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Just days after saying dips were inevitable, Lincolnshire County Council has again had to close a Holbeach road after a sinkhole reopened. A small part of Boston Road South, Holbeach – between Tesco and Holbeach Primary School – has opened up, leaving a hole in the road surface. That’s despite extensive works having been carried out on the road in ...

Roads around the BP petrol station in Little London area of Spalding were closed this morning (Saturday, March 26) amid reports a person climbed on its roof. Lincolnshire Police urged people to avoid the area this morning after being alerted to a ’concern of safety’ for a man at 3.32am. Reports on social media said a man had been seen ...

Teenagers are being urged to get their next COVID-19 jabs ahead of the Easter holidays and with Springfields hosting a drop-in vaccination session tomorrow (Saturday, March 26). The pop-up centre is open at the conference centre between 10am and 5pm including boosters and first and second doses for anyone eligible including 12–15-year-olds provided a parent/guardian is present to consent.  Lincolnshire ...

A Holbeach man has become one of the first patients to undergo a new procedure at Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, which uses diamonds to help correct abnormal heart rhythms (arrhythmia). An ablation is a procedure which uses either heat (radiofrequency ablation) or freezing (cryoablation) on the problematic area of the heart that is triggering the dangerously fast rhythm. This ...

A drink driver was seen driving erratically without lights in the centre of Spalding. Florin Stan, 27, of 7 Franklin Drive, Spalding admitted driving with excess alcohol when he appeared at Boston Magistrates Court. Paul Wood, prosecuting, said officers saw Stan in a Peugeot in Westlode Street at 3.45am on March 6 where the car was seen driving without lights ...

A new viewing area has been opened to allow more people a chance to see the rwildlife at a South Holland nature reserve including a pair of birds whose species was extinct in the UK for 400 years. Willow Tree Fen near Tongue End has been closed in recent years after a pair of cranes became the first to breed ...

A Ukrainian woman living in Spalding has thanked residents for signs of support around town as she contemplates helping her family escape Russia’s invasion of her homeland. Lesia Ward is talking everyday to her parents mum Tamara (83) and dad Vasyl Fedyna (87) and in the city of Zaporizhzhia where she grew up and which hit the headlines recently after ...

A 42-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of drug driving after a collision in Pinchbeck at the weekend. A red Suzuki Vitara, driven by the man, released under investigation, from the Spalding area, was in collision with a black Vauxhall Corsa. Emergency services were called to the Northgate junction with Money Bridge Lane and Cross Lane around 8.15am. The ...

Long Sutton Parish Council is looking to install CCTV at its allotments following the latest break in. The council’s chairman John Clarey said that the lock on the gate was broken at some point last week and thieves stole a trailer. “It’s very sad this is happening with the majority of our tenants are retired and keep the allotments very ...

Two Spalding students were among those who received awards from Boston College this week. Apprentices and their employers attended the Sam Newsom Centre in Boston to celebrate their hard work. After two years living through a pandemic, the awards night marked the success of apprentices, their employers and the college. The evening was hosted by the college’s executive director of ...

A popular shop selling refurbished cycles and helping a South Holland charity is closing its doors for good. Despite managing to stay trading during the height of the pandemic, the economic situation means PaulJo Bikes will be shutting for business later this spring. Having started more than ten years ago as a workshop hobby, the business moved into its Winsover ...

A group from Spalding’s Polish community is looking to create a multi-cultural centre in the town offering services including counselling from those fleeing the war in Ukraine. The White Eagle Community Centre was set up last October by Justyna Lukaszuk plus friends Grzegorz Komorowski and Monika Szymanska and has already put on several events at different venues around the town. ...

Spalding’s historic water fountain is being proposed to be on the site of the former paddling pool in Ayscoughfee Gardens. South Holland District Council is in a couple of weeks set to submit a planning application to site the Johnson Memorial Drinking Fountain there after rejecting calls for it to be erected in the town centre. The Voice revealed in ...

Street art could soon be coming to South Holland with the blessing of the district council. A new policy around the whole issue of graffiti and art is being drawn-up with plans to allow artists to work with permission on council-owned property. Hundreds of people signed a petition last year supporting the move after artists Karl Barfoot and Adam Sadd ...

South Holland has been ear-marked as a ‘focus site’ for part of £5m of funding towards new nature habitats. The National Lottery Heritage Fund has announced the funding UK wide as part of the Nextdoor Nature project. It’s not clear how much will be spent in Lincolnshire, but the county’s Wildlife Trust says it will go to 15 projects with ...

Three roads are closed this morning after what Lincolnshire Police described as a ’serious RTC’. Cross Lane, Money Bridge Lane and Northgate will all be closed ‘for a while’ the force said this morning, Saturday March 19. Details of of the incident are yet to be published. A spokesman for Lincolnshire Police said: ”The following roads are closed in the ...

A bus company has said it’s not recruited enough staff to return Saturday bus services that stopped running this year. In December Brylaine announced from January to March 31 it would not run Saturday services such as the Spalding Town IT1/IT2, the B13 Boston – Spalding and K59 Boston – Spalding, due to a lack of drivers. But they’re now ...

A man who fled the scene after a ‘high impact’ collision with a car that then hit the wall of a Tydd St Mary home has been disqualified for nine months. Charlie Layde, 45, dumped his Mercedes E320 about a mile away and did not report the collision. His car hit a Mini Cooper, driven by Sorcha Whitecross, on the ...

A trust that runs local hospitals including Boston’s Pilgrim Hospital says it has been taken out of special measures for the first time in five years. It follows the Care Quality Commission report into all United Lincolnshires Hospitals NHS Trust services which was published last month. While that report gave it the same overall rating of ‘requires improvement’, improvements were ...

Local volunteers who have been collecting goods for Ukrainian refugees say they’ve been ‘overwhelmed’ by the generosity and support shown in the area. Both the St Thomas Project in St Thomas’s Road, Spalding, and The Anglia Motel in Fleet have been turned into drop off points for collections.Boxes of Hope, based at the motel, is working with the United Nations ...