A mixed evening of football in The Spalding and South Holland Voice Six-A-Side League saw a failure to show, dismissals and a handful of sin-bins – not to mention the end of a 15-match unbeaten run! Division One got under way on a chilly night in Surfleet with Polishborough making light work of You’ve Got No Fans. A convincing 6-1 win ...

A night set aside by Spalding and District Table Tennis League – sponsored by Vital Recruitment – for the Marylands Cup matches began with three being postponed, while another was a player short. However, eight matches were still played – at least in part – with teams rearranging or completing league fixtures. Neither the holders nor runners-up were able to ...

Spalding’s mixed top club team are through to the last 16 of the country after a comfortable 16-0 points victory against Horncastle last Sunday at the Castle Sports Complex. Spalding lost in the final last year and will be hoping to go one better this year. Chelsea Tomlin recorded the first points for Spalding with a 23-9 win in the ...

Ilkeston 83 Spalding 1st 0: Sam Cooke led Spalding onto the field knowing that it was going to be a tough day against the team fifth in Midlands One East and chasing the top teams. Back in October in the home fixture Spalding ran Ilkeston close with a 16-22 result but on Saturday with Ilkeston winning the toss and choosing ...

Column by Spalding United striker Andrew Tidswell: The big local sporting news last week was the saga that arose at Spalding United. On the eve of the first team’s long away journey to Norton United, manager Pat Rayment handed in his resignation to the club, seemingly ending his three-year tenure. Fast forward 24 hours and I’m standing in the centre ...

Norton United 2 Spalding United 2: Pat Rayment – who quit as Spalding boss on Friday – was back in the dugout to see Tom Waumsley grab a last-gasp equaliser and extend the Tulips’ unbeaten league run to 13 matches. Just five minutes earlier, Lee Clarke had given Spalding hope with a goal to bring it back to 2-1. Norton had ...

Holbeach United have drawn Erith and Belvedere at home in the fifth round of the FA Vase. The Kent side currently sit second in the Southern Counties East Football League Premier Division. They beat the Tigers’ fellow UCL Premier Division side Yaxley 1-0 on Sunday to reach the last 16 of the Vase. Holbeach earned their place with a 4-3 extra-time win at another UCL ...

A further £33,115.40 in debts to South Holland District Council is set to be written off. It would take the total of council tax, business rates, accounts receivable, former tenant arrears and housing benefit overpayments written off during this financial year to to £222,914.87. The total in 2013/14 was £236,531.20. The council says in every case, all collection options have ...

Thurnby Nirvana 3 Holbeach Utd 4: Seven goals, red cards, extra time and a place in the last 16 of the FA Vase was the story of Holbeach United’s rollercoaster afternoon on Saturday. They were all but out in the 95th minute, but centre-half Kern Miller – who had been thrown up front as a last-ditch measure to save the ...

Saturday’s huge FA Vase clash between Thurnby Nirvana and Holbeach United means more to Jake Duffy than most. The in-form Tigers midfielder, who has scored three goals in his last two games, literally lives over the road from Thurnby’s Dakyn Road base in Leicestershire. Both Duffy and his brother Jordan have played under Nirvana chief Damion Qualiey over the years ...

Options are being looked at to cope with the increasing demand for primary school places in Spalding. Lincolnshire County Council is already consulting on expanding Monkshouse Primary School’s published admission number by a third, from 315 to 420. But the local authority says that measure in itself will not be enough to address the town’s expanding population of four to ...

Buoyant Spalding United boss Pat Rayment reckons that his charges are one of three sides capable of winning the Evo-Stik League First Division South title. Rayment believes that the Tulips are battling with Mickleover Sports and Leek Town for top spot, with current leaders Sutton Coldfield Town and second-placed Newcastle Town not on his radar. Spalding, Mickleover and Leek all ...

A Government body has cleared the way for Lincolnshire Co-operative to buy Budgens’ store in Holbeach. As reported in The Voice last November, Lincolnshire Co-op – which has a supermarket in Long Sutton and a store at a garage in High Road, Whaplode  – wants Budgens’ store in Fleet Street. The proposed acquisition was referred to the Competition and Markets ...

Pat Rayment insists change must happen to the structure of Spalding United if he is to remain as manager. Rayment tendered his resignation on Friday and said publicly that he had had enough of an ongoing boardroom struggle. However, his resignation was not accepted by the club and after a lengthy day of discussions he remained in charge. Club chairman ...

Spalding’s Graham Dark, who received a BEM award in the New Year’s Honours, had a surprise call on to a theatre stage to be congratulated. Graham, who founded and runs Spalding 50+ Sports and Social Club, has been arranging trips to The Embassy Theatre in Skegness for 15 years. The surprise came during a recent trip for 57 people to ...

The owner of Sutton Bridge Power Station is appealing against it being liable for business rates. MPF Operations is currently paying rates to South Holland District Council. However, a spokesman said: “MPF are aware of various claims currently being pursued in respect of business rates within the UK generation sector. “We believe such rates should be set in accordance with ...

More than £18,000 is earmarked for refurbishing the main gates to Spalding’s Sir Halley Stewart Playing Field. It means South Holland District Council’s budget for the facility in the forthcoming financial year is set to be hiked by 60 per cent from £30,200 to £48,400. A council spokesman said: “The funds have been earmarked for a one-off project to refurbish ...

A second Argos store is planned for Spalding. An Argos Insert – designed for click and collect digital customers of bulkier items – is expected to be developed within Homebase in Westlode Street. At 185 square metres, the proposed new store would occupy little more than five per cent of Homebase’s retail floorspace. The Insert would sell fewer than 3,000 of ...

A three-hour yogathon is being held as a fundraiser this month. SPOTS (Supportive Parents Of Tomorrow’s Stars) – a charity promoting the benefit of recreation facilities for children and families – and Agapecare Foodbank will be the beneficiaries of the event at The Umbrella in Westlode Street, Spalding, on Saturday, January 24. There will be three hours of yoga with ...

Spalding United manager Pat Rayment dropped a bombshell by quitting on Friday. He blames off-the-field issues at the club, which now has just two board members. It could hardly be any other reason as the Tulips have been on a long unbeaten run (11 wins, two draws) which has rocketed them to fourth in Evo-Stik First Division South – the highest position in the club’s ...