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A Spalding teenager is due to appear in court charged with an alleged assault in Holbeach on Monday (May 25). Thanasi Greenfield (19), of Havelock Street, is said to have assaulted a 20-year-old man in the Fleet Road/High Street area of Holbeach around 12.40pm. Greenfield will appear before Boston magistrates on June 17. Police would like to trace a couple who were ...

The Spalding People’s Parade is “going from strength to strength” according to organisers. Despite the mixed weather forecast many more people attended the event this year which saw even more attractions in the grounds of the Sir John Gleed School. Music was provided by local band The Sound Injectors who also arranged other entertainment. The parade set off at 1pm ...

A mother and son are “over the moon” after winning a state-of-the-art television in a Spalding and South Holland Voice competition. Patsy Keating and Benjamin “ummed and aahhed” about entering our first anniversary competition in conjunction with Hughes Electrical because they didn’t really believe they could win. But Patsy, of Pinchbeck, eventually posted an entry and couldn’t believe it when ...

A new housing company has been created by South Holland District Council – and readers of The Voice can win by suggesting its name. The prize is four tickets to see a film of your choice at the South Holland Centre in Spalding. The council launched the company to increase the supply of new homes in the district and meet ...

A seven-acre park, sports club, community hub, skate park and youth club are among big plans for the future of Pinchbeck. A community engagement day will be held on Wednesday (May 27) to give villagers the chance to hear about the ideas and put forward their views. The centrepiece of the day will be plans for the seven-acre community park and ...

A successful scheme which saw tonnes of textiles recycled is in the running for an award. South Holland District Council has been nominated for a National Recycling Award in the Best Partnership Project with the Public Sector category. Earlier this year, its waste and recycling team joined up with the Salvation Army to launch a six month trial of textile ...

Holbeach United Community Sports Academy’s impressive new purpose-built base at Pennyhill is almost ready for its grand opening. Dubbed Kings Academy, the project took seven long years to become a reality – but it is now just a month away from opening its doors. Former Norwich City, Chelsea, Celtic and Blackburn Rovers striker Chris Sutton is scheduled to open the ...

Police are investigating after a cyclist appeared to put his life at risk by dashing over a railway level crossing while barriers were down. The image was posted on social media on Monday evening after barriers at Mill Green crossing and Park Road, Spalding, remained in the down position for more than two hours. The man appears to get frustrated ...

Lincolnshire should “stand up taller and shout louder” to help usher in a new era in local Government and get a fairer deal. At the first meeting of Lincolnshire County Council since the General Election, leader Martin Hill called on the Government to devolve greater powers to county-led authorities, saying: “Give us the responsibility and we’ll rise to it. “Give ...

UPDATE: Thursday (9am): The person killed in the accident on the A16 in Crowland on Wednesday was an 81-year-old woman from the Spalding area. Police said: “She was a passenger in a blue Ford Mondeo travelling north when it was involved in a collision with a blue BMW 730 travelling in the opposite direction around 3pm on Wednesday. Sadly, she was ...

Police have seized thousands of pounds of assets from a gang who carried out a series of ramraids, including ones in Long Sutton and Crowland. The items seized, which are believed to have been bought with the proceeds of the ramraids, included an Audi A5 S-line TDI Cabriolet, a Swift Corniche caravan, a Nissan Navara, numerous smaller quad bikes, plant ...

A pile of meat and bones have been dumped by the side of the road near Weston Hills. The pile, which consists of carcasses, bones and poultry innards, was spotted at 10am on Tuesday by a local resident on Clay Lake Bank. The meat was dumped along with butchers’ trade-style cardboard boxes. The resident said: “The blood was fresh when ...

A Holbeach vicar who told pupils that “Muslims worship the devil” has been banned from the profession indefinitely. The Rev Robert West, who stood as a British National Party (BNP) candidate for Boston and Skegness in the General Election on May 7, made the comments during history lessons at a girls’ school in Grantham where he teaches. The National College ...

Vivacious Holbeach resident Hilda Millett was one of the oldest people in the country to vote in this year’s General Election. She turned 107 on Monday and is the 154th oldest person in Great Britain. There have been five monarchs and 19 Prime Ministers in her lifetime, and she has always voted Conservative. In fact it was at a dance ...

A plaque acknowledging the long service of a Spalding signalman has been resited at the town’s railway station. The plaque in memory of John Lee (known as Jack) was on the Winsover Road signal box, where he spent much of his 51 years’ service to British Rail. It was bought by Jack’s family and put up shortly after his death ...

A flood of nominations have been coming in as the deadline nears to nominate the first Pride of South Holland heroes. You have less than a week left to get your entries in for the first-ever POSH awards and the competition is hotting up among all those amazing people and groups that make the district a better place to live ...

The Spalding homeowner who was told to put a fence back to its original line has appealed the decision. Simon Barker was shocked last November when council officers arrived to say his £1,000 new fence required planning permission. The line of it had been extended to enclose a small piece of land belonging to Mr Barker, which was often covered ...

Two students from University Academy Holbeach – Charlotte Bycroft (Year 13) and Eleanor Palmer (Year 11) – were part of a tour of World War One battlefields. As part of their follow-up work, they have taken part in Legacy 110 – an initiative which encourages students from the tour to deliver a community-based First World War project to spread the ...

UKIP’S beaten candidate for the South Holland and The Deepings parliamentary seat is to withdraw from active participation locally. David Parsons polled 10,736 votes to take a 21.7 per cent share of the turnout in the General Election on May 7. He finished second to Conservative John Hayes, who received 29,303 votes. The result tripled UKIP’s number of votes from ...

A team from Spalding’s Johnson Community Hospital has been nominated for The EBP Investors In Education Awards in recognition of its partnership with local schools and for providing high quality work experience opportunities. The team has been providing work experience opportunities for several years. Annette Goulding, administrator at Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS), said: “Our team at Johnson Community Hospital ...