Letters

I wonder why the NHS is concerned about Holbeach medical facilities; are they ignoring Spalding’s facilities? Try getting an appointment, let alone seeing a doctor and don’t bother asking to see your preferred doctor. Obviously COVID-19 has had great effect on everything but prior to that, every visit to the surgery saw more people registering. New homes are being built ...

For all the frustrated motorists that have encountered the never changing roadworks at Pode Hole, pleased be assured your hard working LCC Highways Department are on the case. The saga began on November 12 when Anglian Water had to find and repair a leaking supply pipe. Naturally they put up traffic lights. Two weeks later, November 26, the work was ...

Open letter of thanks from ULHT: This week marks one year since we began seeing COVID-19 patients in our hospitals. I want to take this opportunity to say a massive thank you to absolutely everybody who has supported us during this time. I want to pay tribute to all of the teams, wards and departments across the entire trust for ...

To the head of Lincs Highways: Regarding the sink hole on Boston Road, Holbeach. Thanks to your and Lincolnshire Highways’ apparent inability to ever effect an efficient repair to the said problem. The damage to my vehicle because of said pothole has thus far resulted in me having to pay for a new tyre, vehicle speed sensor and tracking, to ...

There is now more to the continuing story in Station Road, Moulton. Following the repair and filling of a sinkhole, it appears there may have been a further underlying problem (i.e. a blocked sewer) that was not previously identified. It is more than likely that the former road repair will have to be re-opened to further identify and repair the ...

I’m trying to locate a dear friend who lives in Holbeach. I live in the US, and we have been pen pals for 40 years. Pauline was like a mum to me when l was stationed at RAF Alconbury from 1980 to 1982. I didn’t get a card from her at Christmas. I didn’t see an obituary for her in ...

I read the letter about chicken legs (February 25). When I was a small child I ate chicken which had been reared in Surfleet. My father would take out the insides on the kitchen table. He put newspaper on the table and wiped his hands on the dishcloth. He would teach me all the parts of the insides. He would ...

Battling with Zoom calls and other virtual meetings during lockdown seems to be the order of the day for many of us so it will be no surprise to say that it has limited the usual activities of Spalding’s South Holland Rotary members. We usually meet every week at The Woodlands Hotel on Pinchbeck Road in Spalding and although that ...

It is said that a community is to be judged by how well it protects not the comfortable and secure, but casualties and victims. The first group can really look after themselves; the second need all the help they can get. So well done, South Holland District Council, for committing extra funds to provide for more people who are homeless. ...

Mr Wilson’s letter in The Voice on February 25 could not be further from the truth, and is absolutely NOT what he alleges. In 2013 at county council three of us as independents, worked together with the three Lib Dem councillors and the Conservatives, to create the ‘Lincolnshire Administration’, a COALITION which lasted until the four years were completed in ...

Lincolnshire Independents’ call for fair play has been heard. Following demands for a level playing field, new Government guidance is out that will allow safe door-step campaigning from next week, March 8. The government had first announced local elections will be held on May 6, but without much of the local. Councillors and candidates have been at risk of fines ...

Boston Road in Holbeach was closed for many weeks last year, causing disruption to all regular users of the road, people who live on the road, staff trying to get to Nutton Stoven care home, the elderly residents of Cecil Pywell Avenue and the residents of Chesnut Avenue as this was the favourite way for drivers to get around the ...

On February 7 I drove past the building site at Morrison’s roundabout and was dismayed to see the contractor on the site pumping filthy water onto the public highway leaving it covered in mud. It’s so disappointing at a time when the Spalding Wombles are making such a valiant effort to keep our streets clean. I contacted SHDC but they ...

I’m hoping this letter can remind local people of some important facts. The county council elections are now taking place in May and it is seen as an opportunity to send a message to those in charge by voting Independent. I once would have supported this view, until the 2013 county council elections. Local councillors Chris Brewis and Angela Newton ...

There are a million potholes in Britain, probably most of them in Lincolnshire. At least that’s what it feels like when driving around Holbeach and Spalding. The rural roads in the region are in an atrocious condition, but they have been like this for almost as long as I’ve lived here, since 2005. I’ve written to the local newspapers on ...

Reference your reader’s letter February 18 2021 “Why not source from the UK?” In respect of chicken I can shed some light on the issue albeit a little technical. Much is due to carcase imbalance. In the UK we eat more chicken breast than the dark meat of thighs and drumsticks so much so that we have to export these ...

Current border delays are killing the automotive industry. Across many sectors, British exporters to the EU are clearly facing disruption caused by new Brexit red tape, increased costs and the impact of the pandemic on staff all bearing down on businesses. The automotive industry is not immune to these challenges, with global supply chains so deeply integrated, and while the ...

I was delighted to read that the Urgent Treatment Centre will be reopening after all. Many thanks to all those who made this happen. Our region in and around Spalding absolutely needs its own centre for urgent treatment. Michael MitchellStrawberry Fields DriveHolbeach St Marks

I was interested to see your report of a wedded couple appointed to parish and pastoral leadership in Spalding. But is this Biblical? The Church of England’s Book of Common Prayer (1662) speaks of parish priests or ministers, but never of parish priestesses. The reason for this is that the Apostle Paul says that women are not to lead in ...

Today, I learned that a producer – based in Lancashire – of ready meals for Lidl had sourced their chickens from Brazil and their cauliflower from the EU. I wrote to the supplier and Lidl to question the logic of such purchases – the UK produces both chicken and vegetables. Surely it would have been better, cheaper and easier for ...