A memorial to a heroic RAF pilot who steered his stricken jet away from Spalding and died as a result, is to be unveiled on Monday. The Meteor VIII was being flown by Pilot Officer George Furniss when it got into trouble while over the town on September 27, 1953.He battled with the controls to steer the jet away from ...

A 13-year-old girl who almost lost an arm when she impaled it on metal fencing at Spalding’s Ayscoughfee Gardens has a warning for other children. Doctors say Poppy Elsey’s jumper took some of the impact and probably saved her limb.She had a skin graft to the injury and faces further operations as she gets older.The incident happened after Poppy and ...

Work is expected to start on replacing the damaged Bedford Bridge at Quadring Eaudyke.The northern side of the bridge partially collapsed in late 2019 and was temporarily repaired.A full replacement is scheduled to be installed with a wider bridge and concrete parapets.Work is due to start on Monday, October 4 and is expected to last nine weeks. Water Gate will ...

Red roses have been taken to the final resting place of more than 800 men lost when the Royal Oak was hit by torpedo fire in 1939. Some of the 834 dead from the events of October 14 at Scapa Flow have relatives in South Holland and some joined armed forces supporter Harold Payne on the trip.He had been fundraising ...

A multi-million pound cutting edge agricultural hydroponics plant is being planned for South Holland. Jepco, the local company behind the project, is aiming to expand its production at Gedney Marsh using techniques designed to reduce environmental impacts.A planning application outlines a three-phase development including ten hectares (24.7 acres) of glasshouses complete with blackout blinds to reduce potential light pollution.The project, ...

Three Spalding schools have been evacuated following bomb threats. Staff and pupils at Spalding High School, St John the Baptist Primary School and Monkshouse Primary School have all been evacuated as a precaution. A spokesman for Lincolnshire Police said: “We are working with three schools in Spalding following reports of threats received relating to alleged bombs on the premises. “We ...

A man who murdered his daughter and then hid her body after she made allegations of sexual abuse against him has been told he will serve a minimum of 32 years in prison. Today (Friday) Scott Walker was sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of killing 17-year-old Bernadette Walker at Cambridge Crown Court earlier this year, despite ...

A controversial planning application to transform a former clothing shop into an adult gaming centre has been refused by planners. Merkur Slots (UK) Ltd applied to South Holland District Council for permission for a change of use of the former Dorothy Perkins store in Hall Place, Spalding, to a 24-hour slot machine arcade.The application, which was submitted back in June, ...

For the past ten days a team from Newcastle University and the University of Sheffield have undertaken an archaeological excavation at Anchor Church Field, near Crowland. This work has identified important medieval remains, at a location traditionally associated with St Guthlac – a saint who lived as a hermit in the Fens during the seventh and eighth centuries AD. On ...

A local charity that provides days out for the elderly is back on its feet and ready for an exciting future – even without one of its founder members at the helm. The Meadows in Spalding is back offering people the chance to socialise, learn new crafts and enjoy food and drink together after the enforced COVID-19 break.A special open ...

A Spalding-based broadband company says it’s on track with its bid to start rolling out high speed internet connectivity by the Autumn.Lightspeed Broadband, based at Fulney Hall, says it’s looking to connect 100,000 homes across South Lincolnshire and aims to reach a million homes by 2025.Potential customers had contacted The Voice to say they’d registered an interest but not heard ...

Lincolnshire has been invited to become one of a new wave of Careers Hubs, as announced by the Department for Education and The Careers and Enterprise Company with the likes of Bakkavor set to get involved. The Greater Lincolnshire Local Enterprise Partnership has welcomed the announcement, as local schools and colleges are enrolled onto the Department for Education’s Enterprise Advisor ...

A town-wide table top sale is taking place in Holbeach this Sunday.Organised by Holbeach Parish Council, around 30 stalls look set to take part in the event due to take place from 11am to 4pm.The council’s vice chair Sophie Hutchinson said: “We have over 25 houses signed up so far across Holbeach town and the Women’s Institute Hall will be ...

St John’s Church in Weston Hills is holding a table top sale this Saturday.The event will be inside or outside the village hall, depending on the weather from 9am to 12pm.A spokesman said: “There will be cakes, tombola, bric-a-brac, books puzzles, plants and much more.“Please come and support us.”

A blonde moment is providing a local theatre group with its return to the stage. Act II are back and bringing their production of the comedy Legally Blonde to the stage next week.The show was originally meant to be staged in April 2020, but two years after first rehearsals the group are finally bringing it on stage at Spalding Grammar ...

A hospital that oversees the Suttons area has played a big part in a new COVID-19 vaccine that’s been approved.The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn (QEH) played an instrumental role in the study of the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine (NVX-CoV2373) which has efficacy of 89.7 per cent against SARS-CoV-2.A final analysis of a Phase III trial published in the New England ...

Thousands of visitors made their way to Holbeach for a great weekend of music and beer. With live music, food, rides and beer on offer, some 12,000 to 15,000 people helped made the event a huge success.Bands including The Upbeat Beatles, Wild Boys, Bon Giovi and Queen tribute band Flash – provided music for all tastes.“It was definitely our best ...

A Gosberton man who sold cannabis to fund his own addiction was spared an immediate jail sentence.Travis Frederick Mills (23) admitted turning to dealing to help pay off a drug debt, Lincoln Crown Court heard.Mills, of Belchmire Line, admitted possession of cannabis with intent to supply, possession of MDMA in October last year, as well as possessing cannabis found in ...

A council is urging you to get on board and tell it what you want from local bus services. Lincolnshire County Council has launched a consultation to put together a plan of how bus services should be delivered.And it hopes that will unlock government funding as part of the ‘Bus Back Better’ proposal.A spokesman for the authority said: “We’re putting ...

South Holland and the Deepings MP Sir John Hayes has been placed on a board aimed at setting government policy on new housing.He is the only Member of Parliament appointed to advise Government planning and housing policy through the Office for Place, the first body of its kind authorised to fashion and guide all Government policy in this field.The office ...