Letters

On Friday, December 8 at 11.45am we were involved in a road collision with another car at the roadworks on the Weston bypass.The other car sped through a red light to try and get through and collided with our car as we went through a green light to merge onto the main road, A151.Our car is a red Kia Rio, ...

Much has been written over the last week regarding the sad loss of Benjamin Zephaniah.I would like to pay tribute to this special human being on a local and personal level.I first met Benjamin around 11 years ago a year after he had moved to this area.I’d parked my car in Holbeach, on returning to my car he was getting ...

I would like to personally congratulate all who were involved in bringing together the Christmas Market over the past weekend.It took my memory back 60 years ago when Holbeach was like that every Thursday, Friday and Saturday.Sadly now Holbeach is on life support. A huge change is needed to help revive our town, and not have money wasted on roundabouts.I ...

I would like to say a big thank you to someone called Ellie, who left a Christmas hamper in my porchIt was kind, thoughtful and generous.Once again thank you and merry Christmas. KathLinden CourtSpalding

The Network Rail report suggesting there cannot be a train service to London because of the Spalding Level Crossing is deeply flawed.A London service would likely be provided by an “open access” operator using four or five carriage trains cascaded from East Midlands Railway or West Coast. There would likely be only five trains per day in each direction.Just recently ...

This afternoon whilst shopping – luckily not for petrol – at Morrison’s, I was embarrassed to find that I did not have my credit card at the point of payment.I had to return some of the goods and paid with the cash I had in my purse.On the way out, and to my surprise the lady behind me in the ...

South Lincolnshire Green Party has opposed the imposition of a mayor on Lincolnshire, as announced by the Government on the day of the Autumn Statement.Martin Blake, joint co-ordinator for the South Holland area, said: “This is a scheme cooked up by a small number of senior Conservatives in the county, not one for which there is any evidence of public ...

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn Statement contained little or nothing for millions of older people still struggling to cope with the ongoing cost of living crisis.His mini budget with more than 100 measures appears to give with one hand, while stealthily taking away with the other, heaping more pressure on our oldest and most vulnerable.His statement also introduces a potentially punitive ...

As well as the usual rubbish being dumped around the Welland access points, Cradge Bank and South Drove, individuals are now dumping fresh horse manure during daylight hours outside our properties.Obviously I have now removed it, but what is Spalding coming to! Jim ThackrayThe BungalowSouth DroveSpalding

I recently wrote to you criticising East Midlands Railways for their practice of closing the waiting room/ticket office at Spalding Station during official opening hours without any warning or explanation.This prompted a letter from a Ms Valerie Dodimead extolling the virtues of the station staff. I’m not sure why.My complaint is with EMR, not the front line workers who I ...

I feel compelled to write in response to Mr Basford’s letter in last week’s ‘Voice’.I am a regular user of Spalding ticket office as I travel regularly to London and other parts of the country and have been doing so for many years.The assistants there have always been most helpful and nothing has been beyond their remit in spite of ...

I know a lot has been said about keeping the ticket offices open at the railway station and I would like to thank the people that were involved with making this happen.I was in the position that if I wanted to use the train service then I would have to ask my son or daughter to buy a ticket for ...

Have you heard of 16 days of action taking place from November 25 to December 10 across the UK and other parts of the world – to raise awareness of domestic abuse and any gendered violence?EDAN Lincs Ending Domestic Abuse Now in Lincolnshire take raising awareness very seriously and don’t restrict it to these 16 days, but it’s good to take part and ...

Our gentleman’s coffee morning group in Crowland has been together for just over a year now.To celebrate, we all went out for a meal at our local Italian restraurant, Giulianos in Crowland.We started meeting in the Old Copper Kettle in North Street, where the idea was born last year, but because of a new business venture by Graham and Tracy ...

In a recent edition of The Voice you published a letter from the John Hayes Fan Club celebrating the decision to keep the tickets office at Spalding Station open.While I have no time for Mr Hayes and his colleagues,, I share their delight at the decision.However, I wouldn’t crack open the champagne just yet. Remember we are dealing with East ...

I have just found out that our village shop is going to be open on Christmas Day for the first time ever in its long history.It went from a private family-owned shop to McColls, who wanted to open Christmas Day but the church asked them not to and out of respect the store honoured the wish.Now Morrisons own the store ...

So disappointed to see so few people wearing a poppy this year.Businesses no longer have a donation box and poppies available for customers.We were very sad to see that the Castle Sports Complex has its Christmas trees up and yet only one member of staff was wearing a poppy.Celebrating Christmas should only begin after remembering those that died to ensure ...

I would like to thank, on behalf of Sutton Bridge Parish Council, the many, many people who attended our firework spectacular on Sunday, November 5.The crowds, approaching 2,000, that attended exceeded our wildest dreams, however this did lead to a delay in the timing of the display, and we apologise and hope it didn’t cause any inconvenience.We raised in total ...

Regarding Moulton Medical Centre, I’m not surprised and about time – something should have happened before now.You can’t park in the car park as all the staff use it now and we, the public, have to park on the road!If they cannot extend upwards, how about using the old Gardman site?It would be nice to see the staff rather speaking ...

As the Government asks train companies to withdraw plans for mass ticket office closures, the National Pensioner’s Convention welcomes the decision by travel watchdogs Transport Focus and London TravelWatch to object to the closure of hundreds of UK rail ticket offices.Transport Secretary Mark Harper has announced that he will ask the rail companies to withdraw their plans. But NPC hopes ...