Letters

I was initially very confused by Delia Williams’ letter regarding refuse and recycling collections. For the last couple of years, the district council has collected refuse and recycling on all Bank Holidays, apart from over the Christmas and New Year periods. This means that those wards that were not receiving collections on Bank Holiday Mondays, such as Deeping St Nicholas, ...

Early 2015 my wife Barbara and myself volunteered to help keep the flowerbeds on the riverside behind the South Holland Centre tidy for Spalding In Bloom. We did the weeding and deheading on a regular basis and got rewarding remarks from visitors using the water taxi. On December 20, I decided the beds needed a quick weed so I parked ...

Regarding your front page­ on Thursday, December 17, ‘Hopes to buy the court house for all to use’. After reading this report I was filled with the hope of a good news story for this fine historic building in the heart of our market town. I pass this location quite a lot and it would be such a shame for ...

In response to Ms Doubleday: I have always believed freedom of expression was a fundamental principle of our democracy and the free press was one of the instruments facilitating this principle. I am therefore delighted The Spalding and South Holland Voice printed your letter as they did with Rodney Sadd’s letters. We do not have to agree on everything and ...

Not so long ago Holbeach market was some three times as big as it is now, including a second greengrocer on Church Street. There is quite sufficient room for expansion. A couple of traders want to see if they will do better on the car park, footfall on the market has certainly reached close to rock bottom. A two-month trial ...

Reference the waste collection at Christmas and New Year in South Holland. Again all those who have a Monday collection are discriminated against because this year the Saturday is Boxing Day. Obviously there will not be a collection. This was sorted out previously by having a Saturday collection. I just hope that we do not have to put up with ...

As 2015 comes to a close, the members of the Ukulele Orchestra of Spalding can take a break until mid-January when we start to perform again. This year has been very busy for the orchestra, as we have performed a total of 63 gigs for a variety of audiences in and around the local area – from Boston down to ...

I wish Mr Flindall, of Sutton Bridge, all the best in his campaign against the proposed withdrawal of funding for transport to Spalding Grammar School. Whatever bright spark thinks it is a good idea needs to reconsider before this goes further. I stood at the Grammar School in May, during an election event and stated that my party was opposed ...

I think Paul Walls’ letter (Voice, December 5) is missing the point. It is increasingly clear that the only way Britain can retake control of its borders is for us to leave the EU. That is unfortunate, but as time has gone on the costs of being a member of the EU now massively outweigh the benefits, not least on ...

The council is against wheelie bins because Lord Porter of Spalding is against them as he thinks they are unsightly outside people’s houses. I think Lord Porter should look at being a proper leader of the district council instead of sucking up to David Cameron and getting a knighthood that would be better suited to someone who does good for ...

May I through your paper say thank you to all of our customers and to everybody who has kindly donated clothes and goods to our shop during 2015 and wish you all a happy Christmas and New Year. We couldn’t continue without your support. Hazel Wright Manageress Pennygate Patient Link charity shop Spalding

Mr Sadd, over the years we have all seen your views on life printed in the local press. Do you really believe that all the readers in Spalding and district agree with you? I don’t, generally they are long and very self opinionated! I was merely stating the fact that the people of Great Britain will vote for what they ...

Is there a need to celebrate Christmas in this 21st century? We are told by statisticians that 40 per cent of the population claim not to believe in Christianity or the message of the Bible. A virgin birth in this day and age is impossible to believe. So did the birth of Jesus really happen in the way the Bible ...

We held a Mince Pie and Mulled Wine event at our home on December 12 in support of the Butterfly Hospice and would like to express our thanks to family, friends and neighbours would gave their support, donations and raffle prizes to this worthwhile cause. A big thank you also to the Pinchbeck businesses who kindly donated raffle prizes including ...

A number of people have enquired as to why there is no Candlelight Carol Service at Weston this year. I would like to assure people there is such an event and this will take place on Sunday, December 20 at 6.30pm. The service was inadvertently missed out of the parish magazine for which I apologise. Everyone is welcome to attend. ...

The unused buildings in Spalding are a disgrace. I have brought this subject up with my local councillor but no-one seems to have the answer as to what is happening with them. The response seems to be that these properties have been sold on and the owners can’t be traced. This answer isn’t acceptable. If rates have been collected for ...

Christine Lawton is a district councillor and, as the portfolio holder for housing, is legally responsible for seeing that her officers carry out their duties professionally, diligently and honestly. For this work, and for the 30 or so meetings she attends annually, Coun Lawton is paid £11,957 a year, plus expenses. According to the 2011 Localism Act, Christine Lawton has ...

Mr Walls takes me to task over UKIP’s desire to get control of our borders and cut mass immigration to a reasonable level. Security aside, yes, there is a problem in terms of quality and quantity. 330,000 is the net immigration figure and the government has admitted that even if it reaches its target of building 200,000 houses a year, ...

A hard act to follow… I’m sure most people will have used that phrase sometime in their lives when speaking of friends, relatives and colleagues etc. Unfortunately I am faced with saying it about myself after the way the populace of Spalding and local villages reacted to last year’s Poppy Appeal. When the 2014/15 campaign finished on September 30 the ...

Re Simon Barker’s fence, I would like to comment on this silly council and planning permission. I feel this fence looks better than the old one and the council are just a load of bloody minded busy bodies with nothing better to do! I would ask you to let Mr Barker know that I support him 100 per cent and ...