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Crowland engineer’s top award

A young Crowland engineer at a bus operator has been hailed as one of Britain’s best at a glitzy awards ceremony in London.Stagecoach East’s Ryan Crick won the Best Newcomer Award at the Stagecoach Excellence Awards.The award was presented by Tony Cockcroft, asset management director of Stagecoach, at a gala dinner held at the London Transport Museum in London.Ryan is ...

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Successful first weekend for store

The newest shop opening in Spalding town centre saw records tumble at Furniture Warehouse. The former Beales department store has been transformed into a new store.“It was a really amazing weekend for us and the feedback has been so positive. Saturday, the official day of opening, broke a company-wide record for the most amount of orders placed in a single ...

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MP’s plea for businesses to take part in consultation

MP Sir John Hayes has urged agricultural businesses to take part in a review of the supply chain that ends this week (Thursday, February 22). The Government is currently holding a public review into the UK’s fresh produce sector supply chain.Sir John also recently convened a meeting of local farmers and growers, the Spalding Branch of the NFU and the ...

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Farmland value keeps increasing

Average farmland values in the East Midlands have continued to increase year on year across all land types while supply in the region has surged, according to property agents, Savills. Quarterly analysis, which looks at publicly marketed farmland across the East Midlands shows that 14,276 acres of farmland were marketed during 2023 (to the end of September), compared with 6,240 ...

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Family look for more time for themselves as shop closes

A nursery set up by accident 35 years ago has closed its shop front.Glenside will continue to operate its wholesale business which includes supplying Spalding town centre and Ayscoughfee Gardens with plants.But the couple who set it up, Susan (67) and Adrian Chappell (71), are semi-retiring and closing the shop means they can spend more time doing the things they ...

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Businesses urged to get Grants4Growth

More funding has been allocated for the Grants4Growth scheme. South Holland District Council distributes the government grants to help businesses.And another £1.85m has been allocated to the South and East Lincolnshire Councils Partnership, of which the authority is a member alongside Boston and East Lindsey.The grants available are for between £1,000 and £24,999 (or 30 per cent of the total ...

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Teenager Charlie builds his future

A Spalding teenager has taken on an apprenticeship to work on the building of the town’s Western Relief Road. Charlie Butler (17) works with construction company Taylor Woodrow and is taking part in building the northern section of the new road.“I have really enjoyed my placement so far and am really enjoying working on the relief road. The experience has ...

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Business plan for the town centre

The business community in Spalding is being asked to raise £250,000 to help deliver a series of improvements designed to help keep the town centre thriving. A list of ideas ranging from a music festival to new branding and cleaning-up the town centre has been put together for consultation.The draft Spalding Town Centre Business Plan has been submitted by The ...

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Take a peak in glasshouse

A Spalding nursery is joining others across the country in opening its doors to the public for one day.Bridge Farm Horticulture will be offering guided tours on Open Farm Sunday on June 11 to allow members of the public to see how they grow plants in their 60-acre state of the art glasshouse in Spalding, Lincolnshire.The tours will include demonstrations ...

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Chelsea Gold again for Taylors

There was cause for celebration for a Spalding company at the world-famous Chelsea Flower Show this week.Taylors Bulbs has achieved a fantastic 30 Gold Medals, 28 in consecutive years.“It was brilliant to be awarded another Gold this year,” said Charlotte Daubney, show manager.The team was allowed in the show’s Grand Pavilion an hour before the public on Tuesday – and ...

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Celebrating 25 years with contest

Spalding optometrists Molsom & Associates celebrated 25 years in business in November.To mark the occasion they decided to celebrate for 25 days starting on their anniversary up until December 5.There has been lots going on with an afternoon of celebration for customers, online giveaways, prize draws for customers to enter and other fun competitions and prize draws.The Molsom “Eyeball Trail” ...

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Jobs with green fuel

More than 100 jobs will be created by a South Holland company at the forefront of providing alternative, clean energy. Pioneering work at the family-run business could help spark a shift to using hydrogen as fuel for commercial, agricultural and marine engines.A planning application has been submitted for a met mast to monitor weather conditions at Gedney Drove End for ...

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FEZ and new hub gets official unveiling

Holbeach’s Food Enterprize Zone has been given its official opening. Jayne Almond, director of policy and corporate affairs at the Food and Drink Federation cut the ribbon on the first three buildings that are finished. University of Lincoln’s National Centre for Food Manufacturing (NCFM) and The Institute of Technology Digital Food Manufacturing Centre have already been open for about a ...

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It’s the end of an era at Birchgrove Garden Centre as father and son retire together

A father and son are retiring together after almost 35 years running a popular garden and pet centre. George and Simon Slinger will leave Birchgrove Garden Centre in Pinchbeck on July 10. While the pair are looking forward to spending more time with family, Birchgrove, which incorporates Megapets and Bettertack, will be taken over by another local business owner Gary ...

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Office Shop is taken over

Phil and Lesley Pell, owners of The Office Shop in Pinchbeck Road, Spalding, have retired after 20 years.The business has been acquired by AbbeyPrint Ltd and will continue from its premises in Enterprise Way, Pinchbeck.Phil said: “I started working at the Office Shop with the previous owner Colin Hayes, before taking over 20 years ago.“My wife Lesley then joined me ...

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Companies have combined forces

GlenFarrow has added a new string to its bow thanks to combining with hydraulic hose business MB Supplies. MB Supplies has been trading in Pinchbeck for around 25 years.The company was founded by Mick Bird, who passed the baton to James Johanesen (pictured) 11 years ago.James was looking to retire but also wanted a way of carrying on the business ...

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Raven swoops in to Rookery

Rookery Farm in Holbeach St Johns, a specialist picking and packing firm for the horticulture industry, has been acquired by Sarah Raven Ltd as part of the business’ growth plan and in response to increased demand.Previously an arable farm, and in the Robinson family for over 100 years, Rookery Farm is renowned for its growing, packing and despatching services to ...

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National award joy for South Holland builder

South Holland-based D Brown Building Contractors are celebrating after scooping a national award. The firm won Best Large Social Housing Development at the LABC Building Excellence Awards Grand Finals 2021.A panel of industry experts judged a list of the highest quality projects and teams from around England and Wales to showcase solutions to complex technical or construction issues, site constraints, ...

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Council leader’s claim on FEZ

The leader of Lincolnshire County Council says that 12 plots have already been allocated to businesses looking to set up at The South Lincolnshire Food Enterprize Zone in Holbeach.Coun Martin Hill told the a meeting of the authority’s full council last week that it was an example of the investment it was placing in the whole of the county as ...

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Register new food business

A new campaign from the Food Standards Agency to new businesses to register is being backed by the South and East Lincolnshire Councils Partnership.The pandemic saw a huge increase in the number of food businesses based in people’s homes.Since March 2020, 37 per cent of new food ventures registering through the FSA’s digital service are run from domestic kitchens at ...

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