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RE Children’s ward may be closed (The Voice April 26). Why are our local MPs not doing something about this? They are supposed to represent us and make sure local people get the services they need and indeed pay for. Time to step up Mr Hayes! Jane Francis Spalding

A group of friends are looking to raise thousands for a special needs school and Diabetics UK this year. The collective, who are calling themselves the Snowflake Committee, have met through Weightwatchers and in the past two years have raised money for several charities. This year they’re helping charity Diabetics UK and also the Friends of Garth School (FOGS) who ...

A study of Lincolnshire GP surgeries has revealed that there are currently major strains on services right across the county.   One South Lincolnshire surgery said in the National GP Survey: “We have a three-plus week wait for a routine GP appointment. Demand has outstripped our capacity. “All urgent appointments are dealt with on the day, but the standard GP ...

Around 550 people visited the annual South Holland Jobs Fair on Tuesday, May 1. The popular event held at The Castle Sports Complex, is organised by South Holland District Council and the Department for Work and Pensions. “It was great to see so many people attending, and finding out more about the employment and training opportunities in our district,” said ...

The first band to play the Moulton Windmill left audiences in a spin recently. Folk group Pennyless played to a sold out crowd at the windmill on Friday, April 20. The multi-instrumentalists who are legends of the south Lincolnshire folk scene played songs from their five albums to date, making a keen impression on the crowd. It was the group’s ...

Lincolnshire Police has made changes to the hours worked by its PCSOs that will see these officers work an extra 30,000 hours at weekends each year. A police spokesman said around 170,000 incidents are reported to the force each year and just under 30 per cent of these happen at weekends. Police said the extra weekend hours will help the ...

Young people from Long Sutton or Sutton Bridge who are starting higher education course in the next school year could be eligible for a special grant to help them financially. Anyone under 25 from those towns (or whose parents live there) and who is starting at university or college in the 2018/19 school year could be a recipient of the ...

A local businessman is the latest winner of an annual award to recognise those who help the UK flower bulb industry bloom. John Taylor has been awarded the Carlo Naef Trophy by the Springfields Horticultural Society trophy for his life-time career achievements in South Lincolnshire. John is currently the commercial director with OA Taylor and Sons in Holbeach, a role ...

John Steel, Elaine Mothers and the other members of Spalding Lions Club have been nominated for Pride of South Holland Award. The nominations for the 2018 award are flying in ahead of September’s big celebration at the South Holland Centre. The person who nominated the Lions, said: “I am nominating the Lions Club (Spalding) because they are great. “They were ...

Flower festivals are a firm fixture of the first fortnight of May. Here are some of the events happening in South Holland. Holbeach Flower Festival at All Saints’ Church has five days of floral fun with Musicals theme. Look out for Audrey II! Events include a school concert at 6pm on Friday, May 4, Teddy Bears from the Tower at ...

A woman who called 999 almost 100 times on Christmas Day has been told to pay £2,000. The woman, who had no medical need to contact the ambulance service, appeared at court earlier this month and has been banned from calling the emergency services for five years, with the exception of a genuine emergency. The caller rang EMAS 97 times ...

Whaplode Village Hall is £210 better off thanks to local bingo battlers. The hall hosts Phyllis Harris’s monthly quiz nights and a number of people attended the latest one held on Friday, April 20. Through their donations and amid the bingo action the patrons managed to raise the £210. Lee Morris from the hall was on hand to collect the ...

A disqualified Gosberton Risegate driver who drove into a neighbour’s gate pillar has been given a suspended prison sentence. Darren John Goodwin (50) of Sheppersons Avenue, Gosberton Risegate, who was already on a suspended prison sentence, admitted failing to provide a breath specimen for analysis and for driving while disqualified in the incident outside his home on March 26. At ...

A bogus Help for Heroes collector who posed in military uniform claiming to be a serving soldier today (Monday, April 30) had his assets confiscated by a judge.   David Santini (56) of North Drove, Quadring, claimed he was “just back from Afghanistan” when challenged while collecting from unsuspecting peple at Newark Antiques Fair.   But he was revealed to ...

A decision on whether to close the children’s ward at Pilgrim Hospital in Boston has been delayed. At today’s (Friday April 27) meeting of the United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust, it was agreed that more information needs to be gathered before a final decision is made on which option should be taken going forward. A decision is now due to ...

Lincolnshire Police are appealing for information over a 21-year-old Spalding man who hasn’t been seen in a week. Szymon Janczewski was last seen on Friday, April 20. He is described as white, tall and with blonde hair, and may have a blue cycling bike with him. A spokesman for Lincolnshire Police, said: “We are appealing for information that may help us ...

Notification procedures at a council planning department are being overhauled after a landowner was wrongly-told he had permission to build new homes. Plans were submitted to South Holland District Council to build the homes on Battlefields Lane North, Holbeach. Landowner John Swepstone planned his retirement from business and was looking for permission to build seven homes on the site after ...

A police sergeant was head-butted and spat at while arresting a man suspected of robbing a Donington store with a knife. The incident on Sunday, April 22 was one of nine assaults reported on officers across Lincolnshire over last weekend. The assault came hours after a man brandished a knife to steal two packets of cigarettes from Bargain Booze at ...

The children’s ward at Pilgrim Hospital could close in June. A staffing crisis has spurred crunch talks, set to take place on Friday. The number of beds available on the ward has already been reduced from 12 to eight, a United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust report said. Options will be considered on Friday, two of which involve temporarily ceasing children’s services ...

The A151 Bourne Road is closed at Pode Hole after an accident that’s left one person in hospital. A collision between a car and a van occurred just after 10.30am this morning (April 25). One man has been taken to hospital as a result of the incident but his condition is not yet known. The road remains closed as of ...