LETTERS – Thanks for help after fall

Thank you to Lincs Fire Brigade (Spalding crew) who attended my home after a fall on Sunday, July 31.You were all so very kind and helped me.Thank you so much. Rita Blackman

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LETTERS – Plastic bags are just fine with me

I applaud the South Holland District Council’s stand on wheelie bins. I lived in Norfolk and we had bins. You had to store it somewhere and regular cleaning was necessary. The Norfolk Council then decided bins must be presented with lids closed. Never mind if you had the family up for the weekend and had more refuse to dispose of, ...

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LETTERS – Fined for feeding pigeons?

What cloud does our local council live on? You will now be fined £75 for feeding the pigeons in the town centre. What do they define as the town centre? The circle of doom outside Boots? It’s ok to drink, give abuse to people passing, spit, throw cigarette ends on the floor, but you cannot feed pigeons. Who is going ...

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LETTERS – I apologise for error in my letter

I wish to publicly and sincerely apologise to Andrew Woolf, the Vice-Chairman of the SHDC, for inadvertently depicting the wrong title in my answer to the letter printed in The Voice on July 21, 2022 and any embarrassment I may have inadvertently caused. I mistakenly used the title of Vice-Chairman. The letter did in fact refer to a letter from ...

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LETTERS – Coun Carter has been amazing

Hello P J Tyres, this is Ann Gregory in reply to your letter in The Voice dated July 28, 2022. I don’t know you, but I am truly grateful for your suggestion to get Sir John Hayes involved with the complaint and ongoing issues that I have been experiencing. But to update you and others that have also made the ...

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LETTER – Ground conditions well known

Your interesting article (August 4) showed the piles being used to guarantee the strength of parts of Spalding’s new western by-pass. However, if – as stated – Spalding’s ground conditions necessitating the piling were only discovered while completing the design, somebody neglected to check on a well known phenomenon. The old Gore Lane telephone exchange, built in 1938, rested on ...

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LETTERS – We refute suggestion of gain

We refer to your letter in last week’s edition of The Voice under the title Letter Uncalled For. We must refute and deny absolutely the suggestion made by Karen Treacher that Jack Tyrrell, our president, gains some financial benefits from the Shed. This is totally untrue and we would confirm to your readers that in fact Jack Tyrrell continues to ...

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LETTERS – More like 1950s event please

Thank you so much to all who arranged and attended the 1950s event on Saturday, July 23, at Ayscoughfee Gardens, Spalding The entertainment was so very enjoyable. My friend and I sat all afternoon and loved every minute of it, a relaxed atmosphere. Children were well catered for as well. The man and lady who constantly sang were so entertaining. ...

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LETTERS – Difference between two plans

In the Voice of July 28, I read with raised eyebrows of two planning decisions, one good and one questionable, that show what a state the council is in and indeed how it allows itself to appear to bend to vested interests. On the one hand we have the far-sighted approach to the granting of planning permission for a new ...

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LETTERS – Expenses accounts for all?

An MPs basic salary is in the region of £83,000 so you would think that they would be in a better position than most of the population to pay their bills. On top of this they have an expense account, one of the perks is that they can claim all of their domestic household bills on the aforementioned expenses account. ...

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LETTERS – A new deal for working people

Wages are flatlining while bills skyrocket. This is a wages crisis and working people deserve better. Just this week, the Office for National Statistics confirmed that the real value of average wages (once inflation is taken into account) has fallen by almost four per cent since a year ago. It’s no wonder that we’re all feeling poorer, because we are ...

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LETTERS – Letter was uncalled for

I wish to make it clear that I am writing this letter as a private individual and an elector of South Holland District Council and not on behalf of Long Sutton Parish Council. I was surprised to see in July 21, 2022 edition of the Voice that the Vice-Chairman of South Holland District Council has had the time to write ...

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LETTERS – Roadworks are a joke locally

The ongoing and apparently never-ending sewage works on Boston Road, Holbeach, are a standing joke locally. I have just seen on Facebook that the total cost including all the failed remedial works prior to the current ones now total £2m. This together with information given to me by a worker (on site) that they had been told to reline the ...

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LETTERS – Maybe John Hayes can help?

I read with amazement what has happened to Ann Gregory. It seems strange that after three years of raising money for charity, now Ann needs planning permission. I’m also amazed the local councillors haven’t got involved to help after all this is their area. It might be time that our MP Sir John Hayes gets involved and finds out what ...

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LETTERS – Not Hall Place for fountain

We’d like to clarify a statement in your page four story last week ‘Fountain Plan Back’. It stated the Spalding and District Civic Society ‘led the calls for the fountain to be in Hall Place’, but this is not correct. We are very much in favour of finding a place for the fountain in the town centre, but not in ...

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LETTERS – Hope members think hard

The Conservative leadership election is now on its last leg. Given the party’s claim that it had a wealth of talent to choose from, it’s interesting to look at the candidates who got near the final stage. Penny Mordaunt, who in 2016 declared that in the EU we’d not be able to stop Turkey’s accession, thus facing a flood of ...

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LETTERS – Need a surgery for west town

Many of us still miss Dr Nathu at Pennygate Surgery. I always found her very caring and staff helpful. I was very sad and disappointed when they moved the surgery to the hospital. I don’t think that was the right place. I am sure the staff did their best but I suspect it was underfunded and understaffed. We need something ...

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LETTERS – Why am I being targeted?

I have been fund raising for three years, six days a week. Raising £15,000 last year because of it. Now I only open four days a week depending on hospital visits, weather and health. Now this complaint when we are not so busy? We do not understand what has changed? At this time I feel I need to get answers ...

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LETTERS – Parish did have the information

On the subject of the UKSPF Stakeholder Consultation, and noting the recent letter from the clerk to the Long Sutton Parish Council contains information that may mislead the public, it would be remiss not to seek to correct that impression that the parish council only became of the consultation indirectly on June 22. As with all parish councils, the clerk ...

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LETTERS – Vinyl window blot on the landscape

I have noticed we have yet another multi-coloured, plastic covered shop window on the Winsover Road. From the eight gates level crossing to the Sheep market we have, not one, not two but nine, make that ten if you include the multi purpose Post Office, of these kind of premises. I would like to ask SHDC what do they think ...

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