Tributes paid to long-serving Bourne Academy teacher who died while riding...
Tributes have been paid to an ‘extremely popular’ secondary school teacher who tragically died while out cycling this week.Richard Wade, 64, had been a staff member at Bourne Academy for 22 years –...
View ArticleSpalding market furniture stallholder in marathon run inspired by sister’s...
Spinal and cartilage surgery should have put Spalding market furniture stallholder Ian Johnson out of the running for a marathon.But he’s in serious training to spend his 54th birthday on April 17...
View ArticleFOOTBALL: Chance to impress as Field returns to Spalding United
Defender Jason Field is back in Spalding United’s squad for the rest of the season.He had returned to Boston Town on a loan spell but the Tulips have recalled him.Field could go straight into the team...
View ArticleFOOTBALL: Focus on promotion for Spalding United
Chris Rawlinson is keeping his focus on the next game – but he admits it would be a ‘travesty’ for Spalding United to throw away a play-off spot.The Tulips boss believes a top-five finish should only...
View ArticleFOOTBALL: A strange case of ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ performances at Holbeach United
Seb Hayes is worried about the level of performance which Holbeach United will produce on Saturday.Even the Tigers’ website called them Jekyll and Hyde after one of their best displays of the season...
View ArticleBig turnout for annual party in Quadring
Numbers were well up this year for the senior citizens’ party that has been a popular fixture in Quadring for the last 68 years.Originally started by the Christian organisation, Toc H, the party these...
View ArticleCrowland Parish Council works to tidy up land on housing estate
Crowland Parish Council has responded to public interest by tidying up an area of land near housing built in the 1970s.At the council’s March parish meeting, it was revealed that “eight trolley loads...
View ArticleVIDEO: Crowd gathers for Hills Department Store’s £1.65million stock disposal...
Bargain hunters were out in force this morning (Friday) for the start of Hills Department Store’s £1.65million stock disposal sale.Around 50 people gathered in front of the South Holland Centre in...
View ArticleNew homes in Spalding from £107,200 at the ‘Help to Buy’ roadshow
Broadgate Homes will be one of many companies exhibiting at the Help to Buy Roadshow in Lincoln on Saturday.The roadshow brings together a whole host of housing professionals to help you unlock your...
View ArticleCOURT REGISTER
The following decisions have been made by magistrates at court hearings. In all drink-drive cases the legal limit is 35 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath, 80 milligrammes of alcohol...
View ArticleOne last job for Santa following sleigh run in Holbeach
Santa Claus had a final but important engagement following his Chirstmas sleigh run organised by the Rotary Club of Holbeach.The sleigh had five trips before Christmas, accompanied on different nights...
View ArticleContractor appointed for £5.4million Peppermint Junction works
Eurovia UK has been selected as the preferred contractor to improve the current A17/A151 junction by installing a new, three-arm roundabout, as well as a new four-arm roundabout on the A151....
View ArticleBook favourites from 60s and 70s
TRISH TAKES FIVE: By Trish BurgessOne of my favourite childhood authors died last month. Dick Bruna started writing the Miffy books in the early 1960s but the little rabbit has continued to be adored...
View ArticleOur doctors and the smiling times
WARD’S WORLD: By John wardI was watching something recently on the flat screen wonder called television that interrupted the adverts every so many minutes but seeing the bits and mentally sticking them...
View ArticleYOUR LETTERS: Should we overturn people’s wishes?
I’m delighted that Paul Walls (Free Press, February 14) is so keenly interested in the 18th century statesman Edmund Burke – one of my political heroes. So I want, in response, to explain Burke’s...
View ArticleMemories of a Spalding man inspire hauliers
A haulage firm is paying tribute to one of its former lorry driving instructors by raising awareness of the disease that claimed his life.Andrew Grantham (50), from Spalding, died in July 2014 after...
View ArticleAwards a shoe-in for family firm
A Bourne-based family shoe firm has walked off with its sixth national award in just six years.North Shoes, who have traded from North Street since 1876, are celebrating after being named men’s...
View ArticleTighter lines than ever for Spalding couple after 60 years
Stevie Wonder’s 1984 bestseller “I Just Called To Say I Love You” could have been written for Spalding couple Dave (80) and Jean Allen (79).The gardening and fly fishing couple never forget to remind...
View ArticleSutton Bridge farmer and glysophate ban
Spring is nearly upon us and, after a weather delay, we hope to start sowing spring wheat, sugar beet, peas and potatoes, as well as applying crop protection products and fertiliser, writes Stafford...
View ArticleTydd 19-year-old dies in 1917
The long list of men from South Holland dying at the front continued to grow in 1917.Pte F L Durrant, of Lutton Marsh, and Lance-Corpl E D Thorold, of Weston (both pictured above) had paid the ultimate...
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