A special memorial event has been held at a village hall which is thriving despite threats of closure over the years. Whaplode Drove Memorial Hall was officially opened on November 22, 1952, to honour those who lost their lives in the two world wars.It was commissioned in January 1945, before the end of World War Two, on a parcel of ...

After 13 years, the Johnson Hospital Ball committee has called it a day. The committee went out with a bang on Saturday night with the Winter Wonderland Ball – raising £1,500 for the League of Friends’ television campaign.Committee chairman Sally Brown said: “It was a fantastic night, everyone had a brilliant time.“It’s a shame that it was the last one ...

Patients in Lincolnshire are set to benefit from longer opening hours, including Saturdays, at their GP surgeries.Launched last month, the Enhanced Access initiative sees practices open during the evening on weekdays and from 9am to 5pm on Saturdays. NHS Lincolnshire says the new hours ‘aim to simplify the existing models of enhanced hours and access currently in place.’According to the ...

Three men have been arrested on suspicion of hare coursing offences after an incident in Donington. A dispersal order was put in place by Lincolnshire police over the weekend in a bid to combat the coursers.Officers were called to a report of coursing at Mallard Hurn, Donington, on Sunday morning.A 4×4 car was located in a field and three men, ...

Matthew’s Quiz Night on Saturday, November 19 at The Elizabethan Social Club, Whaplode Drove, raised £253 for Macmillan Cancer.Thanks to everyone who attended. David BarfootWhaplode Drove

The National Pensioners’ Convention members are celebrating winning their fight to reinstate the triple lock to guarantee state pensions rise by 10.1 per cent next year.But as the increase does not kick in until April, older people already having to choose between paying for food or heating, still face a bleak six months of rampant price rises.And there are other ...

A scheduled meeting of Holbeach Parish Council was forced to be abandoned last week after two councillors walked out.Couns Mark Murphet and Tim Wiltshire left in protest and there were insufficient members remaining to continue.They were unhappy that a previous 10 minute time slot for open questions at the start of the meeting had been replaced with a 25-minute open ...

A care home has received a number of fantastic donations as it works towards a float for the Spalding Flower Parade.Tanglewood’s Cedar Falls Care Home has seen flowers knitted, crocheted or crafted by residents, friends, family and people in the community.Mark Loosemore and Tony Skillington are among those bringing in flowers.Deputy Manager Susan Wilson said, “We are grateful for all ...

Two people from Spalding are among a group of 22 arrested across the UK following an investigation into ATM burglaries. Hundreds of officers and staff from seven police forces contributed to a number of warrants on Wednesday, 16 November 2022.Led by the East Midlands Special Operations Unit (EMSOU), in a joint operation with Police Scotland, the activity took place at ...

Youngsters at Spalding’s Ayscoughfee Hall School donned spots and Pudsey ears to raise money for the BBC’s Children in Need appeal.At lunch time Willoughby Foods supplied a Pudsey-themed picnic for the children to enjoy and the children in the lunchtime nature art club got creative making their very own Pudsey Bear out of leaves and twigs found in the Forest ...

There were blues and twos at a South Holland primary school and Scout meeting when the police were called to attend. But there was nothing to see as they were friendly visits from Lincolnshire force’s Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) who made some new young friends on their travels.PCSO Paul Copeland gave VIP tours of his police van to children ...

Non-profit organisations based within a ten-mile radius of a windfarm are being urged to get in touch for the chance to be given a cash boost.The closing date for the Grange Wind Farm Community Fund is fast approaching on January 1, 2023.Not-for-profit community groups and registered charities, along with schools, parish councils and churches who are based within a 10-mile ...

A donation from the NFU has helped a first responder charity deliver five defibrillators in South Holland.NFU Mutual Agents and their staff at the local Spalding agency recently nominated LIVES, to receive a donation of more than £6,000 from its Agency Giving Fund.This donation will go towards LIVES’ ambitious Defibrillator Programme, to support the charity in introducing the latest available ...

Spalding is getting in the festive mood with celebrations in the town centre on Saturday. Games, competitions, food, crafts and gift stalls will all be in the town centre from 11am to 5pm.Entertainment includes a giant snow globe, vintage carousel and swing boat as well as a pop-up vintage theatre in the town’s South Holland Centre.Live music and street entertainment ...

South Holland District Council has completed £124,000 work on Spalding bus station and Winfrey Avenue car park.The works, which started in late September, included resurfacing across both the station and the car park with a new heavy-duty Tarmac, as well as installing new line markings, signage and litter bins.The bus shelters have all undergone a thorough deep clean, and a ...

A last-minute deal has been reached ahead of planned strike action at a major employer in Spalding. Around 700 members of staff at Bakkavor were due to down tools from the end of this week for more than a month.Negotiations between the company and union Unite had broken down, and a strike ballot saw backing for the industrial action.Strike action ...

Two bank workers have supported a colleague by raising hundreds of pounds for a colleague.Mandy Ward, branch manager at Nationwide in Holbeach, with Nicky Harrell, decided to attempt to walk 100 miles each during July to raise funds for Macmillan.They chose the charity because of its support for their colleague Sarah Beasley who was diagnosed with stage four cancer in ...

Thanks to everyone who has donated to this year’s Give A Gift campaign so far but we still need more presents. The appeal makes a huge difference to struggling families across South Holland and Boston, ensuring children who wouldn’t get a present have something to open on Christmas Day.The Spalding and South Holland Voice has once again teamed up with ...

A Pinchbeck man who denies raping a woman he met on a night out in Spalding insists it was “consensual sex.” Matthew George Cocks (26) denies a single charge of rape after sharing a taxi home with the woman on May 29 last year.A jury at Lincoln Crown Court heard the woman, who cannot be named, had spent the day ...

South Holland’s economy could take off with plans to create a deep port off The Wash. A huge £2bn project has been unveiled by a Horncastle-based business Port-Evo.“It will have benefits for the whole area,” said director James Sutcliffe.A barrier would be created between Wainfleet and a point in Norfolk yet to be determined, and a road link created joining ...