A planning application to place a water fountain in Ayscoughfee Gardens has been withdrawn with a conservation group claiming it is due to them not being consulted. Coun Rodney Grocock said a new application for the siting of the Johnson Drinking Fountain would be submitted soon. In a statement, the Spalding and District Civic Society said it had forced the ...

A 65 ton Chieftain Tank has been loaned to veterans fundraiser Harold Payne to help raise money for a memorial garden. Harold, a long-time supporter of armed service veterans, , is building the memorial at the Fleet and A17 junction and has commissioned unique gates and planted 1,000 roses as part of the project. Now the Muckleburgh Collection in Norfolk ...

Holbeach Air Cadets took on challenges set by the town’s firefighters recently. The 2430 (Holbeach) Squadron of the RAF Air Cadets visited the fire station on Wednesday, April 20. During the evening they learned how Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue mobilise to incidents. They were given fire safety advice and shown equipment available on front line fire appliances. Holbeach Fire Crew ...

A Spalding-based accountant was feeling on top of the world after making the climb to Everest base camp in memory of her dad. Kirsty Holmes has raised more than £1,600 for Cruse Bereavement Care through the 5,364m high climb up the world’s tallest mountain. The paraplanner at MT Financial Management faced six to nine-hour walks each day in temperatures that ...

A Spalding Voice journalist is taking part in her first – and last – 10k run at the weekend. Donna Semmens (54) has been training for the GEAR 10k which is held in King’s Lynn on Sunday. “I thought it was a good idea, but this is only going to happen the once. I’m not doing it again,” she said. ...

It’s been a busy week for Long Sutton’s Men Shed whose members were presented with books as part of Read a Book Night ahead of the launch of their new Youth Shed initiative. Began three-years-ago after chair Ray Cutbill saw the initiative in Australia, the group now has around 85 members and is thought to be the largest in Europe. ...

An 18-year-old ground worker died after he was crushed by a works van while clearing out a drain on a new housing estate, a jury heard today (Tuesday, April 26). Josh Disdel, 18, from Holbeach, was working at the White Bridges site off St Thomas Drive, in Boston, when he was hit by a van being driven by a work colleague ...

MP Sir John Hayes has been meeting people with and learning about diabetes. After the ‘Diabetes is Serious’ event raised this matter in the House of Commons to urge the Secretary of State for Health to back Diabetes UK plan for a comprehensive strategy to deal with long-standing, and recent Covid-induced, problems with diabetes services. He said: “Many people live ...

A hospital that’s closest for those in the south of the area has officially come out of special measures.. The Queen’s Elizabeth Hospital in King’s Lynn has been taken out of what is now officially called the Recovery Support System following Care Quality Commission inspections in December 2021 and January 2022. Caroline Shaw CBE, chief executive at QEH, said: “I ...

Monster trucks are back over the Bank Holiday weekend when Truckfest returns after two years away. Staged by Spalding-based Live Promotions, the show is celebrating its 40th anniversary and TV’s Todd Dewey from Ice Road Truckers is flying in to meet fans across the three days. This year the doors open at 2pm on Saturday, but visitors are invited to ...

One of the original Sultans of Swing is heading to Spalding tonight (April 28) to talk about his time in one of the biggest bands of the 1980s. Dire Straits founding bassist John Illsley is at the South Holland Centre from 8pm. As part of the show The Life and Times of Dire Straits, he and some of his musician ...

Spalding’s South Holland Centre is in need of a major overhaul in appearance, marketing and usage, according to a report to go before the district council. Despite heavy subsidising by council tax payers, the building’s image is ‘understated’, the function room is ‘disappointing’ and the offices ‘unattractive, poor and untidy’, says the report by the South Holland Centre Task Group. ...

A dog was rescued from the Coronation Channel by a passer by this morning (Monday, April 25). Lincolnshire Police and Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue were called to the waterway around 8.45am this morning after a report that a Labrador had got into trouble in the water. However, by the time emergency services attended, a passer by had rescued the animal, ...

Lincolnshire Police have released a description of a man they’d like to speak with regards to separate sexual assaults in Spalding. The first incident happened 4.30am on April 3 in Quaker Lane when a woman reported she was approached by a man who grabbed her upper thighs and touched her bottom, this is incident 73 of 3 April. The second ...

A burst water main is causing problems around West Marsh Road in Spalding this morning (Friday, April 22). Anglian Water say customers in the area are experiencing low water pressure. They include Spalding’s tip which has had to close for the day as a result, operator Lincolnshire County Council said. A spokesman for Anglian Water said: “We’re really sorry but ...

A Spalding man, who smashed his handcuffed wrists down on a policeman’s hands, has been given a suspended prison sentence. Mantas Stirbys, 41, of Lansdowne Court admitted being drunk and disorderly as well as assaulting a police officer, when he appeared before District Judge Peter Veits sitting at Boston Magistrates Court. Lou Johnson, prosecuting, said police went to a Spalding ...

A man found in possession of three offensive weapons, has been given a suspended prison sentence by a district judge sitting at Boston. Nevzat Sevri, 32, of Spalding Road, Holbeach, had admitted all three offences when he appeared at Boston Magistrates Court in March and was appearing for sentence following a pre sentence report by the Probation Service. Lou Johnson, ...

A 49-year-old woman has appeared in court on four charges of fraud against a number of people over a three year period. Emma Harris, whose address was withheld for legal reasons, admitted four allegations of committingfraud by false representation between January 2017 and February 16 2020. It was said that three different people and a married couple from Spalding were ...

A man carrying a knife punched a woman in the face in a late night Spalding takeaway in an unprovoked attack, a court has heard. Tiberiu-Lucian Grozav 34, of Lancelot Way, Spalding admitted assault by beating and possession of a lock knife in a public place, when he appeared before District Judge Peter Veits sitting at Boston Magistrates Court. Prosecuting, ...

A 25-year-old who attacked a man leaving him with a fractured skull and bleeding on the brain has been sent to prison. Connor Tierney of Langwith Drive, Holbeach had admitted causing grievous bodily harm to Richard Scott when he appeared at Boston Magistrates Court two weeks ago and was appearing for sentence following a pre sentence report from the Probation ...