Students from Ayscoughfee Hall School celebrated finishing their 11+ papers with a visit to 1498 Spice Affair restaurant in Spalding. The Year 6 pupils combined a lesson on their geography topic of India with a session making their own naan bread. Headteacher Clare Ogden said: “The children all enjoyed a delicious lunch and left understanding a lot more about Goa, ...

Community groups are being offered free access to a course designed to help them ensure they are fulfilling their responsibilities to safeguard adults form harm and abuse. The course, delivered by Lincolnshire Community and Voluntary Service (LCVS), is designed to empower individuals to spot possible abuse and those at risk and know what to do if they have a concern ...

I read in The Voice that the owners of the Bull and Monkie in Spalding still owe the council £13,000 for the enforced clean-up. I also read that Mr Gambba-Jones is suggesting the council look at other methods of recouping the money owed. Mr Gambba-Jones is clearly guilty of misuse of council taxpayers’ money. I cannot believe that the council ...

I’d like to thank publically Alan Meekings for his letter in The Voice (September 1). He’s right to draw attention to the challenges facing us all in balancing changing health demands with resource limited supply. In fact I wrote about exactly this matter, at some length, in the Lincolnshire Free Press recently. In essence, Government – of whatever party – ...

An IT manager from Spalding raised the money necessary to fund a cancer support nurse for a day by running 118 miles in a month. Simon Lilley (43), of St Helena Drive, took on Out Run September for Macmillan Cancer Support as a personal challenge and to add to recent fundraising efforts. He raised £235, surpassing his original target of ...

Sneath’s Mill Trust has been presented with a £1,000 grant from the Freemasons’ Provincial Grand Lodge. Each year the 74 Masonic Lodges within Lincolnshire have the opportunity to request a grant to support one or more of their local charities – this year from a pot of £73,500. Fenland Daylight Lodge 9825 at Long Sutton put forward one request – ...

Spalding Hospice Foundation Committee held a fundraising stall at Johnson Community Hospital to support its Tulip Suite. Sales of plants, costume jewellery and bric-a-brac raised £152 to help the committee carry on its work supporting patients, their families and staff. Pauline Seymour, wife of South Holland District Council chairman Michael, donated a large number of hand knitted toys, which proved very popular. ...

A psychiatrist has told the trial of a 15-year-old girl accused of two murders in Spalding that she was suffering from a disorder which impaired her judgement. Dr Indranil Chakrabarti, who specialises in child and adolescents, told the jury at Nottingham Crown Court on Wednesday (Oct 12) that the girl had intended to kill both Liz Edwards and her 13-year-old daughter Katie. ...

Any tenant wanting to live in this new Spalding property must first agree to be a good neighbour. Landlord Mark Le Sage is including a clause in tenancy agreements for the Spring Gardens property. It means people will be required to act well not only within the confines of the house but in the neighbourhood too. Mark says he has had ...

The Crown Prosecution Service has asked a judge to review his sentence of a serial fraudster. Former nurse Maria Pridmore was jailed for three years after she admitted a string of offences, including claiming benefits for two of her dead children and stealing over £30,000 from friends and two elderly women. Following the sentence in August, Nigel Chapman, the hate ...

The Holbeach branch of HSBC is to close permanently in three months’ time. Following a reduction in footfall of around a third, the High Street branch will shut on January 6. Holbeach county councillor and South Holland District Councillor Nick Worth regretted the decision but said the closure was “inevitable” due to an obvious decline in branch users. A statement ...

A 15-year-old girl accused of two murders told police that she had felt like murdering for a while. The girl, who was 14 at the time of the killings, told officers who interviewed her that she planned the killings of school dinner lady Liz Edwards and her daughter Katie with a then 14-year old boy, who has admitted murder. DC ...

A 15-year-old girl accused of carrying out two murders gave graphic descriptions of the killings in police interviews, a jury heard today (Tuesday). The girl, who cannot be identified because of a court order, told officers how she planned the killings of school dinner lady Elizabeth Edwards (49) and her 13-year-old daughter Katie during chats with a 15-year-old boy, who ...

Two nurses based in Spalding are among the latest seven Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) staff members to be awarded the honour of Queen’s Nurse. Case managers Suzanne Wells and Pippa O’Connor received the coveted title along with Rosemary Royce, Mandy Harsley, Valerie Ronis, Debbie Boulton, and Kathy Karruthers who all work at LCHS across the county. Suzanne, who ...

“Children make good progress in all aspects of their learning and development in readiness for school,” Ofsted inspectors have said of a childcare provider. Sunflower Lodge, in Elsoms Way, Pinchbeck, was rated “good”. The report said: “The management team demonstrates passion and dedication to providing the best possible outcomes for children and their families. “Well-qualified practitioners know the children well ...

A chef who was the youngest-ever person to be diagnosed with a particular form of cancer – and almost died – is ready to run a half-marathon on Sunday. And Rob Green has celebrity backing for the Perkins Great Eastern Run in Peterborough – comedian and social media star Dapper Laughs has pledged £500. Rob was just ten years old ...

Planning permission for 45 homes in Weston has been granted following an appeal by the developer over South Holland District Council’s failure to make a timely decision. After the appeal had been lodged by Larkfleet Homes, the council said it would have refused permission for the Small Drove plan on the grounds of a lack of public open space (less than ...

Shoppers at Tesco Holbeach had the chance of getting ‘a little extra help’ last Saturday (Oct 1) in the way of having their cars washed by firefighters. Members of Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue’s Holbeach crew did a car wash in aid of the Fire Fighters’ Charity, raising £261.

Work is already under way to turn around a school deemed to “require improvement” in its latest inspection, the new executive headteacher has said. School inspectors said “pupils have not reached the standards they are capable of” by the time they leave Gosberton Academy. A just-published Ofsted report said: “Senior leaders have not secured consistently good teaching across the school. ...

The former Jewson site in Spalding’s Roman Bank is earmarked for a care home and apartments for over-55s. The 88-bed care home would front the River Welland, next to two blocks of a total of 30 apartments. The plan by Millhouse Group has shops, including a hairdresser’s, internal and external dining space and a water taxi berth with stair and ...