Letters

RSPCA East Winch Wildlife would like to announce the winner of the cuddly puppy competition, whose name was Tilley, and has now gone to a new home. Also a big thank you to everyone who visited our stall at the Pumpkin Festival. G Le-RendyStarlode DroveWest Pinchbeck

Ill health is a major factor in the increasing shortage of lorry drivers, according to new research by the Unite general union. A Freedom of information request to the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) revealed a big rise in the number of lorry and bus drivers having their license refused or revoked for medical issues. In 2018, more than ...

I am not religious at all but am a sucker for choral music and organ classics. Congratulations must go to All Saints’ Church, Holbeach, for the recent choir organ re-dedication event this past Saturday. The choir organ has undergone extensive refurbishment and a concert was organised to celebrate the completion. The soloist was the world renowned organist and teacher Daniel ...

I’m pleased to read that South Holland District Council is still promoting the brown wheelie bin for garden waste. I only wish they would offer wheelie bins for general waste as I’m fed up with the flimsy plastic bags being ripped open at night by cats or foxes. As far as the terrible green bags for recycling waste, perhaps the ...

Speeding vehicles are a menace of our time. Every town and village in this country, not just South Holland, has its share of speeding drivers. Some might be just late for an appointment. Others might be persistent offenders giving little regard for the safety of themselves, let alone others. Pinchbeck Parish Council is being proactive in the fight against speeding ...

I have noted that for some months a number of readers have described at length their disappointment and despair in local services and the general performance of policy makers who are responsible for the appearance and function of the town. I have also felt this way for quite some time, but this has gradually changed since coming into contact with ...

I see that parking charges are now reintroduced in the town centre. The hope is that “now the people have returned they will appreciate what our town has to offer and come back”. The old saying “there’s none so blind as those who will not see” comes to mind. I note that the portfolio holder for Spalding town improvement is ...

Judging by readers’ comments in The Voice recently, they were all wondering about the “Springfields £1m plus donation” and other payments allowing varying ongoing building works at Springfields, with the last one several months ago involving thousands of pounds to demolish buildings and develop more land. The point one reader made about the vanity Tulip Radio project that seems to ...

I agree with J. Thackray regarding the standards of driving on Enterprise Way. I have sent many emails to Spalding police, they are not interested. In one reply from one of the specials she said they are all adults they can look after themselves. Really? I was gob smacked by that reply, that just told me they are going to ...

Well it’s 3.15pm on a sunny Friday afternoon stuck in a line of traffic waiting to gain entry to get rid of “rubbish” at the recycling depot. Queuing are 35 cars and 12 lorries extending back to the A16. The lorries unable to overtake the queue, as roadworks were in progress just up from the tip, thus preventing them from ...

I note local authorities are trying to redesign their high streets to cater more for pedestrians and cyclists. Locally we see more facilities for cyclists like the railway station and high street facilities but there is still a long way to go in creating better, safer, fit for purpose facilities, especially rural routes that link our towns. It’s disappointing to ...

This morning I came across at least four cyclists, that I did eventually see, without any lights front or rear, and more without one or the other front or back.I thought this was a legal requirement in the hours of darkness (Law RVLR regs 13, 18 & 24).Also ignoring traffic light signals and changing direction quite often across the front ...

Reading Jennifer Hemingway’s letter in the Voice recently and her concerns about the council not promoting Spalding but points out it seems to want to promote the Springfields Shopping outlet I offer the following:This might be due to the fact that it was only in recent times the public learnt that Springfields gave over a £1m, with more since, at ...

On August 29 I popped into the recycle centre on my way back from cutting the grass at my mum’s. As I passed I could see it was empty, which I found extraordinary as I had tried in vain to book in for that day. As I drove in cap in hand requesting: “Could I just offload the grass but ...

Wouldn’t it be good if the councillors of Spalding could agree and promote this market town? This town has many interesting and historical features, such as The Forge – a working museum, the beautiful Ayscoughfee Hall and free lovely family orientated gardens with cafe, the Cenotaph designed by one of the 20th century most celebrated architects Sir Edwin Lutyens, Spalding’s ...

I am an elderly lady, and I would like to express my thanks to everyone who showed me such kindness when I had a bad fall in town last Saturday – the very kind couple who stopped their car, picked me up and drove me to where I was going and the staff at Impressions gave me hot tea with ...

It’s been over 12 months since I revisited my cycling. Now retired I have taken it up on a more serious basis covering many miles of our Fenland countryside. Having regained contact with a lifetime friend, local cyclist Mike Saunders, originally from Pinchbeck, who told me about Helen Forman, who sadly lost her brother Tom, aged 52, to cancer in ...

Most people in the Holbeach area will be aware that the Holbeach Football clubhouse is undergoing a major refit. The initial part of this re-fit resulted in four mature healthy trees being removed, despite these trees being a condition of planning approval for the erection of a low level phone mast near the entrance to the club. It would be ...

On receipt of a recent parcel from an online purchase amongst the packaging was your letters page from the August 26 edition. We could not help but sympathise and agree with the comments of many of your correspondents. The letters relating to shopping facilities for example, here in Wymondham they are similar, we too have vast numbers of new houses ...

To think back to when we were clapping our frontline and key workers, now, shockingly these people who educate, transport and keep the nation fed are coming under attack. A recent Back-Up report refers to increasing evidence that levels of work-related violence have soared over the course of the Covid pandemic. One clear union demand from across economic sectors is ...