Charming exclamation overheard in a Spalding shop as a local “customer” stormed out. “Are we just catering for our foreign ‘friends’ now? I’m not drinking any of this f***ing foreign s**t.” Anyone who thinks this individual’s racism and foul language acceptable might further ponder the fact that he declared he was looking for a brand of alcohol which heralds from ...

Is it me? After watching Look North in the past week which included an interview with Coun Richard Davies at the Lincoln Bypass, he stated the general public should have less input in planning projects in future and fewer opportunities for opposition to these going forward. I now read in an article in The Voice (February 6) that Lincolnshire County ...

I am writing to you regarding your article in the Voice on January 30 “What should be done to make Spalding great again?” Firstly Spalding need a damn good clean up. The town is an absolute disgrace! The rubbish in our streets and surrounding areas are monstrous. Litter, food, mattresses, electrical goods, sheer junk, everywhere in town. We are all ...

I am currently doing my family tree and I’m looking for branches of the Barton family, particularly those that lived in Commercial Road and Double Street in Spalding in the late 1800s and early 1900s. I have chunks of the family history missing due to family splits and would love to hear from anyone connected. I would appreciate any help ...

In reply to the letter “What benefits for our country?” (February 6) I feel that the data being used to support this claim is highly selective. The data used is from a poster produced by the Inequality Briefing website in 2014. This website used EU data on GDP per person and adjusted that for the price differences between countries. GDP ...

I Sloan (Voice, Feb 6) says: “The modern isolationism of an America led by an unstable president, an increasing militant Russia and an emerging China with great territorial ambitions means that now is not the time when we should be breaking away from our closest friends and neighbours for reasons which are clouded, dubious and possibly corrupt.” I completely agree ...

Concerning Alan Meekings’ letter on Thursday, February 6. Regarding his statement that it’s a little known fact that life expectancy in general and disability-free life expectancy beyond the age of 65 years in particular, has declined in Lincolnshire since Conservative austerity was introduced in 2010, I was not aware of this fact and find it difficult to believe. In the ...

How forward thinking of SHDC to install electric charging points. As an electric van owner it’s very much appreciated, an asset to the well being of a dynamic enterprising town. The only criticism I have is of the overall pricing of the process. We have driven extensively across the UK from Scotland down to Devon; as a consequence we have ...

A song and dance based on frogs and crocodiles was the highlight as talented schoolchildren worked on a special arts project. Key stage two pupils from Weston Hills CofE Primary School enjoyed visits from artists as part of the START project they undertook in conjunction with the South Holland Centre last year. As a result they received Arts Award certificates ...

A new diabetes peer group has celebrated its successful first sessions and is looking forward to welcoming more people to its next meeting. The new peer support groups for Diabetes UK sessions take place in Spalding and Long Sutton on a monthly basis and have been set up in the hope of diabetic community coming together to offer advice and ...

Litter bins that alert authorities when they’re nearly full are among technology measures being considered for introduction. South Holland District Council is also looking at making it so you could ask your voice activated speakers at home as to what bin a specific piece of rubbish goes into, it’s been claimed. The authority’s Environmental Services and Asset manager Charlotte Paine ...

A councillor has raised concerns over council homes potentially not having enough loft insulation. Coun David Wilkinson, the independent member for Long Sutton, raised the issue at a recent meeting of South Holland District Council’s Performance Monitoring Panel after inspecting a constituent’s property himself. Following the meeting, Coun Wilkinson said: “They’d told me they were getting black mould in their ...

A dog walker has expressed his concern and dismay after someone took all the dog poo out of a bin and left it on the street. Anthony Grunwell regularly walks down Fen End Lane, south of Spalding, where a bin has ear-marked by local residents for people to leave their dog poo in. On Tuesday, February 3 though he found ...

Staff at Johnson Community Hospital in Spalding have been recognised for drastically reduce waiting times for blood tests. The blood clinic run by Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) sees an average of 60 more patients per day, compared to 2018. In 2018 35,198 blood tests were performed and in 2019 this number increased to 44,799. Three main improvements ...

A Spalding family are hoping you can hold a funeral, party or play in their home after having already hosted weddings. Oliver and Dorota Sneath bought the former Spalding Magistrates’ Court known as The Sessions House in Sheep Market in 2016. The couple, who have two young children, were granted permission to hold weddings in the Grade II listed building ...

A man who died after a four-vehicle collision on the A16 at Newborough last week has been named. Officers were called to the collision involving a Honda motorcycle, Peugeot Boxer, Vauxhall Insignia and a Fiat Punto just before 6am on Friday (February 7). Emergency services attended and the rider of the motorcycle – Simon Rayner (51) of St Thomas’s Road, ...

Lincolnshire Police are investigating an alleged sexual assault in Spalding. A police spokesman said the alleged assault was reported on Saturday and took place “in area of the Castle Sports Complex in Spalding”. The spokesman added: “Investigations are ongoing.” Police tape surrounded the area yesterday.

Some district council industrial units have been described as ‘neglected’ as the authority introduces a charge to businesses in an attempt to improve them. South Holland District Council lets 50 units at sites in Holbeach, Spalding, Crowland and Sutton Bridge. The latter, off Railway Lane, is the largest with 14 units and its state was particularly criticised when a report ...

A Holbeach Hurn businesses that specialises in potatoes has pleaded guilty to failing to ensure the health, safety and welfare of its workforce after three people were injured in an incident. QV Foods Ltd, which is part of the AH Worth group of businesses that are based at Manor Farm in the village, admitted breaching the act at Boston Magistrates’ ...

Children were given a Chinese treat recently as part of a new partnership between a food firm and local school. St John the Baptist Primary School were last week visited by Bakkavor staff including London-based chef Yun Ko. She cooked noodles and veg for children who then tasted them using chop sticks. There was also a sensory session involving different ...