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A new community action group is aiming to tackle the blight of fly-tipping around Spalding. Launched on Facebook, Fly-tipping Watch Spalding and Locality has already attracted huge interest and will send all reports to South Holland District Council. It has been started off the back of the success of a similar site for the Boston area. Founder Mark Douglass said ...

A brand new scanner that it’s hoped will improve waiting times at Johnson Hospital is up and running thanks to charity funds. The £26,000 ultrasound scanner has been purchased by the hospital’s League of Friends partly with donations from the thousands raised by the Johnson Hospital Ball. The Venous Ablation machine can look at veins and arteries and as it’s ...

A Cowbit filmmaker has taken his comedy cop buddy movie to the Berlin Film Festival Film Market in the hope of securing wider distribution. The Blazing Cannons stars Cowbit man Mark Noyce, who co-wrote and co-directed the movie with filmmaking partner Ben Shockley. Mark’s home village features in the film, alongside scenes shot in nearby Peterborough. The pair shot the ...

A South Holland Primary School requires improvement, according to its latest Ofsted report. Pupils at St Mary’s Church of England Primary School do not make good enough progress, the inspection body say. The report, published this week, says the school requires improvements in three out of five key areas. But pupils get off to a good start in the early ...

Two cars have been involved in a collision at a Spalding Common spot that is the subject of a recently reignited safety campaign. The cars collided on Saturday evening at the junction which Lincolnshire County Council previously said had “no history of accidents being caused by low levels of light”. Last week, Spalding man Rodney Sadd re-launched his campaign to ...

A bid to build 72 homes on the current Spalding Lifestyle and Garden Centre commercial premises next to Johnson Hospital has been submitted. Kaplan Property Group is looking to build 57 two-storey homes and 15 two- and three-storey flats as well as a public open space on the site just off Spalding Road in Pinchbeck. Spalding Lifestyle is currently home ...

Communities may suffer the loss of leisure and cultural facilities, fewer bus services, unkempt parks and green spaces, and see fly-tippers go unpunished without investment in under-pressure councils, the group chaired by South Holland District Council leader Lord Gary Porter has said. Lord Porter chairs the Local Government Association (LGA) which represents all local authorities. It says it has made ...

A former pupil returned to the historic school he left 80 years ago recently just before demolition work is carried out. The former Goodfellows School in Spalding Common which opened in 1871 is making way for a new care home. It closed in 2004 after 133 years of educating children, first for all ages before becoming solely a Church of ...

Fantastic donations were the highlights as the Anglia Motel Pilgrimage Fund held its annual awards evening on Saturday, February 2 to say thank-you to those who have helped out. For the past few decades the group has funded veterans to travel to Normandy to pay respects to the fallen, particularly around D-Day. Organiser and hotel owner Harold Payne put on ...

The new Neighbourhood Sergeant for Spalding says rural crimes and the increasing problems of gangs are among the top issues he’s working on in the area. Sergeant Rick Mosley has been in the position since December. The 51-year-old was born in Canada but came to this country with his English mum when young. After growing up in Nottinghamshire he spent ...

A district councillor and a charity worker have clubbed together to create a great way to say ‘thank you’. Coun Tracey Carter and Chosen charity manager Samantha Flavell have joined forces this month to launch ‘Pamper Hampers’. Tracey said the concept was developed between them over the Christmas period. She said they both noticed “how generous local people were to ...

Five fire crews battled a large fire on the outskirts of Spalding in the early hours of Tuesday morning. The blaze was at a satellite nursery of Opperman Plants on the former Geest site on Pecks Drove West and was reported at around 6.20am. The building, which was, being used to store plant pots, was completely destroyed. Lincolnshire Fire and ...

Spalding Station is set for a £2.5 million refit. East Midlands Trains has announced the measures for the Grade II listed three storey building at Spalding station in Lincolnshire which will include creating retail space at the building’s frontage. It’s measures that have long been campaigned for by the Spalding and Peterborough Transport Forum have been calling for. A spokesman for ...

The A16 was closed for around five hours this morning (Monday February 4)  after a car collided with a bollard between Surfleet and Sutterton. A 25-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of drink driving and a 34-year-old woman also arrested in connection with the incident which occurred at 2.52am. There were no injuries, but the collision, which involved a Hyundai I40, ...

An appeal for witnesses has been made following a report a motorist was racially abused. The incident happened at around 8.36pm on Wygate Park in Spalding on Tuesday, January 29. A spokesman for Lincolnshire Police, said: “We are appealing for witnesses following a road rage incident where a motorist was racially abused. “At 8.36pm on Tuesday January 29 we received a ...

People applying for a blue badge are being warned to steer clear of unofficial websites, some of which have turned out to be scams. The blue badge scheme helps those with severe mobility problems to park closer to their destination. In Lincolnshire, applications are dealt with by the county council. However, Lincolnshire County Council say there are a number of ...

An 81-year-old man has appeared at Boston Magistrates Court on historic sexual abuse charges involving a girl under 14. Colin Ringer of Seagate Road, Long Sutton entered no pleas to the eight charges he faces, which are four allegations of indecent assault, one of gross indecency, two of rape and one of a serious sexual assault. All the alleged offences relate ...

Two families had to flee their homes after suspected arson attacks within minutes and just yards from each other in Weston Hills this morning. Both fires were reported at around 2.50am on Old Fendike Road with a total of five fire crews attending the incident. The Voice understands that two families, one of which has young children, were evacuated and ...

It’s time to make Spalding shine and ensure both visitors and residents enjoy the beauty of the area and support retailers and businesses. South Holland District Council is urging everyone to grab a black bag and take part in this year’s Great British Spring Clean event. With town centres facing a difficult time from online competition, making everyone’s trip to ...

Broken tiles, leaking sinks, missing seats and smashed windows were all revealed on a council tour of South Holland’s public toilets. There are nine facilities in the district and the list of problems ranged from mould and no hand dryers to broken windows and missing bins. A group of councillors and staff from the council toured the district’s toilets in ...