Week ending 4th December

Our Friday miscellany of the week's news and events
Thin end of wedge ... ? A week ago today one of our readers was somewhat startled to see a police BMW estate car cruising through Strait Bargate with occupants smiling "smugly" out at the afternoon shoppers. Our views on buses using the precinct are well known and shared by many others. We just hope that our less than athletic police don't view the fact that buses can treat shoppers like sheep means that they can follow suit. Let's hope this isn't the thin end of the wedge...
Wasted spaces ... With Christmas around the corner, parking in Boston is at a premium. This has prompted a reader to ask what's happening about the 50 space car park offering a day's parking for just £2 that was promised for the former Regal Centre site back in March. Bulldozers were scheduled to move in by June - but here we are in December ... still waiting. Any ideas?
Let's get it right ... A sharp-eyed reader with more patience that we have has read all through the requirements for the borough's proposed Director of Resources. On page six under Main Duties and Responsibilities, Item 11., the blurb for the £87,500 a year job says "Statutory s151 officer. There is a legal requirement for a professional accounting qualification." Yet on page 12 under the Person Specification, an accounting qualification is listed as merely "desirable." For a job as big as this, we fervently hope that someone has made a mistake.
Why didn't we get this ...?As the county council strives to bus Bostonians to Lincoln and Spalding to do their Christmas shopping, we understand that work is scheduled to start on a project that South Holland District Council expects to attract shoppers and investment. The £6m food centre on a derelict area Red Lion Street in Spalding will include shops for local produce, teaching areas with catering facilities and office space. About 30 jobs will be created by the project which is funded by SHDC, Lincolnshire County Council, the East Midlands Development Agency and .... Boston College. Thanks a bunch.
Missing mugshots ... Have there been some staff reductions at the Boston Standard? We only ask because a couple of familiar faces are missing from the Rogue's Gallery which appears in the paper every week.
Who ya gonna call ...? We join the sceptics who think that claims of ghostly goings-on at the town's Guildhall are just so much stuff and nonsense. If there are any spooks around, we suspect that they will be of former occupants rattling their chains at the sterile modernisation of the once characterful building and the ghastly (rather than ghostly) soundtrack that now ruins a visitor's chance to enjoy a trip around.

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