Food alert: Iceland recalls fish dish
Shoppers in Spalding are being warned Iceland is recalling its Blackened Salmon Portions due to undeclared almond protein.Paprika used in manufacture has been contaminated with almond protein. This is...
View ArticleHeatwave on way – and so is pollution
It’s time to dust off your sunglasses and grab your flipflops – temperatures across South Holland are set to reach 19C tomorrow.Residents will be able to enjoy a warm and sunny last weekday of the...
View ArticleFootball: This week’s fixtures
Your guide to all the gamesThursdayChromaSport & Trophies Peterborough & District LeagueDivision Three (6.30pm): Coates Athletic B v Farcet.Veterans Development Division (7.30pm): Ryhall v...
View ArticleYour parliamentary election candidates
The deadline for nominations for the elections in South Holland has now closed.Names and details of the final line-up in the parliamentary election candidates were posted on a special elections board...
View ArticleParliamentary candidates named for Grantham and Stamford
Seven candidates will fight the Grantham and Stamford constituency, which includes Bourne.Candidates nominated are: Harrish Bisnauthsing (Liberal Democrats), Nick Boles (Conservative), Aidan Campbell...
View ArticleEfforts to become greener pays off for solicitors’ business
Pinchbeck law firm Roythornes Solicitors has been rewarded for its efforts to be environmental-friendly with an industry award.The firm, based in Enterprise Way, has received the Investors in the...
View ArticleRebecca and Annie beaten again in final
Spalding’s young trio of Rebecca Simpson, Chelsea Tomlin and Annie Dunham missed out in the national women’s triples championship final.Two 19-year-olds from Ipswich, Anna Chalk and Katherine Rednall,...
View ArticleMONEY MATTERS with Scott Woods of Bingham-Woods Independent Financial...
Bank of England stays still on interest ratesThe news will be greeted by savers and borrowers differently but the Bank of England has voted to maintain its base rate of 0.5 per cent, the 73rd...
View ArticleYour district council election candidates
Candidates standing in the South Holland District Council and Parish Council elections have been named.With the parliamentary elections also taking place on polling day, May 7, it promises to be one of...
View ArticleLatvian denies burglary charges
A Latvian man has denied carrying out three burglaries on the same day in Spalding.During the first burglary it is alleged Dmitrijs Afanasjevs (28) stole an ipad and docking station, cables,...
View ArticleVAT case before court
A man appeared in court accused of failing to give a security for payment of VAT when supplying horticultural products.Boston magistrates adjourned the case against Andrew Ashton (65), of Fleet Street,...
View ArticleOne day and three elections
A former mayor of Bourne will fight three elections on May 7.Lincolnshire Independents candidate Helen Powell is contesting the parliamentary seat in Lincoln, the Bourne West ward on South Kesteven...
View ArticleSouth Kesteven candidates line-up
Candidates for South Kesteven wards are –Bourne Austerby: Duncan Ashwell (Con), Paul Fellows (Ind), John Ireland (Lincs Ind), Jane Kingman (Con), James Marsden (Lab), Robert Reid (Con); Bourne East:...
View ArticleParish council candidates in South Holland
In the parish council elections in South Holland, only seats in five wards are being contested.The candidates in their wards are (* no party):CROWLAND, EAST WARDBryan Alcock (Ind), David Ancil *,...
View ArticleDrink-driver was stopped on his way to work in Spalding
A man who had been drinking on his day off responded to an unexpected call to go to work in Spalding.But Piotr Kotynia (32) was more than double the drink-drive limit when police saw his Mitsubishi...
View ArticleMachinery stolen from building site in Bourne
A ride-on lawn mower is among machinery stolen from a building site in Falcon Way, Bourne, this week.It happened overnight between Tuesday and Wednesday.Anyone with information should call 101, quoting...
View ArticleStill time for county avoid massive legal bill
More cross-party talks have been held this week in a bid to keep a public library in Market Deeping.But the talks were overshadowed by news that Lincolnshire County Council faces the prospect of a...
View ArticleThought for the Week – by the Rev David Oxtoby
We often associate something being empty as a disappointing thing, be it an empty box, which we hoped to find a certain item in, or a special parcel we’d been waiting for, only to find the supplier...
View ArticlePositive about Parkinson’s in Spalding
Val Crewe jokes she never knew she would become so intimate with a wheelbarrow.It was after she and husband Peter moved permanently to Moulton Seas End and what had been their weekend escape from busy...
View ArticleParkinson’s Awareness Week in Spalding
Parkinson’s is a progressive disease.Symptoms vary with the individual, but the most commonly known is tremors, which is what first alerted Val Crewe that something was wrong with her health.Val’s...
View Article