Join Knitting Norse session in Spalding
Knitwear often features large in Scandi crime thrillers but it will take centre stage when Inspector Norse comes to Spalding.South Holland Centre, where the Nordic Noir comedy is showing on February 6,...
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Long Way Home by Eva Dolan RRP £14.99When a book is set in your home town it makes you so much more involved in its story; but when it’s a crime novel it makes the hairs on your arms stand up, you find...
View ArticleCalling the tune
Keith Crawford and his wife, Yvonne, visited us on New Year’s Eve to tell us about receiving the MBE in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours list. The award is well deserved recognition of his service to...
View ArticleFilm review
Gavin Miller reviews 12 Years a Slave (15)This exceptional piece of cinema is undoubtedly worthy of anyone’s attention – even though it falls just shy of greatness.Director Steve McQueen’s slavery...
View ArticleHealthy soup recipe for the weekend
January is typically a time when many people consider eating slightly more healthily than they have been doing.South Holland District Council has just the thing to help: free community cooking...
View ArticleEvents in South Holland in the week ahead
Listings from Thursday, January 16 to Wednesday, January 22ThursdaySpalding Folk Club sing-around, Welland Yacht Club, Cradge Bank, Spalding.RSPB talk, ‘Wildlife of the Nene Washes and the corncrake’,...
View ArticleMusic and film in the week ahead
Listings from Thursday, January 16 to Wednesday, January 22MusicSaturdayJohn Paul Ekins (piano), 7.30pm, South Holland Centre, Spalding.Rick Roberts, 8.30pm, Long Sutton Royal British Legion, 01406...
View ArticleOur nation of shopkeepers
by John Hayes MPThe wonderful situation comedy Dad’s Army pictures a world very different from much of modern Britain. The fictional Warmington-on-Sea was drawn from the reality of life in a typical...
View ArticlePlan for shop and 35 new homes at Cowbit
Plans to build 35 new homes and a shop in Cowbit will be on display for all to see at a public exhibition – before they are submitted to South Holland District Council.Holbeach-based Ashley King...
View ArticleFOOTBALL: Penalty shoot-out woe for Tulips
STAMFORD 1 SPALDING UNITED 1 (Stamford win 5-4 on penalties)Spalding suffered penalty shoot-out heartache at Stamford on Tuesday night as they were knocked out of the Lincs FA Senior Trophy at the...
View ArticleRise in quad bike thefts lead police to issue fresh advice
Farmers and landowners in South Holland are being urged to protect their quad bikes after a spate of thefts across Lincolnshire.At least three thefts have been reported within the last month and police...
View ArticleFolk scene in Spalding
First of a fortnightly look at what’s going on, by Martin Browne.The New Year got off to a great start at the South Holland Centre in Spalding when Spalding Folk Club was entertained by The Hut...
View ArticleReports of hare coursing cases fall across county
A dedicated team set up to combat hare coursing in south Lincolnshire is making progress success after a 27 per cent drop in reported incidents.Figures for Operation Galileo, an eight-strong team of...
View ArticleTribute to Gedney Drove End farmer David Piccaver
2014 has produced rain on virtually every day, but so far we have been lucky that the actual quantity of water has been far less and far less damaging than in other parts of the country, writes Ian...
View ArticleNo-irrigation farming at Sutton Bridge
Farming has to be done differently on land where the saline level of the available water is just too high.That’s the experience of Proctor Bros (Long Sutton) Ltd where some of the land used to grow...
View ArticleMajor changes ahead in UK farming prediction
More transformation is likely to happen in the UK farming industry in the next ten years that we have seen in the past 50.That is the prediction of the chairman of a key farming conference.Julian...
View ArticlePolice issue CCTV image in Spalding store case
Police in Spalding have released a CCTV image of a man they are looking for in connection with an incident in a town store.A public order offence took place at the B & M Bargains store in Winsover...
View ArticleWygate Park Academy gets new headteacher
A primary school due to open in Spalding in September has a new headteacher.Annabel O’Connell (33) is currently part of the leadership team at Boston’s Staniland Academy, which was steered out of...
View ArticleCoal stolen from house in Folkingham
An amount of coal has been stolen from a house in West Street, Folkingham, this week.It happened between 11.30pm on Monday and 9am on Tuesday and anyone with information should call 101.The incident...
View ArticleAirfield store gets go-ahead
Wingland Airfield has been given the go-ahead for a building to store microlight aircraft on land in Gedney Dyke.Plans put in by Wingland Aircraft Club for an 11 feet building in which to store an...
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