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February 16–22,
2017
Lettings: For sale:
Sarah Delightful Bush,
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market
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TUESDAY,FEBRUARY 14,2017
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DoesSpaldinghaveamedieval
secretlyingbelowoneofits
busiestroads?
Engineers repairing acollapsed
sewer inWinsover
Road areopen-minded about
thethoughtthatawaterculvert
runningfromSpaldingtoPode
Holecouldholdcluestoalongrunning
mystery.
Legend has it that monks at
an11thcenturyprioryinSpaldingwouldsecretlymovearound
thetownthroughunderground
tunnelslinkingMonksHouse
and the Prior’s Oven pub in
Sheep Market.
Anglian Water has been
working at theWinsoverRoad
sitesince thesewer collapsed
twomonthsago and sitemanager
Dave Holmes said: “Anold
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withGovernmenttransport
officialsnextweekfortalks
Awoman inher 70s and a
man,bothfromSpalding,died
whenasilverPeugeot206they
were in collided withaHGV
near aroundabout on theA16
Lincolnshire/Cambridgeshire
border on Mondaymorning.
The crash brings toten the
number of people killed on
the 13.7 mile (22km) bypass
linking Spalding and Eye,
near Peterborough, since it
Brought to you by the
85P
wasopened in October 2011.
Formal identification of
the two victims has not yet
beencompletedbut,speaking
to theSpalding Guardian on
Tuesday, MrHayessaid:“This
accidentisindeed tragicand
Imustsay howsorry Iamfor
SouthHollandandtheDeepingsMPJohnHayesistomeet
aboutafatalcrashinCrowland.
allthosewhohavesufferedaccordingly.
“I’ve been pushing theissue
of safetyonthe A16 very
hardsince Iwentbacktothe
Department for Transport
(DfT) (as aMinister in July
2016).
“I’ve also met with the
chairman ofLincolnshire
HighwaysAuthoritytodiscuss
some of thesafetyissues.
“ButI’llhappilytakethisup
again at theDfT next week.”
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manhole lidhad dropped down
so ateam came and put anew
one on.
“Butthenewlidstartedgoing
down even more, so we thought
‘there’salittlebit of aproblem
here’. Could it have been one
of the Prior’s Oven tunnels? I
don’t knowbut it’s certainly big
enough.
“Itcouldbeanythingbutyou’d
havetotakeabrickawayandfind
outhow old it is first.”
However, Spalding historian
Michael Elsden, author of the
Aspects of Spalding series, said:
“I wouldn’t take anynoticeofrumours
abouttunnels as Idon’t
thinkitwould have beenpossibletohavebuilttheminthisarea.
“The tunnels are animaginary
thing and there’sprobably
nothing in these rumours at all
because there’snothingtosubstantiate
them.”
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Oxford has already lai down marker by a tracting Danish
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by ianparker
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@SFPSudbury
Adisabledcouplespokeof
theirjoyandreliefaftera
remarkableactofkindness
bythreeSudburysilkfactory
workersensuredtheycan
retaintheirfreedom.
The couple were facing heartbreakatthe
prospect of being
lefthouseboundaftertheirmobilityscooterbrokedownwhen
threeengineers at thesilkfactory
used their skills to save
theday.
Michael Dawson wastravelling
home in his doubleseated
mobilityscooterwhen
it ground to ahalt on theroad
The North East CambridgeshireMPsaidthereis
moneyready to spend on the
next phase of Wisbech Rail–
with£10.5 million already allocated
byGovernment for
Wisbech TransportImprovementsfromwhichseveralmil-
lionsofpoundscanbeusedfor
thenextroundofengineering
studies.
Yet for the last year he
says there has been “little
action from theLocal EnterprisePartnershipand
Cambridgeshire
County Council”
because Network Rail has
overestimatedthe cost of the
schemebyatleast£50million.
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The rail infrastructure
firm has estimatedthe total
cost of theproject to be £150
million, but rail consultant
Michael Byng believes it can
be delivered atacost of between
£85 to £95 million.
Mr Barclay said: “Network
Rail’shigh costsfor the
schemehavebeenleftunchal-
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MPSteveBarclaysaysthecostsofWisbechRailhavebeen“overestimated”,whilethebenefits“underestimated”.
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lenged other than by myself.
“Mylettertothe Secretary
ofStateforTransportsetsout
what canbedonetospeed up
thebuilding of Wisbech Rail.
“Itsetsout howcosts can
be reduced and benefits enhanced,
and how this work
canfitwithotherrailschemes
planned in ourregion.”
In his letter toMrGrayling,
Mr Barclay said there
areanumber of opportunities
to reduce costs and enhance
benefitsthatwerenot
includedinNetwork Rail’sassessmentofthe
project completedlast
June.
And is he asking the Department
for Transport to
formally setout howthe Wisbech
Rail project should best
proceed.
Withregards to costings,
he told Mr Grayling that the
Rail Regulator has suggested
that Network Rail’s£30-£40
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near the factory in Gregory
Street.
While crossing from Vanners
Silk Weavers to one of
the firm’s garages, maintenanceman
AndrewHaggarty
sawtrafficbuildingupnearthe
firestationwhereMrDawson’s
scooterhad broken down.
He rantohelp the71-yearold
push the vehicle off the
road beforecalling over fellow
Vanners maintenance staff
Ciaran Roche and Aleksandr
Kuznecov to lift thescooterto
theirgarageworkshop.
The trio then asked company
bosses if they could take
alook at thevehicle.
Thedriveshafthadsnapped
–but theemployeesusedtheir
skillstofashionanewshaft,using
one of thefirm’s lathes.
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“Tothinkthat strangerscan
come along and be that kindhearted
and thoughtful and
look for nothing in return is
wonderful,”saidMrDawson,
whoisterminally ill.
Mr Dawson cares for his
severely disabled wife Josephine,71.
Without thescooter
she would be left housebound
at theirhome in First Avenue,
something thecouple hadsufferedpreviouslyforthreeyears.
Mr Dawson said asthe
scooterwas no longer manufactured,
partswerenolonger
available.Without thechance
encounterand kindnessofthe
Vannersstaff,thecouplewould
have been left stranded.
“It’s just agood feeling
knowingyoucanhelpsomeone
out,”saidMrHaggarty.
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