A Spalding lady is urging women to send her their old bras to raise money for a breast cancer charity. Keleigh Smalley-Willows, (pictured) who runs The Melty Wax Company, is collecting the items for the Against Breast Cancer Charity. Bras donated are recycled by the charity who are then given money to go towards research work. Keleigh has a Bra ...

Fact or Hearsay? In response to the recent publication regarding the Spalding Social Club, I would like to respond as follows. Firstly, no drinks were served from the club premises bar to the snooker room. Secondly the police were in attendance of the club premises on one occasion only and not two as stated in the letter. This was instigated ...

The people of Spalding and those visiting need to up their game, I was sat on the wall outside the vets in Kirton and for around 40 minutes not one driver was seen using their phone, only two seemed to be slightly above the speed limit – I’m guessing at this though as I have no speed gun. I also ...

I totally disagree with the proposal to increase the car parking fees in Spalding town centre. We don’t need to drive people away when local business needs the increase in footfall. No wonder people are going elsewhere to shop and supporting local economies in other towns. We must be able to come out of the COVID-19 crisis by helping the ...

Readers of this correspondence will be aware of criticism (Voice August 20) thrown at suggestions that charities favoured by the establishment could make a greater contribution to the causes proponents cherish if better run. Therefore reports that this same establishment intends to remove its support for what it formerly claimed were the most important causes of all should alarm everyone. ...

Spalding Cemetery has had a lockdown clean-up thanks to a group of volunteers. Undergrowth has been cleared, ivy cut back and stonework cleaned by the group (pictured above). The town’s photographic group has also taken picturess of the oldest and most vulnerable memorials as a record of the site dating from 1854. The Cemetery Chapel and Johnson Mausoleum will be ...

The company running a home that looks after people with learning difficulties, including autism, in Holbeach has been criticised by councillors as they refused planning permission for an extension. Achieve Together Supporting Limited had hoped to build add a one-bed annexe to the property on Spalding Road where it can currently look after up to five people deemed to have ...

A family who look after an allotment taken on as a retirement present say their enjoyment of it has been spoiled by crime. After going on a waiting list, Tim Smith was given a plot on Horseshoe Road in Spalding as part of a retirement present. Tim says the whole family love getting involved in the land for which there’s ...

A 200-year-old former bakery in Gosberton could be set for a new lease of life as a tea room. Sapphira Waterson, who lives at 2 Wargate Way with husband Paul, has applied for planning permission to turn the entire downstairs of her home into something for the community to enjoy. Her daughter Jade Connolly-Beever, who already runs Pretty Baked Cakes, ...

Holbeach could lose its historic Women’s Institute (WI) Hall unless new blood is found to run it, it’s been warned. Shirley Wilson (76) has been a member of the Women’s Institute for 60 years, involved with the running of the hall for 45 years and spent 15 years as the chair of the committee that runs it.However, that committee needs ...

An elderly woman from Spalding died days after suffering a fall while being treated for lung cancer and heart disease at Boston’s Pilgrim Hospital, an inquest has heard. Patricia Hodson, 83, died on May 9, 2019 four days after an operation on the fractured hip suffered as a result of the May 2 fall. She’d been admitted to the hospital ...

A delighted Spalding woman has won a new car – along with £30,000 cash. Nicola Elphick will be sharing her good fortune with a friend who needs a hip replacement. She won a Renault Sport Megane which will replace her ageing Toyota which she’s had for more than 20 years. She said she was ‘stunned’ by her win with online ...

Police are appealing for information after two incidents where women were asked to get in a car. The incidents happened in Spalding and Boston, the incident in the former being reported in Halmer Gate at 2pm. A spokesman for South Holland Police, said: “We are appealing for witnesses to two incidents in which men in cars have asked women to ...

A man has been banned from Spalding town centre and contacting council staff after a spate of anti-social behaviour including drinking in the street. Matthew Bellerson received the interim injunction from the County Court at Lincoln last week after a judge ruled that his ongoing anti-social behaviour and threats of violence posed a significant risk of harm to staff of ...

A woman has been injured in a car fire after accidentally igniting petrol fumes. Emergency services were called to a Ford Focus on fire on Bridgewater Lane in Pinchbeck shortly after 8pm last night (Monday, September 7). The Ford Focus as captured by Claire Cortes Nearby neighbours reported hearing a loud bang followed by flames and a cloud of smoke ...

Spalding High School is the first in the area to have reported a confirmed case of COVID-19 following the return of pupils. The Stonegate school, which remains open, sent a letter to all parents yesterday (Monday) stating a pupil had been sent home after testing positive for the virus. The letter states “This morning we have notified the Sixth Form ...

A trial of separate waste collections for paper and card is set to be rolled out across South Holland, though it could be a few years before it’s to be introduced. A total of 2,600 homes in Pinchbeck, Surfleet and northern Spalding have been putting the waste separately in purple sacks for the last year as part of the trial ...

Two South Holland men are joining forces to deliver bikes to children who might otherwise not have one. Daniel Lunn and John Barton are buying old bikes, reconditioning them and giving them to families who need a hand. They have already completed two refurbishments which have gone to new homes this week. “I am happy to give them away to ...

Few jobs have escaped the march of technology, but the print trade has changed beyond recognition during the 46-year career of Pete Boekestyn. Pete retired as general manager of Welland Print on Monday having spent his working life at the company he joined at the age of 16 on September 2. Pete at Welland Print. When he started from Spalding ...

South Holland will be taking part in this year’s Heritage Open Days event, despite the coronavirus pandemic. The Holbeach Cemetery Chapels will be open on Saturday, September 12, from 11am to 4pm. There will be an exhibition about leisure and pastimes in the iconic Victorian chapels in the town. A guided cemetery trail will be complete with anecdotes about those ...