Further national recognition has been awarded to a community nurse from Moulton. Candice Pellett, a senior case manager and community practice educator from Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS), was one of five nurses to collect The Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, Award for Outstanding Service last week. The award from the Queen’s Nursing Institute (QNI) is presented to ...

Two of Spalding’s best-known faces finally married on Sunday – after 37 years together. Alan Porter and Angela Newton decided to take the plunge after “saving up”! But Angela, leader of the Independent group at South Holland District Council, revealed that there won’t be Porters on opposite sides of the council chamber. She will retain the surname Newton for her ...

CCF16052014 The first Holbeach Food Festival launches next month to promote locally grown produce. And organisers are linking in with the ever-popular Holbeach Town and Country Fayre on the same weekend. Visitors will be shuttled between both sites free of charge by the Holbeach Community Bus. South Holland district councillor Nick Worth said: “We’re hoping that people will enjoy a ...

Sheep and sunshine combined to make a baa-lmy weekend all round at Unique Cottage Studios, Spalding. The weather was a real bonus for the fifth annual sheep and wool day – held to highlight the many crafts associated with sheep and wool. Carolyn Goodwin, owner of the Low Fulney studio, said: “We had a fantastic turnout for the day and ...

Nine more South Holland residents have each been awarded £100 cash for demonstrating good recycling habits. That takes the total number of £100 winners since the district council’s Green Bag Lottery began to 26. The scheme rewards residents who correctly present green bags of recycling for at least three weeks of each four-week period. Ten households are secretly selected to ...

The high quality of South Lincolnshire growers has again been recognised at the annual RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Holbeach firm Walkers@Taylors Bulbs is a regular winner of gold medals in the Great Pavilion Awards – in fact this is its 21st consecutive top award. Yet keeping up high standards is always a challenge and Johnny Walkers’ daffodils were again judged ...

There is a rare opportunity to look around Spalding Gentlemen’s Society on Wednesday, June 4. Founded in 1710, the Broad Street establishment is one of the oldest learned societies in the country and the earliest provincial association for the encouragement of antiquarianism. Among its many notable members were Sir Isaac Newton and his biographer and antiquarian William Stukeley. Join curator ...

Lincolnshire Trading Standards is warning residents to beware telephone scammers claiming to be from a major PC or software company. It has received a number of reports that fraudsters are cold calling people and offering to fix a fake computer problem. They claim that your computer has a serious virus and it will become unusable if they don’t act immediately. Once ...

When a Rolls Royce pulled up outside his house in Cradge Bank, Spalding United goalkeeper Peter Roberts was about to be kept a promise from several months previous. It was 1958 and stepping out of the pristine car was Kettering Town manager Tommy Lawton and the club’s chairman and secretary. Peter had caught Lawton’s eye during the Tulips’ 3-2 FA ...

Police have reissued an appeal for witnesses after the release of fresh information about an attempted ramraid in Spalding. The attack happened on Robert Goddard clothes shop in Vine Street in the early hours of Tuesday. A silver Renault Clio used in the attack was stolen from the Ladywood Road area of Spalding on Monday night.  A telegraph pole was attached ...

The European Parliament elections take place on Thursday, May 22. The Spalding and South Holland Voice has compiled a guide to the candidates to fill the five East Midlands seats. We gave every party vying for an East Midlands seat an invitation for each candidate to address Voice readers directly. The UK is divided into 12 electoral regions with between ...

Just seven months after opening, a Spalding day nursery has scored top marks with government inspectors. Ofsted pointed to the quality management, strong partnership with parents and children’s happiness in rating Little Oaks Childcare “outstanding”. Delighted manager Jen Holmes said: “We are so pleased. “The team at Little Oaks have put in a huge amount of effort, and worked incredibly ...

A church hall is in need of help from South Holland residents – with just a click of a computer’s mouse. St Mary’s Church Hall in Pinchbeck is trying to win a public vote to be awarded £25,000 for urgent repairs. Organisers have already found the money for some of the refurbishment – but desperately need help to fund the ...

Planning councillors turned down a proposal for a 78m high wind turbine after hearing that it could interfere with a Ministry of Defence radar. The structure was due to be on land associated with Fendyke Farm, at Inley Drove in Sutton St James. There were objections from South Holland and the Deepings MP John Hayes, Lincolnshire county councillor William Webb ...

“Bowls is an old man’s game, isn’t it?” Well, that is far from the truth these days, especially at Spalding Indoor Bowls Club. The club, its committee and qualified coaches ensure that bowls is open to all – and is a game for life. A club spokesman said: “We try to encourage new members of all ages, of all abilities ...

Two Spalding women were among 17,000 women and some brave men who walked a marathon at the weekend all in aid of breast cancer. Sharon Macaulay, a solicitor from Calthrops, and Tammy Staples, school secretary of Ayscoughfee Hall School, took part in the annual London Moonwalk, which started at midnight on Saturday. Participants have to walk either a half marathon ...

Information from the public is wanted on one of the worst cases of neglect that a dog rescue centre manager has seen. The RSPCA wants to hear from anyone who knows about a shih-tsu cross which was found in such poor condition that it had to be put down. The male, thought to be around seven years old, was discovered ...

Chimney sweep Neil Wade had to climb a garden fence to avoid a swarm of bees. He was working in Tongue End at around midday on Tuesday when the bees suddenly descended on a customer’s car. Neil, of Spalding, said: “I’ve never seen anything like it. They just all appeared on this car and the fence next to it in ...

Three young children have their dad’s ignorance of planning law to thank for getting a treehouse. Remco Bosma says he would never have built it in their back garden if he’d known it needed planning consent and an application costing £172. Mr Bosma wasn’t going to tell Nick (7), Anouk (5) and Jack (3) that the worst could happen and ...

Pupils at Ayscoughfee Hall School in Spalding have been learning about all things Greek during a special day. The children all got dressed up in traditional Greek clothing including togas and head-dresses and set about making shields, spears and clay pots.