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An Avon representative from Spalding with more than 400 people in her team has been rewarded with an amazing trip to New York. Helen Redman flies out to the Big Apple on Thursday (November 19) as thanks for her hard work and help in growing the cosmetics firm’s business. She is one of Avon’s top 20 sales leaders in the ...

A pilot garden waste collection scheme will launch in South Holland next April. Members of South Holland District Council’s cabinet unanimously approved the project at a meeting on Tuesday. The two-year pilot will initially be available to 5,000 households with residents who sign up provided with wheelie bins. A total of 500 kerbside collections will be made daily on a ...

Youngsters who took part in The Great South Holland Artsathlon this year have been awarded medals and certificate. The South Holland District Council scheme invited children aged from four upwards to take part in arts activities during the summer holidays. This year there were over 100 sessions, including visual and performing arts workshops, creative writing sessions and watching shows at the South ...

A Spalding doctors’ surgery with almost 20,000 patients on the books has been rated “good” by an independent regulator. The Care Quality Commission said Munro Medical Centre is doing well across all five service areas – safety, effectiveness, caring, response and leadership. Chief inspector of general practice, Prof Steve Field, said: “It was also good for providing services for older ...

A food firm has been fined £40,000 after an employee had two fingers severed in a mixing machine at its Pinchbeck factory. Nicholas Taylor was cleaning the equipment at Greencore To Go in Wardentree Lane when the accident happened in April last year. Boston magistrates heard last week that he had had no training on the Orbital machine. The Health ...

Moulton has won the 2015 Best Kept Village competition for its category. It follows months of community effort to ensure the village is clean, tidy, free from litter and all local amenities, public spaces, residential and commercial properties are well presented. Chairman of the Campaign to Protect Rural England, Gerald Taylor, handed Moulton Parish Council chairman Jim Scarsbrook a certificate ...

The £13,000 bill for tidying up a Spalding eyesore remains unpaid by the site owner after 12 months. In November 2014, South Holland District Council cleared up the Bull and Monkie plot in Churchgate and secured the site with railings after an order served upon Crispen Holdings went ignored. The cost was then recharged to the firm. A council spokesperson ...

Spalding’s war memorial has been upgraded to a Grade I listed building after being recognised as part of a previously unrecognised national collection. The memorial at Ayscoughfee Gardens commemorates 224 lives lost during the First World War and is one of 44 in towns and villages across the country designed by famous architect Sir Edwin Lutyens. Lutyens is known as ...

A house in Holbeach Fen was totally destroyed by fire. A spokesman for Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue said the property in Hurdletree Bank had been empty for some time but the electricity supply was live and a system deterioration caused the blaze. Firefighters from Holbeach, Long Sutton and Spalding attended at 12.40am on Thursday.

Sutton Bridge Parish Council has been forced to back down on its bid to fight a second power station being built in the village – but a former parish councillor is taking up the mantle herself. Shirley Giles has written an open letter to the government’s Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Amber Rudd, urging her to review ...

A police officer from Donington has appeared in court charged with possessing indecent images of children and bestiality. PC Paul James Henry (42), of Quadring Road, appeared at Boston Magistrates’ Court last week facing nine charges. He was granted bail to appear for trial at Lincoln Crown Court on December 2. The conditions of his bail are that he is ...

A major developer has been pulled over the coals by South Holland district councillors for wanting to build less affordable housing at a Crowland scheme than was previously agreed. Ashley King (Developments) Ltd was granted permission for 50 homes – including 16 affordable units (one third) – on land off Peterborough Road last year. But the Holbeach firm has since ...

A wheelie bin collection scheme for garden waste is set to launch in South Holland from next April. The two-year pilot would initially be available to 5,000 households across the district. The proposal for the two-week rota is for Spalding to be covered one week and then Holbeach, Crowland, Long Sutton, Sutton Bridge, Donington, Gosberton and Surfleet the next week. ...

by John Hayes, South Holland and The Deepings MP and Minister for Security All that stands between us and chaos is order. It is a primary responsibility of government to uphold national security, so safeguarding our people. In a world that has seen the rise of religious extremism and violence, security at home has become as important as protecting our borders from external ...

The devastated family of a popular Spalding driving instructor are hoping that some good can come from his shocking and untimely death at the age of 46. Mark Cherry died on Saturday, just two months after being told he had stomach cancer. The diagnosis followed a spell of weight loss coupled with heartburn and indigestion, which began around July. Even though ...

World War Two veteran Tom Fowler will take his place in remembrance events this week having just been awarded France’s highest decoration. The Spalding 96-year-old has received the Légion d’honneur, an award established by Napoleon in 1802 to recognise individual merit. Sylvie Bermann, the French ambassador to the UK, told Tom: “As we contemplate this Europe of peace, we must ...

A Spalding charity is hoping to raise funds and offer volunteer working opportunities by opening a secondhand furniture store. The Lighthouse Project has applied to South Holland District Council for a change of use for a unit at Broadgate House in Westlode Street. A statement with a planning application lodged with South Holland District Council said: “Unwanted furniture will be ...

A Spalding secondary school has had two potentially life-saving defibrillators installed. The machines, which cost just under £1,000 for the pair, were funded by The Friends of Sir John Gleed School. Currently there is no legal requirement for places of education to have access to a defibrillator but more than 600 young people die every year from cardiac arrests. Anthony ...

Two members of a Spalding fundraising group have been out to India to help administer polio vaccinations to children. Chris Chew and his wife Wendy and Pat Luckett travelled to India as part of the Rotary Club of South Holland’s commitment to help eradicate polio worldwide. Ridding the world of poliomyelitis became the top priority of the world’s 34,000 Rotary ...

By Coun Gary Porter, leader of South Holland District Council This is the first of a new regular column by district council cabinet members and I would like to take this opportunity to thank The Voice for giving us a voice. Over the coming months different members will try to write interesting and sometimes provocative articles that will hopefully get ...