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Film and TV star Warwick Davis has officially unveiled an education charity’s new Spalding offices. Nacro has been giving young people an alternative route for further education for the last decade. And the operation which currently has 40 students has expanded its premises at its Westlode Street premises and is now at the front of Broadgate House. Star Wars, Harry ...

TV presenter Jake Humphrey has thanked Donington’s fire crew who came to his aid following an accident. Humphrey was on his way home after covering the FA Cup clash between Blackburn Rovers and Newcastle United for BT Sport when his car was involved in the incident on the A17 near East Heckington shortly after 1.30am on Wednesday, January 16. Fire ...

A woman in her 80s was pushed by her 54 year old son after she asked him and his friend to make less noise during a drinking session, a court has heard. Stuart Craig Weir of Wygate Road, Spalding, admitted assaulting his mother Margaret Campbell, as well as assaulting two police officers who went to her aid after she telephoned ...

A South Holland company is hoping to breathe new life into a town centre landmark building which is currently a rundown eye-sore. There are plans to re-open The Chequers in Holbeach and residents are being asked to be part of the project. Spalding-based API Services bought the run-down building in December and is turning to the community for ideas and ...

Residents from Ayscough Avenue in Spalding spoke to The Voice last week about the accumulation of waste on their street- a problem they have been fighting for more than a decade. This week, Ken Ward of Ayscough Avenue said he wasn’t happy with the response given by South Holland District Council: “We haven’t had any answers,” he said. “Where can ...

A national rail pressure group is pushing for a former South Holland railway line to be preserved from future development. The English Regional Transport Association (ERTA) is calling for a recent planning application for housing to not be built over a railway track bed. An application for 72 homes at Cowbit would obliterate the former Spalding to March corridor. Having ...

The leader of South Holland District Council has reiterated that he will resign if the authority brings in fortnightly waste collections while its cabinet passed a waste management plan he called “tailored stupidity”. Coun Lord Gary Porter made the comments as SHDC’s Cabinet gave its backing to adopt the Lincolnshire Waste Partnership Strategy on Tuesday, January 15. He also criticised ...

Patients at Beechfield Medical Centre are being given extra incentive to get fit in 2019. The Patient Participation Group (PPG) is hosting weigh-in days on Tuesday and Thursday, January 22 and 24 from 9am to 12pm. You will be able to have your weight and BMI measured without an appointment. Advice will be offered and you will also be invited ...

Anger and dismay has greeted the news that two new NHS dentists are not coming to Spalding as planned. As revealed in last week’s Spalding Voice, neither of the proposed dental practise have been able to recruit and the town remains without a surgery taking on NHS patients. JDSP Dental Ltd was looking to move into Winsover Road and had ...

Improvements to the area’s council-owned leisure facilities will be paid for by the district council ahead of the new service providers taking over the contract in March. In December, South Holland District Council announced Parkwood Leisure will be taking over the contract to run the Castle Sports Complex in Spalding and the Peele Leisure Centre in Long Sutton – both ...

Cancer patients, their friends, family and carers in Holbeach will now be able to get information, advice and support closer to home. A new outreach session will enable people living in and around the area to access regular information and support about cancer, and caring for someone with cancer. Starting this month, trained staff from the Macmillan Cancer Information and ...

The former Birds / Hungry Horse pub in Spalding will become a 61-bed care home if submitted plans are approved. Eton-based Glenholme Group has submitted plans for the former pub, which closed in December last year. Greene King operated the pub and still own the land on which the proposed two-storey care home will be built. Under submitted plans, a ...

A Spalding man driving while more than three times over drink drive limit was also found to be in possession of a large kitchen knife. Antons Marcinkevics (59), of Hannam Boulevard, pleaded guilty to drink driving along Park Road in Spalding on August 25 last year. A breath sample recorded 122 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. The ...

Since being honoured with a knighthood by Her Majesty the Queen, numerous people in South Holland and the Deepings and beyond have offered their congratulations. Thank you all. None mattered more than the unexpected tribute paid to me by Stephen, the son of former Labour MP, Tony Benn. He said simply: ‘My father would have been delighted’. The friendship I ...

Casswell is a well-known South Holland surname and this week’s Spalding Gentleman’s Society celebrates Margaret ‘Madge’ Casswell who had the rare, if not unique, distinction of commendations from both Adolf Hitler and Winston Churchill. Margaret was born in Gosberton in 1884 and served as a nurse during the First World War and worked in a military hospital in Gibraltar, where, ...

The South Holland District Council Open Arts Competition celebrates its 20th year with the 2019 instalment. Entry is now open and you’ve just over a month to get your entries in before the deadline of February 22. Entries will be displayed at a gallery at the South Holland Centre in Spalding between Thursday, April 4 and Wednesday, April 10. To ...

Seven new charging points for electric cars, which would cost thousands of pounds to install, are being proposed for South Holland. There are currently 100 such vehicles in the area according to South Holland District Council, which is looking to install charging machines for them in Holbeach, Pinchbeck, Sutton Bridge, Crowland and at several locations in Spalding. The authority is ...

A Pinchbeck landmark could be set for a timely update if a fundraising appeal is successful. After years of not working St Mary’s Church in the village is hoping to get its clock back ticking. The £1,000 works will also bring back the familiar sound of the bell chiming every hour. The historic Grade I listed building dates back to ...

Police are searching for a man who walked into the Co-Op in Gosberton and stole money from the till. The incident happened at the High Street store at around 9pm on Friday, January 4. Police have said no nobody was injured or confronted in the incident by the thief who then made off along High Street in the direction of ...

Police are looking for two people wanted connection with the theft of a meat and wine from a shop in Crowland. The theft from the Co-op store in West Street in Crowland was reported at 3.20pm on December 26. The woman is described as in her early 30s, with long brown hair. She was wearing a blue coat with a ...