Spalding Lions are hoping their friend Santa will be able to visit South Holland – while keeping to all the pandemic rules. Every year members of the organisation accompany Santa on his visit to the area while raising money for their charity. Despite coronavirus there are plans for this year from December 6.Quadring, Cowbit, Donington, Gosberton, Surfleet, Pinchbeck, Weston, Moulton, ...

Banning shops from selling single cans and high alcohol volume beer and cider are measures being called for by police. They were part of steps Lincolnshire Police requested be taken as part of South Holland District Council’s revised Licensing Act Statement of Principles. The document needs to be renewed by January and police have asked the council to include further ...

I am grateful to Mr Sloan for courteously inviting me to explain my reasoning on free school meals, and to the Voice for printing my response. We all agree that no child should go hungry. So, the debate is not about the principle but practice – in other words devising and delivering the optimal package of support for those in ...

After reading the letter by Tony Bown, I was quite shocked. I was born in Nutts Lane, Holbeach St Johns, and lived in the district all of my 84 years, apart from two years in the Royal Air Force, and knew a large proportion of local people and most of them were good honest people. Of course there are always ...

No Government would find it straightforward to cope with the current pandemic. Whatever route is taken, whichever decisions are made, some will be disappointed. The Prime Minister is walking a tightrope with loss of life on one side and the loss of livelihoods on the other. His leadership in trying to do so deserves support from across politics. Now is ...

With all due respect to the eminent medical experts and the received wisdom leading to the imposition of the lockdown, I must beg to differ. The Prime Minister has been bounced into this action by a vocal minority and following the herd instincts of a number of other countries. The present spike was expected following the return to school and ...

A person had to be cut out of a car after a collision with a HGV on the A17 at Fleet Hargate last night (Tuesday, November 10). Lincolnshire Police said the driver of the car, a blue Chevrolet, escaped with minor injuries following the incident at around 5.40pm. They were cut out by fire crews from Holbeach, Spalding and Long ...

A Weston man has been jailed for three years after admitting the manslaughter of his son, whom he shook as a baby nearly 20 years ago. Jack Mitchell was born a healthy child in January 2001 and responded well following his birth. However, between March and May of the same year there were four occasions where he stopped breathing. He ...

The next set of preparatory works for the northerly section of the Spalding Western Relief Road is due to start tomorrow (Tuesday). Vegetation clearance along the B1356 Spalding Road near Pinchbeck will begin on Tuesday, November 10. The works, which are for section five of the project, are expected to last for up to three weeks, Monday to Friday from ...

Moulton Mill has been given financial help from the government. The historic windmill is again closed due to the lockdown. But it’s been given £34,500 as part of the Culture Recovery Fund to help it with maintenance costs and to buy a new flour sieve to expand its homemade flours it sell to the public. Janet Prescott, the Mill manager, said: “This ...

A Weston dad has admitted causing injuries to his baby son which led to the son’s death years later. Jack Mitchell died, aged 15 in 2016 and a forensic post-mortem examination found he had died from a pulmonary infection and pneumonia as a result of injuries sustained as a baby in Laindon in Basildon. His biological father, John Doak, was ...

Your views are being sought on the state of Lincolnshire’s roads. It’s part of the County View panel launched earlier this year to gather residents’ views on Lincolnshire County Council services and help shape how those services are delivered. Anyone living in Greater Lincolnshire can join the panel. Members are invited to complete a short survey of just five questions, ...

A number of local libraries are to stay open during the latest ‘lockdown’ with new measures in place. Services at both Spalding and Long Sutton libraries will be available though run slightly deliberately, Lincolnshire County Council which runs them as said. And a number of Community Hub libraries ran by volunteers will also remain open with restrictions including Pinchbeck, Sutton ...

A group of South Holland artists have joined forces to create a piece of artwork marking Remembrance Sunday. The Artists Incorporated group in Pinchbeck chose to use the poppy as theme for eight individual pieces which were put together to form the picture. The group usually meets at the Pinchbeck Hub and has been in existence for around five years. ...

The future of walk-in services at Spalding’s Johnson Hospital remains uncertain with staff at its Minor Injury Unit having been moved elsewhere and a proposed upgrade looking set to fail. As part of the NHS Healthy Conversation, the hospital was being considered to be upgraded to an Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC) alongside Gainsborough. Last week it was announced that town’s ...

The children at a Spalding special school will be able to move into their new classrooms after a public appeal for help. The head teacher at the Garth School asked for help after the price of new blinds was cut from the budget of a new extension project. The Spalding Voice carried the appeal just before half term and South ...

A Spalding woman emptied a bag of weeds over a neighbour during an argument that had been triggered by her partner going into the neighbour’s garden to clear it of weeds. Tracey Mills, 48, of Severn Road, admitted assaulting Elaine Mayfield by beating as well as threatening to damage her windows, when she appeared before magistrates in Boston. Prosecuting, Marie ...

Donington’s High Street could be set for two big boosts with sale of The Red Cow and a new shop with Post Office announced for the village. The dilapidated 200-year-old former hotel has been an eye-sore for a number of years, but has now been purchased by API Limited which has recently completed refurbishments of The Chequers and The Bell, ...

The wait for a new store on a derelict piece of land that’s turned into an eyesore will go on. Blakemore Retail owns the land on the corner of Bourne Road and Carrington Road in Spalding which received planning permission for a Spar back in 2009. Despite Spar pledging to start work back in 2015, the site remains vacant. This ...

A former firefighter has been thanked for his service after leaving for a career with the ambulance service. Until recently Errol Dunham served as a retained firefighter at Holbeach for 14 years. And it’s inspired him to train and take a full time position as a technician with East Midlands Ambulance Service. He was presented with a special commemorative axe ...