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Lincolnshire Police would like to speak with a man in connection with the theft of a Poppy collection box. Police said a man entered G Simpsons Butchers in Hall Place, Spalding, on November 13 at around 3.30pm and left with the box. If you know who this man is or can assist with the investigation, contact the police in one ...

An 83-year-old says she’s been left unable to knit the children’s clothes she normally provides for charities after being hit by a car close to her home. Jean Cox says she was hit by a black Jaguar car while crossing St Andrew’s Road at around 3.40pm on Wednesday, September 25. She was making the short journey from Tavistock Road to ...

If you have a present to donate to this year’s Give a Gift appeal, you can drop it off at South Holland District Council’s Spalding offices. The district council is one of the companies kindly supporting this year’s campaign as a collection point. The appeal, which was launched by Coun Harry Drury in 2011, helps to ensure Christmas is a ...

Friday night’s general election hustings were a spirited affair, with each candidate fighting for votes to earn their place in Parliament and members of the audience disrupting the event. CLICK HERE to watch the video. Hustings organiser John Bennett said there were around 75 people at The Vista for the event, which The Voice streamed live on Facebook, where it ...

The Crystal Charity Ball this weekend smashed its fundraising expectations, raising almost £15,000. Revellers on Saturday night had fun and gave generously at Springfields Exhibition Centre for the ball. Committee member Kelly Beba said: “Last year was our best fundraising total and in our wildest dreams we didn’t think we could match that. We are confident that we have surpassed ...

You can get your skates on this weekend to help a Spalding women who’s to run the London Marathon for a mental health charity. Sam Hall will take on the 26.2-mile challenge in April next year for the Mental Health Foundation. And as part of the fund raising a special roller disco is being held in her honour at the ...

Festive Pets is back and now is your chance to send in a photo of your pet in Christmas finery. Last year’s winner, Ozzy, received a £100 voucher from competition sponsor Rooke’s Pet Products. You can win the same this year by sending in a picture of your pet, not just cats and dogs, to the Voice. We will publish ...

South Holland has the lowest tree cover in the country – less than half the cover that the City of London does, it’s been claimed. After The Voice revealed last week that South Holland District Council was set to announce a project to look to create woodland in every settlement in the district, charity Friends of the Earth has stated ...

Police are calling for a licence to be revoked at a Spalding town centre shop over alleged breaches including that an illegall worker was employed there and staff sold alcohol to a child. Mr Mohammad Salih Attuf has been the premises licence holder of Delicja on Westlode Street since May, but has been called before South Holland District Council’s Licencing ...

A road near Weston and Baytree Garden Centre was closed this afternoon (Friday) after a tractor shed its load of cabbages. High Road in Weston was closed around the roundabout near the Fun Farm from around 1.30pm The closure also cause problems in both directions along the A151. The road re-opened at 2.35pm.

Police have appealed for information after two potted trees worth £500 were stolen in Sutton St James. On Wednesday, November 6, at around 8.30am, a man driving a silver Ford Mondeo attended a property in Old Fendyke, Sutton St James, and took two potted trees. The car has a GB sticker on the left hand side of the boot and ...

A Weston Hills man has been banned from the roads for two years after being caught drug-driving twice in eight days. Former self-employed motor vehicle dealer Craig Michael Thornton had a cocaine derivate in his system during both stops by police. The 33-year-old, of Austendyke Road, appeared before magistrates in King’s Lynn on Thursday and pleaded guilty to two counts ...

South Holland is a “people trafficking hotspot” and a Catholic organisation is holding a seminar in Spalding to discuss the issue. Regarding modern day slavery, a spokesman for The Santa Marta Group – an international initiative of the Catholic Bishops Conference in England and Wales – said: “Sadly, The Fens is regarded as one of the ‘hot spots’ in the ...

A woman clutching her injured dog fled the scene of an accident in Pinchbeck in which she had collided with a parked car, a court has heard. Sammy Jo Leia Cook, 35, of French Drove, Thorney admitted failing to stop and failing to report an accident when she appeared at Boston Magistrates Court. The magistrates heard police were called to ...

Police have launched an appeal for witnesses to an hit and run in Holbeach. On Saturday (November 16) at 10.30am a blue Audi was involved in a collision with a pedestrian outside the Co-op in Fleet Street, Holbeach. Police said the vehicle left the scene and the female victim sustained a minor injury to her arm. A police spokesman said: “We ...

A World War Two veteran from Weston has celebrated his 100th birthday in style. Douglas Hance reached three figures on Wednesday, November 13, a century after being born in Wandsworth in London. He was 20 when the war broke out and spent six and a half years with the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire light infantry. “I’m very proud of them,” Douglas ...

Ambitious plans to create a woodland near every settlement in South Holland are set to be announced with it being claimed it’s amid concerns over the future of local government. Lord Gary Porter, the leader of South Holland District Council, says the authority is working with the Woodland Trust on the project as the area has one of the lowest ...

A councillor has claimed colleagues are undermining the plan for housing in South Lincolnshire after walking out of a recent planning meeting. Coun Michael Seymour, who has sat on South Holland District Council’s Planning Committee for nearly 20 years, told The Voice he’d walked out of last week’s meeting “on principle”. It was during a hearing on whether eight, three-bedroom ...

Three charities are hundreds of pounds better off thanks to a ladies’ fashion store. Cindy’s of Sutton Bridge has put on two fashion shows in recent weeks. One in Boston raised a fantastic £572 each for Marie Curie and St Barnabas Hospice. And another held as a fund-raiser for Tonic Health has helped land the Spalding-based charity £788. All of ...

A man who “shows a level of disregard for authority” has been denied the transfer of a Premises Licence by the district council. At last week’s November Panel of the Committee of the Licensing Authority meeting, an application to transfer a Premises Licence at the Delicja shop on Westlode Street, Spalding. The application was to transfer the premises licence from ...