I find it extremely odd that on the one hand the council are chopping down mature trees and natural habitats to make way for houses and roads to nowhere and on the other saying we need to plant woodlands! This council has allowed so many mature trees to be chopped down in recent years – over 30 disappeared in three ...

I have recently returned from Unite the union sector conference and bring back a clear message. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to elect a government that gives working people hope. My union will do everything it can to win a Labour government with a programme that will give workers and their trade union stronger rights that will ...

How does Davina Kirby, the embodiment of the Metropolitan Line remoaner elite, consider that the ilLiberal unDemocrats threat to block Brexit might have any resonance with the people of South Holland and the Deepings, who overwhelmingly voted to Leave? Let’s get Brexit done by voting for Sir John Hayes. As Winston Churchill was known to observe “Trust the people”. Karen ...

I was extremely upset following the remembrance Sunday ceremony at Ayscoughfee Hall. This service is not meant to be political at all and to see the Labour Party lay a wreath was extremely bad form. The Conservatives and Liberal Democrats don’t lay wreaths as this is a non-political event. I hope they are ashamed of themselves. Having someone like Corbyn ...

After reading NFU South Holland Branch Secretary Andrew Cross’s article regarding pressing for answers and concerns farmers have on the A16/B1166 Radar Corner, is it now time that local residents start putting pressure on Sir John Hayes and Coun Nigel Pepper? Coun Pepper is the one who knows this dreaded junction as well as anyone. Lincoln-based Coun Richard Davies does ...

South Holland has the lowest tree cover in the country – less than half the cover that the City of London does, it’s been claimed. After The Voice revealed last week that South Holland District Council was set to announce a project to look to create woodland in every settlement in the district, charity Friends of the Earth has stated ...

Police have appealed for information after two potted trees worth £500 were stolen in Sutton St James. On Wednesday, November 6, at around 8.30am, a man driving a silver Ford Mondeo attended a property in Old Fendyke, Sutton St James, and took two potted trees. The car has a GB sticker on the left hand side of the boot and ...

A Weston Hills man has been banned from the roads for two years after being caught drug-driving twice in eight days. Former self-employed motor vehicle dealer Craig Michael Thornton had a cocaine derivate in his system during both stops by police. The 33-year-old, of Austendyke Road, appeared before magistrates in King’s Lynn on Thursday and pleaded guilty to two counts ...

South Holland is a “people trafficking hotspot” and a Catholic organisation is holding a seminar in Spalding to discuss the issue. Regarding modern day slavery, a spokesman for The Santa Marta Group – an international initiative of the Catholic Bishops Conference in England and Wales – said: “Sadly, The Fens is regarded as one of the ‘hot spots’ in the ...

Police have launched an appeal for witnesses to an hit and run in Holbeach. On Saturday (November 16) at 10.30am a blue Audi was involved in a collision with a pedestrian outside the Co-op in Fleet Street, Holbeach. Police said the vehicle left the scene and the female victim sustained a minor injury to her arm. A police spokesman said: “We ...

A World War Two veteran from Weston has celebrated his 100th birthday in style. Douglas Hance reached three figures on Wednesday, November 13, a century after being born in Wandsworth in London. He was 20 when the war broke out and spent six and a half years with the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire light infantry. “I’m very proud of them,” Douglas ...

A councillor has claimed colleagues are undermining the plan for housing in South Lincolnshire after walking out of a recent planning meeting. Coun Michael Seymour, who has sat on South Holland District Council’s Planning Committee for nearly 20 years, told The Voice he’d walked out of last week’s meeting “on principle”. It was during a hearing on whether eight, three-bedroom ...

Three charities are hundreds of pounds better off thanks to a ladies’ fashion store. Cindy’s of Sutton Bridge has put on two fashion shows in recent weeks. One in Boston raised a fantastic £572 each for Marie Curie and St Barnabas Hospice. And another held as a fund-raiser for Tonic Health has helped land the Spalding-based charity £788. All of ...

A man who “shows a level of disregard for authority” has been denied the transfer of a Premises Licence by the district council. At last week’s November Panel of the Committee of the Licensing Authority meeting, an application to transfer a Premises Licence at the Delicja shop on Westlode Street, Spalding. The application was to transfer the premises licence from ...

A Moulton man who was made to sit through the explosions of five nuclear bombs has been talking about its effects on him and his daughter for a moving documentary. Douglas Hern (83) is featured heavily in Arena – A British Guide to the End of the World which was screened on BBC Four last week and is currently available ...

Spalding Grammar School has supported Rotary Shoebox Scheme by filling 75 shoeboxes. Students and teachers worked together to help the scheme which seeks to send a little happiness to disadvantaged children and adults in eastern Europe. Spalding Grammar’s effort for the local scheme run by Rotary Club of South Holland was co-ordinated by PE teacher Chris Crane. He said: “Students ...

The new Lidl on Holbeach Road in Spalding is set to open tomorrow (Thursday). A ribbon cutting ceremony is due to take place at 8am and there will be a host of offers on offer throughout the weekend, the supermarket says. The new supermarket forms part of the company’s ongoing expansion and regeneration plans in the UK and has created ...

The number of calls to 101 in Lincolnshire that were abandoned due to waiting times increased by 53 per cent in the past 12 months. The average wait time for an answer on Lincolnshire Police’s non-emergency number has risen to 2mins 45 secs from 1min 50 secs, a Freedom of Information request has revealed in the 12 months preceding October ...

Beautiful, yet slightly eerie pictures of Spalding partially blanketed in early morning mist have been captured by an amateur photographer. Steve Ward sent his drone above the town at 8am on Saturday morning (November 16) to catch the dramatic scenes. The Spalding resident said: “I’m a budding photographer and bought a drone to get that different photo than the usual ...

Why is it necessary to substitute the word ‘twice’ for ‘two times’, the headline for the paragraph advertising the forthcoming SADOS production. The written and spoken English is slowly being replaced by ‘Americanisms’, such as ‘smart’ for clever, ‘can I get’ for ‘may I have’, I won’t continue – letters are limited to 300 words! Jennifer Hemingway Spalding