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Pupils across the local area are set to benefit after Spalding Academy became a Beacon School for Holocaust Education. The school has joined the University College London (UCL) Centre for Holocaust Education programme. It will see the school armed with top quality learning materials and methods to deepen teaching about the historic event and highlight the need for modern day ...

Holbeach Hub has stepped in to offer a lifeline to one of the town’s Christmas fayres. Fundraiser Les Ward was forced to cancel his plans for a street parade and market stalls fayre scheduled for Sunday, December 4, because of an administration error. The organising committee missed the deadline for submitting the street closure request and event plan. Trustees at ...

The winner of a competition which involved suggesting play areas to be signed up to South Holland District Council’s smokefree code has been presented with her prize. Diane Voss, of Holbeach St Marks, won the Medion tablet, supplied by the Spalding branch of Hughes. The competition, run in The Voice, invited readers to spot the council’s Big Cig mascot in ...

The detective who led the investigation into Britain’s youngest double murderers has praised the Spalding community for their support. Det Ch Insp Martin Holvey said at first he found it hard to believe that two 14-year-olds had carried out the murders of school dinner lady Liz Edwards (49) and her 13-year-old daughter Katie. The boy and girl, now 15, were each ...

Two 15-year-olds who murdered Spalding dinner lady Liz Edwards and her youngest daughter Katie have been given life sentences and serve at least 20 years. The boy and girl were 14 when they carried out the murders at Mrs Edwards’ home in Dawson Avenue in April. Passing sentence at Nottingham Crown Court on Thursday (Nov 10), Mr Justice Haddon-Cave described the case ...

The judge in the Spalding double murders case has paid tribute to police officers and staff for the way they carried out the investigation and to reporters for their “difficult task”. The defendants, who were 14 at the time and are now 15, murdered school dinner lady Liz Edwards (49) and her daughter Katie (13) in their beds at their home in ...

Thousands of people could see a reduction in the amount of support they get to pay their council tax. Proposals put before South Holland District Council’s cabinet on Tuesday would generate a total of £203,777. A report said of 3,511 people currently eligible for reductions in their bill, the vast majority are likely to see a reduction in support of ...

Ella Berry’s body cannot cope with gravity – what she calls “Spaceman Syndrome” has devastated her life and destroyed her nursing career. Yet she is determined to make the most of every day and use her experiences to raise awareness of ‘invisible illnesses’ like hers. Ella had only been out of university a year and was on the path to ...

A group campaigning against a farm’s wish to build an anaerobic digester plant remains unhappy despite amended plans designed to reduce its visual impact. Keep Tongue End Clean is opposed to Deeping St Nicholas firm WD Branton’s planning application for the land south of Counter Drain Drove in Tongue End. The plant uses feedstock – in this case 43,250 tonnes ...

More powers to fine people for spitting, dropping litter or cycling on the pavement in Spalding town centre could soon be in place. The move was discussed as part of a proposal to replace and extend existing powers to deal with anti-social street drinking. South Holland’s cabinet agreed on Tuesday to replace the current Designated Public Place Order (DPPO) with ...

Part of the Holbeach Christmas weekend next month has had to be pulled. A parade and market stalls organised by Les Ward will not go ahead on Sunday, December 4 as the event committee was too late submitting a road closure request and event plan. Mr Ward said: “I’d just like to say sorry to everyone for letting them down. ...

Just over a week remains for Spalding good causes to attract enough online votes to be in with a chance of netting up to £25,000. Spalding Hockey Club, Spalding Rugby Club, Spalding Parish School and The Garth Special School are among those vying to win funding from The Aviva Community Fund. People get ten votes simply by registering on the ...

Improvements to the running of Spalding swimming pool are already evident, South Holland District Council’s cabinet was told on Tuesday.(Nov 8) A task group of councillors which looked into complaints from the public on hygiene and the pools’ water temperature being too cold was reporting its findings and recommendations. The council contracts 1Life to run the Castle Sports Complex. Task group ...

Police are investigating after two teenage boys were injured in an incident outside The Chequers pub in High Street, Holbeach. A mum, who did not want to be named, told The Voice her 13-year-old daughter was threatened with a knife during the incident at around 8.30pm on Friday when youngsters were confronted by adults. A police spokesman said officers were ...

A new volunteer mentoring project aims to help both individuals who have experienced mental ill health and community groups that need more support. The Lincolnshire Community and Voluntary Service (LCVS) Guiding Lights project sets out to train a team of mentors to support individuals who have experienced mental ill health or distress to take their first steps into volunteering. Ruth ...

Two of South Holland’s pre-schools have been deemed “outstanding” and a primary school has raised its rating to “good,” in recent Ofsted reports. Inspectors praised the quality of teaching at Little Treasures Nurseries, in Haverfield Road, Spalding, as “superb”. It said of the 72-place nursery: “Staff are extremely kind, approachable and dedicated to the children.” The report added: “The provider ...

A long-time Spalding GP has been killed in a road traffic collision while cycling. Dr Charles Lennon (60) had only retired from Munro Medical Centre on October 31. His cycle was in collision with a bus on the A15 at Thurlby, near Bourne. Cycling was one of his hobbies which he was looking forward to spending more time doing in ...

Holbeach detachment of Lincolnshire Army Cadet Force has gone from strength to strength since its move to new premises at the Holbeach Hub. The new base in Holbeach Youth Centre led to an increase in cadet numbers. Sergeant Instructor Jonathan Harold is the new detachment commander for Holbeach. He was a member of the regular Army, serving 15 years in ...

A car dealership site could have 48 homes built on it. Kaplan Property Group has submitted the plans for the EMG Motors site in St John’s Road, Spalding. EMG has already got approval from South Holland District Council to move its service centre to Wardentree Lane, Pinchbeck and has applied for permission for a new showroom in Elsoms Way. The ...

An RAF bomb disposal unit carried out a controlled explosion on a powder chemical stored at University Academy Holbeach. The visit last Wednesday (November 2) at 2pm followed a nationwide notification two days earlier by Consortium of Local Education Authorities for the Provision of Science Services (CLEAPSS) about a risk if the chemical – known as 2,4-DNP – is not stored ...