Author Archives: Tom Cassidy

Hot weather not ideal for gardens but judging will go ahead

The long hot summer has continued this week with some truly scorching temperatures across the area. Great news if you are on the first few days of the summer holidays and enjoying the glorious weather. Not quite so great if you are a gardener and trying hard to keep your parched flowerbeds from baking solid or your hanging baskets from ...

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Pinchbeck paedophile jailed for eight years

A former teaching assistant who caused a 15-year-old girl to engage in sexual activity was today (Friday, July 13) jailed for eight years.   Martin Moon (32) of Bridgewater Lane, Pinchbeck, also sent the girl sexual videos of himself and repeatedly asked her to send him sexual pictures.   Lincoln Crown Court heard Moon had previously been jailed for 30 ...

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Police appeal after clothes found at Moulton Marsh Nature Reserve

Lincolnshire Police has released images of clothes found at Moulton Marsh Nature Reserve this morning (Friday, July 13), in the hope someone recognises them and can help identify the owner. Along with photographs of a cardigan, a t-shirt and a bag, a statement from Lincolnshire Police says: “Following a call from a member of the public this morning, we have ...

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Spalding man drove daughter to hospital while over drug-drive limit

Magistrates told a “hard working family man” from Spalding that they “had some sympathy” with his situation after they heard he had lost his job after driving with excess cannabis in his system. Kyle Courtman-Young (23) of Third Avenue, Spalding admitted driving with 3.4 microgrammes of cannabis per litre of blood in Carrington Road, Spalding, when he appeared before Boston ...

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Booze ban for Spalding man who assaulted partner

A Spalding man who assaulted his partner during a drunken argument, has been ordered by a court to go 90 days without consuming any alcohol. Maris Dudars (32) of St Paul’s Road, admitted assaulting his partner  by beating on June 23. Prosecuting, Paul Wood said that during the evening, after they had both taken drink, an argument developed as to ...

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Pinchbeck gold watch burglary arrest

A man has been arrested on suspicion of burglary after a house was broken into and items taken in Pinchbeck. Inspector Gareth Boxall of Spalding Police said a 44-year-old man from the Leicestershire area was arrested on Thursday, July 5. The burglary took place at a home on Church Street, between 11.30am and 1pm on Wednesday, July 4. A police ...

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Spalding surgery still needs to improve

A Spalding GP surgery still has to improve after it continues to be rated inadequate by government inspectors. Pennygate Health Centre and lead GP Dr Azmeena Nathu, has 3,460 patients and was inspected in April. The Care Quality Commission inspection came six months after a report rated it inadequate and it was put in special measures with a list of ...

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Did cost cutting speed up decay of South Holland Centre?

Essential maintenance work has begun on the South Holland Centre – work that could be the result of cost-cutting during a £2.5m revamp 20 years ago. Amid criticism from a number of parties that in the 1990s South Holland District Council cut corners to reduce costs, proof of downgrading specifications and removing items of work at the time has come ...

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Injunction bans Crowland boy from acts of anti-social behaviour or inciting others

A teenage boy has been banned from committing anti-social behaviour in South Holland for the next six months. South Holland District Council is celebrating the court order, which has resulted in a 15-year-old boy from Crowland being served an injunction after a court judged an ongoing spate of anti-social behaviour to have caused “undue harassment and distress to residents across ...

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Suffragette exhibition opens in Spalding

A special exhibition on women of the suffragette movement is open at Spalding’s Ayscoughfee Hall. Opened as part of the inaugural National Democracy week (July 2 to 8), the new exhibit, looks into the lives and environments of the women of the suffragette movement. This year recognises the 100th year of the first women getting the right to vote. July ...

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LETTER: Thinking of starting station campaign

I have been thinking about a campaign to bring to the public’s attention about the state of our historic station. Visiting a museum I wondered why people visit them. All there’s there are old artefacts and then I thought that why are they there. It was because no one looked after them and watched them decay. We have historical buildings ...

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Fears for South Holland potato crop in drought

It’s not just South Holland residents who have been feeling the heat in recent weeks. While sales of fans have shot up and everyone is heading for the shade, spare a thought for the humble potato. A staple of our agricultural economy as well as our dinner tables, the crop is suffering in the heat and the next few days ...

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LETTER: “Rocket” Ron photo brought back memories

Seeing the photo of Ron Lilley on page 20 of The Voice (July 5), brought back many memories for me. I went to Cadwell Park in that very same Morris Commercial van in the picture to my very first motorcycle race meeting with my dad and Ron on Whit Monday 1955. I was sat in the back on a cushion ...

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LETTER: Government has left it too late for NHS

Having just got back from Unite Policy Conference 2018 in Brighton it has been a week of celebrating 70 years of our NHS. I met Ian Evans, a biomedical scientist who works at the Royal Sussex County Hospital. After a motor cycle accident Ian’s own colleagues saved his life. This is just one of the many true life stories over ...

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LETTER: Holbeach Fayre made a loss this year

Re the letter in last week’s Voice about the Holbeach Town and Country Fayre. Attendance was 2,000, of which ten per cent were children (free), 40 per cent pensioners and 50 per cent adults at full price. Therefore your calculations are grossly inflated. For your information expenses were £13,596 and our income was £12,951, so we incurred a loss. As ...

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LETTER: Listing for or against Brexit is pointless

It is a bit rich for contributors on these pages to promote the anti-Brexit views of George Soros, while criticizing other financial luminaries who take a different view. George made a fortune betting against this country during the 1992 currency crisis, but then he wasn’t born here. He certainly takes the EU line that if people don’t vote the approved ...

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LETTER: Stop endless complaints

John Tippler and Alan Meekings are scraping the bottom of the barrel with their endless Brexit complaints. Entitlement to vote in our democracy, means only one vote to each of the electorate, so listing individuals’ accomplishments in life as causing failure to accept the referendum result I find quite strange. George Mitchell Fleet Street Holbeach

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Knife man arrested by taser police in Spalding

Police armed with tasers arrested a man with a knife in Spalding. Inspector Gareth Boxall of Spalding Police said on Saturday, July 7 at around 8.30pm, officers were deployed to New Road to a report of a male with a knife. The officers arrested a 21-year-old man from the Boston area on suspicion of possessing a folding lock knife. Insp ...

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Guns in Spalding ‘made safe’ by armed unit

The Lincolnshire Police Armed Response Vehicle team has “made safe” a number of weapons in Spalding. The unit tweeted a photograph of a replica handgun (right), with the caption: “It’s not real, but we wouldn’t know that if you pointed it at us.” Insp Gareth Boxall of Spalding Police said: “Our officers regularly seize firearms and imitation firearms for a ...

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Couple help the NHS celebrations in Spalding

An 85-year-old who has been a patient at Munro Medical Centre since he was born in 1933 helped it celebrate the 70th anniversary of the NHS last week. Frank Blades (85) and his wife Bernadette (84) have been involved with the West Elloe institution, which moved to new premises in 1996, for many years. The Cathedral Drive couple were invited ...

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