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A food manufacturing centre in Holbeach has been praised for meeting the needs of businesses by provided tailored training to staff. As part of the University of Lincoln’s Holbeach campus, the National Centre for Food Manufacturing is a key training resource for food manufacturing businesses. Following an inspection of Food Apprenticeships and English Language courses at the centre, education watchdog ...

Small businesses are to be the focus of efforts by Lincolnshire County Council’s new chairman. Coun Bill Aron took over the role on Friday from Coun Ray Wootton and has expressed an eagerness to use his time as chairman to help new businesses get off the ground. Promoting tourism will also be high on his agenda. He said: “I’m delighted ...

When a Rolls Royce pulled up outside his house in Cradge Bank, Spalding United goalkeeper Peter Roberts was about to be kept a promise from several months previous. It was 1958 and stepping out of the pristine car was Kettering Town manager Tommy Lawton and the club’s chairman and secretary. Peter had caught Lawton’s eye during the Tulips’ 3-2 FA ...

A Spalding shop has been fined after selling alcohol to two 16-year-olds. The Winsover Store, in Winsover Road, will have to pay £90 and the licence holder will be invited to a joint agency meeting to discuss issues after they made the illegal sale to two underage volunteers as part of a series of test purchases carried out across Spalding and ...

Police are appealing for information after three portable toilets were stolen from the Spalding area. The first (incident 133 of May 14) was a James Stamp portable toilet stolen from a building site on Church Lane, Moulton, overnight between Sunday, May 11 and Monday, May 12. Sometime after 4pm on Monday (May 12) and before 5.45am the following morning a toilet was stolen ...

Police have reissued an appeal for witnesses after the release of fresh information about an attempted ramraid in Spalding. The attack happened on Robert Goddard clothes shop in Vine Street in the early hours of Tuesday. A silver Renault Clio used in the attack was stolen from the Ladywood Road area of Spalding on Monday night.  A telegraph pole was attached ...

Community NHS services in Lincolnshire have been ranked for the first time in the Stonewall Healthcare Equality Index. Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) has been placed 16th out of more than 40 different healthcare organisations in England. The index, set up by the charity Stonewall, helps organisations to benchmark and track their progress on equality for their gay, ...

The European Parliament elections take place on Thursday, May 22. The Spalding and South Holland Voice has compiled a guide to the candidates to fill the five East Midlands seats. We gave every party vying for an East Midlands seat an invitation for each candidate to address Voice readers directly. The UK is divided into 12 electoral regions with between ...

Pupils at Ayscoughfee Hall School in Spalding have been learning about all things Greek during a special day. The children all got dressed up in traditional Greek clothing including togas and head-dresses and set about making shields, spears and clay pots.

Just seven months after opening, a Spalding day nursery has scored top marks with government inspectors. Ofsted pointed to the quality management, strong partnership with parents and children’s happiness in rating Little Oaks Childcare “outstanding”. Delighted manager Jen Holmes said: “We are so pleased. “The team at Little Oaks have put in a huge amount of effort, and worked incredibly ...

A church hall is in need of help from South Holland residents – with just a click of a computer’s mouse. St Mary’s Church Hall in Pinchbeck is trying to win a public vote to be awarded £25,000 for urgent repairs. Organisers have already found the money for some of the refurbishment – but desperately need help to fund the ...

Planning councillors turned down a proposal for a 78m high wind turbine after hearing that it could interfere with a Ministry of Defence radar. The structure was due to be on land associated with Fendyke Farm, at Inley Drove in Sutton St James. There were objections from South Holland and the Deepings MP John Hayes, Lincolnshire county councillor William Webb ...

Two Spalding women were among 17,000 women and some brave men who walked a marathon at the weekend all in aid of breast cancer. Sharon Macaulay, a solicitor from Calthrops, and Tammy Staples, school secretary of Ayscoughfee Hall School, took part in the annual London Moonwalk, which started at midnight on Saturday. Participants have to walk either a half marathon ...

Information from the public is wanted on one of the worst cases of neglect that a dog rescue centre manager has seen. The RSPCA wants to hear from anyone who knows about a shih-tsu cross which was found in such poor condition that it had to be put down. The male, thought to be around seven years old, was discovered ...

Chimney sweep Neil Wade had to climb a garden fence to avoid a swarm of bees. He was working in Tongue End at around midday on Tuesday when the bees suddenly descended on a customer’s car. Neil, of Spalding, said: “I’ve never seen anything like it. They just all appeared on this car and the fence next to it in ...

Three young children have their dad’s ignorance of planning law to thank for getting a treehouse. Remco Bosma says he would never have built it in their back garden if he’d known it needed planning consent and an application costing £172. Mr Bosma wasn’t going to tell Nick (7), Anouk (5) and Jack (3) that the worst could happen and ...

Pupils at Ayscoughfee Hall School in Spalding have been learning about all things Greek during a special day. The children all got dressed up in traditional Greek clothing including togas and head-dresses and set about making shields, spears and clay pots.

Consultation is due to begin early next month on the future of Spalding’s traffic and travel network. The new transport strategy is a joint initiative between Lincolnshire County Council and South Holland District Council and will provide a clear focus on the main challenges facing Spalding now, and in the future. The town is earmarked for significant growth in the ...

The Gosberton Clough family arguably most affected by the unauthorised travellers’ site in the village say they are “relieved” at the outcome. The new Spalding site – which will have ten pitches, each able to accommodate three caravans – will serve as a replacement for the Broad Drove encampment. The Hoyle family, whose house is just across a single-track road from ...