Primary schools to reopen as planned on Monday with secondary schools to reopen in full on January 18
| Updated: 16:39, 30 December 2020
The majority of primary schools will reopen as planned on Monday, January 4, with secondary school pupils due to take exams returning the following week.
Secondary schools will open to pupils in Year 11 and 13 on Monday, January 11, with all secondary school pupils and college students to return on January 18. In a small number of areas where the infection rates are highest, we will implement our existing contingency framework such as vulnerable children and the children of key workers attending for face to face lessons.
Long Sutton councillor says planners should be embarrassed and ashamed that a former hotel was allowed to deteriorate
| Updated: 16:45, 23 December 2020
South Holland District Council should be âembarrassed and ashamedâ that a former hotel has been allowed to deteriorate says a planner.
Coun Andrew Tennant hit out over the handling of some of the areaâs worst
eyesores, including Long Suttonâs The Bull Hotel, during the councilâs last planning meeting.
Members were asked to approve a new register of brown field sites, which includes the Bridge Hotel in Sutton Bridge and the former Gardman site in Moulton, that could be developed.
Spalding, Holbeach and Sutton Bridge area medical teams thanked for their work
| Updated: 10:32, 22 December 2020
Medical staff across South Holland have been thanked for their continued hard work by the chair of the South Lincolnshire branch of the Royal College of Nursing.
Mark Le Sage delivered bags full of Christmas treats to medical centres and surgeries in Spalding, Gosberton, Moulton, Holbeach, Long Sutton and Sutton Bridge to show his appreciation after what has been a very difficult year.
Mark, who lives in Spalding, wanted to give the nursing staff a treat to help them keep their spirits up.
Mark Le Sage delivers treats to medical staff (43669464)
Research team at hospital which serves Long Sutton and Sutton Bridge celebrates a record breaking year
| Updated: 16:56, 21 December 2020
Hospital staff are celebrating a record year in supporting a variety of clinical and research trials, which includes making a major contribution to a COVID-19 study.
The Research Team at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Kingâs Lynn, which serves Sutton Bridge and Long Sutton, has thanked patients for supporting its work.
The ten-strong team have already recruited over 1,100 patients to participate in research trials for new treatments. This is almost double their target of 674 patients for the year with 5 months still to go â their best year on record.
Sutton St James drama graduate stars online in Mr Beaver s Advent Series Published: 06:00, 19 December 2020
A drama graduate from Sutton St James is lighting up childrenâs lives online with a daily diary from a much-loved childrenâs character.
Gaby Ward (21) is spreading some much-needed Christmas cheer up until the big day by acting out a set of short stories, called Mr Beaverâs Advent Series.
Based on the character from The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, part of The Chronicles of Narnia series written by C. S. Lewis, Gaby describes each one-minute to three-minute episode as a way âto make people a bit happier in rough timesâ.