Amid concerns patients locally are struggling to get a referral from GPs to another NHS service, a group is looking to hear their experiences. Healthwatch Lincolnshire want to speak to people so it can ‘help the NHS better understand your challenges’. And a concern it says it hears regularly is with regards to GP referrals. A spokesman for the group, ...

The Proms are coming to Whaplode Drove this Saturday, September 24. King’s Lynn Town Band, alongside singer Anneli Killen (pictured), will be performing at The Elizabethan Centre’s The Proms Night Show. From 8pm the Parsons Lane venue will be full of song and entry is completely free. A spokesman for the centre said: “Join us for a fabulous evening of ...

Get ready to be all shook up by one of the best impersonators around. JD King is bringing his show Elvis The King to the South Holland Centre on Friday, September 30. A spokesman for the venue said: “An Elvis tribute show not to be missed, book your tickets early as his last visit was a sell out! “JD KING ...

A band is set to celebrate its 135th anniversary in style. Stamford Town Band, of which half the current members are from the Spalding area, is putting on a special gala concert on Saturday, October 1. The band, which is the current Midland Champion, will also be joined by special guests The Northampton Male Voice Choir for the special event. ...

A Holbeach man has died after a single vehicle road traffic collision. Cambridgeshire Police say a red Vauxuall Vivario containing Costel Burdulea, 43, of John Street was found on Sixteen Foot Bank near Stonea at 12pm, Monday, September 19, but it’s not known when the collision occurred. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Sergeant Stephen Andrews said: “We are ...

A four week £100,000 scheme to improve Spalding’s bus station is due to start on Monday. The project will include resurfacing across the station, replacing kerbing, deep cleaning of shelters and repairs to fencing around the site. There will be two phases of the refurbishment and the bus station will remain open and operating as normal throughout. There will be ...

New high-tech CCTV cameras in are due to installed in Spalding in 18 key spots this week. It follows South Holland District Council’s successful bid for Central Government’s Safer Streets Funding earlier this year. With the whole project due to cost £400,000, the pre-existing CCTV cameras will be replaced by new high-tech versions which use innovative artificial intelligence (AI) technology. ...

A Spalding man who was caught out selling stolen goods online told a friend: “I’m in sh**, big time.” Tools worth £4,000 were stolen in a raid on Norfolk Timber Frames in King’s Lynn in November 2020and soon offered for sale on Facebook. Some of them were rare and carried the business’s name – which was clearly showing in the ...

A Spalding artist will be taking his talent elsewhere after being told his latest piece is ‘against policy.’ Graffiti art specialist Karl Barfoot said he was welcome in other places, including Peterborough, and would be producing his art elsewhere. Having spent around £100 on paint and a good many hours on the piece at the back of the Castle Sports ...

A Spalding GP practice is to open a second site to fill the gap created when Johnson Hospital closes its surgery at the end of this month. There was an outcry when the hospital-based surgery caring for around 3,000 patients, announced its closure in July. Spalding Surgery was opened at the Johnson site when the town’s Pennygate Surgery closed in ...

Charges have been brought against a motorist – more than four months after a hit and run incident injured two pedestrians in Spalding. A car collided with Spalding man Jordan Blackbourn (22) and a female friend, also in her 20s, onSunday, May 1. It happened as they crossed New Road at 4.41am. Lincolnshire Police immediately appealed for information and later ...

There was a chance to explore a nuclear bunker last weekend. The now de-commissioned Royal Observer Corps Bunker at Holbeach was opened last weekend by its custodial owners Heritage Lincolnshire. The bunker built in the early 1960s to withstand a nuclear blast in the cold war era was in use up until the Corps’ stand down in 1991. Had a ...

Spalding Power Station could be set to home a Battery Energy Storage System, claimed to be the largest in the world. South Holland District Council’s Planning Committee unanimously passed the outline planning application by Spalding Energy Park Ltd last week for the batteries and associated infrastructure. The unmanned system would have a capacity of up to 550megawatts, would connect to ...

A developer faces prosecution for building a number of homes in the wrong place, but it has been allowed to keep them there. Seven dwellings have been built different to the plans Ashwood Homes had passed for its Parish Mews site in Crowland. One bungalow, South Holland District Council planning officers claim, was built “very close” to a protected ash ...

It is with great sadness that the members of Long Sutton Parish Council join the nation to mourn the sad loss of the passing of our beloved Queen Elizabeth II and our sympathies are with the members of the Royal family. God save the King John Clareychairman of Long Sutton Parish Council

It is with deep sadness that we, your bishops, received the news that our Sovereign Lady, Queen Elizabeth died.It is taking time to sink in that the monarch most of us have trusted and relied on all our lives has been promoted to glory.For us as Christians she has fulfilled her role as Defender of the Faith, offering the most ...

It is with great sadness that we heard of the passing of Queen Elizabeth II. Our sincere condolences to King Charles III and all the Queen’s family. As Britain’s longest-reigning monarch and figurehead over seven decades, the Queen demonstrated the very essence of unstinting public service, winning hearts and minds wherever she went. Her inspiring constant integrity, humanity and support ...

Further to my letter published in The Voice on August 18, I was contacted by phone on the same day by South Holland District Council. What a coincidence some might say! The adviser I spoke to dealt with my request for a garden waste bin, and also the £150 energy rebate. Her name escapes me, but she dealt with both ...

In this past week, we have seen the enormous swell of public feeling released on the occasion of the death of Queen Elizabeth. It is plain that many, who may never have met her directly, have felt a deep respect and a relationship with her. It’s not too much to say ‘a loving relationship’. I believe that is a consequence ...

I note your report on fly-tipping in last week’s Voice newspaper. As a regular cyclist of the fens, I often report acts of fly-tipping to the appropriate authority. Most recently I came across large amounts of tipping on New Road, just off the Common Road Crowland. Also, one of the worst cases I have seen on the Common Road itself. ...