The tough task which faced judges in South Holland Business Awards 2016 was highlighted in one particular category. The Apprentice of the Year award was split four ways between the shortlisted candidates – Kirsty Buffham (Fairnet Commercial Services), Jacques Ripley (Maples Solicitors), Nicole Sleaford (Infotel Solutions) and Lisa Wright (National Centre for Food Manufacturing). The annual awards event was in ...

Lord Porter of Spalding is calling for further investment into pancreatic cancer research. He is also urging people to know the symptoms of the disease. It follows a reception at Westminster hosted by the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for pancreatic cancer, attended by Lord Porter, who is leader of South Holland District Council. He learned that around 665 people in the ...

South Holland District Council’s portfolio holder for business growth has praised the two recipients of council-sponsored accolades in South Holland Business Awards 2016. The council sponsored the Business Person of the Year award for the second year running, which was won by David Ball, of Neame Lea Nurseries. It also handed out a special Lifetime Achievement Award to Ann Savage, group technical director ...

Bakkavor Pizza Holbeach is looking to increase its workforce by almost 20 per cent. There are 150 new posts at the factory in Holbeach St Marks, which already employs 800 people. The firm produces chilled pizzas for major retailers including Sainsbury’s, Morrisons, Waitrose and Tesco. It also produces Pizza Express retail pizzas. Pippa Greenslade, group HR director, said: “Now is a really ...

Spalding Christmas Market has been criticised as having too few stalls, no festive atmosphere and being a waste of the £2,600 budget. Organiser Spalding and District Area Chamber of Commerce, which was given the funding from the Springfields S106 pot by Spalding Town Centre Management Board, has been quick to defend its position. President Phil Scarlett pointed to market stalls ...

A RAF veteran being forced to fight for disability benefits for a second time has described the assessment system as “monstrous”. John McGeorge-Oanta (51) was invalided following almost 20 years service and, after winning a tribunal to retain Government financial support in 2008, has now been told again his benefits are to be cut. He is now planning to pursue ...

Lincolnshire County Council has today (Monday) been awarded £2.5m to fix an estimated 46,800 potholes. The cash is extra government funding from its Pothole Fund for 2017/18. It will be in addition to the £27.6m the county council is set to receive for general road maintenance next year. Coun Richard Davies, executive member for highways, said: “We know that good ...

Police investigating the theft of meat products from Spalding’s Lidl store want to speak to these three people. The CCTV images show two men and a woman. A basket of meat products was stolen around 12.30pm on November 22 at the store in Winsover Road. The people in the images, or anyone who knows their identities, are asked to call PC ...

Police want to speak to this man about a theft from Hills Department Store in Spalding. Three perfume gift sets worth £300 were stolen and investigating officers have issued this CCTV image. The incident happened at the store in Broad Street shortly after 11am on November 10. The man in the image, or anybody who knows his identity is asked ...

By Coun Gary Porter Leader of South Holland District Council I usually enjoy writing for The Voice, but it is with a certain amount of sadness that I am penning this piece on devolution. As regular readers will know, along with seven other councils, South Holland signed up to the Greater Lincolnshire bid to be able to bring our residents greater ...

Dozens of young people in South Holland have been rewarded for their hard work in the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme. Many candidates were receiving their bronze award, five have completed the silver award and four teenagers – Spalding High School students Georgina Cantwell, Emily Crossland and Jade Rigby and Spalding Open Award Group member Sophie Roberts – have achieved ...

Lincolnshire county and South Holland district councillor Nick Worth is backing a charity raising awareness of the dangers of counterfeits in the run-up to Christmas. Research by Electrical Safety First found that one in six consumers in the UK have bought a fake electrical item as a Christmas gift – and many people are unable to identify a genuine electrical ...

by Dr Chris Andrews Visitor experience manager, RSPB Frampton March This time I’d like to talk about tits. Oh dear, I can hear the sniggering already. Yes, there is a whole family of birds called tits. The name ‘tit’ means ‘small’, as in the word ‘titbit’ for a small morsel of food. So what do they look like? Well, basically ...

Bravo Jackie Ives for her letter (November 17) asking for motorists’ consideration of ducks and other wildfowl in Fishpond Lane, Holbeach. We, too, have seen near misses of the wildfowl, with people who think they are lord/lady of the manor in their big vehicles with little or no regard to the speed limit. However, there are people who are aware ...

Pinchbeck branch of the Royal British Legion wishes to express its very grateful thanks to the residents of not only Pinchbeck but of the surrounding areas also in making the recent Poppy Appeal our best to date. In particular we are grateful to customers of Morrisons who contributed £13,371.59 to our total collection there, as well as to the branch ...

In response to the article ‘Spitting in the street in Spalding could lead to a fine’ (November 10), I feel I need to give my input to the ongoing issues which affect this lovely little market town of ours. For well over two years now, there has been a growing call for zero tolerance to issues such as spitting in ...

A man who arranged for a 14-year-old girl to be taken from a South Lincolnshire children’s home to London for sex has been jailed for 12 years. Billal Amin sent a taxi to Lincolnshire to collect the teenager and her 15-year-old friend and take her to a Travelodge in East London. Martin Hurst, prosecuting at Lincoln Crown Court, said the two ...

Customers are expected to be able to return to Donington’s Co-op store early in the New Year, with work due to get under way to repair ram-raid damage on Monday (November 28). A John Deere teleporter was driven into the front of the Market Place store at the end of September, leaving the pavement area in front of it and ...

By Coun Christine Lawton South Holland District Council portfolio holder for housing landlord This year marks the 50th anniversary of the BBC’s polemical drama Cathy Come Home in which a young husband and wife with three children were inexorably driven into homelessness and despair. An accident leads to rent arrears and eviction, compounded by unsympathetic bureaucrats and outdated legislation. The ...

With Christmas shopping season now in full swing we’re asking you to spare a thought and a few pounds to pick up an extra gift for a deserving local child. We’ve teamed up again with We’ll Let Your House directors Harry Drury and Jacob Bell on the Give A Gift Campaign.We’re asking readers to buy one extra present suitable for ...