As Rodney Sadd explains in his letter to The Voice on Nov 14: “People are totally fed up with years of austerity and uncertainty, just look around.” How very true. South Lincolnshire is demonstrably suffering from a decade of unprecedented cutbacks in housing, healthcare, social care, per-pupil school funding, policing (including dealing with anti-social behaviour, rogue gangmasters and modern slavery), ...

I can’t understand the district council’s decision to increase car park charges. I understand that most people in the know have not been paying anything for years, as they knew there wasn’t anyone policing the car parks. Why not just announce that the car parks are now going to be checked and the increased income should boost the council’s coffers ...

Brexit, then what? Are you working, but not earning enough money to pay your bills? Are you a young person, unable to find work? Do you have an EU national friend or relative, whose existence is threatened by his or her revocation of settled status? Are you worried by the possible collapse of our NHS? Are you annoyed at not ...

I felt the need to contact you after reading the piece in The Voice on November 7 ‘Building on a Spalding playing field Shelved’. I, myself, and my parents live opposite a piece of land previously categorized us “undevelopable” which unfortunately then received planning permission passed by South Holland District Council for ten executive homes off Spalding Road in Pinchbeck. ...

A developer has been granted permission to build 136 homes on land off Town Dam Lane in Donington. The application by Ashwood Homes includes 25 per cent affordable housing and 23 letters of objection were submitted citing reasons including doctors and schools being full, but South Holland District Council’s Planning Committee voted in favour of the development. However the application ...

A free healthy cooking course for people who care for others is taking place in Spalding. Organisers Carers First said it’s for “people who may feel isolated as a carer”. The course takes place on Monday, November 25, from 1.30pm-3.30pm, at Ivo Day Centre, Albion Street. A Carers First spokesman said: “We are hoping this course will provide knowledge and ...

An art showcase will take place on Saturday evening to raise money for Pinchbeck Hub. Since it opened at the beginning of 2016, Pinchbeck Community Hub and Library has hosted organisations looking for a regular home. One such group is Arts INKorporated – a collection of nine local artists who started painting in their later years. Admission is free, refreshments ...

Children from St Paul’s Primary School in Spalding have been encouraged to ‘Be Internet Legends’. They took part in the educational programme aimed at seven to 11-year-olds to help them be safe, confident explorers of the online world. It’s being run by Google and family internet safety experts Parent Zone. Children at the school’s nursery were also shown Interland – ...

Santa Claus will be touring the villages and towns of South Holland ahead of Christmas and Spalding Lions have released a huge list of where they’ll be heading throughout December. The group will be taking Father Christmas around the streets and collecting for charity throughout the area this year. They will also be taking Santa to Sainsbury’s in Spalding on ...

The chance to decide how to spend the recent cash boost given to Holbeach comes next Thursday night at the next Civic Society meeting. Holbeach Civic Society’s next meeting on Thursday, November 28 will be focussing on South Holland District Council’s recent announcement of town centre improvement funding, which is aligned to their successful expression of interest to the government ...

Police arrested a 24-year-old man in Spalding last night (Tuesday) on suspicion of criminal damage and a public order offence. Police said the arrest at around midnight followed an incident in Bowditch Road. A spokesman said: “He remains in custody and will be questioned in due course.”

Police are appealing for witnesses to an attempted kidnap near the Springfields roundabout in Spalding. It was reported that on November 11th at around 9.55am a car pulled up near the roundabout and the female passenger jumped out and attempted to pull a woman, who was walking along the road, into the vehicle. Two people, a man (37) and a woman ...

Union members at a Spalding food factory have voted for strike action in a dispute over pay. Staff at the Spalding Bakkavor site have planned a walk-out in protest over the company’s offer of a 1.5 per cent pay increase and a 1.5 per cent lump sum. A spokesman for Unite, the union that organised the strike, said this comes ...

Police are seeking assistance in finding wanted man Marcus Roberts-Fogarty.  The 35-year-old is wanted for an offence of commercial burglary which occurred in August in the Spalding area.  Roberts-Fogarty is from Spalding but police believe he could be in the Gainsborough area.    If you see him, or know where he are, police ask you to contact them in one ...

Police are appealing for witnesses after it was alleged that an elderly woman was hit by a black Jaguar car while she was crossing the road in Spalding.   The incident occurred at around 3.30pm on September 25 on St Andrews Road.  The lady received hospital treatment for her injuries. Police would like to speak to anyone who witnessed the incident, ...

South Holland Police has a new inspector and there’s a new sergeant covering Holbeach, but both are only for a six month period. Inspector Nick Waters has taken over the role as head of the district’s policing unit after Inspector Gareth Boxall was assigned to lead changes in neighbourhood policing throughout Lincolnshire. Insp Waters comes from a background of front ...

A Spalding family will be taking over the airwaves on BBC One this Sunday. The Clucas’ are among the families featured in charity Sense’s BBC Lifeline Appeal that will be broadcast at 1.55pm. The programme will be hlgh-lighting the work of the charity that helps people with complex disabilities and appealing for donations. Andy and Nikki Clucas, who are directors ...

Plans for a potential £50,000 new children’s park in Moulton have taken a large step forward. South Holland District Council are seeking approval to lease mature parkland to Moulton Parish Council.Long-time campaigner for a park for the children, Andrew Malkin has said the parish council has earmarked £50,000 for the project and that leader of the district council, Lord Gary ...

Two Pinchbeck councillors have been recognised for their work for the village. Both current chair Richard Dobbs and Maurice Chappel received recognition for their services to the community at a special tribute evening. It had been put on specifically to recognise Maurice who was presented with the ‘Honorary Freeman of the Parish of Pinchbeck’. This would allow Maurice to walk ...

While our community and visitors have not seen a rise in charges for 10 years, someone must be responsible for over looking this and how ever you view it, the increase is far too much! Were the public consulted or allowed to give a view on such dramatic changes? Wouldn’t it have been fairer to have make a small initial ...