Letters

Why spend £1m on a new roundabout when speed cameras should slow traffic and also be a lot cheaper? The main problem is the nut that holds the wheel! David Head Spalding

I don’t know about you, but I’m fed up with the clanging statistics and jarring soundbites of this referendum. Brexit is such a black box, such an unknown, that it seems leaving would be the equivalent of stepping across the event horizon of a black hole. I’m going to save you a headache and not wade further into this messy ...

Us British born are always being told to be more accepting of immigrants but this works both ways. I wanted an ingredient which I felt I could purchase in a Polish supermarket so walked in and joined the queue. All the language spoken was Polish and when I was spoken to I asked if they spoke English. The whole shop ...

The EU debate now enters its final phase. The Remain camp have given up their claim that to leave is a leap into the dark. They are now forecasting exactly what Brexit will entail. Loads of details have appeared but a general “end of life as we know it” seems a fair summary of their opinions. The Labour and Liberal ...

As reported in The Voice on May 26, Roger Gambba-Jones says his priority is the long term viability of the bi-weekly market. It wasn’t his priority when it was closed down for a week to accommodate the fair. And what about the businesses on the High Street and their long term viability? Doug Stinton Holbeach

I would like to extend a warm thank you to Tesco colleagues and customers from Lincolnshire for their dedicated efforts to raise funds for Diabetes UK and the British Heart Foundation (BHF) to date. Since the three-year National Charity Partnership between the two charities and Tesco launched in January 2015, customer donations, along with store colleagues’ fundraising, have contributed £7.14m ...

I live on Park Road. The speed limit on this road is 30mph and I often watch traffic go past my home, and always see motorists on their phone, talking or looking down texting, not watching where they are going. Over time it seems to have got worse. It was school-run time, several mums were speeding with their kids in ...

Here for your readers are some more “facts” regarding the EU “in or out” vote. The UK’s trade deficit with the rest of the EU was circa £61.5billion in 2014 (ONS), which grows relatively poorer as new members join (just wait for Turkey who the Conservative government, Labour and the Liberal Democrats all want into the EU), at what cost ...

At the South Holland Centre on Monday last week, there was an event advertised as a panel of academics and experts answering questions from the audience about the EU and June referendum. The hall was about half full and they did try hard to seem impartial. Unfortunately a simple Google search revealed that six of the seven people taking questions ...

We are completely amazed to read in The Voice the latest food hygiene rating on Wimberley Hall. We have used this wonderful establishment since it opened, an asset to the area. Most certainly cleanliness and hygiene in the restaurant and the loos and the farm shop are obviously paramount, so how the preparation behind the scenes could fall to a ...

My main reason for remaining in Europe is that life under the current Tory government, without the protection of the EU, will be even more intolerable than it is at present; also all the Right wing/fascist organisations within the UK will receive a fillip and stir up hatred and bigotry within our diverse communities. My aim is to connect with ...

Last Tuesday, May 17, my wife fell from her wheelchair at the car park exit from Springfields garden centre, and hit her head on the ground. Although painful, luckily she was not seriously hurt, but was tended to by a member of staff and a First Responder. I would like to thank this member of staff, I think his name ...

I read the piece in The Voice by Martin Skells about leaving the EU. Good on you, speaking up for our hardworking Brits. We are not a lazy country, like farmers say we are. I, too, had family working the land in zero temperatures, getting up at 4am to work the land, which you rightly said was all done by hand, ...

Upon reading Wayne Seaborn’s letter in last week’s The Voice, I was shocked by his paradoxical viewpoint. On one hand he is complaining about the lack of English speaking people and how we need to exit this “daft EU” and on the other saying how the town was busier than normal and nearly everyone was under 40. When was the ...

Why does a new era for the Sir John Gleed School mean it has to have a new name? (The Voice, May 12). As an ex-pupil and former parent-governor at the school, I don’t understand why it has to lose its identity in this way. Changing the school’s name for the sake of it is not going to drive forward ...

Before people vote either to leave or stay in the EU, here are some facts. Five more countries are seeking membership of the EU and its rights to come to countries like ours. They are as follows: Albania (population) 2,831,700 Montenegro (621,000) FYR Macedonia (2,085,500) Serbia (7,164,000) Turkey (77,696,000) Given the ‘indisputable’ fact that we are already an overcrowded country, ...

I have read the news item about the King’s Road apartments project (The Voice, April 28). As the proposals are for apartments and retail, both of which are normally subject to a lease agreement, I can see no reason for selling the land to a developer. A 99-year lease would not only mean that the land – a public asset ...

Mr Wall`s lengthy treatise on the value of the EU system of payments to our farmers (Letters, May 5) tells just part of the story. The “Single Farm Payment” system is so complex, not only do the farmers struggle to understand it but also the Rural Payments Agency who are failing to administer it properly in this country. As such, ...

On Tuesday, April 26 I had a heavy fall in Spalding. I had been to the Post Office and was heading back to my car to join my wife. I was nearing the steps leading to the main car park near Sainsbury’s when I tripped over and landed on my head. After a few minutes I got up and noticed blood ...

My wife and I took a stroll through our home town of Spalding on Bank Holiday Sunday. The town was busier than normal with the fair attracting the normal bank holiday crowds. Our stroll in the spring sunshine took us some three miles through the centre of Spalding from east to west and a return via a differing part of ...