A woman was taken to hospital on Saturday morning with broken bones following a collision with a van in Donington. Lincolnshire Police said that at 11.05am on Saturday, August 18, it received a report of a road traffic collision involving a van and a pedestrian at Market Place. A police spokesman said: “The van, a white Ford Transit, has collided ...

The popular Glen Park play area in Surfleet has become a more colourful place thanks to a group of volunteers who have spent the summer painting the fences bright colours. Surfleet woman Gaynor Fiske, who grew up in the village and moved back a few years ago, helped coordinate the efforts of a group of dedicated volunteers, who together have ...

Representatives of five Royal British Legion (RBL) branches in South Holland took part in a huge pilgrimage to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War. In one of the largest ever RBL operations, thousands of people travelled to Ypres, Belgium, for a three-day event. Representatives from Fleet and District, Holbeach, Spalding, Pinchbeck, Long Sutton and ...

Put your local knowledge to the test and fill in the gaps with the Spalding Gentlemen’s Society (SGS) quiz. The 100-question quiz is themed Spalding and South Holland and is a good excuse to get out and about. SGS member Dave Jacobs said: “If you think you know your local history or, if not, would like to get to know ...

Members of Spalding’s National Citizen Service (NCS) volunteer programme have raised almost £400 for local causes. By spending a fortnight of their summer break in doing good deeds in Spalding, the 15 to 17-year-old NFC members raised £374 for the 5th Spalding Brownies and Spalding Rugby Football Club. The NFS programme, which is designed to build confidence and skills through ...

The 60th anniversary of the link between Spalding and its French twin town Sézanne is being rung in with a special celebration being held this weekend. The Friends of Sézanne host their counterparts from the Champagne region on alternate years and this year it will mark its diamond celebration with a special event at the South Holland Centre. From 5.30pm ...

This year’s St Matthew’s Church, Sutton Bridge, Annual Art Exhibition will be organiser Geoff De Roux’s last as he steps down from the post. Geoff has organised the exhibition for the last seven years and now St Matthew’s Church is looking for someone else to lead the long-standing exhibition from next year. The exhibition runs from 10am on Saturday, August ...

A Spalding society hopes its specially commissioned bronze statue will take its place in Spalding town centre by October half term. The Hiring Fair depicts the meeting of a farmer and a shepherd and is hoped it will be sited at Hall Place, where hiring fairs traditionally took place each year in May. Currently the figures are stood in an ...

Holbeach’s Chosen Charity has donated £500 to save the leg of a dog called Cappo after seeing an appeal online. At 15-weeks-old, Cappo was attacked by another dog and suffered a broken leg. Staff at Sutterton Hospital put out an appeal in an attempt to raise funds to repair the fracture and Chosen responded with a £500 donation. Amy Trigg ...

A new series of meditation and mindfulness courses starts in Spalding in September. The antithesis of modern living, meditation and mindfulness brings space and peace to our lives. Next month, there are two options for those looking to explore their inner peace. A spokesman said: “All living beings have a shared wish – to be happy and free from problems. ...

A court has issued a six-month ban on a 32-year-old Spalding man from going to a local pub after hearing that staff were “cowering” behind the bar as he fought with a friend he had fallen out with. Christopher John Wayne Morris of Spring Gardens admitted using threatening behaviour likely to cause alarm or distress, when he appeared at Boston ...

Having recently had a social evening get-together of motoring enthusiasts in our group who attend shows and events in the region, much comment was made about the running of this year’s Holbeach Town and Country Fair. The fair seems to have had some recent criticism as to how many people attended plus how much gate money was taken, with the ...

Do I live on the wrong side of the tracks? The only GP surgery in the Wygate Park/Holland Park area of Spalding is in Pennygate. Our doctor of 32 years is retiring, but why can’t the Pennygate Health Centre continue under a new NHS doctor or doctors at least for the time being or, perhaps until a new health centre ...

As a keen cyclist, I am amazed how few (if any in certain places) bike racks there are in the Holbeach and Long Sutton towns. So often I have to secure my bike to a lamp-post or a downpipe of guttering. Cycling is superb in the Fens due to the flatness of the area and parking in small towns can ...

Regarding your front page report in the Voice – Thursday, August 9, (Troubled surgery will close to patients). I had been a patient at the Pennygate Surgery for the last 29 years because of living in the ward of Monks House, but recently I transferred to the Munro Medical Centre practice. When the news first broke about the Pennygate Centre ...

I was greatly saddened by the directive from the NHS whereby they informed me that Dr Nathu is to retire. I wonder, was she used as a scapegoat because I’m sure there are many inefficiencies in other practices in the town? I was also appalled by the inflammatory letters that you, in my opinion, allowed to be published unprofessionally in ...

A man in his 20s who was airlifted to hospital following a motorcycle collision near the A16 last Sunday has died. Speaking of the August 5 incident, Lincolnshire Police said: “A motorbike was found at Peak Hill in Cowbit and towards Crowland and no other vehicles were involved in the collision. “The Air Ambulance attended and the injured man, in ...

A second B&M store in Spalding is opening next month and will create 60 new jobs for the area. The new store is taking over the former Homebase site on Westlode Street which closed last month. It will be a home store and garden centre and is due to open for trading on Saturday, September 22. “We are feeling really ...

The doors are nearly ready to open at Spalding’s newest pub. The Tulip Queen is on course to open next month and has created 60 jobs for South Holland. “We believe that The Tulip Queen will be an excellent opportunity for people to learn new skills and gain experience. The Tulip Queen will offer a great community feel,” said manager ...

Staff at Spalding based recruitment agency Encore Personnel have gone above and beyond, raising a whopping £9,000 for its three charities, by climbing the highest mountain in the UK, Ben Nevis. A 17-strong team spent seven hours taking on the 1,345m climb last Saturday (August 11). Employees of all ages took part, including Melissa Packwood (19) and the oldest Chris ...