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"What you've got to remember is this was a shed," says record shop owner Alan Barnsdale, recalling the Tulip Bulb Auction Hall in Spalding, Lincolnshire.

On the streets of Spalding today, most people have never heard of Barbeque 67.

Earlier this year, 13 portable loos were taken from a depot in Banbury, while in 2014, several were removed from locations across Spalding, Lincolnshire, and a whopping £35,000 worth were taken from a firm in Colwell, Herefordshire, in 2023.

He was first elected to the then Stamford and Spalding seat in 1987 and famously defected from the Conservatives to Labour in 2007.

His Stamford and Spalding constituency was abolished in 1997 and went on to represent the redrawn seat of Grantham and Stamford.