Letters

I belong to Holbeach walking for health. We meet every Thursday at the Services Club, Holbeach, and then have a walk around the town and surrounding fields etc. This particular route took us up Northons Lane and what we saw was unbelievable. Along the length of the field at the bottom of the lane field side were at least 27 ...

Europe is now experiencing a mass migration of people escaping from levels of extreme poverty, persecution and endemic war in their homelands. I too share some of Craig Jackson’s concerns about how to control the influx of migrants and how to maintain community cohesion among our citizens. Simply saying we will enforce Border Controls will not in itself diminish the ...

I vowed I wouldn’t write another letter concerning the death trap of a road or lack of roundabout on the A16 because I feel no-one is listening. After Friday’s frightening experience at the Old Radar Cross Road, I’ve changed my mind. At 6pm there was a very heavy flow of traffic both ways. I was coming off the Holbeach B1116. ...

Spalding Arts & Crafts Society is celebrating its 100th anniversary. Started in 1916 by surgeons at the Johnson Hospital to help rehabilitate wounded soldiers, it is one of the oldest art societies in the country. We are keen to hear from locals who were members, or who had family who were members, with a view to having a folder on ...

It’s very interesting to see South Holland District Council considering this construction. Surely at a time that all these cuts are being proposed, would it not be better to wait until more important issues have been resolved. Kay Weeks Holbeach   It is awful! It looks like something that belongs on the beach, NOT in Ayscoughfee Gardens. l fail to ...

In reply to Coun R Gammba-Jones’ letter 20/01/2016: Obviously Paul Foyster and Roger have differing political allegiances. The issues of market position can only be answered by trying it down at the new site. However Roger seems to imply that all is fair when it comes to the distribution of monies and services within the district. This, of course, is ...

I presume in the interests of economy, the council has changed the quality of the refuse collection bags. The green ones in particular are inferior and unsuitable. They are thinner and tear easily when full. They are not scored properly where they join, that’s if you can find the join, and tear easily when being separated. Whilst I appreciate we ...

South Holland District Council never ceases to amaze. I have tried to get something done about the speed vehicles travel down Broadgate, Sutton St James. It is a 30mph road but everyone seems to travel around 50mph. Cars, motorbikes, school buses, heavy huge farm implements and lorries all thunder through Broadgate, rattling houses and putting cracks in walls. When I ...

Council services, including elderly care, children centres, parks and libraries, have suffered desperately under the weight of the previous government’s spending cuts, which amounted to an £18bn cull in real terms since 2010. But local authorities’ pain is far from over after the Chancellor’s autumn statement revealed they will continue to bear austerity’s greatest burden. The central government grant – ...

Did the two police officers walking along the riverbank (as featured on The Voice website) spot the council wheelie bin (from the rear of the South Holland centre) in the river by the river taxi jetty? I guess they also missed the rubbish bin on the other side of the river by the phone box which also now resides in ...

I would like to say a huge thank you to the good people of Holbeach and surrounding villages for their generosity and continuing support over the Christmas period. The Holbeach Rotary Club made 11 Santa runs throughout the area in December and raised over £4,300, with the help of Holbeach Scouts, Long Sutton Scouts, Moulton Brownies, Whaplode Playing Fields, Holbeach ...

I’ve just seen a copy of The Voice and have read about the ‘demise’ of Lloyd Loom. I worked at Lloyd Loom from 1995-2003, both on the shop floor and as a junior manager. I am shocked but not surprised at the company’s treatment of Darren Smith and presumably a number of other employees. During my employment at Lloyd Loom ...

With all due respect to my former fellow Holbeach parish councillor, Paul Foyster, whose letters are always readable and well-argued, I wonder if he has ever had to walk the length of High Street and back with a load of shopping? At the risk of further antagonising my former council colleagues I would comment that none of them use buses ...

In response to Coun Foyster’s recent letter. Whilst he is understandably keen to support his ward, I’m disappointed that nothing he says seeks to make a positive contribution towards his key message of working together. Some two years ago, SHDC asked all parish councils with street markets, if they wanted to be more involved in their operation, Holbeach included. None ...

I agree with Lord Porter regarding wheelie bins. We do not want them, stick to plastic bags, so much more convenient and clean. Being caravaners and travelling around the country going through some lovely quaint English villages, what spoils the view is ugly great big dirty wheelie bins outside people’s properties, blocking footpaths. Please council don’t go down that road! ...

Christmas is over and thanks to Lord Porter I can fill as many bags of festive rubbish as I like for our happy refuge collectors to collect with speed and efficiency. However, some people appear to be unhappy because Santa didn’t leave a wheelie bin in their Christmas stocking. Why would anyone want a wheelie bin? Just look at the ...

May I respectfully suggest that instead of sitting on his backside in the House of Lords drawing £300 a day plus expenses, Lord Porter takes a walk around Spalding with a plastic sack and a litter picker and helps to tidy up the disgusting rubbish that blights our market town. Mr J Burman Spalding

What a rip off! All but two pubs were charging to get in on New Year’s Eve – they were Wetherspoon’s and The Black Swan. The Punchbowl charged £2 where we ended up and it was clear to see numbers were well down, the rest charged between £10 and £15 to get in. It was like a ghost town, not ...

With the New Year just begun, I don’t want to paint a picture of doom and gloom already, but towards the end of 2015 it took the respected think tank, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), less than a day to burst a chancellor’s good news balloon. As many headlines in 2015 concentrated on George Osborne’s climbdown over tax credit, ...

May I, through your paper, say thank you to all the people who came to my aid on Saturday, December 19, after my accident in Holbeach, especially the two ladies and gents who stayed with me for over two hours. B Peach Whaplode St Catherine