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Cowbit Parish Council has vowed to investigate the process which culminated in a new travellers’ site in Spalding being granted planning permission. Members are angry that Moulton, Weston and Cowbit district councillor Anthony Casson declared himself unable to vote at South Holland’s planning committee meeting earlier this month. The vote on granting permission was tied at 6-6 and passed on ...

Lincolnshire County Council wants parents, carers, children and young people to help shape and improve future services and provision for special educational needs and disability (SEND). New Government legislation sets a number of significant changes to children with SEND from September 2014, covering all aspects of a child/young person’s journey from early years through to transition into adulthood. Key elements ...

A shopowner in Spalding has been fined £2,300 for selling out-of-date food. Londis supermarket at 8 Holbeach Road was found to have 24 products for sale which were out of date during a visit by Lincolnshire Trading Standards on April 12 last year. A further 17 out-of-date items were found on another visit on May 30, 2013. Shopowner Pararajasingam Sutenthiran was ...

At 87 years old, Dora Watkin could be forgiven for not wanting the fuss of the latest technology. Yet the effervescent nan is positively embracing it – by buying an Apple iPhone. “Everyone seems to have got one and I was starting to feel a bit left out,” she said. Dora’s getting to grips with texting family members and enjoys ...

Market Place in Spalding has received a welcome double tonic. Part of the former White Hart Hotel and the neighbouring ex-Wimpy burger bar are to be given new leases of life thanks to successful planning applications. At the former hotel – a Grade II* listed building – internal alterations will create two units on the ground floor and a large ...

A special event to celebrate the market’s contribution to Spalding life has been heralded a success. Sunny weather brought shoppers out in good numbers as traders marked Love Your Local Market Day. Some stallholders even went to work in onesies to bring a smile to their customers’ faces. The day will be followed by another celebration this Saturday as part ...

Further national recognition has been awarded to a community nurse from Moulton. Candice Pellett, a senior case manager and community practice educator from Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS), was one of five nurses to collect The Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, Award for Outstanding Service last week. The award from the Queen’s Nursing Institute (QNI) is presented to ...

Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue is calling on county residents to remove clutter from their homes – if it could hinder them escaping a fire or would make a rescue challenging for firefighters. This week is UK Hoarding Awareness Week and the service wants to raise awareness of the problem. In the past year, firefighters spotted significant obstacles in 16 Lincolnshire ...

Rough sleepers have turned the corner of a churchyard into an open air toilet in an area dogged by anti-social behaviour. A parishioner at Spalding Parish Church had to clean up the make-do outside loo, believed to have been used by at least one homeless person sleeping outside the nearby church hall. The problem is one of a catalogue to ...

Two of Spalding’s best-known faces finally married on Sunday – after 37 years together. Alan Porter and Angela Newton decided to take the plunge after “saving up”! But Angela, leader of the Independent group at South Holland District Council, revealed that there won’t be Porters on opposite sides of the council chamber. She will retain the surname Newton for her ...

CCF16052014 The first Holbeach Food Festival launches next month to promote locally grown produce. And organisers are linking in with the ever-popular Holbeach Town and Country Fayre on the same weekend. Visitors will be shuttled between both sites free of charge by the Holbeach Community Bus. South Holland district councillor Nick Worth said: “We’re hoping that people will enjoy a ...

The Spalding and South Holland Voice is going global with the launch of our new digital edition. Anyone with an interest in what’s going on in the news or sport from the South Holland area can now log onto our website and read the paper from cover to cover – turning the pages with just a click of the mouse ...

Nine more South Holland residents have each been awarded £100 cash for demonstrating good recycling habits. That takes the total number of £100 winners since the district council’s Green Bag Lottery began to 26. The scheme rewards residents who correctly present green bags of recycling for at least three weeks of each four-week period. Ten households are secretly selected to ...

Parents of pupils at a troubled Spalding school have been told “there is nothing standing in the way of success”. The note of optimism has been sounded by the new executive principal of Sir John Gleed School. Chris Mallaband has been appointed to the role by the academy’s sponsor CfBT in an attempt to strengthen the senior management team following ...

The high quality of South Lincolnshire growers has again been recognised at the annual RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Holbeach firm Walkers@Taylors Bulbs is a regular winner of gold medals in the Great Pavilion Awards – in fact this is its 21st consecutive top award. Yet keeping up high standards is always a challenge and Johnny Walkers’ daffodils were again judged ...

We are spreading the word about your new local newspaper with the help of an established Spalding business. Family-run Volkswagen retailer Crowsons has shown its support for The Voice by sign-writing two of its striking blue up! courtesy cars with our logo. Marketing manager Jordan Crowson said: “As a new local business, we are keen to support The Voice and ...

Patients with life-threatening injuries or illnesses are waiting longer for an ambulance to arrive in south Lincolnshire than this time last year. In April this year only 66.67 per cent of calls to “Red 2” emergencies – those that were life-threatening but did not require a defribrillator – were answered within the target time. Last April 68.51 per cent of ...

Lincolnshire Trading Standards is warning residents to beware telephone scammers claiming to be from a major PC or software company. It has received a number of reports that fraudsters are cold calling people and offering to fix a fake computer problem. They claim that your computer has a serious virus and it will become unusable if they don’t act immediately. Once ...

Lincolnshire firefighters may take legal action over proposals that would see them driving patients to hospital in an ambulance. The Fire Brigades Union says it has concerns about the plans, which would come into force as part of a trial at three stations including Long Sutton this summer, saying it would be “playing Russian roulette” with fire safety. It is ...

NHS Lincolnshire East Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) has been exploring options for additional inpatient palliative care in the east of Lincolnshire. Following a comprehensive analysis of local need, Lincolnshire East CCG invited providers to bid for the provision of six inpatient beds and the chosen provider is Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust in partnership with the Butterfly Hospice Trust. ...