Spalding’s Agape Food Bank is the latest group to benefit from our Donate A Dinner appeal. The food bank, which is operated by Chas Sandhu of the Lighthouse Church, will be the beneficiary of any items donated this week. The Spalding and South Holland Voice teamed up with Coun Harry Drury to launch Donate A Dinner – an appeal which ...

Market traders are eager to get back as the easing of lockdown restrictions continue to be announced by central government. Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced this week that markets could open from Monday June 1 so long as they were “COVID safe”. The chair of Spalding’s Market Traders, Dave Burgess told The Voice that many market traders were raring to ...

A Spalding couple who marked what would have been their wedding day with a virtual ceremony, said they both had pre-ceremony jitters. Kirsty Woods and Ryan McClenaghan organised a virtual handfasting ceremony over Zoom on Saturday – the day they would have wed had their big day not been postponed due to the coronavirus crisis. Kirsty said: “The day before ...

Repair work has finally begun again on a road that collapsed in Holbeach. Boston Road South has been closed between Cecil Pywell Avenue and Holbeach Primary Academy since early March after issues with the sewer led to large holes opening up. Repair work was paused following the lockdown due to the COVID-19 outbreak, with Anglian Water saying it was prioritising ...

Having read the article ‘Tip to re-open’ dated May 6, I’m compelled to say I think this is a big mistake and will only add to the existing fly tipping! The instructions in order to tip something is far too involved – people will not bother. Firstly, how can you know in advance when you will need to go or ...

An open letter to Sir John Hayes: Dear Sir John, I understand that with the dangerous COVID-19 outbreak that what I am about to mention may seem insignificant to yourself. However, I’m speaking on behalf of many pensioners, not on pension credit, but not rich, who do not have a powerful voice on social media. We would be pleased to ...

Today I used the recycling centre after booking a slot as required by the powers that be. We went there not knowing what to expect and from start to finish we were there for approximately ten minutes and were very well directed on entry and around the site. I can only praise the staff who work there under the stress ...

A motor neurone disease sufferer who has raised thousands of pounds for charity is hoping to raise awareness of the condition while raising a bit more cash. Nigel Brasier, of Donington, has reinvented the Ice Bucket Challenge – renaming it the Ice-Olation Bucket Challenge – in a bid to raise awareness of the Motor Neurone Disease Association. The Ice Bucket ...

Plans for small developments in two South Holland villages have been submitted. The planned developments are for Moulton Seas End and Cowbit. A plan to build six bungalows has been submitted for land at Fairview Farm on Mill Drove in South Cowbit. A similar application for the site on already built land had been refused permission in February. The original ...

A travelling community who left an illegal camp on a village playing field this morning have began another camp just yards away. The group set up camp on Sutton St James’s Fred Hoyles Playing Field on Friday, villagers said. Lincolnshire Police this week told The Voice that the village’s parish council had begun legal proceedings to move the group on. ...

The lockdown hasn’t completely grounded Spalding Air Cadets with creating hundreds of items of protective clothing among the activities they’ve been carrying out. So far the 1406 (Spalding) Squadron of the RAF Air Cadets have printed and made over 300 face masks and 1,500 ear savers. Spalding Air Cadets’ Keris Moore (15) is among those making protective equipment and is ...

Protective masks for a local school and more scrubs for NHS staff are among the items donated by a Spalding charity this week. Ella’s Project, set up and run by Mark Le Sage, has been helping provide support where needed. And they’ve teamed up with the For the Love of Scrubs group which are co-ordinating those making equipment in Lincolnshire. ...

Parents have shown their appreciation for the teachers supporting their children during lockdown. Parents of pupils at Spalding’s St Norbert’s Primary School gave teachers gifts and did a mini clap for teachers to say thank you. Melissa Ford, whose son Noah (7) attends the school, said: “I have always felt the staff there go above and beyond for all of ...

Spalding-based company Worldwide Fruit Ltd has been buy helping out a host of local initiatives. The company put a call out to staff to ask if they knew of any groups that needed help. And it led to donations for the Spalding COVID Kidness Team with employee Tracy Philpott volunteering with the group. They also helped Jan Whitbourn who provided ...

The eyes are on the Pride of South Holland Awards for bingo organiser Phyllis Newton who is this week’s featured nominee. Phyllis’s Prize Bingo nights in Whaplode have proved a hot ticket for several years now and raised thousands of pounds for local charities. Each month the village hall event raised money for a different charity. In 2019 that led ...

A dance school’s efforts to continue during the lockdown has led to them composing a video of thanks for NHS staff. Diamondz School of Dance which is usually based in Bourne Road, Spalding, has around 110 students after being set up by Abbi Thompson 13 years ago. She started it when aged 16 and it’s grown since then including moving ...

Local businesses have helped rally around Spalding Cricket Club as the wait for the cricket season continues. The South Lincs Premier Division side had been looking forward to the 2020 season and running three Saturday teams, a Sunday team and an U19s as well as the ladies’ South Holland team and numerous junior teams. Matt Gill is set to make ...

Holbeach United celebrated the many positives from the curtailed 2019/20 season with an online awards ceremony last week. Former manager Danny Hussey helped put on the ceremony to mark the end of the season and his era in charge before Phil Barnes took over. And he named Tom Smith as his Manager’s Player of the Season. “At the start of ...

A convicted paedophile and rapist is back behind bars after he was caught downloading indecent images of children as young as two years old. Raymond Whittle attracting the attention of police again in April 2019 after a mobile phone linked to him was discovered to have accessed the illegal images. Whittle, who had previously spent nine years in custody after ...

A burglar who carried out a series of raids after finding himself homeless was today (Friday) jailed at Lincoln Crown Court. Darren Reegan, who at the time was living in his car, smashed his way into a property on Main Road, Hop Pole, and stole items including an I-pad, a laptop and jewellery. Noel Philo, prosecuting, told the hearing, which ...