Letters

On behalf of the Spalding Branch of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, I would like to thank everyone for their generous support of our charity by contributing to our collection in Spalding town centre on Saturday, July 21. We are delighted that we managed to raise £394 for the RNLI. The money raised will help the RNLI maintain their rescue ...

I read the erudite letter of Craig Jackson with interest and agree with what he says but he does not give the people a solution. “Storm the barricades” – not sure what this means in practice but will achieve nothing. His debate shows how impotent we are on the matter. So, one has to ask, where is the man we ...

There is not a week that goes by without a letter in this column expressing the reader’s concern about Brexit, and quite rightly so. I had my say on how important the EU was two years ago and what we got out of it, this was before the referendum. Of course we had the establishment on both sides frighten the ...

The Chequers statement unveiled by Theresa May must go down in history as one of the greatest betrayals in Britain’s political history. The Prime Minister and the Government have allowed Brexit to be hijacked by the establishment – civil servants – the elites, remoaners in Parliament and billionaire businessmen like George Soros and Richard Branson who do not even live ...

My daughter was a patient of Dr Nathu. She had been backwards and forwards to the surgery complaining of pains in the back of her head, only to be prescribed stronger painkillers. When she requested a scan because the pain was not improving, she was told to up the dose of painkillers and a scan was not deemed necessary. My ...

I am an ardent Remainer – this is something regular readers of any local paper, or of the comments section of any Brexit themed Spotted: Spalding post will attest to and know well. I feel, therefore, that I need to highlight the fact that what follows is not a result of my pro-EU opinions, but rather as a result of ...

I have been thinking about a campaign to bring to the public’s attention about the state of our historic station. Visiting a museum I wondered why people visit them. All there’s there are old artefacts and then I thought that why are they there. It was because no one looked after them and watched them decay. We have historical buildings ...

Seeing the photo of Ron Lilley on page 20 of The Voice (July 5), brought back many memories for me. I went to Cadwell Park in that very same Morris Commercial van in the picture to my very first motorcycle race meeting with my dad and Ron on Whit Monday 1955. I was sat in the back on a cushion ...

Having just got back from Unite Policy Conference 2018 in Brighton it has been a week of celebrating 70 years of our NHS. I met Ian Evans, a biomedical scientist who works at the Royal Sussex County Hospital. After a motor cycle accident Ian’s own colleagues saved his life. This is just one of the many true life stories over ...

Re the letter in last week’s Voice about the Holbeach Town and Country Fayre. Attendance was 2,000, of which ten per cent were children (free), 40 per cent pensioners and 50 per cent adults at full price. Therefore your calculations are grossly inflated. For your information expenses were £13,596 and our income was £12,951, so we incurred a loss. As ...

It is a bit rich for contributors on these pages to promote the anti-Brexit views of George Soros, while criticizing other financial luminaries who take a different view. George made a fortune betting against this country during the 1992 currency crisis, but then he wasn’t born here. He certainly takes the EU line that if people don’t vote the approved ...

John Tippler and Alan Meekings are scraping the bottom of the barrel with their endless Brexit complaints. Entitlement to vote in our democracy, means only one vote to each of the electorate, so listing individuals’ accomplishments in life as causing failure to accept the referendum result I find quite strange. George Mitchell Fleet Street Holbeach

I fully agree with John Tippler’s thoughtful letter (V Mail, June 28) inviting readers to reflect on the people actively promoting Brexit. John mentions two of four tax-avoiding, anti-EU press barons, namely Lord Rothermere and the Barclay Brothers. However, we should also remember Richard Desmond (Express and Star) and Rupert Murdoch (Sun and Times). Richard Desmond is reportedly the 46th ...

Having read the reports of the recent Holbeach Town and Country Fayre in both area newspapers, we can’t help but feel there is something not quite right or at least something needs to be cleared up, as in one report on the Tuesday following the event it’s claimed between 5,000 and 6,000 people attended over the weekend and that would ...

On Tuesday 26th June was the Armed Forces Day Parade in Spalding town centre and many colleagues from all over Lincolnshire led the Armed Forces, which included a RAF Conningsby, local ex-service associations, the street pastors and cadets to the centre of the Market Place where most of the stall holders had covered their stalls in bunting and flags. Thank ...

Gedney Victory Hall is a successful village hall which is used by at least one group every weekday. It is also often used at the weekends for birthday and anniversary parties, wedding receptions etc. The management committee are looking to recruit some new members and in particular somebody to take over as the secretary. We generally meet every other month ...

If you have a Range Rover there is apparently no need to park correctly in a lined-out parking bay. In fact, you can even leave it with the fuel flap open. Some inconsiderate person, I will not say driver as they may as yet not passed their test, left this car in Broad Street car park on Monday morning. Paul ...

It is interesting to reflect on some of those who have most steadily promoted Brexit. Lord Rothermere, who owns the strongly pro-Brexit newspaper that called the Supreme Court judges traitors, lives in France, like his father before him. The Barclay brothers, who own the slightly-more upmarket paper that also urges Brexit, live in Monaco and in the Channel Islands (not ...

I read with some concern the report on the planning committee’s consideration for parking at the proposed Drapers Place development. Those members who voiced an opinion with regard to the limited parking should have been given more prominence as the very limited parking proposed takes no account of the limited local transport facilities and distances to available doctors’ surgeries, hospitals ...

Regarding cashless parking brought in by South Holland District Council as from June 18. As this was the first I knew of it from the Voice (June 14), firstly I would be interested to know if plans for this were made public before the council agreed to this as I have seen no notification in the local press? It was ...