One way systems for pedestrians are being put in place for Spalding, Long Sutton and Holbeach. Non-essential shops can re-open from Monday, June 15 with markets in the district set to return this week too. And South Holland District Council has unveiled new one-way systems for Spalding, Holbeach and Long Sutton which can be viewed below. A spokesman said: “Our ...

It’s hoped that making Grantham Hospital a “largely COVID free site” will help patients awaiting operations across Lincolnshire. The United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust, which oversees that hospital, Pilgrim Hospital in Boston, Lincoln County Hospital and Louth Hospital, has made the move following a meeting of its board this morning (Thursday). The trust says creating a COVID free site will ...

The COVID-19 outbreak is set to cost South Holland District Council between £4.1m and £1.7m, the authority has warned. A report to its cabinet, which will meet online next Tuesday, states that its likely the district council will have to use some of the £5.1m reserves available as a result of the measures. That’s on top of the £1.06m the ...

With lockdown measures now being slowly eased, the decision has been made to wind down the Donate A Dinner appeal. The Spalding and South Holland Voice teamed up with Coun Harry Drury back in March to launch the campaign, which aimed to ensure that no child went hungry while schools were closed during the coronavirus pandemic. Thanks to the generous ...

A man’s marathon effort has raised awareness of a rare life-limiting condition that his friend’s children are battling. Last Sunday, Steve Tucker ran from his Holbeach home to Springfields in Spalding and back again twice, the equivalent of 26.2 miles. He did so for the Batten Disease Family Association and his run doubled as the launch event for the Blisters4Memories ...

A runner replicated the London Marathon on her driveway recently as she raised thousands of pounds for a mental health charity. Sam Hall is still hoping to run the re-scheduled race in October after the April event’s cancellation due to the COVID-19 outbreak. The London Marathon on her front drive. But determined to not let her sponsors for the Mental ...

Proposals to relocate two of South Holland’s markets have been met with anger and disgust as they ready to return next week. Long Sutton market will be relocated next week in a move described as “stealthy” by the town’s parish council. Traders said they were “shocked and disgusted” at a proposal to move Spalding market to Victoria Street car park, ...

I would like to thank the person who found and handed in my sunglasses on May 29 which I lost at the Cowbit Garden Nursery (next to the church). Thank you. David Barfoot Shepeau Stow

2019 was a classic year for military remembrance events, going to Normandy in June with the veterans, travelling to Arnhem in Holland for the 75th Anniversary of “Operation Market Garden” is one I will never forget. It marked the Ill-fated expedition which could have shortened WWII by three months but instead resulted in ignominious defeat for the Allied Forces primary ...

A letter in a recent copy of The Voice stated an Appeal Court hearing for women born in the 1960s regarding pensions was due to take place on June 5 and 6 2020 but if you look on the website for Pensions Age it says a case will be heard on July 21 2020. My wife is one of those ...

Regarding the letter from Nicholas de Jong in the June 4 edition of The Voice. I also received the same letter from Sir John Hayes dated May 20. The original question was: ‘Will he do all within his power to prevent the sell off of any parts of the NHS in any future trade deals’. However he seems to have ...

Nicholas de Jong (Letters June 4) expressed very well the inappropriateness of John Hayes’s self-congratulatory claims about the good state of the economy at a time when the government has allowed the UK to become almost the worst in the world for the number of deaths per million from COVID-19. The agreement of most experts is that the best way ...

I write warning following my recent experiences. In my walks around Fleet Hargate, I indulge in harvesting extra long cables from appliances destined for rubbish collection. The harvested cables are used to make extension leads. The appliances have no doubt been discarded as they were deemed to be faulty. However my recent experiences of harvesting cables has shown that the ...

A Spalding family are climbing their stairs 1,140 times in a lockdown Three Peaks Challenge. Dan, Melissa, Noah (7) and Elliot Ford (4) are working as a team to complete the virtual challenge. Noah (7) and Elliot Ford (4) who are doing a virtual Three Peaks Challenge. So far the family has climbed the equivalent of Scafell Pike raising money ...

A specialist swimming facility should be open and ready to welcome new customers on July 4. Work started on the new pool back in March and it was due to open in May but the coronavirus pandemic delayed the opening. Now Billie’s Fins Swim School, which currently runs a school for 500 children at Eye, is getting ready to open ...

Donations of personal protection equipment (PPE) to schools in Long Sutton and Spalding are among the initiatives led by Ella’s Project in the last week. The group led by Mark Le Sage is involved in a host of initiatives to help the community during the current COVID-19 outbreak. Melissa Ford and Darran Grout from Long Sutton Primary School It’s arranging, ...

Long Sutton’s Men’s Shed group has received a lockdown boost. The group which aims to provide a place for men suffering from loneliness or isolation is continuing to call on its members during the lockdown and working to expand when its sessions are allowed to reopen. It’s been boosted by a £1,000 grant from Lincolnshire County Council’s COVID-19 Community Fund. ...

A baker has risen to the challenge to bake a cake to celebrate Britain. Tulip Events, ran by Jan Whitbourn, put a competition online asking for people to bake their best cakes inspired by the recent VE Day celebrations. The winner was Trish Bristow of Sutton St Edmund who entered a British Victory Cake from a 1950s recipe made using ...

Our local libraries may be closed at present but that’s not going to stop Lincolnshire’s young readers taking part in this year’s Summer Reading Challenge 2020. Better Libraries in partnership with The Reading Agency and Lincolnshire County Council went online to launch this year’s challenge on Friday at: summerreadingchallenge.org.uk The summer reading challenge promises loads of silly fun for children ...

This year’s Pride of South Holland Awards has now officially been postponed – but it will be back and the public are urged to keep sending their nominations in. This year’s celebration of those who make a difference to our community was due to take place at the South Holland Centre on June 28. Organiser Jan Whitbourn is now working ...