A teenager from Weston was told by a judge that he had “blown” his promising career for a drug high. Eighteen-year-old Tristan Chapman was caught drug-driving with two illicit substances in his system. The result of the conviction is that he has lost his apprenticeship job with a local electrical firm. Chapman was pulled over near his home in Broadgate, ...

Spalding has been awarded a £233k lottery boost to launch a brand new project for town centre improvements centred on the riverside. Spalding Reconnected: Historic Town and Riverside has been given The National Lottery Heritage Fund grant. The initiative “will seek to create and promote several townscape and riverside improvements, together with future funding opportunities all based on Spalding’s heritage,” ...

Korean war veteran William (Bill) Parker has died at the age of 91. He remained a regular at parades in South Holland while was also well known for his sports and car business. Daughter Emma Ellis said: “He often told us he’d had a full and happy life. He will be remembered fondly by many people for his sense of ...

Data shows Lincolnshire is in the bottom quarter for the number of GPs to patients, but the county’s NHS integrated Care Board is confident recent investments will address recruitment challenges. The NHS Digital Data figures, collated by procurement contract database Tracker, showed that at the end of last year Lincolnshire was ranked 26th out of 106 Integrated Care Boards (ICB) in ...

The first work of South Holland’s new Poet Laureate has been published among others thanks to a historic charity. Last year, for Queen Elizabeth II’s Jubilee, the Spalding Gentlemen’s Society (SGS) launched a poetry competition with the National Lottery. Miles Green was chosen as the winner from eight shortlisted entries. Now the works have been published in a book: South ...

A licence application to sell alcohol and host live music at a Spalding venue has met with objections. The Sessions House has been using temporary event permissions up until now, but one neighbour claims noise from the venue is affecting her health. The application is due to be discussed by members of South Holland’s licencing committee next week. “My home ...

Two South Holland fish and chip shops have been serving up free meals for children over the half term school holiday. It’s the second time that Phoenix, in Little London, Spalding and Frydays in North Street, Crowland, have run the scheme after a similar initiative last summer thanks to a donation from Aphoenix Care. The same company has donated £200 ...

More accessible play equipment and facilities are being looked at for Ayscoughfee Gardens as the town’s first Changing Places toilets were officially opened there. A £150,000 government grant was given to build the facilities at the cafe in the gardens, in Holbeach and for the Sheep Market toilets, work on which is yet to be started. The toilets are designed ...

A South Holland primary school has retained its ‘good’ status following an Ofsted report. Fleet Wood Lane School has ‘happy and committed’ pupils who feel safe, according to the report published this week. “The majority of parents and carers have a positive view of the school. One parent shared: ‘We like the school’s values, outdoor learning and extra-curricular opportunities,'” says ...

I read with interest the article about Spalding Blind Club closing its doors after all its good work. When my father passed away in 1992 my mother went through a very stressful time in her life, so my cousin who was involved with Boston Blind Club put her in touch with the Spalding branch. Two ladies, Joanie Simpson and Peggie ...

I could hardly believe what I was reading in Richard Rush’s article about Spalding Western Relief Road in your February 16 issue. When the road project was first announced we formed a protest group called SPARR (Spalding and Pinchbeck Against the Relief Road). We spent about a year trying to convince both SHDC and Lincolnshire County Council planners and councillors ...

After reading in last week’s Voice that a development was being approved out of the South East Lincs Plan I wonder how many more have gone through? I mean what was the point of the plan. Would love to know how much it all cost. It was only approved in 2019 and is already being abused. The South Holland planning ...

I am pleased to see OFGEM suspend the forced prepayment installations, albeit for six weeks, but this is so concerning. As Jan Shortt, General Secretary of the NPC recently commented. The National Pensioners Convention is grateful for the intervention of the Regulator at Ofgem in terms of the forced prepayment meter fiasco. However, the suspension is only for six weeks, ...

Award-winning local charity Tonic Health would like to thank all those who supported their inaugural Gala Evening on February 4th. Funds raised from the event are going to support the many community projects and groups run by Tonic Heath across the South Holland area. Michael Morris, chairman of trustees, would like to thank Lambs flowers for their donation of tulips ...

Anglian Water has apologised to Spalding residents in Park Road, saying works surrounding it are now complete. A whole new sewer has had to be relaid under the road causing months of traffic problems. The water company say that just after the works was completed, a burst water main caused yet more disruption while further work took place. Anglian Water ...

A man who has quite literally flown the flag for Spalding across the country is to run the London Marathon for two charities, one of which is helping research a rare illness his wife suffers from. Graham Hewitt is the standard bearer for the town’s branch of the Royal British Legion as well as its president. Just months after representing ...

A float planned to represent Spalding at this year’s Flower Parade could be set for a bee theme. Transported Arts is working with the Spalding Town Forum on its entry for the event on Saturday, May 13. They are also looking to work with local schools on different parts of the float for which £10,000 has been budgeted. “Our theme ...

A ‘white witch’ is the latest to put herself forward to the Ambassador for the Spalding Flower Parade. Jackie Clements moved to Pinchbeck from Essex in 2018 and says she’d always wanted to be involved in a carnival. “I’ve never had the chance,” said Jackie who works in an accountants. “It’s certainly on my bucket list.” Her hobbies include knitting, ...

Lincolnshire would receive an extra £200million each year if it was funded at the same rate as London. New figures produced by the county council reveal the vast funding gap, which isn’t made up for by Levelling Up or Towns Deal money, writes Local Democracy Reporter Jamie Waller. The capital receives more than 50 per cent extra per person, according ...

The leader of South Holland District Council has called for bigger fines for fly-tippers as it was revealed cameras purchased by the authority to catch offenders had been used for the first time. Coun Gary Porter made the call as the council’s Cabinet looked at a new Environmental Crime policy its taking on. “We need stronger regulation at a national ...