Letters

I read with interest the letter from J Tippler re parking fines in Spalding.The attitude of the SHDC parking manager is outrageous. What exactly does SHDC assume its role to be here?My mother, who is 82, recently drove herself to her six-weekly hairdresser’s appointment in Spalding and parked in the car park in The Crescent as usual. She paid the ...

As a furtherance to your recent news item regarding planning matters in connection with the former Royal Mail Sorting Office in The Crescent I have attached a photo image of the building circa 1910 which once stood on the site of the current structure which your readers may find of interest.Also seen in the image is what was the Christian ...

I am a council tenant living in what was once sheltered accommodation, not now but we still have to pay £5.90 per week. This is for the intensive housing management service at a higher level than supplied to our general needs tenants (their words, not mine), three weeks to fix leaking tap, over two months to see why damp ceiling ...

My recent stay in the Sheep Market car park cost me £26. £1 was the money I put in the ticket machine without receiving a ticket, the rest was for not displaying the non-issued ticket. In response to the penalty notice stuck on the car, I sent a challenge as below: “I challenge the above (penalty) notice for the following ...

Following the unwanted Persimmon and Ashwood developments on the old High Road in Weston village we are now faced with heavy loaded construction traffic delivering and removing materials to the sites. This is in reality only a B rated road for local car type vehicles. When the bypass was constructed it was designed and intended for heavy vehicles traffic to ...

Where have the flowers gone?Spalding used to be so much fun with flowers for everyoneWhere have the flowers gone?Why does Spalding town centre have none?Is it something that we have done?Maybe the council think we won’t noticeAnd as the plant troughs lay idleWe all pass by and think…Where have the flowers gone?Why not plant shrubs and be done!They’ll last a ...

On visiting the graves of my husband’s brothers at Spalding Cemetery, we were met with a total mess. It was very upsetting. It took my husband and I a good hour to bring the graves back to some resemblance. We are shocked that this standard of work seems to be on a regular basis. Please can we have a more ...

Maybe the council should apply for change of use for the South Holland Centre ie accommodation, HMOs or flats? Less carbon footprint and will generate cash. All new builds and mass development should be put on hold. Any further developments must have in planning applications, solar panels. The rivers are full off rubbish nationwide and it’s an absolute disgrace. This ...

I had a chance to go to the Tuesday market this week around 11am, entering by walking past the South Holland Centre from Broad Street. As I did I passed a barrier across the road stopping traffic. I had used the local atm when I absent mindedly turned and almost walked into a van. The driver had moved the barrier ...

On Saturday, May 7, at 6.20am, I was towing my caravan along Queen’s Road when it decided to part company with my car. A major catastrophe when alone. A few minutes after the incident two extremely kind chaps, who were obviously on their way to work, asked if they could help lift the caravan back onto the car tow bar. ...

Tributes have been paid to a Spalding-based guitarist who passed away recently. Ray Fenwick was best know as the guitarist in The Spencer Davis Group from 1967 to 1969 and The Ian Gillan Band with the former Deep Purple vocalist from 1975 to 1978. He played with a host other band, including The Syndicats in the early 1960s, and was ...

I worked as a police officer at Holbeach Police Station for 12 years and found out recently that there had been an opening ceremony for the new police station. Why didn’t anyone consider inviting the officers and staff who used to work there? When you retire or move away you are just forgotten. Retirement is a big change in your ...

Please could anyone help me trace the whereabouts of my sister-in-law Mrs Sheila Gedney. The last address I have for her is 4 Belvedere Close, Spalding, PE11 2LT. Please could you contact me at surfleet@gmail.com if you have any information.Lewis Watsonvia email

The UK state pension is one of the worst in Europe providing just 58 per cent of previous earnings from work, below the Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development (OECD) average of 62 per cent. Those people who have to rely on the pension as a main or only source of income are facing a very bleak financial future. There ...

There is a sense of deja vue with our present parliament. Very similar to the dying days of the May administration. We have an overreaching Mr Speaker. We have the opposition parties obsessing about – one topic – this time Partygate. All this venom orchestrated by Mr Starmer who was actually photographed drinking in a ‘gathering’ but not castigated by ...

I read of the dramatic fall in Netflix shares recently. The fall is being attributed to the shenanigans with its major share holder one Elon Musk. I wish to offer another explanation. I suspect it’s more about their contract with Harry and Meghan. Both of whom are trying hard to maintain their ‘royal’ connections being the main commodity they have ...

So good to see excellent local MP Sir John Hayes highlighting World Parkinson’s Day this week, and good to see his support for those suffering from a disease which affects so many people in Lincolnshire and worldwide. Many members of Parliament are more concerned with party political knock-about and personal attacks than they are in campaigning for those in need. ...

When reading the latest issue of The Voice I came across a letter by Nicolas De Jong which I felt was unbalanced about the Prime Minister and deeply unfair. Boris Johnson has led this country’s response to the biggest crisis in Europe since the fall of Berlin in 1945, and has been widely praised for doing so, particularly by leaders ...

It amazes me that we can spend half a million pounds on signs to get us to higher ground, ie the red and white signs that grace our road verges, yet we cannot afford to put a magnificent piece of architecture as our water fountain back in working order in its pride of place, the centre of town, or is ...

I’m a pensioner. Hardly anything the government has announced to deal with the cost of living crisis will benefit me. A minimal increase in pension, despite inflation already at 6.2 per cent. Being retired I don’t pay National Insurance, so no benefit there. But I’m at home all day and my electricity went up yesterday from 20p per kWh to ...