A Spalding carpenter has been banned from driving for three years after drug driving. Oliver Thompson, 26, of Jubilee Close had admitted driving while under the influence of cannabis and possession of cannabis and because of a conviction for driving with excess alcohol within the past 10 years, faced a mandatory three year driving ban. Prosecuting, Daniel Pietryka said Thompson ...

Year Five and Six students at Ayscoughfee Hall School have been challenging themselves on a residential trip to Hilltop Camp in Sheringham. The four day trip to Norfolk was a huge success. A spokesman said: “The children whizzed down zip wires, climbed, abseiled, rode bikes, fired arrows, created amazing woodland shelters, gathered wood to light fires to heat water and ...

There’s a ‘big drive’ by councillors to get rid of the current system where you have to book to take waste to Spalding tip, it’s been claimed. The measure brought in by Lincolnshire County Council when its Waste Recycling Centres reopened after the first lockdown has proved controversial. It’s been argued that restrictions at the waste centres have been at ...

Football is currently all the rage with the delayed Euros tournament being played out on our screens most days. As part of the international fun Gosberton House Academy pupils have been designing their own striking football kits. They have also been putting together fact files on the countries that are taking part and they have been taking part in the ...

South Holland looks likely to join forces with Boston and East Lindsey councils to create the largest local authority partnership in the country. The three-way partnership will come into fruition if its approved by South Holland members at a meeting on July 1. Members of Boston will make a decision on June 28 and East Lindsey on June 30. East ...

Spalding Academy has announced plans to expand. The Neville Avenue school says it’s had a recent increase in pupils and is making efforts to ensure the building itself expands accordingly. The first of the planned improvements will be revamped PE changing facilities. That’s set to be followed by doubling the music rooms before an eight classroom block and the refurbishment ...

A group of adults with autism or a disability have been left gutted after trees they were looking after as part of their integration into the community were stolen. The 12 at County Care’s Holbeach branch turned up to its Park Road centre on Wednesday (June 23) to find the bushes they’d planted in May and nurtured ever since had ...

Maintenance work on the historic swing bridge at Sutton Bridge is set to take fourmonths. The Grade II listed bridge across the River Nene is part of the main A17 between Newark and King’s Lynn. But drivers are being warned of delays next year when work is carried out on the structure between February and July in a £1.3m refurbishment ...

I’m about to write my version of the tragic story of the Lancastria, so if any reader wishes to contact me they may do so at david464u@icloud.com. My website of validation is www.jdbbooklets.org.uk David Banks

It is commendable that free parking will be available to visitors in Spalding, however as a former Spalding resident, I would say what is the point? I despair when I visit the town to see my sister and look around. To be honest it breaks my heart to see the state of Spalding, not only the town centre but surrounding ...

I refer to the article (June 16) in the Voice regarding “Help for our town centre”. This is like shutting the gate after the horse has bolted! So many people over the past few years have aired their strong views on how lacking our town centre had become and how it’s now like a ghost town due to bad management. ...

We have recently come to live in Spalding after living in France for 20 years. There we lived in a commune of three villages all of which were served by one household waste tip. We also had weekly bin collections, one for recyclables and one for bagged general waste. For access to the household waste tip each resident had a ...

I read the letters regarding the booking system at Spalding tip with some slight incredulity. The tip at King’s Lynn near the power station operates no such silly system of booking slots. You just turn up and put rubbish in the appropriate skips and leave. Sometimes there is a queue, but that is down to COVID-19 at present. The tip ...

Whilst visiting Carter’s Park in Holbeach on June 16 with my dog, I heard a man shouting. I walked towards the noise and there was a very drunk man, who was “supervising” a toddler in the play area. His voice was incredibly loud and he was swilling beer from a can. He was shouting at the child, not maliciously but ...

I write further to the recent spat between the PM and Mr Macron over Northern Ireland being a part of the UK. Instead of citing Toulouse or Strasbourg, the PM should have reminded Mr Macron about the five overseas departments – French Polynesia – Wallis and Futuna – French Guiana – St Pierre-Miquelon – Saint Barthelemy – Saint Martin – ...

Campaigners looking to save a village pub have applied for it to be officially listed as an Asset of Community Value. Planning officers have already turned down an application to turn The Plough in Holbeach St Jones into homes. But to protect it further campaigners have submitted the bid to have it listed as an Asset of Community Value with ...

A Pinchbeck artist has won a prestigious award for her image of a Lincolnshire plant. Julie Eyett from Pinchbeck was one of three winners named out of 130 entrants for the Lincolnshire Plants Exhibition. It’s part of Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust’s National Lottery Heritage Fund supported LoveLincsPlants project which this year asked for entrants to create works based on the county’s ...

Pitch fees, promotion and an easier booking process are all things under review as the district council looks to update its market policies. Traders, retailers, residents, shoppers and stakeholders are being asked to have their say on the district’s markets, as part of the consultation. South Holland District Council is consulting on its new draft Market Regulations Handbook, and the ...

Almost 200 people have signed a petition in a bid to save their village bakery from closure. At present McColls in Gedney Hill has its own bakery providing freshly baked goods every day, however from August 18 the shop will be franchised out to Morrison’s, the bakery will be closed and the two bakers made redundant.Disappointed residents have launched an ...

A £20m bid to improve junctions on the A16, which would include a pedestrian and cycle bridge at the McDonald’s roundabout in Spalding and cycle lanes into Springfields, has officially been submitted. Lincolnshire County Council has made the bid to the government’s Levelling Up fund and aims to reduce congestion in Boston and along the A16 corridor- a key route ...