Bourne lose a third star man to Oadby
Craig Rook has become the third Bourne Town player to join last season’s UCL Division One champions Oadby.Having already lost Aaron Bellairs and Dan Smith to Oadby, it is a further blow to Rafa...
View ArticleHotshot Matt is set to face Cogenhoe
Matt Heron returns for Deeping Rangers on Saturday after a goalscoring performance in midweek for Whittlesey Blue Star.Heron, who scored 19 goals as Deeping finished fourth in the UCL Premier Division...
View ArticlePinchbeck keep up unbeaten run
Pinchbeck maintained their unbeaten start to the ChromaSport & Trophies Peterborough League campaign with a 4-2 victory over Holbeach Reserves on Tuesday.Elliott Price and Adam Abell scored two...
View ArticleTrish Takes Five – by blogger Trish Burgess
My father started to write his memoir in 2000, following a diagnosis of Motor Neurone Disease a few years earlier.He was fortunate (if you can ever use the word ‘fortunate’ when talking about such a...
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 ArticleYour letters: Gardens need some TLC
After a recent visit to Springfields I was very disappointed by the state of the designers’ gardens. There were weeds, bare patches and flaking paint on the structures. Chris Beardshaw would be...
View ArticleYour letters: Myths of Europe and immigration
In last weeks Readers’ View column there was a letter from Paul Foyster, headlined ‘Vote is your decision so make it wisely’. I agree that the electorate will be making an important decision in May...
View ArticleYour letters: Dilemma the human mind can’t resolve
All your readers should support MP John Hayes in his determination to assist dementia sufferers in any way he can.In her reply to Mr Hayes, Mrs Woolard mentions, as he did, dignity in old age. I’ve...
View ArticleHayes in the House – by John Hayes MP
Motoring in Britain can be one of life’s great pleasures. From the wide skies of Lincolnshire to the mountains of the Lake District; whether by car or motorcycle, there are few things more agreeable...
View ArticleIt’s a Vet’s Life - by Vetsavers of St Thomas’s Road
Giving a tablet to a cat can be daunting for anyone, if you are calm and appear confident it is often much easier than you first think.Make sure you ask your vet so that you know whether the tablet can...
View ArticleSteadfast Training provides students route to university
Further education and skills provider Steadfast Training gives students the opportunity to continue learning via apprenticeships and vocational qualifications.Based at Welland House, Spalding, the...
View ArticleThe importance of healthy school meals
Primary school children in reception, year one and year two will get free school lunches from September.Free primary school meals was one of the recommendations of a review of school food by two...
View ArticleBREAKING NEWS: More than 600 vote for public inquiry
More than 600 people voted for a public inquiry on planned wood-fuelled and gas-fired power stations in Sutton Bridge.A local referendum, known as a parish poll, was held in the village yesterday...
View ArticleSpalding High School GCSEs
Spalding High School’s GCSE students achieved a 98 per cent A*-C pass rate – almost a staggering 30 per cent above the national figure.Overall, the school’s results were a little down on previous...
View ArticleGCSE stars of Sir John Gleed bring hope for future
Stars of Sir John Gleed School in Spalding were shining bright today, with several students bucking the national GCSE trend and achieving As in English.Ellie Doubleday (16) of Spalding was one of the...
View ArticleDonington school celebrates good results
The Thomas Cowley High School at Donington is once again celebrating good GCSE results.Fifty-one per cent of students gained ten or more GCSE passes at grades A* to C. Among them were some outstanding...
View ArticleGrammar school GCSE results day joy
Spalding Grammar School is celebrating after surpassing last year’s GCSE results and posting some of the best grades in its history. A number of subjects performed extremely well with the school...
View ArticleStudents succeed at Kirton
There have been a number of personal successes among students at Middlecott School at Kirton.Headteacher Julia Polley picked out a number of young people for praise, and said: “For our kids, these...
View ArticleHolbeach visit by the Earl of Yarborough
The Earl of Yarborough, High Sheriff of Lincolnshire, was in Holbeach yesterday for visits to hospital residents and O A Taylor Bulbs, the UK’s leading supplier of flowering bulbs to garden centres,...
View ArticleDonington school GCSE results
“Superb” was the reaction of Donington’s Thomas Cowley High School deputy headteacher Ian Dawson to this year’s GCSE results.In the face of changing rules, more than half of this year’s 131 students...
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