Christmas is over and thanks to Lord Porter I can fill as many bags of festive rubbish as I like for our happy refuge collectors to collect with speed and efficiency. However, some people appear to be unhappy because Santa didn’t leave a wheelie bin in their Christmas stocking. Why would anyone want a wheelie bin? Just look at the ...

May I respectfully suggest that instead of sitting on his backside in the House of Lords drawing £300 a day plus expenses, Lord Porter takes a walk around Spalding with a plastic sack and a litter picker and helps to tidy up the disgusting rubbish that blights our market town. Mr J Burman Spalding

What a rip off! All but two pubs were charging to get in on New Year’s Eve – they were Wetherspoon’s and The Black Swan. The Punchbowl charged £2 where we ended up and it was clear to see numbers were well down, the rest charged between £10 and £15 to get in. It was like a ghost town, not ...

With the New Year just begun, I don’t want to paint a picture of doom and gloom already, but towards the end of 2015 it took the respected think tank, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), less than a day to burst a chancellor’s good news balloon. As many headlines in 2015 concentrated on George Osborne’s climbdown over tax credit, ...

May I, through your paper, say thank you to all the people who came to my aid on Saturday, December 19, after my accident in Holbeach, especially the two ladies and gents who stayed with me for over two hours. B Peach Whaplode St Catherine

I was initially very confused by Delia Williams’ letter regarding refuse and recycling collections. For the last couple of years, the district council has collected refuse and recycling on all Bank Holidays, apart from over the Christmas and New Year periods. This means that those wards that were not receiving collections on Bank Holiday Mondays, such as Deeping St Nicholas, ...

A developer hoping for permission to build 45 new homes in Weston has been told it will not have to pay towards education provision in the area. Bourne-based Larkfleet Homes has applied to South Holland District Council for permission to build the estate at Small Drove. When developers ask for permission to build a new estate It is usual for ...

Spalding Royal Naval Association shipmate Charles Angel received one of the best presents just before his 90th birthday. He received The Chevalier De La Legion d’honneur – the highest medal that France can bestow. Mr Angel entered service of the Royal Navy in 1943 as a 17-year-old Able Seaman until he left the service in 1947. The Legion d’honneur is ...

A pensioner who exposed himself in front of three schoolgirls has been jailed for 19 months. George Booth (78) was caught after one of the girls tried to take his photograph and reported where he lived in Roman Bank, Long Sutton. On Thursday (January 7) Lincoln Crown Court heard the girls had noticed Booth standing outside his home as they ...

A pensioner from West Pinchbeck appeared at Lincoln Crown Court on Wednesday (January 6) accused of wounding. Susan Mary Walker (69), of Dozens Bank, West Pinchbeck, is charged with an offence of wounding with intent on December 7, 2015. No pleas were entered and Walker spoke only to confirm her name during the five minute hearing. Recorder Graham Huston granted Walker ...

TODAY South Holland Healthy Walks, 10.30am, start Holbeach Services Club. Holbeach and Spalding Explorers: Spalding, 7pm-9pm; Holbeach 7.15pm-9.15pm, 14-18 year olds, www.handsscouts.com Tots and Carers, 9am-11.30am, Moulton Village Hall. Vitality classes, Broad Street Methodist Church Hall, Spalding, 11.30am-12.30pm and 1.45pm-2.45pm; Weston Village Hall, 2pm-3pm, £1.50, 01529 411941. Vibe Contemporary Youth Choir, 5.30pm-7pm, South Holland Centre, Spalding, £3.50. 1st Holbeach Brownies, ...

Islands in the Stream – Tribute act Key Theatre, Peterborough Saturday, 30 January, 7.30pm Tickets £19.50 Box office: 01733 207239 The perfect tribute, celebrating the queen and king of country, Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers… Stacked with country music’s greatest hits including Jolene, Ruby, 9 to 5, Lucille, Here You Come Again, The Gambler, Coward of the County, Love is ...

I’d like to start off by wishing everyone a happy and healthy new year. In this column, I’m going to take a look back at some highlights from 2015 and offer a glimpse of what 2016 will have in store. Last year we saw a growth in organised crime in a minority of our licensed retail outlets, but countered this ...

Russell Kane: Right Man Wrong Age Saturday, June 11, 8pm King’s Lynn Corn Exchange Tickets £16 Box office 01553 764864 Are you 16 years old, yet feel 21? Are you 40, but tragically faking 25? Or maybe you’re full on 80 years, with the heart of three oxen and the sex drive of a bonobo chimp. Don’t worry: this is ...

Early 2015 my wife Barbara and myself volunteered to help keep the flowerbeds on the riverside behind the South Holland Centre tidy for Spalding In Bloom. We did the weeding and deheading on a regular basis and got rewarding remarks from visitors using the water taxi. On December 20, I decided the beds needed a quick weed so I parked ...

Regarding your front page­ on Thursday, December 17, ‘Hopes to buy the court house for all to use’. After reading this report I was filled with the hope of a good news story for this fine historic building in the heart of our market town. I pass this location quite a lot and it would be such a shame for ...

In response to Ms Doubleday: I have always believed freedom of expression was a fundamental principle of our democracy and the free press was one of the instruments facilitating this principle. I am therefore delighted The Spalding and South Holland Voice printed your letter as they did with Rodney Sadd’s letters. We do not have to agree on everything and ...

Not so long ago Holbeach market was some three times as big as it is now, including a second greengrocer on Church Street. There is quite sufficient room for expansion. A couple of traders want to see if they will do better on the car park, footfall on the market has certainly reached close to rock bottom. A two-month trial ...

A serving police officer has been jailed for eight months after a court was told he downloaded child pornography onto his home computer. Paul Henry, an officer with Bedfordshire Police, was caught after police raided his Donington home in April last year. Today Katrina Wilson, prosecuting, told Lincoln Crown Court: “The defendant is of previous good character and in fact ...

Pasha Kovalev – It’s all About You Sunday, April 10, 7.30pm King’s Lynn Corn Exchange Tickets £25 (£23 concessions) Box office: 01553 764864 After his successful UK Tour – Life Through Dance, Pasha Kovalev, the winner of Strictly Come Dancing 2014, welcomes you to his new and exciting dance spectacular – It’s All About You. On his fifth UK tour ...