Five fire crews attended a workshop on fire near to the A16 at Surfleet last night (Thursday, August 18). It was reported just before 6pm last night. A spokesman for Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue, said: ”Spalding, Donington, Kirton, Holbeach and Boston attended reports of a outbuilding on fire off the A16, Surfleet. “Fire damage to metal framed workshop and contents ...

University Academy Holbeach is celebrating a 100 per cent pass rate for its students, including its first ever to pass the Oxbridge entry requirements. The school says it’s had a host of good results. Ben Harcourt-Sharpe was one of the top performers and will study history at Oxford after achieving grades of A* and A. Principal Shelia Paige said: “University ...

Halmer Gate in Spalding is currently closed due to an incident. Emergency services including the air ambulance are in attendance. The AA reports its a ’serious crash involving a van and a car’. There’s been reports on social media of at least one person at the scene being given CPR. The Voice has contacted Lincolnshire Police for more information. More ...

Three Spalding homes have been raided as part of an investigation into ‘serious and organised crime’. Six people have been arrested following the raids yesterday (Wednesday, August 17) on those homes and also on a property in Peterborough. It was instigated by Northamptonshire Police who said it followed an investigation into the theft of £300,000 of tools from a stolen ...

A Surfleet man has been jailed after being found driving while disqualified for a second time in four months. Edvinas Piragis, 29, of Newlands Road, admitted driving while disqualified and without insurance whenhe appeared at Boston Magistrates Court. Prosecuting, Marie Stace said police saw Piragis driving an Audi A4 in Holbeach Road, Spalding at4.30pm on May 10 and stopped the ...

A Spalding man drove his Mercedes car at speeds of up to 130mph in an attempt to avoid being stopped by police, a court has heard. Eimantas Gudziunas, 32, of Double Street, who admitted dangerous driving, was seen by officers in his car at 12.30am on January 26 and they followed it and then used their blue light to get ...

People were queuing from 7.30am this morning as Taco Bell and KFC opened its new Spalding branches. The developments on the Lincolnshire Business Gateway Park are now serving food and drink after opening their doors at 10.30am this morning (Thursday, August 18). The queues were for Taco Bell which celebrated the opening of its 100th store in the UK by ...

Inspectors of an adult care home have put it in special measures after highlighting a raft of failings – including residents not being protected from abuse. Alleged incidents of physical and sexual abuse at Field House, Fleet Hargate, had not been reported to the safeguarding team by staff or the manager. “These incidents were consequently not investigated at the time,” ...

Hundreds of children are being helped by a scheme running at a Spalding fish and chip shop. And the owners of Phoenix Traditional Fish and Chips have no intention of ending the scheme so long as it’s being supported. Since the start of the summer holidays the team has been offering the £1 meals for children. No other purchase is ...

A revamped path linking Spalding’s town centre and Johnson Hospital has been officially opened. The Daffodil Route has been spruced up thanks to £85,000 of Section 106 money secured from Spalding Power Station. The work carried out by CG Godfrey of West Pinchbeck, included the laying of a 850m-long, 2.4m-wide near maintenance-free surface, as well as the cutting back of ...

A public meeting has been called to discuss the closure of the Spalding GP Surgery amid a call for Pinchbeck to get its own surgery. Coun Angela Newton has organised the meeting as she said the NHS consultation events being held about the closure are ‘have not been very positive’. The public meeting will take place on Monday, September 5 ...

A Spalding family says they’ve used life savings and given up jobs to help their mum fly to Mexico for cancer treatment. Katarzyna Chipala (69) has been in the Central America country for four weeks being treated for multiple myleoma, a form of bone cancer. Her daughter, also called Katarzyna, says after two years of suffering the family looked for ...

I would like to thank all the people who stopped to help me when I fell over on my driveway in Weston Hills. Gwen Mander

It is gratifying that so many people see the good sense in having a safer route, the New River cycleway, from Little London Bridge to the ever-growing facilities around The Tulip Queen. We hope Lincolnshire County Council can agree on who owns the land; this disagreement is currently an obstacle to progress. To those who object because there would be ...

The Spalding public has shown a clear interest in where the Johnson Drinking Fountain should be reinstated. We doubt, if any of them, however, feel that South Holland District Council has shown any interest in consulting them about the future site. This failure is contrary to Government advice in the National Planning Policy Framework, which states that “early engagement [with ...

Victory in Europe Day (VE Day) was on May 8, 1945. The war against the Japanese continued for a further four months until September 2, 1945. Those still fighting the Japanese became known as The Forgotten Army and it would appear that Holbeach Parish Council is continuing this trait , as nothing has been arranged to remember those who carried ...

So Coun Gambba-Jones doesn’t like it because the Independent councillors scrutinise the small budget of £2,000 for maintenance of play across the whole of South Holland. He wrongly tells readers that the Annual Full Council meeting in May set the budget this year. If he reads his council papers he will see that the Full Council meeting on March 3, ...

I enjoy The Voice, it informs and entertains me and I look forward to it arriving on Thursdays. Recently regretfully it has been spoilt by you allowing local council officials (past and present) to use the letters page as a soapbox to spout forth their grievances against each other by writing long epistles droning on and on about you said ...

I am saddened to hear about the loss of life in the fire in Whaplode Drove. I have a brother that lives in that road and I am so worried about the plan of these bungalows. I am not sure if you are aware of the layout of these bungalows, but I am amazed that there is only one way ...

I would hazard a guess that every person on the Tory front bench in Parliament is a millionaire, at least. This is the very nub of our present “cost of living crisis” – they do not, in any form, understand the phrase. Large bank accounts, nice safe investments, second homes, and their best friend, expense account. The phrase has no ...