TODAY South Holland Healthy Walks, 10.30am, start Holbeach Services Club. Holbeach and Spalding Explorers: Spalding, 7pm-9pm; Holbeach 7.15pm-9.15pm. Open to 14-18 year olds. Visit www.handsscouts.com Tots and Carers Group, 9am-11.30am, Moulton Village Hall. Vitality classes, Broad Street Methodist Church Hall, Spalding, 11.30am-12.30pm and 1.45pm-2.45pm; Weston Village Hall, 2pm-3pm. £1.50 per class, contact 01529 411941. Vibe Contemporary Youth Choir, 5.30pm-7pm, South ...

South Holland’s Citizens Advice Bureau is to merge with a neighbour to create a new advice service for south Lincolnshire. Following a year during which South Kesteven and South Holland Citizens Advice services have shared a chief officer and chairman, both trustee boards have now agreed to formally merge, under the new name of Citizens Advice South Lincolnshire. Covering a ...

We’re really looking forward to Christmas. Time to start opening the advent calendars (with chocolate) and we will soon be getting our tree. It is a exciting time of the year for most people. It is not the time to have a seriously ill pet. Christmas presents a variety of dangers for dogs and cats. The number one danger is ...

A consultation exercise has started on two new sites for the disposal of non-toxic waste in Spalding. Lincolnshire County Council is asking people to comment on plans for 13 sites across the county, including one at Wardentree Lane/Enterprise Way and another at Clay Lake Industrial Estate. The new Lincolnshire Minerals and Waste Local Plan is aimed at ensuring the county ...

Thousands of cigarettes were seized in a series of raids on Spalding shops prompted by tip-offs from the public. Lincolnshire Trading Standards and Lincolnshire Police’s Alcohol Licensing Team worked together to execute three warrants at shops in Spalding on Wednesday (December 2). The Voice believes the  Winsover store and Baltic in Winsover Road were two of the three shops involved, ...

Residents are being urged to have a say on where money can be saved as Lincolnshire faces a “financial black hole”. In his December message, leader of Lincolnshire County Council Martin Hill has said that even every council in England stopped filling in potholes, turned off every street light, and closed all parks, children’s centres, libraries, museums and leisure centres ...

The governing body of a struggling secondary school has been replaced after the latest visit by education watchdog Ofsted. Inspectors visited the Sir John Gleed School in October – just months after it had been removed from special measures – but found that action plans put in place by the school’s managers to overcome serious weaknesses were “not fit for ...

A father’s call for an independent investigation into claims his son killed himself after bullying within the Conservative Party have been heeded. Leading Government minister Grant Shapps resigned at the weekend, saying “the buck should stop with me” after allegations that bullying within the party led to the death of activist Elliott Johnson (21, pictured). Elliott, an ex-Spalding Grammar School ...

A project to help provide clothes for some of the country’s most vulnerable children has put out an appeal for storage space. Ella’s Project was set up earlier this year by Spalding couple Mark and Sarah Le Sage to collect good quality clothes for children aged birth to five. In its first few months the scheme, named after Mark and ...

If you are over the legal limit for drugs or alcohol then you are not welcome on Lincolnshire’s roads. This is the message that the county’s police are driving home with today’s (Tues, Dec 1) launch of the Christmas drug and drink drive campaign. Officers have traditionally had the use of the breathalyzer to test drivers for alcohol, but this ...

A campaign to make motorists slow down has been hailed a success after speeding fell dramatically. Recent figures released show that average speeds have fallen since reactive speed signs and a camera van started monitoring in Long Sutton. The scheme, a partnership between Long Sutton Parish Council and the Lincolnshire Road Safety Partnership, has been running for just over a ...

A tireless campaigner has vowed to carry on her fight against a second power station in Sutton Bridge despite leaving the area to be closer to family. Great-grandmother Shirley Giles (pictured) has been at the forefront of the battle to stop EDF building another gas-fired power station – twice the size of the existing one – on land at Wingland. ...

A new system will make it easier for residents to have their say on policing priorities for South Holland in the New Year. Neighbourhood panels, which have been an important link between local communities and police for a number of years, are to be overhauled in an attempt to make them representative of views of more people. The existing panels ...

A youth who has made life miserable for dozens of people has become the first in the county to be given a new anti-social behaviour injunction. The youth, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has been known to Spalding Police for several years in relation to incidents of criminal damage, anti-social behaviour and assault. He had previously been the ...

A scheme which aims to keep town centre venues safe is due to launch in time for the Christmas celebrations. More than a dozen pubs, clubs and hotels have already signed up for the Spalding and District Pubwatch scheme, with more yet to confirm their involvement. The idea is that the night-time economy businesses will share information about potential troublemakers. ...

A village hall has been given a warm glow after being given a £5,000 grant for state-of-the-art heating. Users of Cowbit Village Hall will feel the benefit after the full cost of installing a new heating system was met by the cash from the Biffa Awards scheme. Biffa, the well-known waste transport and processing company, set up their award scheme ...

Family and friends of a former policeman are hoping a striking nativity scene will help raise awareness of a devastating illness which struck when he was only in his 30s. The traditional scene of Mary, Joseph, baby Jesus and wise men has sprung up in the entrance to Baytree Nurseries Garden Centre, Weston, where it is hoped it will help ...

Spalding’s war memorial has been upgraded to a Grade I listed building after being recognised as part of a previously unrecognised national collection. The memorial at Ayscoughfee Gardens commemorates 224 lives lost during the First World War and is one of 44 in towns and villages across the country designed by famous architect Sir Edwin Lutyens. Lutyens is known as ...

A team of accountants will be swapping their smart shoes and suits for walking boots as they prepare for a charity trek. On Sunday, December 13, six Moore Thompson staff members will set off from the firm’s Market Deeping office in Market Place and walk more than 14 miles to the practice’s Spalding office in Broad Street. The team made ...

A Surfleet woman who has fulfilled a lifelong dream to study art has been honoured with a prize for one of her works. Fran Healands, from Surfleet, was awarded the Judges’ Special Prize at the Blackfriars Art Exhibition in Boston. Her environmentally-inspired piece “A Walk in Print” was selected from over 40 entries as the one that most impressed the ...