An ugly drunken episode at night has cost a Spalding resident £951. Police were called to a report of a man with a cut to his head in the town’s Matmore Gate. Boston Magistrates’ Court was told on Wednesday that a witness saw drunken Vilmatas Baltraitis fall and hit his head. He then got up and had an argument with ...

Changes to the provision of healthcare to vulnerable people at home prompted a demonstration this week. Care companies providing NHS-funded continuing care were told that as from this weekend the contracts in Lincolnshire would be going to just one of four companies.Until the end of this month, up to 70 different providers were being commissioned by the Integrated Care Board ...

A man had to be airlifted to hospital with serious injuries following an incident on a Pinchbeck building site. It happened at around 10.15am on Wednesday, March 22, at the Keston Fields development off Mill Green Lane.It’s understood the injured man was a sub-contractor working on the site where 100 homes are being built on the former Nursery Fresh Plants ...

Holbeach Parish Council is facing a crisis with meetings having to be cancelled due to several members not turning up as part of a protest. The authority has not had enough members to legally make decisions at recent meetings.Earlier this year it was denied a request to South Holland District Council to reduce the numbers its meant to have from ...

A 15-year-old from Pinchbeck has become the first Girl Guide from the Spalding district to win a Gold award. Florence Sweetland from 1st Pinchbeck (St Mary) Guides has been presented with her Gold award.To celebrate the Guide unit went for a meal at Shanghai Garden in Spalding.While there, Florence was presented with her award by Spalding District Commissioner Carole Baker.As ...

A local firm has been raising money and awareness of epilepsy. Steadfast Training last week got involved with the Epilepsy Society’s worldwide Purple Day (March 26) by wearing the colour to work. It was created in 2008 by Cassidy Megan, a young girl from Canada, who has epilepsy and wanted to get people talking about the condition. She decided to ...

More than £15m has been secured to help residents in South Holland, Boston and East Lindsey. The South and East Lincolnshire Councils Partnership has been awarded the money for Home Upgrade Grant 2 (HUG2) for a two year programme.The scheme is aimed at improving the energy efficiency of domestic properties across the area.It has been awarded by the Department for ...

Students have helped raise money for a local hospital after creating wooden items to sell. Construction teacher at the University Academy Holbeach, Darren Morris, presented a cheque for £312 to Holbeach Hospital. “The idea was that students got a chance to experience making joinery items for potential clients, while using the knowledge and skills gained in the three months or ...

If you love chocolate, and who doesn’t? Then this is a prize you want to win. To celebrate Easter and the opening of the new Cadbury Outlet at Springfields we have a fantastic competition for our readers.We have 20 bundles of a Dairy Milk Chunky Egg and a big bar of chocolate to give away.The 400g milk chocolate eggs retail ...

The damning report published into the problems of the Met also highlights a number of political decisions that has led to poor performance and loss of public trust.Lincolnshire Independents wrote just a month ago to the Home Office Minister for Police in protest at the drastic cuts proposed in local neighbourhood Policing across the county. The cut in Police Community ...

Seeing what’s going on in France it’s certainly outrageous that we in Britain have to work until we are 66 years and three months of age before we can retire.I have another three years, seven months to work, I work 12-hour shifts which over the age of 55 working shifts is not good for your health.I really can’t see me ...

I am looking for some help please.I have written a history of Deeping St Nicholas, published in 2021, and am now working on a second edition, as so much extra information has come my way.Firstly, I read on the website a letter – admittedly, if I read correctly, written in 2018 – by Mr R Jackson, of Pinchbeck.He mentions that ...

Regarding the possible pavilion at Sutton Bridge, I have not ‘led the campaign’ for the proposal, but am chairman of the committee/task group which is looking into the idea.No decisions have yet been taken on the actual type of building, nor on its eventual cost.Unless the funding for the eventual idea can be achieved through grants and outside help, we ...

May I refer to the news item ‘Row over sports pavilion’ in March 23 edition.Reporter Richard Rush has set out my position very well. Sadly, Coun Brewis seems to have strayed from reality in his response.A new sports pavilion is certainly needed but Coun Brewis has on several occasion actively hindered proposals over the past five years. Even now, a ...

I would like to thank the good souls who laboured to produce the new hedge which edges the nature reserve on Garnsgate Road. It is a joy to see.Well done to all concerned. Sue MasonStation RoadLong Sutton

The Wash is a vast area and we should make more of it. Bird watching, walking, dog exercising, gathering samphire for personal use and simply admiring a unique area of natural scenery. I read that a senior Conservative activist objects to South Holland Independents wishing to improve access to this space. She says the only one is at Sutton Bridge. ...

A Spalding postie and his girlfriend will be back doing the rounds of London for charity. On Sunday, (April 2)Rachael Nichols and Ade Mills will both be running the London Landmarks Half Marathon to raise money for The ME Association, a condition Racheal has been diagnosed with.Ade, who’s worked as a postie in Spalding for 18 years, remembers doing a ...

Residents of a Spalding estate say they’re back to being concerned about anti-social behaviour after an order was lifted. The Voice ran an article in November 2021 outlining residents concerns of the issue in an area.Just two months later a Partial Closure Order was placed on a nearby property believed to have been the location of cuckooing, where criminals take ...

South Holland is to share a local policing team with Boston after Lincolnshire Police confirmed its cuts to Police Community Support Officer numbers. PCSOs will be reduced from 91 to 50 due to budgetary pressures, with police saying the officers will be redeployed.Three areas of South Holland deemed to be among the “most vulnerable” by police will have two PCSO ...

It’s no April Fool, one of Spalding’s finest and most unique institutions is back on Saturday, April 1. The Spalding Water Taxi season begins and is set to continue right through the summer.Anthony Grunwell, who oversees the operation, said: “The Spalding Water Taxi has been operating for over 15 years with the only break in service due to the two ...