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Moulton Medical Centre has been given a “good” bill of health by the Care Quality Commission. A recent inspection was carried out with the purpose of ensuring “sufficient improvement” after a “requires improvement” rating in 2015. The latest report, published last month, gave a “good” rating in all assessed categories: safe, effective, caring, well led, responsive to people’s needs. Key ...

A 71-year-old Holbeach man has been found guilty of creating a bomb hoax in the town’s Lincolnshire Co-op store. David James Edwards, of Hallgate, had denied placing a brown package in the Fleet Street store on January 27, 2017, “with the intention of inducing in another a belief the said article was likely to explode or ignite and thereby cause ...

Directors of Holbeach Hospital are hopeful of securing a second planning consent to increase its beds by a total 50 per cent and potentially create around 20 new caring roles. A few weeks ago, the hospital, which has a focus on nursing, residential and end-of-life care, got consent for an eight-bed expansion. Plans now awaiting determination are for an additional ...

A Tongue End resident has appeared in court accused of fraud. Krzysztof Zaja (38), of Everard Road, is said to have submitted a false document on October 14, 2016, intending to make a gain, namely obtaining a full English driving licence for himself. Zaja appeared at Boston Magistrates’ Court on June 7 and pleaded not guilty to the charge. He ...

A 78-year-old Spalding man has been banned from the roads for 20 months after being caught more than twice the drink-drive limit. Michael Stuart Edwards, of Parkside Crescent, was arrested in St Thomas’s Road, Spalding, on May 6. He had 77 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. The legal limit is 35. Edwards pleaded guilty to driving with ...

A Spalding man charged with fraudulent evasion of income tax during a four-year period has had his case sent for trial. Jonathan Peter Warfield (39), of Sharman Way, appeared before magistrates in Lincoln on Tuesday (June 13). He is said to have committed the offence between April 6, 2011 and April 5, 2015. The charge was brought by the Specialist ...

The cash desk at South Holland District Council’s headquarters is to close on Friday, June 30. As previously reported in The Voice, customers will no longer be able to make cash and cheque payments at the offices in Priory Road, Spalding. However, residents and businesses can pay for services at Post Offices and PayPoint stations at more than 30 locations ...

A snap appeal for clothing has been launched by a Spalding charity to help those affected by the London tower block blaze. Mark and Sarah Le Sage, who run Ella’s Project which redistributes unwanted young children’s clothes, are asking for urgent donations of clothing for adults and children of all ages. Mark said: “We’re launching a snap two-week appeal. “Our ...

Police are appealing for information after four portable toilets, each worth around £500, were stolen from fields in and around South Holland. The thefts took place overnight on Monday, June 5, near to Cowpers Gate, off the A17, at Long Sutton and off the A17 at Moulton Seas End. Then overnight on Thursday, June 8, at Main Road, Gedney Drove ...

South Holland residents are being called upon to review their security after a number of recent attempts to steal heating oil. Attempts were made in Hockley Lane, Whaplode; Boston Road North, Holbeach and Hogsgate, Moulton overnight on Friday, June 9. Anyone who saw anything suspicious or has information should contact police on 101 quoting incident 149 of June 9.

Staff feel valued, pupils are increasingly confident and teaching is good at Donington’s Thomas Cowley High School, inspectors say. In a short Ofsted inspection report published last week (June 3), the school was judged still to be “good.” The report, to headteacher Ian Dawson,  said: “The leadership team has maintained the good quality of education in the school.” It added: ...

Police are hunting a driver who fled after smashing into a streetlight and two garden walls in Spalding. Carol Hudson (69, pictured), of Hawthorn Bank, woke to find her wall destroyed. Her son’s car on the drive suffered minor damage and her neighbours’ wall was also partially demolished. She said: “You work hard and save hard and it’s devastating to ...

Police say they remain committed to proactive patrols to reduce the risk of further burglaries at the homes of the elderly and vulnerable in South Holland. Extra resources have been drawn in to increase patrols by up to double in some areas at times since a spate of more than 20 burglaries where intruders have got in after breaking into ...

The new Lincs & Notts Air Ambulance helicopter became operational today (June 14).   The state-of- the-art AgustaWestland 169 (AW169), based at RAF Waddington, will undertake an average of three life-saving missions every day. The aircraft has significant benefits and will enhance patient care. It is bigger, giving paramedics and doctors 360-degree access to patients in flight; it is faster ...

Organisers of last month’s Spalding Beer and Music Festival want to hear from good causes for youths which would like a slice of the £15,000 profit.   Groups, clubs, organisations and schools in and around Spalding are invited to apply for funding. However, event organisers Spalding Round Table and Spalding Ladies’ Circle, stress that every application must directly benefit children. ...

Spalding’s Pinchbeck Road has reopened to motorists earlier than expected but a large dip remains in the surface. The most recent emergency closure, for Anglian Water works to repair a collapsed sewer and the road surface outside Taylors Vauxhall garage, was expected to last a month but the road reopened on Monday after two weeks.  An Anglian Water spokesperson said: ...

A South Holland district councillor is undertaking a mammoth motorcycle ride in memory of Whaplode and Holbeach St Johns member Michael Pullen, who died recently after a short battle with cancer. Coun Jim Astill is doing the ‘Sunrise2Sunset’ challenge on Saturday, June 24. Organised by Bikers4Macmillan, the event sees motorcyclists ride 256 miles from Holyhead in North Wales to Skegness. ...

Five Spalding social care workers are celebrating after being recognised for improving the lives of others.   Zoe Ayliff and Caroline James both won in their categories at the Making Space Employee Awards, held to recognise the national heath and social care charity’s 35th anniversary.   Caroline, a support worker at learning disability respite service Cedar House, received the award ...

A new NHS dental practice is to open in Spalding by the end of this year. It will offer routine and urgent care to patients from 8am to 8pm, 365 days a year. NHS England Central Midlands has commissioned Rodericks Dental Ltd, a Northampton-based business with 70 dental practices across England and Wales. Rodericks declined to give any further information ...

Interview tapes in which Kim Edwards describes the murders of her mother and sister have been released by Lincolnshire Police. Edwards and boyfriend Lucas Markham were both 14 when they murdered Liz (49) and Katie Edwards (13) as they slept in their beds at their home in Dawson Avenue, Spalding, in April 2016. Kim says in the tapes: “Erm, I ...