Hundreds of pounds was raised at Applegreen Services in Spalding on Thursday when Children in Need mascot bear Pudsey stopped by and spent the morning outside rattling a collection bucket. A spokesman for Greggs said £220 was raised during the morning’s collection alone. The Greggs store had been fundraising for Children in Need all week, with a stall by the ...

A helicopter crash at Fenland Airfield in July was caused when the pilot lost control of the aircraft during a descent. A report by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch says the incident, which took place at a public show at Holbeach St Johns, involved a Rotorway Executive 90 helicopter made in 1994. No-one was injured in the crash at 2.30pm ...

The Birds pub in Spalding will close next month. The pub – which is run by Greene King company Hungry Horse – will cease trading on December 9. Currently, the pub’s website is still taking bookings for Christmas dinner. On Wednesday, a member of staff said the company’s financial team will reimburse any payments already made for bookings. A spokesman ...

Everyone can see for themselves the monumental mess Brexit has inevitably become. Brexit is not merely another routine Westminster omnishambles, it’s a catastrophe on an unprecedented scale. Indeed, the future of our country is at stake and the outcome of Brexit will profoundly affect the future of individuals, families, businesses and the nation as a whole for decades to come. ...

Your article on the proposed new building at one corner of the Sheep Market, records a claim by the developer’s consultant that ‘historic documents show a large imposing building on the site previously’. What building was that? I can remember the site well from the 1930s onward, and there was no building on that corner during that time. There was ...

Further to the news that the Co-op is now not proposing to re-open the Post Office service at the revamped Whaplode Service station, I agree with Councillor Malcolm Chandler that this is a short sighted decision. With the level of new housing that is being proposed and built in Whaplode, the demand for the Post Office service is increasing. If ...

Worldwide Fruits was among those tasting success last week as it was named Business of the Year at the South Holland Business Awards. Lincolnshire Chamber of Commerce’s annual celebration of the district’s entrepreneurial bright sparks returned in glittering style at Springfields Events Centre on Thursday, November 15. More than 150 businesses attended the sixth running of the event hosted by ...

Peter Burrow, the big rabbit mascot of Peterborough United football club, aka Posh, stopped off at schools in Cowbit and Spalding as part of the The Peterborough United Schools Initiative. All of the pupils at the school received a free ticket to watch the football team play. and another ticket to take along a parent or carer. Press Officer Phil ...

A 42-year-old man and a 35-year-old woman have been arrested on suspicion of human trafficking offences. The suspects were questioned following a Lincolnshire Police operation in Gedney yesterday morning (Wednesday, November 7). Both have been released under investigation pending further enquiries. Lincolnshire Police said six people believed to have been trafficked to the county for work in the food services ...

Spalding convenience store staff held at gunpoint refused to give up the contents of the till during a robbery on Monday and the robber left empty-handed. Lincolnshire Police are appealing for information and have released photograph of the failed robber. Police said at 8.27pm on Monday, November 5, a man (pictured) entered the Fantasia store on Bourne Road. He threatened ...

Hundreds of people watched a fireworks display fundraiser for veterans without paying, leaving the event £2,000 out of pocket, the organiser has claimed. Harold Payne of the Anglia Motel in Fleet says he himself will foot the shortfall but the event last Saturday won’t be able to provide funds towards helping veterans go to Normandy to commemorate the D-Day landings ...

It’s not every day that you see the Batmobile on the streets of South Holland. And it’s even more unusual to see Santa in the passenger seat of the iconic vehicle. But Baytree’s Winter Wonderland opened at the weekend and Father Christmas arrived in style. Crowds of people gathered at the garden centre which is transformed for the festive season ...

A “minor miracle” occurred just the other day on the A17, east bound, from the Holbeach roundabout. As I joined the lengthy queue of vehicles crawling along at 10mph behind a slow-moving tractor, the traffic suddenly started to make good progress. I could see that up ahead said tractor had actually pulled into a lay-by to enable vehicles to pass. ...

WHY? Do we have to jump through so many hoops to organise a simple community event? The problems are not about actual safety, they are about shifting the blame from anyone in an official position, just in case there is an accident. Just look what Lewis in Sussex manage. Don’t the county council fix the crumbling road infrastructure or fail ...

The recent front page article in a local paper again highlighted the dangerous junctions on the A16 at Crowland with yet another pile up added this weekend. Lincs County Council tells us that there are far more dangerous junctions in the county for them to prioritise. They admit the best solution for ‘Radar Corner’ is a roundabout but there is ...

Last week, we were ‘treated’ to the thoughts of Mr Alan Meeking in promoting his Remain agenda. He has however indulged in obfuscation for his figures and definitions. Most of the quoted estimates for the recent London march were around the 700,000 mark. Mr Meeking claims ‘perhaps over 1,000,000…’ I am not in a position to challenge or comment on ...

I read with interest your article “Street Lights need time to adjust clocks” (The Voice, October 25) and the ridiculous comment made by Coun. Richard Davis, Lincolnshire County Council’s Executive Member for Highways. He says: “The street lights have sensors that monitor the number of daylight hours, which is how they set their internal clock.” My low energy “dawn till ...

Four people have been arrested following a call from a member of the public that a burglary was taking place at a shed near his house in Sutton St James at around 1am Friday morning. Police said the member of the public detained one of the individuals until police arrived and he was then arrested. Three others made off in ...

A Pinchbeck man who was found with four kitchen knives in his car when police went to his home after an allegation that he had assaulted his partner, has been ordered to carry out unpaid work for the community. Leigh William Squance (43) of Glenside North, admitted assaulting a woman by beating, possessing four kitchen knives in a public place ...

A Weston family has raised thousands of pounds for two hospitals to say thank-you for saving their five-year-old daughter’s life. Jessica Blow has recently been given the all clear from bone marrow cancer. Doctors had initially dismissed the then three-year-old’s swollen stomach and pain as constipation when she first became ill in May 2016. It took Jessica being admitted to ...