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Staff at Spalding’s Brantano shoe store continue to face uncertainty, two weeks after the redundancy of three staff and closure of the concession in the town’s Beales Department Store. Brantano went into administration in March and the Holland Market store, which employs 12 people, has been displaying closing down signs. Tony Barrell, lead administrator at PwC, said: “We continue to trade the ...

A drink-driver who was the subject of an arrest warrant after failing to answer bail has been banned from the roads. Kurt James Sands (47), of Wimberley Way, Pinchbeck, appeared before Boston Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday (May 9). He had 40 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath after being stopped while driving a Peugeot 206 in Queen Street, ...

The Donington Cowley Primary School has been told by Ofsted inspectors that it “requires improvement”. A report said personal development, behaviour and early years provision at the school were “good,” but leadership and management, quality of teaching, learning and assessment and outcomes for pupils were not up to par. Headteacher Marina Faulkner said steps have already been taken to address ...

Readers of The Spalding and South Holland Voice reacted with anger and surprise at news that the 15-year-old couple who murdered Spalding mum and daughter Liz and Katie Edwards have appealed their minimum 20-year sentences. Lawyers acting for the teenagers, who were 14 at the time of the killings in April last year, argued that the sentences were “manifestly excessive” ...

Two South Holland men who were the subject of arrest warrants after not answering bail have been dealt with in court. Aron Findley Duff, of Queens Road, Spalding, and Craig Johnson, of Batemans Close, Gedney, failed to appear before magistrates on May 3 and arrest warrants were issued. Both men appeared before Lincoln Magistrates’ Court on Friday (May 5). Duff ...

Crowland Cranes wants to extend its site into an adjoining field in a move expected to create six jobs. The new area, to be used as a crane storage and demonstration area, will be accessed via the existing entrance to the Crease Drove business. A design and access statement, submitted with a planning application to South Holland District Council, said: ...

The family of cancer sufferer Kieran Taylor have expressed their heartfelt thanks to the community after a £10,000 appeal target was reached this week.(May 11)   It means seven-year-old Kieran’s parents Steve and Karen and sister Caitlin (9) will all be able to support him during treatment in America, expected to last two months. The Deeping St Nicholas family fly ...

This is the “industrial-scale” cannabis-growing operation police found in the basement of Lithuanian food store Krautuvele in Pinchbeck Road, Spalding. The 74 plants were discovered after firefighters were called to a fire within the hydroponics growing equipment last November. A premises licence review is due to be held at South Holland District Council.

Councillors have resolved to use whatever means they can to recover £20,000 invested in cleaning up the Bull and Monkie site in Spalding. South Holland District Council’s cabinet discussed the issue in private on Tuesday (May 9). After the meeting, Coun Roger Gambba-Jones said: “Fellow cabinet members endorsed our proposal to continue to pursue the recovery of monies that have ...

Staff in a very small South Holland school work closely as a team and have maintained its “good” standard, inspectors have reported. A short inspection was made of Shepeau Stow Primary School and a report issued to headteacher Alison Buddle and published last week. It said: “The leadership team has maintained the good quality of education in the school since the last ...

Women’s Institute members left bouquets in bus shelters and on public benches in Moulton and Whaplode for strangers, in a bid to spread happiness. The effort last Friday (May 5) – National Flower Arranging Day – was part of the Lonely Bouquet campaign promoted by the national Women’s Institute (WI) movement. Ex-Whaplode WI president Jacki Ford, who credits WI with helping ...

Spalding Volunteer Centre has moved to Tonic Health’s premises in Westlode Street (behind Job CentrePlus). The centre, run by Lincolnshire Community and Voluntary Service (LCVS), provides help and advice regarding all aspects of volunteering – including help to find opportunities across South Holland. It was previously based at South Holland District Council’s offices in Priory Road. LCVS chief executive David Fannin said: ...

New roles for up to six apprentices with South Holland District Council look set to be created following a push from Government. Government guidance is that local authorities should have 2.3 per cent of their workforce as apprentices and South Holland District Council is working to develop a scheme. An apprenticeship levy will be imposed from the end of the ...

Community support is being sought in the final push to relocate Spalding Rugby Football Club’s 200-plus strong youth teams to its new ground in time for the new season in September. On Saturday (May 13), the decommissioning of the junior teams’ temporary base at Jack Tyrrell’s Yard, in Low Fulney, will begin with the removal of portable buildings and floodlights ...

Gedney Parish Council insists that grant funding for its new children’s play was obtained lawfully and the vast majority of villagers are pleased with the facility. It comes after a parishioner complained to The Voice about the process by which the equipment was bought for the village green. They claimed that as the land was not registered, the £7,000 funding ...

An emergency closure of part of Pinchbeck Road in Spalding due to dips in the road is expected to end on Monday (May 15) following temporary repairs. Lincolnshire County Council is working with Anglian Water to try to find the cause and a long-term solution. A dip reappeared outside Taylors of Spalding garage in March. The road was closed on Monday (May ...

The senior health and safety manager at the Lincolnshire hospital trust which is on trial following the death of a patient has told a court that the fatality would have been less likely to have happened if the manufacturer had issued a safety notice following a previous incident involving the equipment.   The jury at Lincoln Crown Court has heard that a ...

Former businesswoman Julia Cambridge has been selected as the Liberal Democrats parliamentary candidate for South Holland and The Deepings. Julia has lived in the East Midlands since 2009 and is a governor at three schools, one of which is attended by her daughter. Always a strong advocate for women, she regularly lectures for women in business. A candidate in the ...

The local UKIP branch says its General Election campaign for the South Holland and The Deepings constituency will be “very nominal”.   Just two years after its candidate David Parsons came second to Conservative Eurosceptic John Hayes, only a “paper” candidate will be fielded on Thursday, June 8. Instead, the local branch will lend its support to UKIP leader Paul ...

A man who carried out a scam involving red diesel fuel, evading a liability of duty for £3,229, has been given a suspended jail sentence. Marius Legavicius used cat litter to remove the red dye from the diesel fuel which carries a significantly lower level of excise duty. He was then able to sell on the fuel as ordinary diesel fuel. Andrew Scott, ...