A Fleet woman found with a mobile phone and charger on her while in prison for robbery was suspected to be arranging drug deals. Danielle Brown, who was released from HMP Peterborough on licence last month, produced the equipment from her bra as prison officers were about to start a body search. Peterborough Magistrates’ Court heard it happened on August ...

A Donington man has been jailed for three years after an assault left his victim with brain damage. At around 11.30pm on January 4, 2020, defendant Paul Hayes, 46, of Quadring Road was drinking in the Black Bull in Donington. His victim, Mark Hatcher had also been in the pub drinking that evening. Mr Hatcher, 46, from Donington, was asked ...

Spalding United manager Gabriel Zakuani has signed on to manage the Tulips for the 21/22 season. The former Peterborough United and Gillingham player officially took on the mantle in October, initially in a caretaker role. He was given the job full time, but the Pitching In Northern Premier South East Division was suspended just one game later, a 3-3 draw ...

In the space of a few weeks Johnathan Hoggard has gone from the excitement of driving a Formula One car to the frustration of not being able to even go to the gym. But the Weston Hills race ace is hoping to announce his plans for the 2021 race season soon. Hoggard ended last season with his first F1 test ...

The area’s top non-league football clubs have been handed a boost with the announcement that they can claim government grant money. Football clubs at steps three to six of the non-league pyramid, which includes Spalding United, Holbeach United and Pinchbeck United, can apply for the grants to keep them going during the latest lockdown. Up to £10million can be claimed ...

Hidden cameras are among the measures being proposed to catch fly-tippers in South Holland. The district council is looking to erect them at local flytipping hot-spots as the number of incidents increase. In December alone the cost of cleaning up fly tips doubled to £6,000.A rise has been reported across Lincolnshire and beyond. In November the number of fly-tips reported ...

Those behind a project to create a new community space in Spalding are looking for young designers to help create a logo for it. The St Thomas’s Project is turning the former Methodist Church on St Thomas’s Road into the new hub aimed to be used by the whole community. The building was bought by the adjacent St Norbert’s Roman ...

Proposals to site a huge, Gothic-style drinking fountain in Spalding Cemetery have not been universally welcomed. The fountain, gifted by the Spalding Water Works Company as a thank-you to benefactor Mary Ann Johnson, is currently in storage. It had been in the town’s Hall Place since 1874 after Miss Johnson gave £1,500 to pipe fresh water for residents. The sum ...

A parish council has been criticised amid concerns over £27,000 of mystery payments it made while announcing cuts and increasing its share of the council tax. Several members of the public have contacted The Voice over the payments made by Holbeach Parish Council, which last month announced saving measures as well as increasing the precept by 4.55 per cent and ...

Struggling families across South Holland are being offered a lifeline thanks to two kind hearted women. Steph Jennings (30) and Sarah Phoenix (35) have just launched the Spalding and Surrounding Baby Bank, off the back of the success of the Holbeach Heroes Covid Bank which Sarah started in October. The idea is for people to donate unwanted baby items to ...

An ambulance driver who nearly died from COVID-19 has thanked those who saved her life and members of the public who helped raise thousands of pounds for her. Emilie Sanderson is now back at home and continuing her recovery after her family and partner Simon were told to expect the worst on Christmas Eve. After contracting the virus in November, ...

Lockdown has been quackers for a Holbeach family after they took to helping ducks. Cheryl Potts and her daughters Willow (12) and Rowan Ravenscroft (11) have been helping nurse some of the town’s wild animals back to health. It all started in the first lockdown after one of the family cats brought a Mallard back to their Hallgate home. “Luckily ...

I would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to all the team at the Springfields Events Centre for their brilliant work in delivering the COVID-19 vaccine. The men and women who directed the cars in and out of the parking area were superb and then when my wife and I went into the main building the ladies welcomed us and ...

I agree with the letter from Eileen Cole about making big empty stores in to indoor markets. Beales would be a great space to start with. You would get lots of stalls in there and a coffee shop upstairs. Come on planners or local council think about it, Spalding needs something. It is like a ghost town and only will ...

What has the poor old Johnson Drinking Fountain done wrong?Installed in Hall Place in 1874, banished to the depths of Ayscoughfee Gardens in 1954, and now, it’s suggested, to be exiled in the distant cemetery. There could be few less suitable places for it than amongst various “little chapels and other structures”. It needs to stand tall and proud again ...

I would like to add my thanks to the team at Springfields vaccination hub in Spalding. I went for my vaccination this morning. My appointment was for 10.10am. I arrived at 10am and went straight through, and out again by 10.20am. All so calm and efficient. Thank you very much to everyone concerned, you were all so friendly and helpful. ...

Today (Sunday, January 31), with many others, I had my first COVID jab at Springfields. The whole organisation and process was extremely impressive, smooth, and friendly. All those concerned, professionals and volunteers, deserve the greatest thanks and praise. They were splendid. Thank you all! John TipplerSpalding

Just read your article in the current edition of The Voice about the discovery of Roman and Iron Age artefacts. Let’s hope that don’t find any Great Crested Newts otherwise we’ll never get the road built! Terry ByattHolbeach

A 23-year-old Spalding woman has been ordered to pay more than a thousand pounds in compensation to a 14-year-old boy who she illegally tattooed. Jordan Wheeler of Estella Way admitted the offence of tattooing the boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, when she appeared before magistrates in Boston. Prosecuting, Dale Brownless said that while he was at her ...

Long Sutton Cricket Club is to link up with the Help for Heroes charity for 2021 which is set to include them playing against their cricket team. The South Lincolnshire and Border League Premier Division side are set to face the military charity’s own team of veterans it helps in a fixture later this year. And they’ve signed up to ...