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‘Prolific shoplifter’ avoids jail after knife incident at Spalding store

Richard Rush — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 16:10:56 +0000

A ‘prolific shoplifter’ has avoided jail after threatening staff at a Spalding store with a knife Adam Beeson, 34, of no fixed address in the Spalding area, has been sentenced after pleading guilty to possessing a bladed article, theft from B&M in Spalding, and assault after threatening staff with the weapon. Officers responded within minutes […]

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Tributes to retired doctor

Richard Rush — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 15:32:03 +0000

A former doctor at Moulton Medical Centre has died in circumstances that police are investigating. Dr Richard Thorpe was found with serious injuries at his home in Kirkby on Bain on Saturday, October 24 but died a week later. The medical centre issued a statement following the 72-year-old’s death. “It is with great sadness that […]

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South Holland set for Remembrance events

Richard Rush — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 09:32:05 +0000

Remembrance Sunday is this weekend and services will be held across South Holland both then, on Armistice Day, Wednesday and around. Holbeach’s Remembrance Sunday Parade is meeting at the Co-Op at 10.20am before marching to the war memorial. Long Sutton’s War Memorial has been given a spruce up by Richard King Memorials ahead of the […]

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Ship weathervane returns to Spalding’s sky

Richard Rush — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 14:35:43 +0000

A historic weathervane is back above Spalding after a restoration. The copper image of a three masted seagoing vessel of the type that would have used the town’s port dates back to 1810. It was originally from the Ship Warehouse in Double Street but upon that building’s demolition was taken on by the Spalding Gentlemen’s […]

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Man avoids jail after causing serious injury driving wrong way around roundabout during police chase

Richard Rush — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 12:28:28 +0000

A driver who seriously injured another motorist when he smashed into another vehicle as he tried to evade the police was today (Thursday) given a suspended jail sentence. Connor Barton, 25, struck the back of another car after driving onto the wrong side of the Baytree roundabout, near Spalding, on February 7, this year. Lincoln […]

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Murder investigation concludes death of woman at Spalding home ‘not suspicious’

Richard Rush — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 10:19:04 +0000

A murder investigation launched after a woman’s body was found in a Spalding home has concluded with the death now not being treated as suspicious. The body of a woman in her 50s was discovered after Lincolnshire Police were called to Gaunt Close at 8.34pm on Monday, November 2. A 58-year-old man was arrested in […]

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Delay on Spalding Sunday railway service due to freight trains, but councillor insists ‘it will happen’

Richard Rush — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 15:37:14 +0000

A councillor has claimed a Sunday train service through Spalding ‘will happen’ despite it being missed from a new announcement for Sleaford, due to increased freight trains going through the town. There’s long been a campaign to have services seven days a week to the town’s station, something that last happened in the 1970s. Earlier […]

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Plea to work together on ASB problem

Richard Rush — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 15:29:56 +0000

Parents and guardians should talk to their children about the consequences of anti-social behaviour as part of a joint effort to take it off the streets of Holbeach. Police have increased patrols in the town after recent problems and concerns raised by residents and businesses but have warned that their ‘finite’ resources need to be […]

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Hair we go again Leila!

Richard Rush — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 15:14:21 +0000

Spalding High School student Leila Kay Hawley has bid farewell to her long blonde locks – again. It is the second time the generous 11-year-old has donated hair for other children undergoing treatment for a range of illnesses, including cancer. The Little Princess Trust takes hair donations and makes them into wigs for poorly children […]

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Cycling not in new town order

Richard Rush — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 15:09:56 +0000

Alterations to legislation that aims to tackle anti-social behaviour (ASB) in Spalding town centre are being proposed, but a bid to add cycling offences to it won’t go ahead. The Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) came into force 10 years ago which gave powers to officers to hand out fines to those found spitting, litter, […]

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