The pandemic has curtailed many things this year, but Spalding’s Pumpkin Festival will go ahead. From scarecrows to pet photo competitions, there will be plenty of things to do. A special Harvest Time Trail will be launched this weekend with ten town centre businesses getting involved. Scarecrows will be incorporated into their window displays from October 10 to 31 and ...

Lincolnshire Police are appealing for information after an accident on the A17 yesterday (Monday) left a woman and a child in hospital. The incident happened at around 3.30pm just south of Fosdyke Bridge and involved a blue Ford Fusion and a red Vauxhall Zafira. The woman’s injuries are described as “serious” by police while a child that was in the ...

A traffic bridge just outside Spalding is set to be closed for four weeks next months to install new traffic lights. Work on the junction of Horseshoe Road and South Drove over the South Drove Drain is to commence on Monday, November 9. The old traffic lights at the junction on both sides of the South Drove Drain – which ...

A quantity of what is believed to be crack cocaine has been found by a member of the public in Carter’s Park in Holbeach. The Voice understands it was found in a children’s play area in the park last Friday morning A spokesman for Lincolnshire Police, said: “We received a call at 10.34am on September 25, reporting that drugs had ...

Plans to build 18 new units at the Springfields shopping centre could see £200,000 given over for improvements to Spalding town centre. The application is recommended to be passed by members of South Holland District Council’s planning committee on Wednesday. But the amount recommended to fulfil the Section 106 agreement has been hit by the coronavirus pandemic. An independent report ...

A councillor has expressed his frustration that Holbeach could lose a second plot of land identified to expand medical care in the town. As reported in last week’s edition of The Voice, the NHS is selling land on Dam Gate for £90,000 that had been given to it for a new medical centre for the town. And Coun Nick Worth ...

A 75-year-old from Long Sutton has raised over £1,500 towards a six-year-old with a brain tumour by walking 31.6 miles. Noel Bratt alongside his daughter Keily Cleary took 13 hours and 45 minutes to walk the distance from Ely Cathedral to his Long Sutton home. It was all to raise money for family friend Edie Jackson who is battling a ...

Most people in South Holland are “behaving themselves”, the district council’s leader has said in relation to low numbers of COVID-19 case in the area. Lord Gary Porter told a meeting of the authority’s Full Council that the area hadn’t seen large increases in the coronavirus as experienced elsewhere leading to extra measures, including that pubs close at 10pm. Lord ...

Graves at a South Holland cemetery have been smashed as a huge tree uprooted in recent high winds. Part of Holbeach cemetery has disappeared under the tree which has obliterated around 30 graves. The full extent of the damage may not be known until the tree can be removed. The graves, which date from the 1880s to the 1930s, are ...

More garden waste bins are set to be available in South Holland but it could be a while before its rolled out across the district amid claims it could help offset the increase in fly-tipping. A meeting of South Holland District Council’s Full Council heard that there’s currently 1,200 people on a waiting list for the brown bins that had ...

Volunteers joined councillors as Keep Britain Tidy events rounded off in Spalding. As previously reported, independent councillors have taken on the Great British Spring Clean events that were due to take place earlier in the year. After several clean ups they concluded at the weekend with sessions around the skate park in Low Fulney and around St Paul’s School. Coun ...

Holbeach Fire Crew showed how soppy they can get last weekend. They took on a charity car wash at the town’s Tesco on Saturday, raising £162 for the Firefighters Charity. A spokesman for Holbeach Fire Crew would like to thank everyone who came along and supported the event by getting their car washed and special thanks to the manager and ...

An incredible two-year-old who has fought off a host of medical issues has completed a 27-mile sponsored walk. Alfie Barraclough, of Holbeach, has raised over £1,000 for the charity Bliss which helps the family of premature or sick babies such as himself. Alfie was born 12 weeks premature, weighing just 1lb 7oz and has battled health issues for most of ...

The leader of South Holland District Council has said he doesn’t believe parking charges are keeping people away from Spalding and cited Springfields as an example Lord Gary Porter was reacting to a call to make parking free by Coun Chris Brewis. He told a meeting of South Holland District Council that making parking free could be “the kiss of ...

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital has bought a private facility which shares its site. The King’s Lynn-based hospital, which also serves South Lincolnshire, has bought the private BMI Sandringham Hospital which is next door at the Gayton Road site. Members of the board of directors and governors council have approved the purchase this week. The 76 staff will be transferred from ...

I am writing in response to the excellent letter from Phillip James, Fleet Hargate, headed Let’s get back to the real world (Voice September 24). I agree with every single word of this letter. The media are having an absolute field day on reporting this pandemic. Yes, news has to be reported but not to the extent of making people ...

I had a coronavirus test on Saturday night. When I first tried to book a test online, it asks for your postcode. I entered PE11. It wanted me to go to Leicester for the test. However putting in PE1 meant I could go to East of England showground, Peterborough. They don’t ask for your full address just 1st part of ...

The murder of police officer Matiu Ratana has rightly appalled every decent and law abiding citizen in the country. In the last couple of months the police have faced a level of vitriol and violence unprecedented in recent years as they have attempted to carry out their duties. This is almost matched by the level of abuse hurled at them ...

It has been reported about illegal raves taking place – one quite recently at Shep White’s, which has been a meeting place since I was young, although obviously any group gathering in these coronavirus times are illegal, irresponsible and certainly responsible for the increase in cases, positive tests, and potentially an increase in deaths due to either COVID or further ...

Following my recent letter “An open letter to SHDC” published a couple of weeks ago regarding the dire state of the town – so far no response from SHDC. It must be time for the sane residents of Spalding town to rise up and demand that SHDC and Roger Gambba-Jones, get their act together and start implementing some of their ...