LETTER: We need more bike racks in Holbeach and Long Sutton

As a keen cyclist, I am amazed how few (if any in certain places) bike racks there are in the Holbeach and Long Sutton towns. So often I have to secure my bike to a lamp-post or a downpipe of guttering. Cycling is superb in the Fens due to the flatness of the area and parking in small towns can ...

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LETTER: Concern for Pennygate patients

Regarding your front page report in the Voice – Thursday, August 9, (Troubled surgery will close to patients). I had been a patient at the Pennygate Surgery for the last 29 years because of living in the ward of Monks House, but recently I transferred to the Munro Medical Centre practice. When the news first broke about the Pennygate Centre ...

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LETTER: Nothing but praise for Dr Nathu

I was greatly saddened by the directive from the NHS whereby they informed me that Dr Nathu is to retire. I wonder, was she used as a scapegoat because I’m sure there are many inefficiencies in other practices in the town? I was also appalled by the inflammatory letters that you, in my opinion, allowed to be published unprofessionally in ...

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Letters – More questions not asked

The BBC Radio 4 programme Any Questions came to Spalding on Friday, July 27. These seven questions were not asked on the programme: 1. Should it be compulsory to vote in this country? 2. Should the school-leaving age be lowered to 14? 3. People have travelled from Spalding to Boston in various ways over the years – by foot, by ...

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Letters – Flytippers to the rescue

It is heartening to see that in this unusually hot summer the fly tippers have come to our rescue. While walking out to Springfields this morning I noticed that they had provided a fairly new fridge/freezer for public use. I am not sure it is actually connected to the mains but if you or your readers would like to give ...

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Letters – Thanks to knight in shining armour

May I through your excellent newspaper thank Nigel – my knight in shining armour. I had a tyre puncture in Springfields on Wednesday, July 25. He pumped my tyre up enabling me to service it at a garage. Thank you so much. Name and address supplied

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Letters – Any Questions was well attended

I attended the BBC Radio 4 debate programme Any Questions on Friday, July 27, which was broadcast from St Mary and St Nicolas Church in Spalding. The evening was well attended, there must have been well over 200 people present. Before going live we had the introductions where I learned about the history of the lovely church which was built ...

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Letters – I’ve always received the best treatment

In response to recent articles in The Voice I would like to give my personal view of Dr Nathu of the Pennygate Health Centre in Spalding. Dr Nathu has been my GP for the past 21 years. I came to live in Spalding from Kent and, in that time, I have received the best of treatment from Dr Nathu. I ...

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Letters – Rats and sinking ships spring to mind

May I, through your columns, congratulate Mr Jackson on supplying the best political joke of this year. “Boris Johnson and David Davis had the courage of their convictions to put the national interest before their careers.” Rats and sinking ships spring to mind. If they and their spineless ilk had the faintest belief in the national interest we would not ...

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Letters – 50 years? Leavers had better be patient

Stirring stuff from Mr Craig Jackson (letters, July 26). Storm the barricades, eh? But one or two points about his claims: No, Mr Jackson, the majority for leave, did not all vote for a ‘clean Brexit’. They voted for ‘leave the EU’ that’s what it said on the ballot paper, without any specification of what that meant. I personally know ...

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Letters – Thanks for supporting collection

On behalf of the Spalding Branch of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, I would like to thank everyone for their generous support of our charity by contributing to our collection in Spalding town centre on Saturday, July 21. We are delighted that we managed to raise £394 for the RNLI. The money raised will help the RNLI maintain their rescue ...

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Letters – Where is the man we have in Parliament?

I read the erudite letter of Craig Jackson with interest and agree with what he says but he does not give the people a solution. “Storm the barricades” – not sure what this means in practice but will achieve nothing. His debate shows how impotent we are on the matter. So, one has to ask, where is the man we ...

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LETTER: Spend cash locally or send it to Brussels?

There is not a week that goes by without a letter in this column expressing the reader’s concern about Brexit, and quite rightly so. I had my say on how important the EU was two years ago and what we got out of it, this was before the referendum. Of course we had the establishment on both sides frighten the ...

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LETTER: It’s not too late to storm the barricades

The Chequers statement unveiled by Theresa May must go down in history as one of the greatest betrayals in Britain’s political history. The Prime Minister and the Government have allowed Brexit to be hijacked by the establishment – civil servants – the elites, remoaners in Parliament and billionaire businessmen like George Soros and Richard Branson who do not even live ...

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LETTER: Sooner something is done the better

My daughter was a patient of Dr Nathu. She had been backwards and forwards to the surgery complaining of pains in the back of her head, only to be prescribed stronger painkillers. When she requested a scan because the pain was not improving, she was told to up the dose of painkillers and a scan was not deemed necessary. My ...

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Letters – Bremaining Bremoaing and all things Brexit

I am an ardent Remainer – this is something regular readers of any local paper, or of the comments section of any Brexit themed Spotted: Spalding post will attest to and know well. I feel, therefore, that I need to highlight the fact that what follows is not a result of my pro-EU opinions, but rather as a result of ...

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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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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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