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After a successful first event back in August, South Holland District Council and the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are holding another Virtual Jobs Fair on Friday October 23 to help residents and businesses in the District take their next career steps. The first Jobs Fair took place on August 21, as a result of the cancellation of the ...

Children at a special school in Spalding won’t be able to move into their brand new classrooms until money is found for new blinds. A major building project at The Garth School has seen the addition of five new classrooms which are all but ready to welcome pupils. But the cost of new blinds has not been covered by the ...

A father and his step-son are in hospital after an explosion at a Gedney Drove End property on Saturday. The bomb disposal squad and two air ambulances were in attendance after the incident which shook the village around 10.50am on Dawsmere Road.Lincolnshire Police said three people had been injured. Two of them have been named locally as Carl Parnell and ...

A Spalding charity that’s raised hundreds of thousands of pounds for healthcare in the town has wound down by giving away a total of £70,000 to local good causes. The Pennygate Patient Link was set up to raise funds for the surgery of the same name and since 2001 it has been responsible for the charity shop on Winsover Road. ...

A team of staff working at a Spalding pub are self-isolating after a colleague tested positive for COVID-19. The Punchbowl in New Road remains open with another team of staff serving customers. The pub is overseen by the Craft Union Pub Company which said that the government track and trace system had been informed. A spokesperson for The Punchbowl said: ...

Lincolnshire could be set to miss targets set for recycling because of the current pandemic. All the county’s district authorities, including South Holland, backed a Joint Municipal Waste Management Strategy in January 2019. It outlined a way forward to meet government targets for recycling and created ten objectives with targets. But a report due to go before county council’s Environment ...

There’s been disappointment at the felling of a number of trees in Holbeach, though the company developing the land says more will be planted. Ashwood Homes was granted permission to build 188 homes on the land off Damgate Road in May 2017. The permission included the felling of the trees with the plans for the site also containing replanted and ...

Work on trees in a Holbeach nature reserve is to be carried after around 30 graves were destroyed by one falling in a nearby cemetery. A meeting of Holbeach Parish Council last week heard that the authority would look to take urgent action at the Fishpond Lane open space as it was found work needed to be carried out on ...

The saga of South Holland market charges is back on the district council agenda at a meeting of the Cabinet next week. Members had decided in the height of the pandemic earlier this year to no longer have market stalls erected for traders in Spalding – a move that caused a backlash. Now there are recommendations to review the fees ...

A group that promotes cycling has backed controversial new bike racks that have appeared in Spalding and Holbeach The green, car shaped racks placed over car parking spaces have been called ‘monstrosities’ and “a dangerous eyesore wasting valuable space” by Voice readers. Lincolnshire County Council, which installed them as part of the government’s Active Travel fund, even said one in ...

A school has used its annual harvest festival to aid a Spalding lady helping families in Uganda and providing goods for local food banks. Bicker Preparatory School and Early Years weren’t able to attend church like they normally do every autumn. Emily Braybrook in Uganda Instead for their Harvest Festival they were encouraged to bring in food to donate to ...

Lincolnshire County Council has reminded residents that on Sunday the clocks will go back, temporarily affecting the timings of the county’s part-night streetlights. There are around 42,000 part-night streetlights across the county that are switched off between the hours of midnight and 6am. Coun Richard Davies, Executive Member for Highways, said: “Over the next few weeks you might notice that ...

A host of traffic measures to make Holbeach safer have been proposed by the parish council. And the parish councillor who is leading the way, Coun Michelle Manley, is also exploring the prospect of setting up a group of volunteers to monitor speed in the town. She has been researching traffic hot spots for the last few months and the ...

The brakes have been put on a major reorganisation of local government in Lincolnshire – with the councils told to concentrate on helping communities recover from the effects of coronavirus. District councils, including South Holland, welcomed the news that central government called a halt to the process of reorganising the entire structure. “This enables district councils to put our full ...

Bomb disposal experts are in Gedney Drove End after an explosion this morning (Saturday) left three people injured, one of them seriously. The incident occurred shortly before 11am this morning. A spokesman for Lincolnshire Police, said: “At 10.53am we received a report of a small explosion in this area. “Three men have been injured – one is thought to have ...

‘Closing’ signs have gone up in two more Spalding town centre stores. Both the local branches of Bonmarche in Bridge Street and Peacocks in Market Place have announced to customers they’re closing down. The Bonmarche chain went into administration in October 2019 and was bought by Peacocks which itself is owned by Edinburgh Woollen Mill. That company announced it was ...

Schools in Spalding have put out warnings over safety amid alleged reports of students being approached by strangers. Spalding Academy and East Pinchbeck Primary School have released a warning to parents this afternoon. The Voice has approached Lincolnshire Police for more details on any related incidents in the town, but has yet to receive a response. The warnings have come ...

South Hollands and the Deepings MP Sir John Hayes has cut the ribbon on Spalding’s newest care home. Fenchurch House is County Court’s 33rd care home and has been built on the site of the former Goodfellows School on Spalding Common. It can home up to 60 people offer long term residential care, short-term respite care and specialist dementia care. ...

Staff at the Imaginarium cocktail bar on Westlode Street in Spalding are picking up the pieces following a burglary on Sunday evening. The bar was broken into and subsequently bottles of alcohol valued of up to £1,000 were taken. Lucy Smith, manager of the site said “It is gutting to see the damage caused to our bar. “We are working ...

Infighting at Holbeach Parish Council has been likened to the Northern Ireland peace process in a fractious and, at times, bizarre meeting which was even interrupted by violin music over a claim of abusive behaviour. District councillor Nick Worth, who was among the public watching Monday night’s online meeting, described it as a ‘bonfire being lit” under the council. The ...