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This is the “industrial-scale” cannabis-growing operation police found in the basement of Lithuanian food store Krautuvele in Pinchbeck Road, Spalding. The 74 plants were discovered after firefighters were called to a fire within the hydroponics growing equipment last November. A premises licence review is due to be held at South Holland District Council.

Councillors have resolved to use whatever means they can to recover £20,000 invested in cleaning up the Bull and Monkie site in Spalding. South Holland District Council’s cabinet discussed the issue in private on Tuesday (May 9). After the meeting, Coun Roger Gambba-Jones said: “Fellow cabinet members endorsed our proposal to continue to pursue the recovery of monies that have ...

Staff in a very small South Holland school work closely as a team and have maintained its “good” standard, inspectors have reported. A short inspection was made of Shepeau Stow Primary School and a report issued to headteacher Alison Buddle and published last week. It said: “The leadership team has maintained the good quality of education in the school since the last ...

Women’s Institute members left bouquets in bus shelters and on public benches in Moulton and Whaplode for strangers, in a bid to spread happiness. The effort last Friday (May 5) – National Flower Arranging Day – was part of the Lonely Bouquet campaign promoted by the national Women’s Institute (WI) movement. Ex-Whaplode WI president Jacki Ford, who credits WI with helping ...

Spalding Volunteer Centre has moved to Tonic Health’s premises in Westlode Street (behind Job CentrePlus). The centre, run by Lincolnshire Community and Voluntary Service (LCVS), provides help and advice regarding all aspects of volunteering – including help to find opportunities across South Holland. It was previously based at South Holland District Council’s offices in Priory Road. LCVS chief executive David Fannin said: ...

New roles for up to six apprentices with South Holland District Council look set to be created following a push from Government. Government guidance is that local authorities should have 2.3 per cent of their workforce as apprentices and South Holland District Council is working to develop a scheme. An apprenticeship levy will be imposed from the end of the ...

Community support is being sought in the final push to relocate Spalding Rugby Football Club’s 200-plus strong youth teams to its new ground in time for the new season in September. On Saturday (May 13), the decommissioning of the junior teams’ temporary base at Jack Tyrrell’s Yard, in Low Fulney, will begin with the removal of portable buildings and floodlights ...

Gedney Parish Council insists that grant funding for its new children’s play was obtained lawfully and the vast majority of villagers are pleased with the facility. It comes after a parishioner complained to The Voice about the process by which the equipment was bought for the village green. They claimed that as the land was not registered, the £7,000 funding ...

An emergency closure of part of Pinchbeck Road in Spalding due to dips in the road is expected to end on Monday (May 15) following temporary repairs. Lincolnshire County Council is working with Anglian Water to try to find the cause and a long-term solution. A dip reappeared outside Taylors of Spalding garage in March. The road was closed on Monday (May ...

The senior health and safety manager at the Lincolnshire hospital trust which is on trial following the death of a patient has told a court that the fatality would have been less likely to have happened if the manufacturer had issued a safety notice following a previous incident involving the equipment.   The jury at Lincoln Crown Court has heard that a ...

Former businesswoman Julia Cambridge has been selected as the Liberal Democrats parliamentary candidate for South Holland and The Deepings. Julia has lived in the East Midlands since 2009 and is a governor at three schools, one of which is attended by her daughter. Always a strong advocate for women, she regularly lectures for women in business. A candidate in the ...

The local UKIP branch says its General Election campaign for the South Holland and The Deepings constituency will be “very nominal”.   Just two years after its candidate David Parsons came second to Conservative Eurosceptic John Hayes, only a “paper” candidate will be fielded on Thursday, June 8. Instead, the local branch will lend its support to UKIP leader Paul ...

A man who carried out a scam involving red diesel fuel, evading a liability of duty for £3,229, has been given a suspended jail sentence. Marius Legavicius used cat litter to remove the red dye from the diesel fuel which carries a significantly lower level of excise duty. He was then able to sell on the fuel as ordinary diesel fuel. Andrew Scott, ...

Operating instructions for a lifting hoist involved in the death of a hospital patient did not tell users not to remove a pad by lifting it off its bracket, a jury heard.   John Biggadike died in 2012 when he fell while in a lifting hoist at Boston Pilgrim Hospital and was impaled on part of the equipment.   Mr ...

The Conservative Party now have seven of the nine South Holland seats on Lincolnshire County Council.   Thursday’s (May 4) elections saw the Tories take two further divisions in the district.   The other two seats at County Hall were retained by Chris Brewis (The Suttons) and Angela Newton (Spalding West), who scraped home by 50 votes ahead of Tory ...

“We are not prepared to tolerate the current situation,” a councillor has insisted ten years after the closure of a pub that has become an eyesore and drain on public funds. South Holland District Council’s cabinet is to discuss in private what has been achieved to date regarding the Bull and Monkie site, in Churchgate, Spalding, and possible next steps, ...

A Spalding resident is facing charges of assaulting two men at Pinchbeck factory Greencore Food-To-Go. Kamil Dudek (21), of Harveys Close, is said to have beat Marcin Nieroda and Lauris Brikmans on April 4 this year. Dudek is also accused of, on the same date, possessing a weapon designed to discharge pepper spray and maliciously wounding March Nieroda. Dudek appeared before Boston ...

New homes being proposed on the site of Crowland’s former South View Primary School will be available exclusively to young first-time buyers – at a 20 per cent discount. Lincolnshire County Council is proposing to build 22 new homes on the site of the demolished school off Albion Street and for 15 of them to be built under the Government’s ...

A tractor driver facing three charges relating to damage to a vehicle in a road traffic accident and failing to stop has had his court case adjourned. Peter Chapman (61), of Glenside South, Pinchbeck, is said to have committed the offences in Knight Street, Pinchbeck, on July 30, 2016. He is charged with driving a tractor without due care and attention and, having caused injury to ...

The East Midlands Labour Party says Wojciech Kowalewski is its prospective parliamentary candidate for the South Holland and The Deepings constituency in the General Election on June 8. Matthew Mahabadi, the Labour candidate who came third in the poll for the seat in 2015, said Mr Kowalewski was an “excellent choice”. He added: “He’s an experienced, genuine and professional man ...