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Stroke victims in South Holland who would normally be treated at Pilgrim Hospital in Boston will face a longer trip alternate weekends from February. At both weekends and Bank Holidays from next month, one specialist stroke team will alternate its time between the Pilgrim and the Lincoln Hospital. A report to Lincolnshire County Council states that United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS ...

A local road safety charity is gearing up for this weekend’s Springfields Motorbike Show and aims to help bikers keep safe. The volunteers from Boston Advanced Motorcyclists (BAM) will be delivering their “Be Better – Be Safe” message to the area’s motorcyclist complete with special show offers including a £50 cashback for those that sign up and then complete the ...

A campaign to make crossing the A17 at Holbeach safer has reignited after a second lorry overturned and shed its load on the new path provided by the county council. Holbeach resident Paula Hayes has been campaigning for a safer crossing for more than four years but has had little luck, with the county council insisting the new path is ...

Spalding pub landlord and South Holland district councillor Peter Williams today (Tuesday) admitted assaulting a man who had been ejected from his premises.   Williams, who runs the Punchbowl Inn, had been due to stand trial at Lincoln Crown Court alongside his son Ben this morning accused of assault.   But before a jury was sworn in the two men both pleaded guilty. ...

A Sutton Bridge teenager was caught drink-driving just three hours into 2019. Rokas Freitakas was a provisional licence holder and not with a qualified driver when he was stopped. He and a friend were in a Ford Fiesta owned by the friend’s stepdad, who had not given them permission to take it, King’s Lynn magistrates heard on Monday (January 21). ...

Police are searching for the driver of a vehicle who crashed into a Spalding home yesterday (January 20) amid an accident which it has been claimed was broadcast live on Facebook. The incident occurred just after 8.30am on Winsover Road and involved a blue BMW. Police say it was reported the car was in collision with the house and went ...

Eight people have been arrested on suspicion of hare coursing after a dramatic police chase near Holbeach yesterday (January 20). Police used drones to find the nine people after an initial report of hare coursing in Washway Road at 12.07pm. Lincolnshire Police ARV tweeted that the pursuit lasted “well over an hour” and in addition to the arrests, two cars ...

A Boston man who admitted possessing a folding lock knife in a Spalding pub has been warned he faces a jail sentence.   Ben Heffernan, 22, of Wide Bargate, Boston, pleaded guilty to possessing a bladed article in a public place when he appeared at Lincoln Crown Court.   The court heard Heffernan was in possession of a folding lock ...

Film and TV star Warwick Davis has officially unveiled an education charity’s new Spalding offices. Nacro has been giving young people an alternative route for further education for the last decade. And the operation which currently has 40 students has expanded its premises at its Westlode Street premises and is now at the front of Broadgate House. Star Wars, Harry ...

TV presenter Jake Humphrey has thanked Donington’s fire crew who came to his aid following an accident. Humphrey was on his way home after covering the FA Cup clash between Blackburn Rovers and Newcastle United for BT Sport when his car was involved in the incident on the A17 near East Heckington shortly after 1.30am on Wednesday, January 16. Fire ...

A woman in her 80s was pushed by her 54 year old son after she asked him and his friend to make less noise during a drinking session, a court has heard. Stuart Craig Weir of Wygate Road, Spalding, admitted assaulting his mother Margaret Campbell, as well as assaulting two police officers who went to her aid after she telephoned ...

A South Holland company is hoping to breathe new life into a town centre landmark building which is currently a rundown eye-sore. There are plans to re-open The Chequers in Holbeach and residents are being asked to be part of the project. Spalding-based API Services bought the run-down building in December and is turning to the community for ideas and ...

Residents from Ayscough Avenue in Spalding spoke to The Voice last week about the accumulation of waste on their street- a problem they have been fighting for more than a decade. This week, Ken Ward of Ayscough Avenue said he wasn’t happy with the response given by South Holland District Council: “We haven’t had any answers,” he said. “Where can ...

A national rail pressure group is pushing for a former South Holland railway line to be preserved from future development. The English Regional Transport Association (ERTA) is calling for a recent planning application for housing to not be built over a railway track bed. An application for 72 homes at Cowbit would obliterate the former Spalding to March corridor. Having ...

The leader of South Holland District Council has reiterated that he will resign if the authority brings in fortnightly waste collections while its cabinet passed a waste management plan he called “tailored stupidity”. Coun Lord Gary Porter made the comments as SHDC’s Cabinet gave its backing to adopt the Lincolnshire Waste Partnership Strategy on Tuesday, January 15. He also criticised ...

Patients at Beechfield Medical Centre are being given extra incentive to get fit in 2019. The Patient Participation Group (PPG) is hosting weigh-in days on Tuesday and Thursday, January 22 and 24 from 9am to 12pm. You will be able to have your weight and BMI measured without an appointment. Advice will be offered and you will also be invited ...

Anger and dismay has greeted the news that two new NHS dentists are not coming to Spalding as planned. As revealed in last week’s Spalding Voice, neither of the proposed dental practise have been able to recruit and the town remains without a surgery taking on NHS patients. JDSP Dental Ltd was looking to move into Winsover Road and had ...

Improvements to the area’s council-owned leisure facilities will be paid for by the district council ahead of the new service providers taking over the contract in March. In December, South Holland District Council announced Parkwood Leisure will be taking over the contract to run the Castle Sports Complex in Spalding and the Peele Leisure Centre in Long Sutton – both ...

Cancer patients, their friends, family and carers in Holbeach will now be able to get information, advice and support closer to home. A new outreach session will enable people living in and around the area to access regular information and support about cancer, and caring for someone with cancer. Starting this month, trained staff from the Macmillan Cancer Information and ...

The former Birds / Hungry Horse pub in Spalding will become a 61-bed care home if submitted plans are approved. Eton-based Glenholme Group has submitted plans for the former pub, which closed in December last year. Greene King operated the pub and still own the land on which the proposed two-storey care home will be built. Under submitted plans, a ...