A community car club is being considered for the Deepings. This would enable people living in the area to access vehicles for personal use. A bit like a ‘pool car’ scheme. An on-line survey is being undertaken to establish the likely level of support for the scheme.
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If you’ve driven along Helpston Heath Road recently, you may have seen a drilling rig in the fields at the junction with Stamford Road. This work was undertaken by the Environment Agency and is associated with a major pollution incident at the nearby landfill sites known as Ben Johnson’s Pit and the Ailsworth Road Waste [...]
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August is supposed to be hot and dry so you could be forgiven for thinking this August was the coldest and wettest on record. However, August 1912 easily takes the award.
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The Second World War ended over 60 years ago, only now have members of the Women’s Land Army and Timber Corp been awarded a badge to commemorate their contribution to the war effort.
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Simon Hoppe grew up in Glinton and enjoyed a happy childhood with lots of friends and activities in and around the village. To many local people, he will be known or remembered as the boy often seen running or cycling around Glinton and surrounding villages, usually with some of his trusted border collie dogs in [...]
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Welcome to a new series by Bob Randall featuring old photographs of our villages. We start at Helpston in 1896 during the boring of an artesian well for a new village water supply.
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