Five members of staff from a Holbeach St Johns nursing home are set to climb Snowdon to raise money for the Alzheimer’s Society. Carers Belinda Rivett, Danielle Cooper, Kayleigh Elleray, Jodie Clayton and Sarah Mason who work at Beechlodge in Frog’s Abbey Gate, are looking to raise £1,000 by climbing 1,085m to the summit of Wales’ highest mountain in June. ...

Two town centre public toilets have been out of action in Spalding this week. South Holland District Council closed both the Vine Street and the Sheep Market facilities on Monday. A spokesman said it was hoped the Vine Street toilets could re-open by Wednesday, once a drain blockage had been cleared. But the Sheep Market loos were likely to remain ...

A big crowd is expected for the first public meeting of a new group set-up to oppose plans for a relief road around Spalding. The Spalding and Pinchbeck Against Relief Road group (SPARR) is also organising two protests against the scheme. The group has been created to establish a united voice against the Western Relief Road proposal. One of the ...

Much is being made of the new Western Bypass but it seems that (perhaps intentionally) little attempt is being made to talk to the people who are going to be most affected. The Bourne Road fiasco comes to mind. My concern is at the other end. At the junction of Blue Gowt Road and Blue Gowt Lane is the footpath ...

I would like to comment on the Community Speed Watch (CSW) initiative. Whilst I applaud Jan Whitbourn, the co-ordinator, for her efforts to reduce the horrific incidence of speeding through villages in our area I would like to again express my doubts about this scheme. As I have stated in previous correspondence, the fact that those who receive a warning ...

Phillip James (VMail, March 21) proposes ignoring Alan Meekings’s ‘ranting’. But far from just ranting, Mr Meekings has brought out numerous pertinent facts that deserve notice in the continuing debate over Brexit. It would be good if facts, rather than assertions and slogans, were made central. Let me try a couple. It is often said or implied by ‘leavers’, that ...

I was pleased to see the article about the waste of council money in the 21 March issue of the Voice. We seem to hear frequently in the local media from Conservative portfolio holders about what a good job they are doing and to be fair, quite often they are. It’s perfectly reasonable that they are given these opportunities to ...

A planning application for 84 homes in Holbeach has been submitted to South Holland District Council, expanding on a previously submitted huge development. The proposed development at Fen Road has been submitted by Spalding developer Ashwood Homes, and the application states the land is adjacent to a larger development where Ashwood Homes has gained outline planning permission for 900 homes ...

An open letter to Sir John Hayes: I understand that there are plans to close Blue Gowt Lane in Pinchbeck to make way for the new inner relief road, and I am appalled that this decision seems to have been made “on the quiet” rather like the charade of the Bourne Road crossing point, and no public larger public consultation ...

It’s been a busy month for Years Two and Three and St John the Baptist C of E Primary School in Spalding with The Great Fire of London and the Egyptians on their agendas. Year Two have been studying the 1666 fire and shared everything they had learned in a presentation to parents. They were also treated to a visit ...

A 93-year-old South Holland World War Two veteran has become a published author without even knowing. Eric Houldershaw (93), now of Moulton but originally from Gosberton Clough, had no idea his daughter Pat Moore and husband Chris were planning a book of his memories of the conflict. But they, together with Sue Palmer, who transcribed Eric’s 1,600 hand written words, ...

A Spalding heritage group has written to central government in a bid to get a planning law changed over the appearance of shop fronts. The Spalding Civic Society wants to ban the use of vinyl inside and outside of shop front windows to block them with images. Under current planning laws, shops are allowed to have the vinyl inside. The ...

South Holland District Council is to build 20 more new affordable homes at the former Law’s Yard in Spalding. Following on from last week’s news that it had bought eight homes to rent and part-own, Willow Walk is being built in Commercial Road alongside Cross Keys Homes (CKH) and Minster Property Group. The district council says work is set to ...

The couple currently behind a 55-year-old family business say having the war memorial they built for Spalding unveiled by royalty is their highlight so far. The Holbeach Memorial Company were commissioned to create the World War Two memorial that was earlier this month visited by the Duke of Kent. It was a proud moment for Sarah Cook and Gary Huggins ...

A district councillor will run the London Marathon this weekend, raising money for Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Coun Andrew Woolf, district councillor for Moulton, Weston and Cowbit Ward, will be joined by friend and fellow Moulton resident Mark Schmidt. Coun Woolf said: “Mark knew I had run the London Marathon and Half-Marathons before and so started the conversation about wanting ...

It’s back to square one in terms of attracting much-needed NHS dentists to South Holland, with May 2020 a new target for more to be opened in the area. After two dentists failed to open as planned in January citing problems with recruitment, NHS England has again called out for practices to open in the area. However it’s been warned ...

A botched attempted pothole fix has led to flooding and homes shaking when lorries go past, neighbours have claimed. Those who have lived for years on Jekil’s Bank in Holbeach St Johns told The Voice they’d never known large vehicles to shake houses until the attempt to cover a pothole was made last month. Residents on both sides of the ...

The recent coroner’s inquest must have been another sad day for the family of the motorcyclist who lost his life last year on the notorious A16 road junction at Crowland. Our condolences go to that family and all of the others who have lost loved ones in a similar circumstance. Sadly, local opinion was also vindicated by the coroner coming ...

The leisure users of Spalding Castle Pool can only hope that the much publicised new service provider Parkwood delivers quickly on their promise to improve facilities. The old SHDC excuse: ‘we have had issues with 1-Life’ will not cut it anymore. On recent visits only two lanes have been available for swimming (due to classes being moved into the main ...

Good try Mr Mitchell (The Voice, Feb 28) in following the well tried Brexiteer path of ignoring any debate based upon facts and evidence and deciding ‘not to read’ any further part of my piece of Feb 21, you ‘appear’, (note the word), to resemble the ‘fingers in the ears/closed eyes whilst uttering, can’t hear/can’t see you’ brigade. That is ...