A woman is working towards creating 2,023 different flowers for next year’s Spalding Flower Parade as a thank you for a home’s care for her dad. Avril Barker has made 1,000 flowers for Cedar Falls’ float for Spalding Flower Parade so far. She’s aiming to make 2,023 in total for next year’s event as part of a thank you for ...

Santa was working flat out when he visited Holbeach at the weekend for the town’s Christmas Fair. Having borrowed some room at Jamie’s Carpets, Santa gave out more than 500 wrapped gifts. There was quite a queue to see the big man, and Jamie said it was an ‘unreal turnout’. The town was bustling with families when some 50 food, ...

Ding dong merrily on high, Christmas music is the featured lecture for the Spalding Gentlemen’s Society this month. Dr Gant is a lecturer in music at St Peter’s College, Oxford. He is a musician, author, academic, composer, and singer and was formally organist and choirmaster at the Chapel Royal. His book “The Carols of Christmas’ has been described as “a ...

It’s that time of year again – oh yes it is! This year Spalding’s traditional pantomime is Cinderella and its opening night is at the South Holland Centre tomorrow (Friday, December 9) before running until December 30. Produced by Polka Dot Productions it stars Daisy Kin-Sanders as the title character, Dan Shorrock as Buttons, Zane Heath as Prince Charming, Jenni ...

A Holbeach man’s idea to create a regular local farmers’ market has proved so successful he’s already expanding. The second Holbeach Indoor Farmers’ Market was held at the Holbeach Hub and it once again proved a success. Hundreds of people attended, purchasing from the 40 local sellers who booked the sold out spaces. “It was really good once again,” said ...

The director of a travel company which specialised in organising school sports trips today (Monday) pleaded guilty to wrongly indicating that he was the holder of an ATOL certificate. Marcus Buckley-Bennion, 63, admitted a single offence on dates between 1 January 2016 and 31 March 2017 when he appeared at Lincoln Crown Court. Buckley-Bennion, of Normanton Road, Crowland, had previously ...

A Long Sutton man has been banned from driving after he went for a drink after work before going to collect his car from the MOT test centre. Louis Preston, 21, of Daniels Gate, admitted driving with excess alcohol when he appeared at Boston Magistrates Court. It was said police were told on October 29 that a car had been ...

A man fined for possessing three knives while drinking celebrating his birthday has told a court he was in the process of moving to a new address. Police searched Gintaras Cariovas, 57, of Winsover Road because they’d received a call over a concern for his own safety following a separation with his wife of 36-years. He admitted three charges of ...

As the festive season creeps ever closer, we are asking you to support our Give a Gift campaign and help make a child smile this Christmas. While you are doing your Christmas shopping if you would consider buying an extra gift to donate to our campaign it would be very much appreciated. The Spalding and South Holland Voice has once ...

Planners have turned down an application for 36 homes in Quadring, despite a previous application having been passed on the site. Despite that outline permission for land off St Margarets which has now expired, the land was not included as marked for development as part of the South East Lincolnshire Local Plan. That’s why last week South Holland District Council’s ...

Spalding and District Civic Society has launched its ever popular 2023 calendar. It includes 13 incredible images of the town taken by local photographers. A spokesman said: “The society’s popular calendar is back again for 2023. “It contains 13 beautiful photographs of Spalding and round about. “Some feature places you’d expect such as Ayscoughfee Gardens and the river. “But others ...

A Sutton St James man’s bid to build a new carbon negative home built to the same design as a Fenland agricultural building has been refused by planners. Electrical engineer for the Institute of Engineering and Technology, Michael Peace had already had one plan for the home turned down. He likened his plans to the Low Fulney house featured on ...

Up to 700 staff at the Spalding site of Bakkavor look set to go out on strike for a month. Union members of Unite had previously agreed strike action earlier this month, but it was called off to allow further discussions. But following a ballot the company has now been given formal notice that the strike will start on Friday, ...

A Spalding charity that puts sessions on for the elderly to help bring them together has been given a boost by a local business. Hughes Electricals have donated a new fridge and microwave to The Meadows. As part of their thank you, staff at The Meadows also baked a cake for the staff at Hughes. Maisie Wenham, one of the ...

A bid to turn a grade II listed building in Spalding into a home for 16 people was branded ‘cultural vandalism’ as planners turned it down. A developer had wanted to turn The Grange in Pinchbeck Road into a House for Multiple Occupation (HMO). But South Holland District Council’s Planning Committee gave the application short shift last week. “It’s another ...

The RSPCA is appealing for information regarding an abandoned pony. The blue and white Fallabella Shetland Stallion, named Bert, was abandoned in Lutton Marsh in a terrible state. He was very thin and had a wound with maggots inside it. The pony was kept safe by a kind hearted horse owner – before being transferred into the care of Bransby ...

Spalding’s Ayscoughfee Hall School has been taking part in Anti-Bullying Week, an annual UK event raise awareness of bullying and to highlight ways of responding to it. The week started off with a whole school assembly on the theme of ‘Reach Out’. The children discussed what bullying is and what can be done do to stamp it out, for example ...

I would like to say it has been a privilege and an honour to lead the Veteran’s Parade through Spalding town on Armistice day every year. Frank WhiteOutgoing Parade Marshal

We are what we remember. Where we have been, those we have met, what we have thought and done, combined comprise who we are. It is in remembrance that personal lives are charted and the shared life of our nation too. So, laying a wreath – as I have for each of the last 25 years – at Spalding’s Lutyens ...

A developer has been allowed to put 14 more cabins on a holiday park despite some councillors claiming they were being used for homes. Larkfleet Homes has been allowed to increase the number of log cabins it intends to put on the site off Lowgate, Fleet, to 38. It previously had an application for 24, but has yet to erect ...