Improved facilities and support for victims of domestic abuse across Lincolnshire will be created following a successful bid for government funding. South Holland District Council teamed up with six other local authorities in Lincolnshire to bid for funds from the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG). The seven districts will receive a pot of £430,000 which will help increase ...

A reactive road sign and red stop light are measures being considered to prevent drivers and cyclists flouting traffic restrictions in Spalding town centre. But the very least that Spalding Town Forum wants to see is businesses in the pedestrianised area reminded about their responsibilities in regards to the traffic order. The vast majority of vehicles are banned from using ...

A potentially life-saving piece of equipment has been installed on the outside wall of Moulton Seas End village hall. A defibrillator has been supplied by Moulton Parish Council thanks to the fundraising efforts of Moulton Seas End resident Vera Angelo and ward district councillora Anthony Casson, Rodney Grocock and Andrew Woolf. Early use of a defibrillator can help save lives. ...

In reply to a letter from Coun Biggadike in The Voice (February 19). Coun Biggadike has either ignored or not read and remembered the section in the licensing policy which states: licensed premises have a significant potential to impact adversely upon communities through public nuisance arising as a result of their activities. The Licensing Authority’s aim is to maintain and ...

In response to David Mead’s letter in The Voice (March 5). Good for him that he sleeps through the trains at night! Envious or what! A elaboration of facts, he states. Living where he does and he sleeps through the noise even over the last two Saturdays – the man must be hard of hearing! The facts – we have ...

Being used to Fleet Parish Council’s contempt and neglect of residents who pay the council tax for our playing field, I thought they could not shock me anymore or disgust me further, but I was proven wrong this week. For the sake of their friends who are gradually taking over the field with football pitches which contravene local planning rules ...

On the front page of The Voice on February 26, the headline article was titled ‘Hayes: Spalding has too many off-licences’. That article indicated to me that our MP was clearly at odds with recent decisions made by the licensing committee, who are his local district council Conservative partners, which to mu mind was a very thinly-veiled rebuke of their ...

Policing is all that Jo Reeves has ever wanted to do so it will be another proud moment in her blossoming career when she becomes South Holland community inspector on Monday. It’s been a swift rise for the 30-year-old who started as a police officer in 2006 and was promoted to sergeant at Spalding last August. She takes over the ...

A new logo to promote Spalding has been revealed. The winner of a design competition – run by Spalding town centre manager Dennis Hannant in conjunction with The Spalding and South Holland Voice – is Graham Taylor. Mr Hannant said the submission was just what competition committee members had been looking for. “It’s contemporary, whilst still saying something about Spalding’s history,” ...

Planning permission is being sought to extend a building set to become an off-licence. In January, Hemen Ahmad was granted a premises licence for a former sub-Post Office and dry cleaning shop in Bourne Road, Spalding. He has now applied for planning consent for an extension at the rear. The site is next to a proposed Spar development, zebra crossing ...

Spalding Town Forum is hoping to shame Anglian Water into taking action on two big issues in the town. Remedial work to the smell from the sewage works in West Marsh Road has been added to calls for Chatterton Water Tower to be spruced up. District councillor Coun Christine Lawton told last week’s meeting: “I just wonder if Anglian Water ...

A plan for a tourism centre to be established in Crowland has been granted planning permission. The proposal, by Ruthkay Ltd, is for an existing poultry farm at Carrington Drove to be used. Crowland Caravans and Camping would relocate to the site from Wyevale Garden Centre in nearby Postland Road. A similar plan was given planning consent in 2011, but ...

Lincolnshire Police have admitted that seven registered sex offenders have dropped off the radar in the county. The figure was revealed after a Freedom of Information request to police forces across the country – revealing nationally the whereabouts of 396 sex offenders is unknown. Some have been missing for up to a decade. The Lincolnshire figures show that two registered ...

Community groups in South Holland can get free advice about funding opportunities and the different types of services available to them at a special event in Spalding. The event at the South Holland Centre on Wednesday, March 25 (noon to 8pm) is being organised by South Holland District Council. Although primarily aimed at community groups, the event will also be ...

Police are investigating the shooting of a cat in Spalding. Three-year-old Pip was found with a pellet embedded in her left hind leg. Removing it could cause nerve damage and vets have warned that the limb might have to be amputated. The shooting is believed to have happened in the back garden of Maria Hardy’s home in Woolram Wygate, which neighbours ...

As we near the start of the General and Local election campaigns I want to make a plea, not just for people to turn out and vote, but to also seriously consider standing for the council. Whatever your politics, there could be a seat for you. If you care enough about our district to stand up for it and what ...

Desperate parents of disabled children have launched a campaign to try and prevent a funding cut to after-school activities. Lincolnshire County Council is reviewing its financial support. For pupils at The Garth School in Spalding it means regular activities laid on by Action For Children – such as ten-pin bowling at AlleyCatz, and arts and craft and cookery sessions – ...

A professional HGV driver who tried to use a false Polish licence to work has been jailed for eight months. Wieslaw Jozef Gruca (51) tried to obtain a counterpart for a British driving licence from the DVLA in Swansea after sending them a false driving licence which he received from his native Poland. Gruca was convicted of possessing a false ...

A £1,000 prize for good recycling was just the tonic for a great-grandmother recently diagnosed with having a stomach tumour. Julie Fox (80), of Moulton Seas End, cried when she was told of the win in South Holland District Council’s Green Bag Lottery. She said: “I’ve had a rough time lately so when I got the phone call to say ...

The jet crash at Weston Hills last October was caused by pilot error and “imperfections” with the plane’s nose cap. An investigation by US Air Force officials found “clear and convincing evidence” that the crash was caused by a combination of the two factors. “The angle of attack of the aircraft at the time and imperfections in the radome’s nose ...