary play by Matthew Hurt and directed by Joseph Alford looks back two thousand years to witness key moments in the life of “the man Jesus”, through the eyes of the people who knew him. Simon Callow, one ...