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Big cash boost for Boston business
Cash from business rates in Boston borough is to be used to help businesses in the area. Boston Borough Council’s Cabinet agreed to make £100,000 of £388,000 retained locally from business rates available as an incentive for firms to grow and invest. A further...
£100 million migration fund helps reduce council pressure across England
Councils across England are set to receive a further £28 million to help ease pressures on local services resulting from recent migration. This brings total funding from the Government’s Controlling Migration Fund to over £100 million. From tackling rogue landlords,...
Free cycling roadshow coming to town
It’s a fact that cycling is one of the easiest ways to get fit, maintain fitness, lose weight and gain stamina. You also get to take in the sights, sounds and scents of the countryside as you wheel on by along country lanes at your chosen pace. Recent research also...
BTAC Small Grant Scheme open for applications
The Boston Town Area Committee Small Grant Scheme is now open for applications. If you are a fully constituted community group or organisation delivering projects for the benefit of residents in any of the town centre wards of Boston then please consider applying to...
Nominate your High Street Hero
Do you know an independent business owner or employee in Boston who goes the extra mile? That one person who stands out from the crowd for their willingness to always do their best and then some? Nominations are sought now for the High Street* Hero Award in...
Summer activities in Boston 2019
The summer holidays will soon be with us, and families with children will be looking for ways to keep them entertained during the summer break. Every year Boston Borough Council produces a major guide to what’s on over the holiday, publishing full details of what’s...
Building Control Customer Care Survey
The Customer Care questionnaire was issued to customers who had used the Councils Building Control Service from 1st October 2018 to 31st March 2019. There was a 50% response rate. Full set of results can be viewed here
Students to be councillors for a week
Democracy is at the heart of the freedoms and controls of a civilised society. It’s starting point of one person-one vote is its great force for equality, where everyone gets to have their say on the issues of the day which affect their lives. In this country we enjoy...
Jobs, skills and growth in Lincolnshire
This Friday, July 12, Greater Lincolnshire LEP (Local Enterprise Partnership) will be hosting the #LEPConference2019 at the Lincolnshire Showground. The theme of the conference is around future opportunities for Lincolnshire. @GreaterLincsLEP and @HMGMidlands are...
Your views sought on the ‘new’ Shodfriar’s
Views of residents are sought as the team working to bring Boston’s Shodfriar’s Hall back to life make progress with the project. A public survey has been set up online to gather opinion for a project viability report about the building’s future uses and the possible...
Rider from Portugal arrives at bike night
Boston’s Mayor, Cllr Anton Dani, and Mayoress, his wife Maria, uncovered an international flavour at last week’s Boston Bike Night. For among the visitors they met were a group from Spain and a motorcycle rider who had travelled on two wheels to the event all the way...
