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FAMILIES are invited to Natural England’s Wash National Nature Reserve to learn more about what lurks beneath the surface of our coastline.Love our Ocean Day – The Hidden Wash takes place on Friday...
View ArticleNurses honoured for dedication
TWO community nurses from south Lincolnshire have been recognised for dedication to their work. The nurses from Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) were nominated for trust Jubilee...
View ArticleFamily upset by taxi refusal
A MUM-of-four has been left fuming after she and her children were turned away from an eagerly-anticipated ride on Spalding’s water taxi.Julie Holmes had promised Ben (9), Max (7), Amy (4) and Zak (3)...
View ArticleWe’ve throne Jubilee party!
Would jubileeve it... The Queen’ gives a right royal wave from Surfleet’s very own flotilla on Sunday.Craft sporting red, white and blue navigated their way from the reservoir along the River Glen to...
View ArticleBattle won over Spalding bridge litter – but war goes on
A SPALDING grot spot is finally looking “spick and span” after a prolonged campaign to get it cleaned up.South Holland district councillor Roger Gambba-Jones has been waging an ongoing battle to...
View ArticlePolice forced to issue warning over drivers’ road hazard near tip
POLICE have warned action could be taken against drivers if they cause a road hazard while queuing to get into Spalding tip.In the past couple of weeks queues stretching back to the A16 from the West...
View ArticleHolbeach’s part in Queen’s jubilee river pageant
Flowers grown in Holbeach were used to decorate the royal barge carrying the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh in Sunday’s Diamond Jubilee River Pageant.Gardener and barge decoration designer Rachel de Thame...
View ArticleEBA BOWLS: Buoyant Carter’s Park showing flawless form
BUOYANT Carter’s Park leapt to the top of Group A in the EBA (Section Four) Club Championship.It came with a third 10-0 win – this time a home defeat of Gosberton.One Carter’s Park set – Ron Flowers,...
View ArticleCYCLING: Ellis pushed hard at Spalding time trial
IT was business as usual at the head of the leaderboard with Adam Ellis (23.17mins) first in round five of Spalding Cycling Club’s 10-mile time trial championship at Pode Hole.He was chased hard by...
View ArticleCRIBBAGE: Awards dished out after successful season
THE season’s silverware has been handed out for Spalding and District Cribbage League.The top players – and even the not so good – were rewarded in a presentation night at Pinchbeck Village Hall.•...
View ArticleMore than double drink-drive limit
POLICE stopped a Volkswagen Polo on Cowbit Road, Spalding, just before 3am on May 13 and found driver Arturs Eversons was more than twice the drink-drive limit.Eversons (26), of Commercial Road,...
View ArticleSHOOTING: Sadness at closure of rifle clubs
SPALDING Rifle Club’s demise will close an association over 100 years old with rifle target shooting as a sport in the district.It comes as a result of the proposed demolition of the Sports and Social...
View ArticleCRICKET: Table-topping Town topple target to stay clear
UNBEATEN Spalding Town consolidated their 18-point lead at the top of South Lincs and Border League Division One with a comfortable five-wicket win over Lindum 2nd on Saturday.They made it five wins...
View ArticleStray moggy is purr-fect ‘surro-cat’ mum to school’s chicken eggs
IF you had to pluck an animal out of the air to be a surrogate mum to a clutch of eggs, a stray cat probably wouldn’t be your first choice.But the pretty tabby which has adopted Weston St Mary’s School...
View ArticleDrink-drive case put off
SPALDING man Nicholas Kidd (47) denies driving on the town’s Love Lane with 112 microgrammes of alcohol in breath – more than three times the legal limit – on February 5.Magistrates on Thursday...
View ArticleJUBILEE VIDEO: Events from around the district
Our photographers Tim Wilson, Mike Davison and Nikki Griffin were all over South Holland and South Kesteven covering Queen’s Diamond Jubilee events.Our chief snapper Tim captured and put together this...
View ArticleHorizontal Sunday tomorrow
HAVING recently supported folk giants Aly Bain and Phil Cunningham, three piece group, Horizontal Sunday will be entertaining Spalding Folk Club at the South Holland Centre, tomorrow at 8.15pm.Their...
View ArticleJUBILEE VIDEO: Spalding bell-ringing and Holbeach beacon lit
Spalding and Holbeach events on Monday night marked the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.Bell-ringers entertained at St Mary and St Nicholas Parish Church in Spalding and over in Holbeach, Frank Sauntson (86)...
View ArticleBusinessman accused of paying off witness
A MILLIONAIRE businessman is to face a jury trial accused of offering money to a witness who was due to give evidence against in an earlier wounding trial.Michael Chinn (37), of Old Fendike Road,...
View ArticleLet’s go fly a kite....
....UP to the highest height at Peterborough Kite Festival on Sunday at Ferry Meadows Country Park from 10am until 5pm.It’s a day out for the whole family to see a host of amazing kites flown by...
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