Care for new mothers and babies will be enhanced thanks to a new £71,713 training programme for midwives and doctors at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King’s Lynn. Increasing the number of home births and reducing the rate of caesarean sections are among the hopes for the new programme, which will start later this year. The hospital is among 136 ...

A Long Sutton woman who “catastrophically” injured her husband when she fired his shotgun was jailed for two years on Tuesday.(April 18) Mary Jane Taylor (57) left Alan Taylor (58) with a “useless” left arm when she discharged two shots from the weapon, Lincoln Crown Court heard. The court was told that Mrs Taylor could not remember what happened after ...

A chance to discover the occupations of Victorians buried in a Holbeach cemetery and see inside its Grade II listed chapels is on offer on Saturday.(April 22) The open day is the latest event in a diary of activities being supported by a £49,000 Heritage Lottery Fund award. Gill Graper, a trustee of Holbeach Cemeteries Chapel Trust, said: “There aren’t many ...

A record number of nearly 3,000 children participated in this year’s Easter egg hunt at Springfields – more than double the previous highest. Children could complete a fun hunt in the Festival Gardens in return for a Thorntons Easter Egg and activity pack, which included entry to a ‘Design an Easter Egg competition’. The top prize being a family tour ...

South Lincolnshire Competitive Swimming Club has six new starting blocks at a cost of £11,797. Spalding Beer and Music Festival, which is organised by Spalding Round Table and Spalding Ladies’ Circle, donated £3,212 towards the purchase. Parents of the swim club members helped man the bar at last year’s event. Phil Cookson, fundraising chairman at the club, raised additional funding ...

An inquest into the deaths of Lutton couple Lawrence and Bernice Williams is due to open on Thursday.(April 20) Police say they discovered the bodies at the couple’s home two days apart. Mr Williams (50), who had committed suicide, was found at the house in Colley’s Gate on Friday, April 7. The following day police issued an appeal for information about Mrs Williams’ whereabouts. She had not ...

Lincolnshire County Council says 94.3 per cent of children have been given a place at their primary school of choice through the admissions system this year. That figure is a rise on 2016. Along with the rest of the country, Lincolnshire has experienced high numbers of families wanting their children to start school in September. There are nearly 7,500 children ...

Staff and partners at Moore Thompson are celebrating the success of one of its staff who has attained his qualification as a chartered accountant. Philip Bryan has been with the accountancy firm, which has offices in Spalding, Wisbech and Market Deeping, since 1995, playing an important role as an audit and accounts manager. During his time with the practice he ...

Police say the husband of Bernice Williams, the Lutton teacher found dead at home on Sunday (April 9), is thought to have committed suicide. Lawrence Williams’ body had been discovered at their home in Colley’s Gate on Friday – the day before police issued an appeal about Mrs Williams’ whereabouts. The cause of her death is still to be confirmed. A Lincolnshire Police statement on ...

Bulley Davey has promoted accountant Josh Rowbottom to the role manager. Josh joined the chartered accountants and tax advisers as a trainee accountant in 2012 before taking part in the firm’s management development programme. It includes regular one-to-one sessions with a mentor, as well as traditional professional development structured to give trainees a solid grounding in their chosen profession. Josh qualified as a ...

With the county county elections being only weeks away, the electorate will have a choice to make for the future of our services. As central government continue to starve local authorities from adequate funding we see our council tax on the increase. We seem to have gone backwards by paying more for less, but we deserve better as our front ...

Paul Foyster’s numerous essays to The Voice, no doubt done to raise his own profile, raise a number of points. I make no apology for an equally lengthy response. His well publicised ten-point plan is in the main, the remit of the parish council of which he is a senior councillor. Seems like the ball is in his court… Paul ...

I read with interest your front-page article (“Jobs worry for 100 district council staff”, April 6) about the forthcoming service review at South Holland District Council. Am I the only one left thinking that, if anything like this many jobs are axed after seven years of austerity, there won’t be a district council left worthy of the name? Will we ...

There are six candidates for Spalding Elloe and a divided vote means it is almost certain the Tory will be returned. I have written to the other four candidates suggesting this is a time for unity as once it is shown the Tories can be beaten, public engagement and democracy will bloom. I would also ask every individual voter to ...

Police want to speak to this man about an allegation that he wanted to take pictures of boys at Castle Sports Complex swimming pool in Spalding. A police statement about what they are calling a “suspicious incident” said: “After initial enquiries have failed to identify a suspect, officers are releasing the images of a man they would like to speak to in relation ...

The last two weeks have seen Spalding shopkeepers raise serious concerns about the commitment of our council to our town centre. Despite an unnamed South Holland District Council spokesman being quoted in the press saying, “we are committed to ensuring Spalding town centre is a vibrant retail location and remains the primary retail destination for Spalding”, there has been no other voices out ...

Spalding Classic Car Club has donated £500 to Holbeach Hospital in memory of friend and club member Ivan Cunnington, who lost his battle with pancreatic cancer, spending his final days in the care of the hospital. Ivan, of Gedney Dyke, was also one of the founding members of the King’s Lynn and District Motor Club, chairman for many years, and ...

A shooting ground run by an England and Team GB member faces an uncertain future due to noise complaints. The Priory Clay Target Centre at Sutton Bridge is owned by Long Sutton marksman Aaron Heading, who won the bronze medal at last month’s World Cup in Mexico. But his hopes of continuing to establish a popular shooting ground where adults ...

Hovenden House at Fleet is to close this summer due to “considerable” repair costs. Leonard Cheshire Disability is shutting the service which gives a range of nursing and residential care to 23 adults. The future of the 42 staff is also uncertain. A spokesperson for the charity said: “We always aim to offer the best quality service in modern accessible ...

A decision to suspend lettings at the Spalding Academy site has met with anger and frustration. South Lincolnshire Academies Trust, which runs the school, has given regular users of the Neville Avenue site five months’ notice to find an alternative. The trust says “a number of operational issues” have arisen since the start of the academic year which has led ...