South Holland Centre, Spalding Box office 01775 764777 NT Live: Treasure Island Saturday, 2pm & 7pm Acoustic Café Tuesday, 6pm The Physical Fellowship & Club Red Wednesday, 7.30pm King’s Lynn Corn Exchange Box office 01553 764864 The Chuckles of Oz Tomorrow (Friday), 2pm ELO Experience Saturday, 7.30pm Key Theatre, Peterborough Box office 01733 207239 Paul Foot Today (Thursday), 8pm Songbird: ...

I’ve just read your article on the train diversions through Spalding causing “horrendous tailbacks”. What a lot of fuss about nothing. These diversions happen on only a handful of days in the year. The total number of ‘paths’ translates to an additional four trains an hour at the very most – and, as your article hints, not all of the ...

One hundred trains passing through Spalding is a joke – it’s bad just waiting for one. The town will be closed to traffic coming in from Winsover Road and Park Road because the crossing will be closed for most of the day B Lawson via email

After reading Rachel Mayfield’s report in The Voice (February 5), I have to say that I am so pleased that the Spalding Chamber of Commerce and Spalding Town Centre Management Board have decided to run a competition to find the best design for a new logo for Spalding. I must say that the entrants so far are of a very ...

Just recently in the news, supermarkets have been asked not to place daffodil bulbs near fruit and vegetables as the bulbs can be mistaken for onions and the stems look like Chinese vegetables. If they are used in cooking they are extremely toxic. Easy mistakes for humans to make but animals don’t know if something is toxic. Many plants are ...

In response to the letters over the last few weeks about candidates in the local elections, I would like to make the position with regard to Conservative Party councillors and candidates clear. We do have the position of the group whip. This job isn’t to deal with votes because, with the exception of manifesto commitments, all votes in our group ...

We were filled with dismay after reading the article in the Voice regarding the 100+ additional trains passing through Spalding on the five Saturdays commencing February 28. Since the beginning of the year we are experiencing considerable noise and vibration from the additional freight services using the line on a regular basis both day and night (the night services causing ...

I’m just replying to comments made by Dennis Hannant, that these extra trains won’t have much of an impact. I own a business down Winsover Road and have to come and go all day. The road is a nightmare and don’t even start me on the traffic lights along here not being in sync with each other, meaning pulling out of ...

When I read what Mr Hannant had to say (100 Saturday trains scheduled to pass through district, February 12) I just had to speak out. How can the town centre manager not agree with this? Ok, let’s put it into perspective. If Spalding receives 100 trains on a Saturday that could potentially equate to one every 15 minutes. Hold on, ...

May I, through your paper, reach the residents in the Bourne Road area to assure them that all licensing by South Holland District Council is taken very seriously and that there is a procedure to ask for a review of any licence premises that are in breach of the conditions. There is also an opportunity to appeal within 21 days ...

A village clock will be ticking again in no time thanks to an £8,000 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund. The project, led by local volunteers, will repair the clock at Cowbit St Mary’s Church and communicate the heritage of the church. The clock has stopped and the committee was facing a £10,500 bill to get it going again. Part ...

A new medical centre for Holbeach has passed its first planning hurdle – amid concerns over road safety. Ward member Coun Francis Biggadike led the opposition to the proposed Church Street location when it came before South Holland District Council’s planning committee last week. He claimed it was too near the junction with Hallgate and “not near” public transport links. ...

TODAY South Holland Singers, 7.30pm-9.30pm, St Paul’s Primary School, Queens Road, Spalding, 01775 761106. South Holland Healthy Walks, 10.30am, Holbeach Services Club. Meet your local health trainer, 9am-4pm, Sutton Bridge Community Centre, Theresa 07532 236616. Holbeach and Spalding Explorers: Spalding, 7pm-9pm; Holbeach 7.15pm-9.15pm. Open to 14-18 year olds. Visit www.handsscouts.com Tots and Carers, 9am-11.30am, Moulton Village Hall. Vitality classes, Broad ...

A Spalding resident has been jailed after causing the death of a “popular” Cowbit motorcyclist when he overtook in foggy conditions. Edvinas Maciulevicius (25) was late for his job as an agency driver when he tried to overtake a lorry on the A16 Cowbit bypass. Lincoln Crown Court heard Maciulevicius was at the wheel of a left-hand drive car, which ...

South Holland Centre, Spalding Box office 01775 764777 Three Wise Monkeys Wednesday, 2pm. King’s Lynn Corn Exchange Box office 01553 764864 Fascinating Aida Today (Thursday), 7.30pm. Rumours of Fleetwood Mac Saturday, 7.30pm Paul Carrack Sunday, 7.30pm Milkshake! Live Monday, 1pm and 3.30pm Stamford Arts Centre Box office 01780 763203 Broke, The Paper Birds Tomorrow (Friday), 7.30pm So Comedy Live Tomorrow ...

A team of 17 students and teachers will be heading out to Tanzania in the summer to help out a community. The group from Spalding’s Sir John Gleed School is taking part in the World Challenge and leaves the UK for the 17-day trip on July 17. The group is a mix of boys and girls from years nine, ten ...

I would like to reply to several of your letters, issued dated January 29. I’ve never done this before, but some of the letters infuriated me. First and foremost – Spalding needs a better bus service: You have been unemployed for nearly two years and had the chance of a weekend job in Peterborough, then you complain about the lack ...

I read the response from Jane Frapwell, on behalf of Vodafone, with great interest. I have been a Vodafone customer for many years and during the past ten I have always encountered serious service difficulties while visiting family members who reside in Weston Hills. To describe the cause of the problem as recent service issues caused by a local mast ...

Interesting reading regarding Vodafone signal in this area. I live in Woodfield Close, Spalding, and never get a signal unless I walk all over the bungalow holding my phone at all windows before I am unable to send messages – gets very annoying. Pamela Ivatt Spalding

I fully sympathise with your correspondent bemoaning the difficulties of getting to work by bus, and wish I knew the answer. I also agree that an hourly service to Peterborough with curtailed services at weekends is seriously insufficient. I serve as a district councillor and regularly use the bus services and am very grateful for my bus pass (as are ...