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A Moulton Seas End business has scooped a regional award. D. Brown Building Contractors will now go through to the national finals of the Local Authority Building Control (LABC) Building Excellence Awards. They were part of a project team that also included Chaplin Farrant Ltd, Waterloo Housing Ltd and Focus Consultants who worked on the Blue Street development in Boston. ...

Two projects in South Holland have been awarded grants totalling £16,500. Spalding’s St Mary and St Nicolas Church has been awarded £10,500 to research integration with foreign nationals. The town has been identified as one of the least integrated places in England. The Parochial Church Council wants to employ people to research the barriers to integration and to identify ways ...

Text of the news conference about the triple fatal shooting at Castle Sports Complex on Tuesday (July 19). Given at Spalding Police Station at 4pm on Tuesday: Temporary Superintendent Paul Timmins, Local Policing East At 9am this morning we received a call reporting a shooting outside Spalding swimming pool on Pinchbeck Road. Emergency staff, including police and East Midlands Ambulance ...

The three people killed in a shotgun incident in the grounds of Spalding’s Castle Sports Complex have been named unofficially. They are said to be Lance Hart, his wife Claire and daughter Charlotte. The family is believed to be from Moulton.

Lincolnshire Police have confirmed that three people have died in a firearms incident in Spalding. It happened in the vicinity of the Castle Swimming Pool at about 9am on Tuesday (July 19). Police said three people were fatally wounded, including the suspected offender. The Voice understands that the suspected double murder-suicide is a domestic incident involving a man and two females. ...

The cast is assembled, the script is ready and the crew is poised for South Holland’s second feature film. After the success of action thriller Dishonoured earlier this year, Holbeach Film Company is now working on a romantic comedy entitled Forever Your Rose. Within the last couple of weeks the cast and crew have got together for a script read-through ...

South Holland District Council officers have been forced to alter a proposal to close a car park entrance – following opposition from councillors and residents, and advice from other bodies. The council will now do a trial closure of the Boston Road South entrance to Boston Road car park. It was to be the Park Road entrance. A council spokesman ...

Pupils at three South Holland primary schools are finding one afternoon a week easy peasy Japanese with the introduction of new lessons. Youngsters at Sutton Bridge’s Westmere, Gedney Drove End and Holbeach St Marks Primary Schools have started learning about Japan after headteacher Karyn Giles went on an education week to the country last year. Since her return she has ...

South Holland and the Deepings MP John Hayes has reverted to being Minister of State for Transport after just over a year at the Home Office. As Minister for Security – a role he was given after the Conservatives’ General Election victory in May 2015 – he reported to then Home Secretary Theresa May. Now Prime Minister, she has appointed him to his ...

A girl and boy accused of murdering a Spalding school dinner lady and her 13-year-old daughter appeared at Lincoln Crown Court on Friday (July 15). The 15-year old girl and 14-year-old boy are jointly accused of murdering Elizabeth Edwards (49) and her youngest daughter Katie Edwards, whose bodies were discovered at their semi-detached home in Dawson Avenue in April. No ...

A new junior choir at All Saints’ Church in Holbeach gave an “exceptional and inspiring” performance at its first act of worship. Eighteen members, aged 9-11 years, sang before a congregation of 100. As part of the service, the children took part in a drama telling the story of Noah, which concluded with two songs from the popular cantata Captain ...

The search for Holbeach’s best garden is under way. We’re running a competition with Holbeach In Bloom to find the nicest garden in or around the town. Holbeach in Bloom is offering £100 in vouchers to spend in the town as prizes (winner £50, second place £30 and third place £20). Maybe you have a stunning front garden or a ...

These two buildings in Spalding town centre are of contrasting construction and history. But they have common ground – both are dreadful eyesores owned by the same company. The listed Old Johnson Hospital in Priory Road is a decaying, unsightly mess. Its facade of broken windows and overgrown greenery gives no hint as to the joy part of the building ...

Spalding, Holbeach and Long Sutton have been visited by East Midlands In Bloom judges this week. With results due in September, there is now a nervous wait for the teams of dedicated people who try to keep our towns looking nice and spick and span year-round. Kay Jenkinson, chairman of Long Sutton In Bloom, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary, ...

The mystery of who knitted creations adorning tree stumps on Spalding riverside has been resolved. Three residents of Georgian Court housing development – Carol Usher, Jan Neale and Kitty Dickinson – have claimed responsibility. The first of three creations – Julipa – popped up in late May near Churchgate’s junction with Love Lane. Then in mid-June The Queen was depicted ...

Crowland Methodist Church has a new wooden cross thanks to the efforts of two pupils from a school for boys with learning difficulties. The project was carried out with great enthusiasm and came after a tentative inquiry to Wild Lodge School in Empingham, Rutland. Church members are delighted with the cross which will be placed in the transept and will ...

Pupils at Spalding Grammar School are celebrating a record success at this year’s National Students Arts Exhibition. The Priory Road school has traditionally enjoyed success at the showpiece event which is held under the patronage of the Royal Society of British Artists. However, this year they recorded their best-ever achievement with four students – John-Lei Payumo, Tom Beardwell, Delphine McWilliam ...

A Spalding couple are joining the fight over a decision to end congenital heart disease surgery for children at our region’s specialist centre. Six-year-old Sofia Larsson owes her life to Glenfield Hospital in Leicester after a series of operations to correct heart defects. However, Glenfield is one of three units which NHS England has told to stop surgery for patients ...

A toddler has died after falling into a pond at his grandparents’ home in Gosberton Risegate. The 19-month-old, who lived in Peterborough, was taken to the Queen’s Medical Centre in Nottingham after the incident last weekend. He died on Wednesday.(July 13) The coroner has been informed.

Spalding Gentlemen’s Society will rekindle a family tradition when Richard Montagu Douglas Scott becomes its patron later this year. He is the 10th Duke of Buccleuch and 12th Duke of Queensberry. The 2nd Duke of Buccleuch became the first patron of the society in 1732, and the 9th Duke was also patron until his death in 2007. The duke, who ...