Letters

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 ...

I completely agree with the letter about Pilgrim Hospital. I myself have witnessed first hand this treatment when my husband was admitted into Palliative Care. As a man in his seventies he was treated with total disrespect as a human being. He was left unwashed even though he repeatedly asked for nurse to come and tend to his needs. His ...

My wife and I recently went on a trip with a group of from the Spalding Branch of the Parachute regiment. My wife has to use a four-wheeled buggy and I have a walking stick. Although we had trouble getting on and off the coach the people were very patient and helped us as much as possible. The people on ...

Alan Meekings makes the rather arrogant assumption that only he and others of his ilk have a genuine concern about the future of this country for our “children and grandchildren”. When Brexiteers talk about “getting back control”, getting out of the EU is only part of the solution in an attempt to restore proper democratic accountability for the benefit of ...

I read with interest your report in the Spalding Voice, June 14 (Older population services threat). This report relates to the Annual Report of the Director of Public Health that looks into age profiles and predictions of changes in population in the country might be described as Apocalyptic Demography. This term used is basically suggesting that due to the ageing ...

I have been staying in Pilgrim Hospital whilst waiting for some tests to be done. During my three days here I have witnessed first hand just how bad things have got. An elderly palliative care patient in the A&E ward was refused a glass of warm milk by the drinks attendant because ‘we don’t do that’. It was clear she ...

I read with interest your short report (The Voice, June 7) on Lincolnshire County Council’s response to the review of the controversial street lighting cash-saving exercise which has plunged many of our streets into total darkness after midnight. Many important issues were raised by concerned council tax payers but that of a link between reduced lighting and crime has been ...

Personally, I’ve long given up seeking to persuade committed Brexiteers to recognise that there’s a new and brighter future in prospect for the UK if we remain in the EU, while concurrently helping to lead its future development and working to improve our currently inept political system in Westminster. Before David Cameron reached his party-politically-obsessed decision that holding an EU ...

In the final weeks of 2017 a consultation exercise took place to receive feedback from the local community about a plan to develop four new schools for vulnerable young people not in education in mainstream schools. I’d like to thank everyone who responded and attended the open events. We received more than 100 formal responses and we have now published ...

The Catholic community in Spalding is preparing for a parish mission. It is 21 years since the last mission took place, and it is was felt it was about time to have another. A lot has happened since the last Mission – not least the construction of a new church complex, which was completed in 2004. Ten years ago saw ...

When I visited an old friend of ours who still lives in Gedney Dyke village about a week ago my wife and I could not help ourselves laughing at all the “Save our Pub” and talking to our friends they told us that once again the villagers were up in arms after the Chequers Pub shut its doors at Christmas ...

I read with interest the letter from R Jackson challenging the villagers of Deeping St Nicholas to ‘get the village going again and take an interest where you live’. As one of the ‘newcomers’ referred to (a mere six years or so in the village) I cannot speak for the specific buildings mentioned, but I welcome the opportunity to reassure ...

I want to thank everyone in Lincolnshire who united with us during Dementia Action Week (21 – 27 May) to help the 11,000 people with the condition in the county. We had a ‘dementia friendly cinema’ screening in Boston, a celebration event in Skegness and we held a challenge in Sleaford to persuade dozens of businesses to take actions to ...

I would like to say that the bus service from Spalding to King’s Lynn is useless. It us quite normal to wait 1 to 1.5hrs for one to arrive, chug along three miles and then break down. A replacement vehicle sometimes turns-up after another hour. Hospital appointments have been missed, much to the dismay of patients and doctors. We without ...

Just lately it is no secret the police are targeting hare coursing using drones and quad bikes, while they are doing this, crime and assaults in and around town is rife, by gangs of youths (wanna be gangsters) the police call them, they should use the drones to police town and the hotspots troublemakers usually hang out. When they see ...