Without the campaigning efforts of John Hayes, inspired by local veteran Douglas Hern there wouldn’t have been a £25million provision in George Osborne’s 2015 budget for veterans of British nuclear tests.  That’s why John Hayes will have my vote on 8th June.   B Peters    Long Sutton  

A Moulton Seas End couple want planning consent for five new homes adjacent to their house. Mr and Mrs P Whiting have applied to South Holland District Council for outline permission for an indicative five properties on land linked to 58 Seas End Road.  

Police are appealing for information about the theft of a yellow Yamaha R125 motorbike, registration GJ58 FCL. It was stolen from a garden in Danube Square, Spalding, overnight on Tuesday, May 23. Anyone with information is asked to contact PC Ben Harrington by calling 101 and quoting incident number 81 of May 24. Or call Crimestoppers on 0800 555111 or ...

South Holland residents unhappy with tatty-looking towns and villages due to verges being cut fewer times are being urged to make their feelings known. The call comes from South Holland District Council vice-chairman Coun Harry Drury, who shares people’s frustrations with the situation. In a money-saving move, Lincolnshire County Council ended routine cutting of verges in built-up areas from April ...

Flowers can be laid in The Peace Garden at Spalding’s Ayscoughfee Gardens from Saturday (June 10) in tribute to those who lost their lives in the recent terror attacks in Manchester and London. The memorial was the personal idea of Rachel Thompson, who works in Ayscoughfee Hall Museum. She said: “I think this sort of incident affects everyone. You just ...

Police are appealing for information on the attempted theft of a car on Tuesday (June 6).   It happened in Acacia Avenue, Spalding between between 3am and 4am. The white Ford Fiesta had a door forced open and there was a failed attempt to drive it away. The offenders left pushed it a short distance before leaving it.   Anyone ...

Two people arrested in connection with a string of burglaries at homes of the elderly in South Holland have been released pending further investigation. The 25-year-old man and a 17-year-old girl were held on Friday (June 2). Police investigating the offences involving key safes being entered said property believed to be stolen had been recovered following the pair’s arrest. A ...

Pinchbeck United Football Club secured planning permission to upgrade its ground in Knight Street, but the parish council will not allow it. Owner of the site, Pinchbeck Parish Council objected to the plan. It wants to keep Glebe Field accessible to all. At a meeting on May 31, South Holland District Council’s planning committee chairman Coun Roger Gambba-Jones said: “It ...

A pensioner has been accused of criminal damage after he removed panels from a fence he says blocks a legal right of way to his back garden. Alwyn Chilvers (70) and his mother Audrey (92) say it is stated in their deeds they can access their garden  behind the next door end-of-terrace house in High Road, Whaplode, but a 7ft ...

Councillors turned down a proposed housing development in Campains Lane, Deeping St Nicholas on flood risk grounds. The plan for ten homes by R C Tinsley Ltd, which had been recommended for approval, was unanimously turned down at South Holland’s planning committee meeting on May 31. Coun Chris Brewis said: “This is actually one of the lowest points in the ...

A row has broken out over a “significant” rent rise for one of Gosberton Public Hall’s main users. Gosberton Bowls and Snooker Club now fears for its future. On the back of dwindling membership it has been asked to pay 100 per cent more to use its base than it was this time last year. The hall’s trustees insist the ...

Scores of children from 11 schools came together for the annual South Holland Primary Schools’ Music Festival on Tuesday (June 6).   The event was hosted by Spalding Parish Church of England Day School. Vicki Twell, teacher at Holbeach’s William Stukeley Primary School and event chairman, said: “This year’s theme was film and TV and each school performed individually songs ...

People only have until the end of this month to enter Holbeach In Bloom’s best garden competition, run in conjunction with The Voice. Whatever your outside space – a garden, balcony or window box – Holbeach In Bloom wants to see it. Judges Terry and Jill Harrington will visit each entrant during July and decide the winners. There are three ...

Lincolnshire Trading Standards and Lincolnshire Police are warning residents about a new type of copycat website.   Trading standards officers say a “significant number” of residents have been in touch about the websites which feature cars, expensive machinery and large plant, all for sale at low prices. Designed to look like existing local businesses’ websites, they carry copied contact details, ...

A move to reduce the amount of affordable housing on a site in York Gardens, Gosberton, has been denied. Applicants D A and F N Casswell and F M Rozier also wanted to replace required open space on the site with a community orchard nearby, but that too was turned down. South Holland District Council’s planning officers had recommended approval ...

A controversial mobile home may be allowed to remain in use if it is raised six feet off the ground in the same way as 12 others already accepted nearby. Applicant Sarah Smith has been embroiled in a long-running dispute with South Holland District Council over the home in Akita Place, Clay Lake, Spalding. She told a meeting of the ...

Lack of interest from potential buyers in Spalding’s Brantano shoe store made it unviable to keep it open, administrators have said. The Holland Market store closed on Friday, May 26, and 13 staff were made redundant. Tony Barrell and Mike Jervis of PwC were appointed as joint administrators of Brantano Retail Limited, in March 2017. For weeks the Spalding store ...

A service has been held in Spalding’s Ayscoughfee Gardens to commemorate D-Day in World War Two.   Veterans and organisations’ representatives gathered at the war memorial for the Royal Naval Association D-Day Service on Tuesday (June 6).   South Holland District Council vice-chairman Coun Harry Drury said: “I was privileged and honoured to spend a couple of hours with this ...

In praising John Hayes’ amazing track record, Allan Beal speaks for many local people. In marked contrast to Jennie Thomas, who speaks for few, if any, when rather conveniently she overlooks the fact that, as is well known, his past personal experience drives John to be a very effective champion for those with greatest need. John Hayes lives with his ...

I’d just like to thank you for publishing all my letters on the run up to #GE2017. Although I have experienced some unpleasant comments from the usual suspects, who like to remain anonymous, and a whole letter dedicated to my “moaning” about election results; most locals are receptive to my point of view even if they disagree with it. This ...