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The bodies of two people in their 30s have been found after police attended a Spalding property in Winsover Road this morning (Thursday. June 25). Lincolnshire Police are treating the deaths as ‘unexplained’ though arrests have been made on suspicion of murder. Two men, one aged 29 and one 46, have been arrested and taken into police custody. A spokesman ...

Taking temperatures on the door and installing air purifiers are among the ways South Holland businesses are gearing up to reopen next month. It’s all systems go for hairdressers, restaurants, pubs, hotels and many other businesses, after the government announced that lockdown restrictions will be further eased from July 4. In a statement to the House of Commons on Tuesday, ...

Work on the first section of the Spalding Western Relief Road is due to start within weeks. Lincolnshire County Council says that preparatory work on the most northerly section of the controversial project will start on July 6. That’s when up to 16 weeks of archaeological investigations will begin and work on the removal of two Spalding Road in properties ...

A family have thanked the community for their support after an eight-month-old underwent an 11-hour operation to disconnect half of his brain. Oscar Wright underwent the rare operation to combat some of the symptoms of Sturge Weber Syndrome last Thursday and is slowly recovering. His Crowland family including mum Bethanie Rollings and dad Tim Wright have described the operation at ...

What its owner believes is the first Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) public shop in the country has popped up at Springfields. Tony Foote, of Ubitrac PPE Outlet, has set up the shop selling items such as facemasks and gowns. Ubitrac itself is usually a Boston-based tech company with a special emergency app for NHS staff among its regular projects. But ...

Traders have continued to express their disappointment at new measures brought in after markets returned to South Holland towns. The Voice reported last week that their were mixed views from Spalding traders with many glad to be back. But concerns were also raised that traders now had to book in every time online rather than pay a direct debit and ...

Lockdown restrictions will be relaxed from July 4, the government has announced, allowing a host of businesses and groups to re-open. In a statement to the House of Commons this lunchtime, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that the two metre social distancing advice would be relaxed to one metre where needed when appropriate measures had been implemented to stop the ...

An 80-foot-long illegal fishing net has been removed from the Coronation Channel of the River Welland at Spalding by Environment Agency enforcement officers. The gill net stretched across the entire width of the channel – and to set it up, the offenders would have risked their lives to negotiate a dangerous, derelict railway bridge. Officers were able to remove the ...

A road that’s been closed for months has finally re-opened. Work to repair the collapsing Boston Road South has now been completed and is open to traffic. Large holes appeared in the road in March, and work was suspended until earlier this month as Anglian Water said it prioritised other works during the coronavirus lockdown. It led to annoyance for ...

The vandalism of signs put up to encourage social distancing in Spalding has been branded ‘abhorrent’. South Holland District Council, which erected the measures in the town plus those in Holbeach and Long Sutton, says it’s working with Lincolnshire Police to identify those responsible following the incidents over the weekend. The council posted on social media: “Several of our signs ...

Seven incidents of scammers pretending to be police were reported in South Holland villages last week. Lincolnshire Police have warned residents to be vigilant after the incidents between June 16 and 19 which saw people call claiming to be from the police and asking for bank details. Four of the incidents were in Holbeach, two in Weston, one in Moulton ...

Lincolnshire Police have found a 12-year-old reported missing last night. A spokesman said: “We appealed earlier today about a missing 12-year-old girl from Spalding. “We are pleased to update she has now been found. We would like to thank the public and the media who have supported and shared our appeal.”

A woman in her 70s had her purse stolen while out shopping in Spalding yesterday (Thursday, June 18). Lincolnshire Police have released images of a man they’d like to speak to in relation to the incident believed to have taken place in the Iceland store in Holland Market at around 10.30am. A spokesman for Lincolnshire Police, said: ” We would ...

Four were injured and three cut out of a car after it was involved in a collision with a lorry in Saracen’s Head last night. In total four people were taken to hospital following the incident which occurred just before 10pm last night (Thursday, June 18) on Washway Road. Fire crews from Spalding, Holbeach and Kirton attended the incident. A ...

Residents on Pennygate in Spalding have been reminded to move their cars from the road on Saturday (June 20) as resurfacing work is due to take place. The works are due to take place along the entirety of the road from Monkshouse Lane to Park Road. A spokesman for Lincolnshire County Council, said: “Cars must be parked elsewhere between 7:30am ...

Controversial plans to create a residential gypsy/traveller site in Whaplode are recommended to be passed by planners. The application for the four berth site at Bleu Raye Farm on Millgate was deferred by South Holland District Council’s Planning Committee in February to request more information. It will now be decided next Wednesday as the authority holds its first online Planning ...

Lincolnshire Police Chief Constable Bill Skelly has today announced his decision to retire from policing later this year. After 31 years in policing Mr Skelly has announced he will step down from his role on December 18. He said: “It’s been a privilege and an honour to lead this force.  There have been many challenges during my four years as ...

A Crowland family are fund-raising so they can be beside their eight-month-old with an extremely rare disease as he undergoes vital surgery to disconnect half his brain. Oscar Wright, who has Sturge Weber Syndrome, is currently in Great Ormond Street Hospital in London. It’s estimated that only between one in 20,000 to 50,000 have the genetic mutation, though symptoms can ...

A woman who went to work on the front line of COVID-19 was left upset after she returned from a 12-hour shift on Saturday to find her front door vandalised. Debbie Poli had been working the overnight shift as the Personal Protection Officer (PPE) on the COVID ward at King’s Lynn’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital. She returned at 2pm on Saturday ...

South Holland District Council has been left “substantially out of pocket” by the COVID-19 outbreak, its member for finance has said. Coun Peter Coupland outlined that the council could be £4.1m worse off then it had budgeted as a result of the resulting lockdown at a meeting of the authority’s cabinet on Tuesday. He said: “Every week government guidelines and ...