Spalding road and Prime Minister slammed

January 13: There was a car in the dyke opposite our yard which just missed hitting a telegraoh pole.

January 14: Just past our house, two more. Further up the road, two more in the dyke.

Last year in one day there were four towards Winecatch Corner and three others towards the crossroads. Over the years we have had a lot of accidents.

January 23: We got up to find a car had crashed intonour hedge and knocked out about six trees.

I think this is about the sixth time this has happened to our hedge.

Also, a car has left the road and hit a telegraph pole and the side of a shed and quite a few have gone into the dykes.

Many potholes do not help and there is not a speed limit on this road, and people come off the bypass and treat it as a race track, driving like idiots.

When it rains, our gateway fills with water and sometimes it can go over half the road but people still speed through it.

Since the bypass, the traffic is continuous.

M. Tyrrell

Fulney Drove

PM should get custodial sentence

I agree with the Metropolitan Police’s decision to investigate 10 Downing Street for breaching Covid-19 regulations. I myself made a criminal complaint about ‘party gate’.

Despite the Prime Minister Boris Johnson testing positive for coronavirus and ending up in intensive care, it did not in anyway deter him and others from breaking Covid regulations.

People who serve the public must be whiter than white. A slap on the wrist or fines is offensive and a custodial sentence is warranted, Prime Minister or not.

Anthony Benson

Spalding

THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK: Jesus does not change

I wonder how you feel and react, when you hear the word ‘change’?

For some it may invoke feelings of great excitement and joy at a new start or something different.

For others it may well fill them with fear and dread as they come to terms with the way of life they have suddenly changing.

Whatever we feel about change, one thing is certain, we all experience it.

And in these last two years, I think we have experienced it in the most extreme ways, in ways that nobody could have predicted.

My guess would be that even for those who really enjoy and thrive on change, the huge amount of change that we have been through will have been tough and have taken its toll in different ways.

For myself, as a vicar, church certainly looked and became very different.

And in those times of great change, I drew great comfort, help and support, from some words in the Bible that speak about Jesus. In the book of Hebrews it says: ‘Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.’ (Hebrews 13: 8)

Those words spoke to me, that despite everything else changing around me, I can have complete confidence that Jesus didn’t change and that he was the same.

For me he was the one constant in all the change going on around me, bringing me much comfort, peace and strength.

Going through a season of change, especially such big and dramatic change, can be so difficult.

But having something constant, that doesn’t change is such a blessing and is so good.

For me that constant was knowing that Jesus was the same.

As we continue to journey through these very different times, my prayer is that those words from Hebrews, might too bring you comfort, peace and strength.

Rev Paul Carey-Slater

Vicar, St Matthew’s Church, Sutton Bridge