The Spalding & South Holland Voice

19/08/2025

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19/08/2025

18/08/2025

The incident occurred this afternoon.

Police are in attendance after a lorry crashed into the wall of a residential property. The incident occurred on Winsover Road this afternoon (Monday, August 18). The road was blocked for a period but is now open, though the lorry remains at the scene. Lincolnshire Police are also in attendance. Mor...

17/08/2025

It continues to grow.

A special all-inclusive music festival has once again been a huge hit. The Going Forward Festival is held every year and aimed at those with a disability who still want to enjoy live music. Shoddywaddy, Crossfire, Lauren Porter and a flypast by a Lancaster bomber were among the attractions at South....

16/08/2025

They came from across the country to Fenland Airfield.

Classic aircraft came from across the country to take to South Holland skies earlier this month. Fenland Aero Club hosted the Vintage Piper Club of Great Britain at its Holbeach St Johns base. The club’s Alistair Goodrum said: “Over 50 assorted and colourful light aircraft flew in to the airfiel...

16/08/2025

“We are gearing up to release some of the best tracks we’ve written and cannot wait for everyone to hear them.”

Spalding band Keep This Up had a busy weekend, winning a battle of the bands competition on Saturday, a day after releasing their brand new single. The five piece describe themselves as 'bringing alternative emo music back to the scene in a brand new way'. Fever Dream is the ninth single by the band...

15/08/2025

The Local Democracy Reporting service spoke to a climate expert.

The Reform politicians running Lincolnshire are sceptical about man-made climate change – despite an expert saying “the evidence is unwavering”. The party has increasingly questioned whether the world really is warming, and if so whether humans’ use of fossil fuels is the cause, writes Local...

14/08/2025

“Our students work incredibly hard and have yet again been rewarded with tremendously pleasing results at A Level this year."

Spalding High School students have amassed 270 qualifications in their A-Levels with 61 per cent at least A or B level. They included 100 per cent of the top grades in art and design and two thirds in classical civilisation, chemistry, drama and theatre studies, English maths and further maths. Ther...

14/08/2025

It's A Level results day and there's plenty to celebrate.

Spalding Grammar school students were left celebrating some fantastic A-Level results. Many subjects achieved more than half of their grades at A-B, the highest grades possible. These include biology (79 per cent), business studies (83 per cent), chemistry (78 per cent), economics (74 per cent), eng...

14/08/2025

The temporary gym will be open on Saturday, September 13.

Work is to start on Spalding's Castle Sports Complex next month with the 'dry side' to close on Tuesday, September 9. South Holland District Council say a new temporary gym at Boston College's campus in Red Lion Street will then open on Saturday, September 13. That's despite the authority having not...

14/08/2025

You certainly can't miss the signs throughout the town.

Spalding shoppers could have been forgiven for thinking a graffiti artist had been hard at work this week. Spray-stencilled messages were put on the pavements near drain grids in the town centre, telling smokers not to put their cigarette butts in the drains. The move is part of a campaign orchestra...

13/08/2025

“If planning permission is granted for this ridiculous plan, it will decimate the area,”

A group campaigning against a proposed chicken factory farm is warning of health ‘implications’ if the application is approved. The application for the farm at Peartree Hill Road, Whaplode Drove, prompted the commissioning of a report from air quality specialists. “As currently planned, the pr...