Spalding Academy says its pupils have achieved its best GCSE results ever. The school says it’s particular pleased with the number of top grade (nines) it received. The head Mrs Jemma Curson hailed “amazing progress” with 70 per cent of students having achieved grades nine to four in 2022 compared to 49 per cent in 2019. For GCSE English, this was ...

Boston Road South in Holbeach is open again to traffic for the first time in months. Lincolnshire County Council has completed its long delayed restructure which followed sewer works by Anglian Water. The road has been plagued with sinking problems for three years and was the subject of a public meeting last week where both organizations involved apologised for delays ...

Spalding’s Castle Sports Complex Swimming Pool is set to be unable to reopen for at least another week. Work to open the pool has been continuing since last week’s flooding and on Monday the facility posted on social media that it would be closed until “at least 12pm” today (Thursday, August 25). However the centre operated by Lex Leisure on ...

The family of a 44-year-old woman who died at the scene of a collision on a Spalding road have thanked those that tried to save the life of the ‘loving and caring’ mother of two. Joanna Zacharkiewicz has been named locally as the woman who died in Halmer Gate, Spalding, shortly after 5pm on Thursday, August 18. Lincolnshire Police say ...

A special darts competition has hit the bullseye for an emotional charity effort. The Lincoln Arms recently put on the pairs event for Karen Pearson who is running the London Marathon in October. She’s taking up the place of Teresa Walton who spent years raising money for the charity Breast Cancer Now until she died in a road accident last ...

A Spalding community group has received a Lottery grant to help bring a former chapel back into community use. Project St Thomas is an initiative of the Catholic community in South Holland to create a local resource. The grant, for just over £14,000, will be used to work with local people to identify potential uses for the building and look ...

A Holbeach couple are fuming about receiving no payment after selling solar energy back to the National Grid since the start of the year. Seven months after paying out around £14,000 to have a 16-panel solar array fitted to their home, Pam and Ricky Fry have yet to receive a penny from company Utilities Warehouse. The couple have been so ...

A new scheme to aid Spalding streets that frequently flood is being put together it’s been claimed after properties were flooded last week. Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue said it had more than 100 calls from Spalding and Pinchbeck residents alone last Wednesday (August 17). They attributed it to a larger than expected storm which saw 146mm of rain fall in ...

Spalding’s tax payers could fund a float on behalf of the town at the proposed flower parade return next year. The Spalding Town Forum is to ask South Holland District Council’s Cabinet to release £10,000 of its funding to go towards a float for the event set to happen on Saturday, May 6. It’s to come from the £100,000 reserves ...

A council partnership has launched its own local lottery with a £25,000 jackpot. The South and East Lincolnshire Lottery is aiming to raise money for local good causes. South Holland District Council first spoke about the setting up of a lottery for its residents back in 2020. Now it’s been launched by the South and East Lincolnshire Councils Partnership of ...

Picking up on Richard Rate’s letter (Voice August 8), I assume he and South Holland residents are unaware that the council still mainly works from home! This is just one example of my recent experience. I attempted to make contact with the council to report a deliberately lit fire by a male youth in the Castle Park on Tuesday, August ...

These new black monstrosities in the Holbeach Food Enterprise Zone are an absolute eyesore. Whoever signed off the designs? The buildings resemble World War II air raid bunkers in Hamburg, Germany! Perhaps they should be called the FEZ bomb shelters in future. Awful blots on the Holbeach landscape. Michael MitchellStrawberry Fields DriveHolbeach St Marks

A man who admitted intentionally strangling his partner at her Spalding home was today (Wednesday) jailed for 34 months. Lincolnshire Police charged Benjamin Flatters under new legislation which was introduced earlier this year to protect victims of domestic abuse. Flatters will also serve a further 12 months on extended licence following his release from jail after a judge concluded he ...

I attended the parish council-organised meeting – thank you HPC – about the Boston Road sinkhole on Tuesday. The problem – there were several things that struck me. This is a three-year-old running farce. Both the county council and Anglian Water seemed rather vague about exactly what happened immediately after the hole first opened, though at the time they each ...

Former staff at a Spalding GP practice held a reunion at the weekend. The High Street Surgery closed its doors on November 9, 1996 to relocate to the then newly-built Munro Medical Centre. Some 26 years later, former doctors, nurses and support staff were reunited at Woodlands Hotel in Spalding. It was organised by Michelle Smith (former dispenser), Mary Barnes ...

The area’s Give It A Go Day has been hailed a huge success with more than 1,000 people visiting. Organised by the South Holland District Council’s Communities Team, the event took place at the Sir Halley Stewart Field in Spalding, and saw a number of groups and organisations in attendance. The idea behind the day was to give visitors the ...

A group of young people have been raising money for local good causes as part of the National Citizen Service (NCS) scheme. The NCS is a voluntary scheme that intends to build the confidence of young people by getting them involved in their community and taking part in trips and events. As part of it the 15 to 17-year-olds taking ...

The A151 is due to reopen tomorrow (Wednesday, August 23) after around four weeks of works, but a supply issue means it will have to close again soon. After delays, the rebuilt road will still reopen tomorrow, but less than half of the resurfacing Lincolnshire County Council expected to be done has been carried out, meaning it will have to ...

A 44-year-old woman died following a collision on Halmer Gate in Spalding yesterday evening (Thursday, August 18). It followed a collision involving a silver car and a VW transporter shortly after 5pm. A spokesman man for Lincolnshire Police said: “We received a call with reports of a two-vehicle collision in the Halmer Gate area of Spalding at 5.04pm on 18 ...

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 ...