Spalding’s Park Road has been closed again as investigations into why the road keeps collapsing continues Lincolnshire County Council has announced the full closure of the road from today following several years of issues on the route. Anglia Water has previously also carried out extensive work on the mainly residential street. The county council has not set a definite date ...

Pinchbeck Carnival returned on Saturday and around 2,000 people descended on Rotten Row. Among the attractions were a huge amount of classic vehicles, which paraded around the village and there was a host of stalls from charity and community groups.The event was opened by the carnival queen Briony Sweetland, accompanied by princes Nathaniel Garfoot and Edward Bates,There was also a ...

A councillor says they won’t give up on toilets despite several being closed due to vandalism. The Changing Places toilet at Ayscoughfee Gardens aimed at people with mobility issues opened in February has been closed for a second time after being damaged this week.Some of the South Holland District Council-owned toilets in Holbeach, which have a state-of-the-art digital lock, have ...

A Royal Marines veteran has celebrated his 100th birthday. Harry Tew received his card from King Chales III on Monday as he celebrated at his Langwith Gardens home in Holbeach.He grew up in King’s Cross and was a tool makers’ apprentice before being allowed to sign up for the Army aged 18 in 1942.He initially joined the Navy before becoming ...

Lincolnshire Police chiefs have responded to a report which claimed trust in police forces was “hanging by a thread”. The report by Chief Inspector of Constabulary, Andy Cooke, has sent ripples across the UK’s police forces and paints a concerning picture of public trust towards the police.It highlights issues such as police forces struggling to keep up with rising public ...

A bid to build a new Holbeach Health Hub is progressing, though slower than hoped, a councillor has said. South Holland District Council said in March it’s working with the Primary Care Network and NHS Lincolnshire on creating a new and expanded town centre building for the Holbeach Medical Practice.The exact location hasn’t officially been revealed but The Voice understands ...

A keen cyclist is taking on a mammoth challenge to raise money in memory of his nephew. Mark Necus is taking part in the London to Brighton Cycle Ride on Sunday raising funds for Rethink Mental Illness.Mark’s nephew Adam Jackson, who was well known on the South Holland football scene, took his own life in March. He was 34 and ...

The new chairman of Holbeach Parish Council says he’s looking to create a four-year plan to ‘have a vision, mission and objectives’. Coun Clive Turner has taken on the role after Coun Sophie Hutchinson stepped down just two months after taking over the role from former councillor Stephen Johnson.She told The Voice she stepped down “because although I clearly have ...

A parish council has put a halt on all projects after its finance officer claimed ‘it’s in a bit of a mess’. Holbeach is looking to refocus on projects for ‘two months max’, Coun Rick Stevens told its latest meeting.“I think we’re in a bit of a mess at the moment and not concentrating on the right areas where we ...

Plans have been submitted to create a holiday park in Whaplode on a site previously allocated for a gypsy and traveller site. VMM Properties Ltd is looking to build 19 lodges and associated buildings including reception alongside two new fishing lakes at Bleu Ray Farm off Mill Gate.Despite local opposition, permission had been granted for a four-berth site for the ...

A host of people have stepped up to help at a historic Spalding church. St Mary and St Nicholas Church in Spalding organised a drop-in session to encourage more volunteers to come forward and help the church which dates back to the 13th century.“I was delighted by the response,” said Rev John Bennett, of the event put on by the ...

A woman who gets up at 2.30am every day to hula hoop for 30 minutes has lost five stone in weight in a year. Tina Taylor was referred to Slimming World and the gym after being told by the doctors if she didn’t lose some of her 19 stone 2lb she might not be around to care for her parents ...

Battle sites, memorials and cemetery visits were the focus of Anglia Motel veterans Graham Smith and Harold Payne during their recent visit to Normandy. Tilly-sur-Seulles, Ranville, Bayeux Cemetery and Memorial and the Mont-Ormel Memorial were on the agenda for the first day, followed the next day by the Pegasus Bridge, the Merville Gun Battery Museum, and the Normandy American Cemetery ...

Whilst reading last week’s Voice I see the council could not think out of the box and make a decision about storing unused vehicles and equipment.Why not purchase a site on Enterprise Way and build a new waste refuse collection depot centre for the one on West Marsh Road and use the old buildings to store used vehicles and equipment ...

I read the report on animals being saved twice in amazement.Police crime team, council, RSPCA, etc on the scene and dealing with the situation, but surely a rat infestation is an environmental matter affecting human beings living in the area?No-one, police, council or MP, is willing to find a way to help them, no report of newspaper inquiries why our ...

As the older people’s parliament returns to debate the many problems facing UK’s older people, delegates will be attending The National Pensioner’s Annual Convention in Blackpool on June 28 and 29.The main question to be asked is why millions of today’s and tomorrow’s older people face poverty, hardship and the loss of vital services?The NPC, the UK’s largest campaign group ...

Having read Mr Davis’ letter in the Voice I agree 100 per cent, why would anybody want to come to Spalding?The council has lost control. There’s no plan to make the town a place where people want to come. Now Lord Porter has lost his seat and is no longer leader who’s running this shambles?Having seen how successful Flower Parade ...

Boris Johnson’s resignation honours list is an appropriate coda to the most corrupt and bizarre administration in British history, and the final act to a parliamentary career hopefully now terminally ended.But isn’t debate on this point fought from incongruous positions? Shouldn’t it be partisans of the monarchy above everyone who realise how their own beloved institution is being dragged through ...

A hoard of illegal vapes were uncovered at a shop in Holbeach by police and Trading Standards last week. Lincolnshire Police would not say which store the over 200 vapes were found, but said it was on Fleet Street.It followed a visit by the force on Friday June 9.South Holland Police said: “Always on it: Whilst on patrol last week, ...

A plan to increase the number of unrelated people living in one Spalding house to nine has been thrown out. Mr D Bowden had applied to turn the four bedroom detached property in Stonegate into a seven-bed Home of Multiple Occupancy (HMO).It would include two new bedrooms downstairs and a room upstairs halved to make it five rooms on the ...