Gemma Turton has been promoted to partner within Spalding firm Maples Solicitors. Gemma, who will be a partner in the commercial/commercial property department, gained a first class law degree and commendation on the LPC and joined Maples as a trainee. Since qualifying Gemma has worked in the commercial department assisting David Hicken, the firm’s head of commercial property, and Richard ...

Pinocchio Blackfrairs Arts Centre, Boston Saturday, April 4, 11am and 2.30pm Tickets £12 (adults), £10 (concessions), £40 (family) Box office 01205 363108 Geppetto longs for a son of his own and so builds a puppet boy named Pinocchio who is magically brought to life by a beautiful Fairy. To become a real boy, Pinocchio must first prove he is brave, ...

Dinosaur Zoo Key Theatre, Peterborough Wednesday, February 25 and Thursday, February 26, 1.30pm and 4.30pm Tickets £12.50, danger seats £16. Box office 01733 207239 Dare to get up close and personal! Direct from the West End, Dinosaur Zoo brings these awesome prehistoric creatures to the stage as you’ve never seen them before! From cute baby dinos to teeth-gnashing giants, observe ...

A Holbeach businesswoman is keeping it in the family with her latest venture. Rosemary Cameron, who is Holbeach born and bred, is behind the launch of new coffee lounge Caffe Aurora. Rosemary’s daughter Sophie and her husband Cormac O’Hara lead the operation with Sophie as head baker and Cormac as manager. Their eldest daughter Poppy leads the Barista service team ...

TODAY South Holland Singers, 7.30pm-9.30pm, St Paul’s Primary School, Queens Road, Spalding, 01775 761106. South Holland Healthy Walks, 10.30am, start Holbeach Services Club. Moulton Seas End Youth Club, 6.30pm-8.30pm, £1.50 for ages seven to 16, contact Margaret Hains on 01406 371796. Meet your local Health Trainer, 9am-4pm, Sutton Bridge Community Centre, contact Theresa Lewis on 07532 236616. Holbeach and Spalding ...

Last month Spalding and District Chamber of Commerce held its second Christmas ten pin bowling evening at AlleyCatz. An annual event that the town centre manager, Dennis decided to get recruiting for to make sure it was well attended with many local businesses, including Tom, Graham and the team at Hughes Electrical, Pete and family from the Punchbowl and Tulip ...

If you were putting money on Mark Wahlberg’s latest offering The Gambler, I’d strongly suggest hedging your bets. A remake of the 1974 film starring James Caan, I found the film hard going in places. Mark Wahlberg plays Jim Bennett, a literature professor with a severe gambling addiction. He ends up owing $260,000 to Lee (Alvin Ing), the proprietor of ...

Claire Martin, Ray Gelato & the Dave Newton Trio in Concert – A Swingin’ Affair South Holland Centre, Spalding Today (Thursday), 7.30pm Tickets £19.50/£18.50 Box Office 01775 764777 Visit www.southhollandcentre.co.uk   Friends for 30-years, multi award-winning vocalist Claire Martin OBE and legendary saxophonist and vocalist Ray Gelato have combined their love of all things “swing” and joined forces for their ...

King’s Lynn Corn Exchange Box office 01553 764864 The Elvis Years Tomorrow (Friday), 7.30pm. Norfolk Symphony Orchestra Sunday, 3.30pm. The Cresset, Peterborough Box office 01733 265705 Omid Djalili Today (Thursday), 8pm. Key Theatre, Peterborough Box office 01733 207239 Royal Opera House present Andrea Chenier (Live Screening) Today (Thursday), 7.15pm. The Johnny Cash Story Saturday, 7.30pm. My Dog’s Got No Nose ...

Judy Finnigan Thursday, July 2, 7.15pm Bookmark, Spalding Tickets £3.50 01775 769231 Judy Finnigan will be returning to Bookmark to celebrate the publication of her second novel I Do Not Sleep. Judy will be at the Spalding bookstore on Thursday, July 2 at 7.15pm. Those of you who went to the first event with Judy will know what a wonderful ...

This month’s Spalding Arts and Crafts demo will be hands-on print making with Angela Daymond. Collagraph is a college printmaking technique, where the image is made from a variety of textured materials stuck to a base. It is a good way of using everyday materials such as textured wallpaper or string. Everyone will get to make their own printing block ...

I would like to acknowledge the support Home-Start South Holland has received during 2015 from the community. As a family support organisation that is reliant upon volunteers, I would like to thank our volunteers who offer direct support to local families and our trustees and advisors who work tirelessly behind the scenes. It is so reassuring that there is so ...

Two charities have benefited from a fashion show held at a Spalding shop. Beales Department Store in Market Place hosted the fashion show, in conjunction with Weight Watchers, back in October. The event raised £1,000 with Beales half of the money going to Macmillan Cancer Support and Weight Watchers’ half to Diabetes UK.

South Holland Concerts present Rosanna Ter-Berg and Leo Nicholson South Holland Centre, Spalding Saturday, 7.30pm Tickets £13.50/£12/students free Box office 01775 764777 Rosanna Ter-Berg and Leo Richardson offer an evening of flute and piano from South Holland Concerts on Saturday. Since graduating from Trinity Laban in 2011, Rosanna and Leo have both pursued successful careers as soloists and chamber musicians, ...

I was only thinking the other day, what Spalding really lacks for and desperately needs is another off-licence. I mean, in some parts of town you have to walk up to 50 yards to find an opportunity to buy alcohol. So how are those wonderfully colourful street drinkers to keep themselves adequately supplied in such an arid environment. That’s all ...

January means one thing for me. It is time again for the Big Garden Birdwatch. Have you heard of it? It is the RSPB’s annual call to arms to discover which birds use our back gardens. The idea started off in the 1970’s, when children were encouraged to spend a little bit of time one weekend in January, spotting their ...

I read in the last edition of The Voice, your news that Lincolnshire County Council is to press ahead with its plans to close many of the counties libraries. Could I therefore remind readers, that this is a Conservative Party plan, brought about at a time when they had more power on the council, and although the electorate later voted ...

I could barely believe what I read in the article in the Spalding Voice (January 15). I am a 77-year-old retired mechanical engineer and metal fabricator who ran my own small business up to the age of 67, and I am convinced that the above budget is more than sufficient to pay for the manufacture and installation of completely new ...

After being unemployed for nearly two years, I have managed to get a job in Peterborough – yippee! – no! – as it’s working weekends I am unable to take the job. We live in the 21st century but in Spalding it’s still the dark ages unless you own a car. I rely on public transport (buses) as a lot ...

I see on the news that Mr Cameron is pleading with companies to pass the windfall made from falling oil prices to the workforce, “obviously I want to see companies’ success passed through in terms of wage increases”. Of course, in a growing economy, one wouldn’t expect a prime minister to be pleading for such things – as wage increases ...