The Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC) at Spalding’s Johnson Hospital is to get extended opening hours from today (Thursday). The service was upgraded from a Minor Injuries Unit (MIU) when it reopened in April after nearly a year of being closed to walk-in patients. Health officials say the numbers using the service are continuing to increase. That’s led to the seven-day ...

“Days of action” are being planned by police amid continued complaints of motorists flouting the weekday pedestrianisation order in Spalding’s Market Place. Vehicles are banned from driving in the area from 10am to 4pm Monday to Saturday, but during the lockdowns more people have taken to driving through from Broad Street as well as parking in spaces and along the ...

Phillip James gives Mr Macron a lesson in geography. I don’t suppose that’ll cause an international incident. I suspect that Macron – if he wasn’t just teasing Johnson – was momentarily confusing “UK” with “Great Britain”; often done by English people too. Northern Ireland is in the UK, but it isn’t in Great Britain. John TipplerSpalding

What is the council actually spending our money on? Clearing up the rubbish in verges and streets. NOClearing paths that are in-passable or overgrown. NO.Clearing weeds and overgrown trees blocking road signs. NO.Clearing weeds from kerbs that are blocking drainage. NO.Emptying overflowing rubbish bins in our laybys. NO.Re-surfacing the disgusting state of our roads. NO.Collecting fridges, mattresses, and other household ...

We are trying to contact Sally Congreve from the Holbeach area in connection to her late father John Green, who drove the Lincolnshire Road Car buses from the Holbeach depot. If anyone knows Sally could they please contact me on 01522 722705 or 07776 041076 or email mdg2131@gmail.com. This request is for Road Transport Museum, North Hykeham, Lincoln, archives purposes ...

Interested to read front page of The Voice about the tip. Our bug bear is that to use a van you have to register the log book! Although my husband has full private use of his work van, he doesn’t have his name on the log book. We have a big garden and used to visit the tip to get ...

I think it is an absolute disgrace that the new owner cannot set out his table and chairs to enable customers to sit outside the Red Lion on market days. Tuesdays and Saturdays would be the two days when customers could sit and enjoy a drink and a chat and enjoy the market as well. Who is being obstinate or ...

My wife and I have just returned to Holbeach after a pleasant few hours in Spalding. We completed our booking at the recycling centre – the tip – where we were cheerfully greeted and helpfully directed by the excellent staff, as always. We moved on to do our “weekly shop” before having a hearty lunch. Had we not been booked ...

So Lord Porter and Coun Gambba-Jones are trumpeting their four hours free parking. Well done them, but really, they do need to get out on the streets more! Do they really think this “carrot” will encourage visitors to come into Spalding town centre? I doubt it when people see the amount of fly tipping on our streets. I reported six ...

The new owner of a Spalding pub says he’s working with the district council in a bid to allow outdoor trading. Jeremy Powell and the Red Lion have embraced a government push to create a ‘cafe culture’ by purchasing tables, chairs and coverings so that people can enjoy a drink in the town centre. But because of where Spalding Market ...

Picking a strip to support England is no easy matter for one Weston man. Football shirt fanatic Pete Hammond has 23 different Three Lions tops among a huge collection of 364 from all over the world. The wardrobes and drawers at his home near Spalding are all bulging with the assortment of shirts, worth up to £15,000. And with a ...

Anglian Water says it’s still looking at possible locations for the proposed new South Lincolnshire Reservoir. A site between Tongue End and Deeping St Nicholas is among those being looked at by the water company which announced its intention to create the large body of water back in 2018. The company’s draft 2019 Water Resources Management Plan outlined the need ...

A young boy left injured after an incident involving a double decker bus in Spalding last night is back recovering at home, his headteacher has said while thanking the emergency services. Police said the pupil at Spalding Academy suffered ‘serious’ injuries following the incident at 3.25pm on Halmer Gate and had been taken to Peterborough City Hospital. Mrs Lucy Conley ...

It wasn’t the village’s normal carnival and there was still plenty of social distancing –but last Sunday a glimpse of normality returned to Pinchbeck. Picnic in the Park proved a hit as villagers came together to look around the host of stalls and attractions laid on for free. The event was organised by the Pinchbeck Carnival Association after it became ...

A tractor driver has been sent for trial at Lincoln Crown Court following a traffic incident in which a woman was killed and a man seriously injured. William Flynn, 40, now living in Carrick on Suir in Co Waterford in the Republic of Ireland but who was living at Whaplode, Spalding at the time of the incident on January 21 ...

A person has been taken to hospital after being cut out of a vehicle following a two vehicle collision in Tydd St Giles. The incident happened at around 10pm on Saturday, June 26, on Main Road. Fire crews from Spalding, Long Sutton and Wisbech attended the incident with hydraulic cutting equipment used to release one person from a vehicle. A ...

Two teenagers have been arrested after reports a car was taken at knifepoint before it crashed into a tree in Pinchbeck while being chased by police. The incident, which involved a black Ford Ka, occurred last night with a male (18) and female (17) having been arrested following a police operation. A spokesman for Lincolnshire Police, said: “Two people have ...

Officers visited cold calling hotspots including spending a day in Spalding to speak to businesses and residents about their rights and responsibilities during Operation Rogue Trader. On Wednesday June 16 officers from Lincolnshire Trading Standards, supported by Lincolnshire Police, descended on Spalding as it was one of five areas in Lincolnshire where residents have raised concerns about rogue traders. A ...

There’s just currently one person in Lincolnshire’s hospitals with COVID-19 it’s been revealed. While cases of the virus are rising, Mark Brassington the deputy chief executive of United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust, this morning (June 24) told Lincolnshire County Council’s Health Scrutiny Board that these cases were largely in adults of working age. There’s just one person in Boston’s Pilgrim ...

An application to build five homes in the grounds of Holbeach Manor has been submitted to South Holland District Council. The land east of the early 20th century building off Fleet Road is owned by Seagate Homes who are looking to create the mini-estate to be accessed from a service road. An existing but disused two-story water tower is due ...