Letters

This country has been devastated by severe flooding in so many areas over the last few weeks and so many people are suffering with wrecked homes and businesses. Whatever you think of our Government and our Prime Minister, where is he? Visiting the flooded towns and villages? Offering compassion and support? Calling a Cobra meeting to co-ordinate recovery and assistance? ...

On behalf of Friends of Spalding Cemetery, I should like to thank everybody who responded to the article in The Voice, asking for information about our fallen military buried in Spalding Cemetery. We knew there were 35 local persons, including two ladies; but little was known about them. With the exception of Private. Harold William (“Lal”) Barnett, aged 31, Royal ...

The UK’s poorest regions have been falling behind the rest of Europe over the past decade, according to EU data analysed by the High Pay Centre think tank. Voters will now be looking to see if the new government will keep its promise and direct billions of pounds of investment into the Midlands and North of England. The research found ...

I doubt that we should hold out too much hope of the results from the Town Forum for Spalding. This comes from the same council which has allowed the town to slip backwards and let historic buildings go to rack and ruin in front of their own offices. The forum is headed by the Castle Ward councillor who oversees the ...

In reference to Mr Meekings letter (Voice February 20) I am afraid that he is mistaken in his conclusion that I had not read or had misunderstood the FullFact/Eurostat article to which he refers. As I said in my original response it is very easy to garner a few facts from statistics to support a chosen viewpoint. It would seem ...

Alan Hammersley and Charles Acland (VMail, 13 February) question evidence I mentioned in my earlier letter (VMail, 6 February) about where Lincolnshire currently stands in economic and health terms. So, let me address their concerns. First, Alan Hammersley says: “My source is fullfact (sic)”. In contrast, the sources I quoted were “FullFact and Eurostat”. So, I can only conclude that ...

I find it odd that Mr Meekings (Voice February 13) in quoting Mr Sloan (Voice February 6) seems to think that we are leaving our ‘closest friends and neighbours’. I was under the impression that we were only leaving the EU. I am certain that the ballot paper I voted with asked me if I wanted to stay or leave ...

The government must take back control and support the automotive sector if plans announced on Tuesday, February 4 to phase out diesel, petrol and hybrid vehicles by 2035 are to be successful, Unite, the UK and Ireland’s largest union, has warned. Unite said that without an integrated industrial strategy to deliver joined up, government led intervention on a range of ...

Charming exclamation overheard in a Spalding shop as a local “customer” stormed out. “Are we just catering for our foreign ‘friends’ now? I’m not drinking any of this f***ing foreign s**t.” Anyone who thinks this individual’s racism and foul language acceptable might further ponder the fact that he declared he was looking for a brand of alcohol which heralds from ...

Is it me? After watching Look North in the past week which included an interview with Coun Richard Davies at the Lincoln Bypass, he stated the general public should have less input in planning projects in future and fewer opportunities for opposition to these going forward. I now read in an article in The Voice (February 6) that Lincolnshire County ...

I am writing to you regarding your article in the Voice on January 30 “What should be done to make Spalding great again?” Firstly Spalding need a damn good clean up. The town is an absolute disgrace! The rubbish in our streets and surrounding areas are monstrous. Litter, food, mattresses, electrical goods, sheer junk, everywhere in town. We are all ...

I am currently doing my family tree and I’m looking for branches of the Barton family, particularly those that lived in Commercial Road and Double Street in Spalding in the late 1800s and early 1900s. I have chunks of the family history missing due to family splits and would love to hear from anyone connected. I would appreciate any help ...

In reply to the letter “What benefits for our country?” (February 6) I feel that the data being used to support this claim is highly selective. The data used is from a poster produced by the Inequality Briefing website in 2014. This website used EU data on GDP per person and adjusted that for the price differences between countries. GDP ...

I Sloan (Voice, Feb 6) says: “The modern isolationism of an America led by an unstable president, an increasing militant Russia and an emerging China with great territorial ambitions means that now is not the time when we should be breaking away from our closest friends and neighbours for reasons which are clouded, dubious and possibly corrupt.” I completely agree ...

Concerning Alan Meekings’ letter on Thursday, February 6. Regarding his statement that it’s a little known fact that life expectancy in general and disability-free life expectancy beyond the age of 65 years in particular, has declined in Lincolnshire since Conservative austerity was introduced in 2010, I was not aware of this fact and find it difficult to believe. In the ...

How forward thinking of SHDC to install electric charging points. As an electric van owner it’s very much appreciated, an asset to the well being of a dynamic enterprising town. The only criticism I have is of the overall pricing of the process. We have driven extensively across the UK from Scotland down to Devon; as a consequence we have ...

Lincolnshire is one of the three poorest parts of Northern Europe as measured in economic terms. Indeed, Lincolnshire currently stands third bottom in the league table of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as adjusted for local purchasing power across comparable Northern European areas, currently standing just above Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, and West Wales and The Valleys. In stark ...

January 31 was a sad day for those who believe in unity with the rest of Europe. The modern isolationism of an America led by an unstable president, an increasing militant Russia and an emerging China with great territorial ambitions means that now is not the time when we should be breaking away from our closest friends and neighbours for ...

Please say thank you to the young man that came to help me when my spare tyre fell from my car on High Bridge on Wednesday. I don’t know what I would have done without his help. I was so very grateful but sorry I did not get his name. Josephine Haslamvia email

In response to Matt Waine’s letter headed “I am European”. We are all still European, if he cared to look at a map of the continents he will see Great Britain is in the continent of Europe. I voted to leave the money-grabbing EU, I do not hate European people, as for his comment about democracy, he should look that ...