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There have been no reported dog thefts in South Holland in recent months, Lincolnshire Police have said. But they are urging owners to be vigilant with their pets with rises in incidents reported elsewhere in the country. Several posts have appeared on social media with many including pictures of people and vehicles those posting have claimed to are potentially involved. ...

The cost of parking in Spalding is set to go up in some areas from the end of the month. South Holland District Council announced the changes via its social media channels at 5pm last Friday. The cost of parking in Westlode Street will rise to £3 a day from the current £1 and the Sheep Market will rise to ...

Local World War Two veteran John Summerson has died. Royal Air Force veteran John passed away on March 12, aged 98, at Stonehaven Care Home, Quadring. John was born in Donington in 1922 and served in the Royal Air Force during WWII with the Desert Rats in Syria. He spent many years working as chief cashier with the Water Board ...

A Holbeach man died after his car crashed on the outskirts of the town for an unknown reason, an inquest has heard. Denis Charlton’s Kia Picanto drifted across the opposite carriageway as he approached the A151/B1515 roundabout in Spalding Road. It collided with a speed camera sign before coming to rest in a dyke. Mr Charlton (81) was treated by ...

Plans for a new solar farm next to Sutton Bridge Power Station have been given the thumbs up. EDF Renewable Energy says the development on the bank of the River Nene and on part of the site of the former RAF Sutton Bridge could power up to 16,100 homes for up to 40 years. South Holland District Council’s Planning Committee ...

Holbeach parish councillors were called into a ‘mediation’ meeting with the district council last week as bids to stop infighting continued. A number of reports of infighting and concerns over some of the council’s practices have been raised in the past year Last November, South Holland District Council told The Voice that it had received 13 complaints about Holbeach Parish ...

NHS Lincolnshire has said anyone abusing staff at COVID vaccination and testing sites will be reported to the police. A spokesman for the CCG said staff at the sites, as well as at some GP practices, have been subjected to abuse in recent weeks. He said: “We want to be very clear – abuse of any kind is unacceptable and ...

There’s worries over what Spalding’s nightlife could look like in future after plans were submitted to turn one in the town centre into flats. An application has been submitted to convert Mulberry’s Bar, Swan Street, into three one-bedroom maisonettes. And with other town centre pubs including The White Horse, The Black Swan and PE11 currently up for sale, there’s concerns ...

Last evening/night, I heard music and singing outside my property which was still ongoing at around 10.30pm when I went outside with my dog before bedtime. This morning I have seen and photographed the bottles and rubbish that they kindly left after their ‘party’, and I will now pick up and make the area tidy again. This area has been ...

Over 100 people have signed a petition against a 20-metre high mast transmitting 5G phone signal being erected in Spalding’s Wygate Park. A planning application for the structure and cabinet at its base, to be built on the corner of Claudette Way and Wygate Park, has been submitted by the telecoms company Three. Documents submitted with the application state that ...

A Gedney Hill company has been told it can’t increase its hours of operation amid claims from neighbours that it is already flouting planning conditions. You Garden which is based in Long Lane had applied to South Holland District Council to extend its opening hours from 6am to 10pm on Mondays and Fridays and 7am to 8pm on Saturdays and ...

Police are appealing for information after a man broke into a van in Crowland by smashing its windscreen using bolt cutters. The incident occurred on Beccelm Drive at around 10pm last night (Monday, March 15). A police spokesman said: “We are appealing for help to identify this man after a van was damaged on a driveway in Beccelm Drive, Crowland ...

A popular Spalding takeaway restaurant has been damaged by fire. Smoke was seen emerging from American Burger on New Road yesterday (Sunday) lunchtime. A spokesman for Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue said: “We were called out at 12.23pm to a restaurant on New Road in Spalding being used as a takeaway. “Both crews from Spalding attended and used breathing apparatus and ...

A 53-year-old man has been warned that he needs ‘to be very careful’ following a court appearance for causing alarm, harassment and distress to a neighbouring family. David Austen Woolfson of The Tilney, Whaplode had admitted using threatening behaviour with intent to cause Martyn Rice harassment, alarm or distress when he appeared before magistrates in Boston. Prosecuting, Jim Clare said ...

A Spalding man got involved in a dispute with a group described as ‘travellers’ after going out to a pub on the first day they were opened after lockdown last year, a court has heard. Luke Joshua Purvis, 24, of Laburnum Grove admitted threatening behaviour when he appeared at Boston Magistrate Court. Prosecuting, Lynn Bickley said that at 10pm on ...

A developer has been allowed to cut the number of affordable homes it builds at a Moulton Chapel development by 80 per cent after a tied vote by councillors. Last night (Wednesday, March 10) South Holland District Council’s Planning Committee couldn’t be split on Postland Development’s request that it could only make the 58 home development financially viable if it ...

A motorcyclist has received minor injuries after a road traffic collision with a vehicle in Spalding this morning (Thursday). The incident occurred on Helmsley Way shortly before 8.30am. Police and ambulance were on the scene. A Lincolnshire Police spokesman said that the motorcyclist had received minor injuries and there was no reported injuries to the driver of the vehicle.

The planning application for a ‘Cluster Hub’ building at the South Lincolnshire Food Enterprise Zone, has been approved, with work due to start next month. The multi-use space will provide small and medium-sized business tenants with support services, networking, meeting and events space and catering, within the new Food Enterprise Zone near Holbeach. There will also be workshops and offices, ...

An imitation firearm and drugs were among the finds after a 12 mile police car chase down the A16 outside Spalding was ended when a stinger device was deployed. Tracy Hercules, age 22, of no fixed address, has been charged with dangerous driving, driving without a licence, driving without insurance, possession of cannabis and possession of an imitation firearm after ...

There are concerns over healthcare provision in Holbeach after the NHS raised issues over the number of new houses being built in the town. It has requested a sizeable donation from a planning application submitted for 185 homes off Battlefields Lane in the town. Outline planning permission has been granted for the site on several previous occasions but are no ...