It’s your last chance to get your nominations in for this year’s Pride of South Holland Awards. Organiser Jan Whitbourn has decided that Monday (July 27) will be the final day to nominate the heroes you feel have made a big contribution to the local community. Later next week the judges will come together to decide the winners. The nominations ...

Andy Prior was back on top of the podium at Welland Yacht Club’s latest regatta. Sunday saw the second regatta, The Flag Officer’s Cup, get underway in what is an unprecedented year. Keeping with the pursuit race format for the start of the season, seven boats took part with four different start times. The northerly wind provided a rare down ...

Bream continue to show on the North Level at Main Road with some excellent weights in the latest round of Tydd Gote Angling Club matches. Newcomer Alan Chambers impressed at both the Wednesday Open and the Sunday Club match. On Wednesday Alan was on hot peg 35 and fished feeder and worm for seven big bream for 31lb 12oz and ...

The government has given the go-ahead for football to return with clubs set to start pre-season friendlies in August ahead of the start of the leagues in September. The FA announced at the weekend that full contact training is now permitted as the clubs get ready for the regular season. Both Spalding United and Pinchbeck United have announced their pre-season ...

Cricket returned to South Holland this weekend as clubs held friendlies ahead of the August 1 start of the South Lincs and Border League. Spalding Town’s 1st XI visited Market Deeping on Sunday and were unable to chase down the home side’s 209-8 from 40 overs. Will Naylor claimed 4-33 from eight overs and Brandon Andrews 3-59 from 10 after ...

Sunday’s Holbeach and District Club match was held at the orchard stretch on the South Holland Drain. Winning the match was Jonny Stubley from end peg 20. He had two bonus skimmers on the feeder and roach and small perch to get a weight of 3lb 10oz. Close behind was Jason Thrower with a weight of 3lb 8oz of mainly ...

Three sheep were killed and eight are missing after an attack on a Surfleet Marsh farm. Lincolnshire Police say they’re investigating a report of animal cruelty after the incident which took place between Friday and Saturday night. Police believe a vehicle, possibly a 4×4, entered a field and ran over three of the resident sheep. One sheep died as a ...

A bid to make a Greater Lincolnshire authority which would replace both Lincolnshire County Council and South Holland District Council is to be made. The county council has announced that together with North and North East Lincolnshire authorities, it will bid for local government reorganisation and is looking to create one council that serves the whole of Lincolnshire. Currently in ...

A Spalding firm is taking on 300 more people, including some of those being made redundant elsewhere. Food firm Gousto says it’s seen a big lockdown boost for its services ahead of it opening a second fulfilment centre soon. A spokesman for the firm, said: “Since lockdown began and demand for recipe boxes jumped significantly, Gousto accelerated its recruitment plans ...

Two men accused of attempted murder following an alleged shooting in Spalding have had charges against them dropped at Lincoln Crown Court. Anthony Madine, 20, of Cradge Bank, Spalding, and Junior Titilawo,25, of Aspen Green, Huntingdon, were each accused of the attempted murder of 24-year-old Liam Heffernan. They were also accused of possession of a prohibited firearm. Both men pleaded not ...

The number of 16 to 24-year-olds in Spalding claiming unemployment benefits has increased 167 per cent in a year due to COVID-19, a group that trains young people in Spalding has said. Quoting research from the Office for National Statistics , Nacro says 600 people in that age group were unemployed and claiming benefits in June 2020. That’s up from ...

An appeal has been released after farm equipment was stolen from a field near Gosberton. A red and white Wegler RP520 farm baler was stolen from a field near High Bridge Lane in Gosberton last week between July 10 and 13. A Neighbourhood Alert put out by PCSO Abbotts of Spalding North Rural Neighbourhood Policing Team has called for anyone ...

A Moulton woman who became convinced that COVID-19 was a hoax that could lead to war died after setting fire to herself an inquest has heard. Zsuzsanna Marlyin (49) died at the specialist burns unit in Broomsfield Hospital in Essex on Sunday, April 19, two days after the incident at the Hallgate home she shared with husband of 24 years, ...

A remarkable two-year-old who was born 12-weeks premature weighing just 1lb 7oz is undertaking a 27-mile charity challenge. Alfie Barraclough’s parents Amber and Shaun were told to ‘prepare for the worst’ when it was realised how small he was when Amber was 20-weeks pregnant. Alfie at birth He was born just eight weeks later by emergency caesarian when he was ...

An investigation has begun amid claims a company was pretending to be Lincolnshire County Council and fixing driveways and potholes in Spalding. The authority has moved to assure residents that it will not turn up unannounced and offer to do work for someone. Lincolnshire Police has urged people to be wary over reports of doorstep traders offering similar work in ...

I am writing this letter regarding coronavirus and school holidays. School children in the UK as we all know by September will have been absent from school due to coronavirus for six months. Home schooling has been in operation along with parents doing an excellent job, plus working from home themselves. This virus is declining very slowly (although still there, ...

I am writing in reply to G Kent’s letter concerning charity shops. Firstly I work in a Spalding shop. People should have been well aware not to leave bags of goods outside these shops as they are closed. So my point is that the blame lies with the public, not the shop. As far as payment for staff, ie managers ...

Having read the letter regarding charity donations, I felt compelled to respond. Visiting many towns in South Holland I feel a charity shop is far more preferable than an empty shop which are becoming far more prevalent in these times. I have also seen many charity shop doorways with donations in them and every shop I have seen had a ...

I was bemused to read Mr De Jong’s letter in the Voice (July 2). It is precisely because the readership of this excellent paper are capable of forming their own opinions that robust and open debate so regularly features! The point of comment columns is to promote ideas and stimulate debate. It may disappoint a few, but most people welcome ...

It’s good to see Lincolnshire Highways have started to wake up and listen to the call of the locals by using common sense regarding the A16/B1166 (Radar Junction). This was nothing short of being a stupid and ridiculous idea. Is it now time the highly paid Richard Davies and The Lincolnshire Highways Department sat down and spoke to the local ...