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New pay machines costing a total of £88,500 have been installed in South Holland car parks. It comes after the recent rise in the cost of parking in the district.In total there’s two machines erected in Spalding’s Herring Lane, Victoria Street and Winfrey Avenue car parks as well as Holbeach’s Boston Road one.A single machine has been installed in Vine ...

Water levels on the River Welland look likely to be low for most of the summer after it was claimed asbestos was found where its banks were breached. The Voice understands work was meant to start on repairing the breach on Monday (April 22).The Environment Agency has not told The Voice the reason for not starting, but a representative told ...

A former South Holland District Council employee spent £8,470 on company cards after her mental health deteriorated due to the amount of work put on her, a court has heard. Beverley Paskell, 41, of The Chase, Crowland, pleaded guilty to fraud by abuse of position at Boston Magistrates Court today (Wednesday, April 24). The charge relates to a two year ...

A Spalding woman who stole more than £12,000 by cashing in fake scratch cards winnings has been sentenced. Emma Grimes, 41, was a site manager at Applegreen fuel station, in Ely, between August 2019 and October 2020. In this time, it was discovered that she had paid herself £12,370 in fake scratch card winnings. The discovery was made when the ...

A Spalding man has been fined for a host of charges relating to the illegal sale of cigarettes at a currently closed shop. Ganjo Omer, of Spring Gardens, appeared at Boston Magistrates’ Court earlier this month on the charges regarding the Baltic Shop on Winsover Road on December 12, 2023.Omer pleaded guilty to having criminal property amounting to 8,000 cigarettes, ...

The top earners at local councils have been revealed with 14 people at Lincolnshire County Council and five working with South Holland District Council earning over £100,000 a year. The Tax Payers Alliance group has published a list of every role that received above that figure, writes Local Democracy Reporter Ellis Karran.Collectively, all of Lincolnshire’s chief executives earned a combined ...

Former Home Secretary Suella Braverman was invited to a special dinner of local Conservatives last week. Spalding’s Sessions House hosted the evening that saw 80 party members attend including Sir John Hayes.He said: “I would like to thank my great friend for attending our event and for showing so much energy and enthusiasm in doing so.“It was refreshing for members ...

On Thursday, May 2, the election for the Police and Crime Commissioner takes place in Lincolnshire. The role is to hold its force to account and be the voice of the people who elected them, holding overall responsibility for the totality of the force, writes the Local Democracy Reporter service.Ultimately, the PCC for Lincolnshire will be in charge of strategy ...

The bus from Spalding to Peterborough is to be made an hourly service as part of a new bid to improve connectivity in Lincolnshire. It’s to be implemented in June this year as outlined in Lincolnshire County Council’s new Lincolnshire Bus Service Improvement Plan that will go before the authority’s Transport and Highways Committee next week.Buses from Spalding to its ...

A Spalding grot spot is set to be tidied up with street art in time for the town’s flower parade on May 11. Organiser Steve Timewell approached estate agent Bruce Mather, which is selling the old Calthrops shop in Market Place, over its boarded up front which has graffiti on it.Now local graffiti artist Karl Barfoot has been given the ...

A scheme that’s been government funded is aiming to provide advice to help local companies do business abroad. PAB Sema4 has been given UK Shared Prosperity Funding to launch its Global Gateway project.Businesses in South Holland can apply for the free advice which will aim to ‘boost economic growth and community development’.A spokesman said: “The Global Gateway project, aims to ...

Anglian Water has hiked customer bills by eight per cent despite multi-million pound fines for poor performance, and soaring profits over the last couple of years. The privately-owned water provider, which covers the Lincolnshire area among other sections of the East Midlands, recorded operating profits of £255.9 million for the first six months of 2023/24 — a 10.6 per cent ...

Boston Road South is to be closed again for two days next week as part of an investigation over what’s behind the latest dip in the Holbeach road. From Wednesday, April 24 to Friday, April 26, it will be closed from 9am to 2.30pm. A spokesman for Lincolnshire County Council said: “A specialist team will be carrying out an investigation ...

Three people have been arrested after over 1,200 cannabis plants were discovered in sheds and caravans between Spalding and Cowbit. Over 50 police officers were part of the raid on the site on Evergreen Close. Detective Inspector Mel Rooke, from Boston and South Holland CID said: “A well-orchestrated warrant was executed yesterday (Thursday April 18), which called on help from ...

A raft of problems from heavy rainfall to dodgy plumbing have been blamed for sewage flooding issues in Holbeach. Residents have seen their gardens flooded with sewage several times in the last few months, and have been battling to resolve the problem.The record-breaking wet winter has added to the issue which started in 2018 and has seen residents installing raised ...

Plans to build an offshore windfarm which will connect to the grid in South Holland have taken a step forward. The Outer Dowsing Offshore Wind farm has had a development consent order accepted by central government.Ministers will now commission an independent report that will advise the Secretary of State on whether to grant permission for the development.It will comprise of ...

Detailed plans for a replacement school for the University Academy Long Sutton have been revealed. The scheme will see the existing building demolished and replaced by a three-storey main school.Work will begin this August and students will remain in the current building until the new building is completed.The new building will have a smaller footprint but better-utilisation of the space ...

Councillors have said they hope building a holiday park in Whaplode will attract visitors to the area as one called previous planners ‘Philistines’ for not allowing more sculptures in the village. Bleu Raye Farm, off Millgate, has been before South Holland District Council’s Planning Committee on many occasions, and was previously listed to be a gypsy and traveller site.Now the ...

Plans to open Moulton Park to the public are at a ‘stalemate’, its proposed owner says, despite receiving planning permission last week. The John and Maureen Biggadike Foundation is looking to buy the land from South Holland District Council to make it a public park.But the charity’s chair Richard Lewis said it doesn’t know whether to go through with it ...

The running of the South Holland Centre could be farmed out and ran as part of the contract that operates leisure centres. ‘Boozy bingo’ nights, a dance festival and courses to learn jobs at theatres are among the ideas to improve ticket sales and make the centre better used.A report by South Holland District Council assistant director of leisure and ...