Letters

When Oxfam closed its shop in Spalding in 2021, residents were deprived of a method of donating to appeals such as that in support of the Ukraine. However Spalding people may be unaware of another process currently impeding their chance of making a positive difference.The mess frequently seen around the Oxfam collection bin in the car park near Sainsbury is ...

It’s wonderful that the charity shop Chosen have made so many donations recently (Voice April 18) but I was surprised to see they had given £600 to the Air Cadets which, in itself, is not a charity. Mike HarperSpalding

Shakespeare wrote “Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May”. H.E. Bates borrowed part of the line. I am reminded of it every spring when a tearing wind batters the Philadelphus flowers.Now, in April, rough winds are shaking the darling buds of May, or hawthorn. I planted some hawthorn in my earlier life. It’s common and cheap.Then I got ...

Philip Jackson (Letters, April 18) advocates flying the Lincolnshire instead of the Union Flag, and relates it to a feeling of pride. I won’t argue over his choice of precedence, but is flying any flag the best way of showing pride? Wouldn’t a better way be to support, or demand, the raising of our public estate and public services from ...

Being a postal voter, I received my paperwork for the PCC election being held on May 2.The only things on the form about the candidates is their names and the political parties they represent. Most, which I totally understand the reason for, have omitted to add their address.It may be just me but if I am voting for the most ...

As a shipmate, I am reaching out to you on behalf of the Royal Naval Association (RNA) Spalding Branch with an exciting update and an invitation.Firstly, I am pleased to inform you that the RNA Head Office has made a significant decision that affects all potential members: they have abolished the annual subscription fees.This change has led to a surge ...

I’m sure the new-look roundabouts on the A16 in Spalding are going to be magnificent.Trying to persuade people to stop and visit when the smell hits you at the Springfields roundabout is another matter entirely.The overpowering sewage smell must put off potential visitors. There must be a solution. Name and address supplied

Generous shoppers in Spalding are being encouraged to help an in-store fundraising campaign from Monday, April 22 to Sunday, April 28 to support medical research into food allergies. For the fifth year running, Tesco is working with The Natasha Allergy Research Foundation, the UK’s food allergy charity, to help raise awareness and support clinical research into food allergies by contributing ...

So, the officers and councillors of SHDC have proudly hoisted the Union Jack flag at the Priory Road offices in celebration of 50 years in existence.Now, I am staunchly proud to be British but may I ask, why not fly the Lincolnshire county flag as I’m sure our councillors would claim to be proud Lincolnshire yellowbellies?Travelling through our county it ...

I think that there must have been some oversight as I read through your list of members appointed to the new Town Board and Stephen Timewell was not among them!Surely a mistake as this individual has done more to revive the fortunes of the town than many in years of purportedly ”serving it’.Let’s hope it is rectified asap!Judy StevensDeeping St ...

As I had been feeling a bit dizzy over the Easter weekend, I decided to seek advice from my doctor at Beechfield Medical Centre in Spalding. I thought it would be perhaps wise to have my blood pressure checked.I rang early Tuesday morning, to be told I was 38th in the queue.After almost an hour waiting patiently, I eventually was ...

Awake, citizens of Holbeach, awake!Your sewage problems are the fault of one company, Anglian Water, which is led by Chief Executive Officer Peter Simpson.His email address is psimpson@anglianwater.co.uk, his postal address is Lancaster House, Lancaster Way, Ermine Business Park, Huntingdon, Cambs, PE29 6YJ.You need to email him or write to him to tell him of your disgust at his lack ...

We will all be paying energy firms £1.3bn in annual charges to help them recover bad debt from April 1, 2024.Despite billions of pounds in profits, the firms will bill each of us an average of £28 a year extra to pay for the cost of recovering bad debts.And a new report by the Warm This Winter (WTW) campaign also ...

In the March 28th edition of the Spalding Voice, was a letter from D. Loos, a Fleet Hargate resident, complaining about the work going on the area, replacing the gas transport system (the pipes).I have also lived in the same village for the past 33 years, and applaud the work going on to make the gas infrastructure safer for us ...

Referring to Mark Hadley’s letter in Spalding Voice (March 20) regarding dog attacks, I always carry a small bottle of washing up liquid with me when walking my little dog and will not hesitate to squirt it into a dog’s eyes who wants to savage my dog or indeed to a person who wishes to harm either one of us.The ...

John Hayes is leading a lobby against the creation of a new pylon route through the district.Well, OK, but; those involved should go further than protest: they should reveal the alternative they have in mind.The National Grid is already on the brink of inadequacy in relation to the new modes of power generation – wind and sun – now coming ...

I live in a country lane and I drive on country lanes.I know a good many passing places but I don’t know them all and sometimes I and another driver have to pull on to grass verges in order to pass.I have always understood that there is allowed to be a pull-off width of verge, and that bricks/fences/boulders/breeze blocks/white posts ...

I read the article about having a say on the new health hub in The Voice on March 21, wow £26 million estimated on Spalding’s new sports complex.It will almost certainly be a lot more than that, everything always costs more than originally planned.“Sport For All” we all remember that don’t we? And Spalding is going to get that, at ...

I live in Fleet Hargate and had to go out to do some shopping recently.A lot of Fleet Hargate has roadworks (gas apparently) but I was shocked to see all the cones/traffic lights etc in Holbeach and Long Sutton.I totally understand that repairs/replacements have to be made for the utilities, but they don’t do themselves. I did not see one ...

May I express through your newspaper my heartfelt thanks to the kind soul who handed in my purse, dropped in Morrison’s car park on Thursday, March 7.There are some marvellous and honest people out there.No details were left as to who this person was but again many, many thanks. Mrs J WarfieldHolbeach