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Sainsbury’s is stepping up its help to customers needing a parking space at the Spalding store by installing a camera system. The automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) system will monitor vehicles arriving and leaving the supermarket’s Holland Market car park. And the registered owner of any vehicle overstaying the two-hour free parking limit can expect a parking charge notice (PCN) ...

The tragic event on Tuesday (July 19) brought the number of people killed in violent circumstances in Spalding in the last two years to six. All three incidents were unrelated and only the most recent involved a gun. In August 2014, Spalding dad Warren Free died following a beating in a park behind his Coronation Close home. Six teenagers were ...

The Pokémon Go craze is as hot in South Holland as it is across the world right now. The free-to-play game uses mobile phones to fuse gaming with reality. Using GPS technology, players – or trainers as they are known – can ‘catch’ characters which appear on their screen. The game is enthralling people of all ages, with individuals and ...

Frantic efforts were made to save the lives of Claire Hart (50) and daughter Charlotte (19) after the triple shooting on Tuesday. It was clear to the first people on the scene at Spalding’s swimming pool car park that a third victim, 57-year-old Lance Hart, was already dead. It is believed he shot his wife and daughter before turning the ...

Lincolnshire Police have confirmed that the man suspected of carrying out the three fatal shootings in Spalding on Tuesday (July 19) was not a shotgun certificate or firearms licence holder. The force have revealed that the provenance of the weapon used is an active line of enquiry they are pursuing. The three people killed in the shotgun incident in the grounds ...

Spalding High School have issued a statement following the tragic death of Charlotte Hart on Tuesday.(July 19) Charlotte was killed in a shotgun incident in the grounds of Spalding’s Castle Sports Complex in Pinchbeck Road. The school’s statement said: “We are all deeply shocked and saddened to hear of the tragic death of our former student, Charlotte Hart. “Charlotte attended ...

South Holland District Council has issued a warning to residents over unregistered skin piercers. The council is urging anyone who is thinking of getting a tattoo, piercing or having electrolysis to ensure the skin piercer they visit is registered with the district council. All registered skin piercers must display a certificate of register where they practise and are routinely visited ...

A recruitment seminar to attract more special constables is being held at Spalding Police Station next week.   The event gets underway at 7pm on Thursday, July 28, as part of a countywide recruitment drive by the Lincolnshire Police Special Constabulary.   They are aiming to attract people who have an interest in the community and in police work.   ...

A Quadring Fen woman who has become mother hen to a flock of birds is appealing for help in their re-homing. Nicki Murphy is the Lincolnshire re-homing co-ordinator for a non-profit organisation called Fresh Start For Hens. She has 30-plus hens of her own and takes many ill and disabled ones under her wing to see out their final days. ...

Former Great Britain hockey goalkeeper and Olympic medallist Ian Taylor was the special guest at Spalding Grammar School’s annual sports celebration evening.   Taylor, who was a member of the bronze-winning squad at the Seoul Olympics in 1988, gave an inspired talk about his experiences and how school sport was the springboard to his career. The event was an opportunity ...

Two Spalding site managers have received high praise for their work on a South Holland development. Andrew Smith and Greg Wimsey are joint managers of the Kier Living Eastern site on Kingfisher Court in Spalding. The duo were selected from 16,000 site managers to be among 450 winners at the regional National House-Building Council (NHBC) Pride in the Job awards ...

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 ...