Letters

Has police policy changed? After observing what is going on around town and in my street in the last couple of weeks, it has come to my attention that I have not seen any police cars cruising the streets, only PCSOs a couple of times. I also used to see officers walking down our street, but none have been seen ...

In his recent article in the Spalding Guardian, district councillor Peter Coupland stated £2,000,000 was spent refurbishing bathrooms and kitchens in 200 rented council properties. This means an average of £10,000 spent on each. Presumably this happened before Coun Coupland was elected so it must be hoped that he will be able to persuade his colleagues to get better value ...

On Monday morning I watched the men with their radio controlled mower. No hard labour except off loading it. Gently walking along the river mowing the grass. When I crossed the Chain Bridge I noticed the prams and trolleys that had been lifted out of the river some time ago. On my return journey across the Chain Bridge three hours ...

I’m not the first person to observe that, so far, the rhetoric from Teresa May indicates that she could be the most left wing Prime Minister since Harold Wilson. We shall wait and see. Also at a Tory party conference in the early 2000s she famously suggested that her party was being perceived as the “nasty party”. The conference cameras ...

Is health and safety going too far now? In my opinion it has. Whenever you watch TV, reports of people losing loved ones is always the main headline. Excuse me, death comes to us all and some prematurely in unfortunate tragic circumstances, the most recent being Emily’s law on Good Morning Britain. Their daughter died in an unfortunate boating accident. ...

Why has Holbeach market been moved? I wonder whoever thought this was a good idea didn’t think of the elderly and disabled who can’t wallkthat far. Why was it moved because where it was before didn’t cause any problems – it was there for years. The footpath was wide enough to push prams and pushchairs along the pavement while the ...

Bring back the market stalls to Church Street. The path is wider there and it’s nearer for the disabled people and nearer to the shops. Has the council asked the shopkeepers what they think of moving it to Boston Road car park? No, they didn’t! What’s wrong with putting it in the car park opposite the Co-op? That would help ...

Regarding the shootings at the Castle Sports Complex, Spalding, it has come to my notice that not once on any news report I saw was it mentioned that the police station is around 150ft away, and has full view of the rear of the swimming pool, the murder scene and Bounce car park. It has not been mentioned as to ...

As central government are steering local councils to either charge more for local services or drastically cut them, I note most money comes from the Treasury, some 60 per cent of the total, amounting to around £90billion across England. But due to the cuts, the Tory-led Local Government Association (LGA) estimates that by 2020 a staggering £20billion will have been ...

I am very saddened, but not surprised, by the result of the vote by the House of Commons to renew Trident. The recently, unelected, Prime Minister claims it would be “irresponsible to scrap Trident”. I dispute that claim; I say that it is irresponsible to renew Trident. We are living in times of austerity, foisted upon us by this government; ...

I was wondering if there is anything that can be done to get rid of the foul smell that descends over Severn Road, Coronation Close and the Royce Road area. Residents suffer from this foul smell quite frequently even when the weather is cool, but during this heatwave the stench is unbearable. I can’t have my windows open or sit ...

I read with interest the comments of the Leader of South Holland District Council in your newspaper regarding democracy and Lincolnshire devolution. Leaving aside the fact that Gary Porter wields influence as a member of the unelected House of Lords, I disagree with him that the current devolution deal is in the best interests of either democracy or Lincolnshire. The ...

I go on holiday and return two weeks later, shocked to read in the local newspapers that the cost of the average speed cameras on the A16 Spalding to Crowland road has risen in nine months from £85,000 to £200,000. Could you please tell me how someone can get a estimate so wrong by £115,000 and is still employed at ...

As a democratically elected member of the “old” Governing Body (GB) at SJGS who were dismissed by CFBT in November 2015 (for not making sufficient progress to improve standards since going into special measures, according to CFBT), I would like to apologise personally to all past, present and future students for the turmoil caused when we (GB) chose CFBT to ...

I guess it is getting time to put the referendum debate behind us, but difficult after reading some of your letters column of July 14! Quick comments on a few letters: Andrew Parks worries whether Mrs May can be trusted with Brexit negotiations. Well she’s put senior Brexiteers in the key posts charged with working on it. Now it’s in ...

It is so disappointing to read ongoing negative columns from people who would have preferred to stay in the EU and who keep trying to paint a picture of doom and despondency. This is a democratic country and people from all walks of life voted to leave, not just the oldies as many would have us believe. What keeps being ...

On behalf of the Committee of the Holbeach Town and Country Fayre I wish to offer our most sincere thanks to everybody who made this year’s event possible, more so considering the harsh weather we had to contend with in the week leading up to staging the event itself. We collectively would like to offer grateful thanks to Ashley King ...

In response to Mr Turp: I’m sure I am only one of at least 17 million people that would have found Mr Turp’s letter of last week highly amusing for his overriding bitterness at the referendum result. It started off calmly enough before descending into a hysterical, bigoted rant using terms such as “extreme radical right wing”, “little Englander mentality” ...

There has been some speculation about the future of UKIP, post referendum. It is being claimed that now we’ve achieved our original and primary goal, we can now sit back and leave it to the “experts”, people who were so sure that Remain would win, that those of them in actual government made no contingency plans for Brexit. Some experts. ...

As Mrs May becomes our next Prime Minister, I have two major problems with this: 1. Mrs May supported the Remain camp. Can she be trusted with the negotiations? 2. She is not supporting the right of EU citizens currently residing and working in the UK to remain. This is disgraceful. The leave campaign supported existing residential rights. UKIP that actually ...