A comet is set to be visible in the skies above South Holland for the next few weeks. Comet Neowise (or C/2020 F3 Neowise to give it its scientific name) is a ball of ice on a 6,000 year orbit around the sun. After it’s closest approach to the sun on July 3, it’s brightened considerably and is now visible ...

A meeting is to be held next week amid concerns over the future of Spalding market. Councillors Angela Newton, Manzur Hasan and Rob Gibson have ‘called-in’ South Holland District Council’s decisions relating to the re-opening of the markets after the COVID-19 outbreak. Market traders have expressed anger at several of the measures including the introduction of a book and pay ...

Images from South Holland District Council’s CCTV system contributed to 49 arrests being made in a year, though it failed to lead to a conviction after a man in his 70s was spat at. The system was used to support 65 packages of evidence between April 2019 and March this year. Operators were also able to alert police about an ...

The chair of the Lincolnshire Care Association has thanked the “amazing” staff at care providers in the county. Melanie Weatherley has written to Lincolnshire MPs to outline the tremendous efforts of care providers, Lincolnshire County Council and health partners in supporting vulnerable people through the pandemic. It follows the fall out after Prime Minister Boris Johnson criticised some care homes ...

A Lutton health care worker was among those that met the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge as they greeted staff at a nearby hospital. Amanda-Jane Weir was among those in attendance at Queen Elizabeth II Hospital in King’s Lynn as Prince William and wife Catherine popped in. The pair praised staff at the hospital, which serves the Long Sutton area, ...

A Donington man died after going through a necessary operation, an inquest has head. Neville Pitts died aged 84 on August 11, 2019, at Boston’s Pilgrim Hospital while daughter Susan Coles was by his side. The inquest into his death, held remotely at Lincoln Coroner’s Court, heard that the medical cause of death was acute respiratory symptoms as a result ...

An eight-month old who underwent a rare brain operation to disconnect half his brain is doing “better than ever imagined”. And coincidently Oscar Wright came back home to Crowland and was reunited with his mum Bethany Rollings on Sturge-Weber Syndrome Awareness Day (June 27). Due to COVID-19 restrictions, only dad Tim Wright was allowed into Great Ormond Street Hospital in ...

After seeing off suspected COVID-19 a Cowbit man is back to raising awareness of his condition through his passion for motorsport. James Wilson-White (45) has long been raising awareness of the debilitating condition Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), largely through his love of motorsport and the organisation CRPS Awareness Racing 4 a Cure. That’s involved a number of racers and ...

Surfleet Primary School has been rated inadequate by inspectors. It follows an Ofsted inspection held back in February, the report of which was released last week. The school was rated good at its previous inspection in April 2016 but has been told it’s inadequate in the quality of education, leadership and management and in early years provision. It was rated ...

Many of us have taken up a hobby or new interest in lockdown – and for one seven-year-old it’s picking up litter. Robert Page spent his daily exercise with mum Annette walking the family’s four dogs around Monkshouse Playing Field, but became alarmed at the amount of litter others were leaving. Inspired by seeing South Holland District Council workers picking ...

Libraries in Long Sutton and Spalding are among those that will be reopening from July 13. The South Holland sites are two of 14 across Lincolnshire that will open in line with government guidance, and will have a number of safety measures in place, including entry on a one-in-one-out system, more frequent cleaning, stock quarantining and hand sanitising stations. A ...

The country is broke, as it was when I was born. I am in receipt of a benefit called State Retirement Pension. I also receive a Winter Fuel Payment (WFP) of £200. WFP is a universal benefit, paid to all pensioners, rich or poor. Just for once, there isn’t a means test which excludes people who have lived modestly and ...

I was interested to read the article in The Voice dated July 2, about Spalding’s Western Relief Road and Coun Richard Davies’ comments about how it would be ‘incredibly difficult’ to finance the middle sections of the road. I cannot see where the problem is. It has been proved in the coronavirus emergency that money, if the political will is ...

To all of our customers, past and present, John and Julie Longford, of JL Taxis, Holbeach, would like to offer our thanks to you all for supporting our local taxi service in and around Holbeach, since 2000 to the present. As some of you may already know, retirement now beckons us, so from July 31, 2020, we shall cease trading. ...

There is a tendency for people to bask in the achievements of others, a trait that is very often encountered in politicians, not least in the recent and ongoing virus emergency and the roll of the NHS. There have been congratulations and plaudits from all levels of ministers, even the saintly Boris has been known to clap. It might be ...

Regarding the recent letters about non-delivery of domestic refuse sacks. Do you not realise how fortunate we are in South Holland? I have never lived anywhere else where free sacks are supplied plus we are one of the few areas left to retain weekly collections – most councils only provide fortnightly or even three-weekly collections. So someone’s house was overlooked? ...

Towards the end of May I wrote to you about the closure of South Holland District Council offices in Priory Road presenting a problem for those like me in receipt of a German pension and having to get the annual Life Certificate authorised. But the good news is that I have now received the Life Certificate from the German pension ...

Occasionally I’ve heard complaints that there are too many charity shops in Spalding. While not formerly sympathetic to these gripes, it’s been recently depressing to see the build up of discarded items donations outside of some such shops that no-one in them seems to care about. A notable recent case is Oxfam, which seems to have piles of clothes outside ...

I have written to the council about Spalding’s Recycling Centre booking in system. You have to book to go to the centre, which I understand, which obviously helps reduce the numbers of people attending to limit the spread of COVID-19 which is a good idea – no problem with that. What is confusing however is the wording that is used ...

Workers in the care system are dying at twice the rate of the rest of the population through coronavirus because of the government’s failings, unions have warned. Government claims to have put a ‘protective ring’ around the care sector early in the pandemic were exposed via a new Office For National Statistics release recently which revealed the shocking death rates ...